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This is the second article of a three-part series about various Ukraine festivals since the country's independence in 1991. Ukraine.com is proud to present the following article on Film Festivals in Ukraine.
read more..Ukrainians have a history of celebration but with the advent of the country's independence in 1991, festivals of all kinds have exploded on the cultural scene. Layered with culture, customs, music, and art these festivals offer visitors a healthy taste of the country's passionate approach to life. A small sampling of Ukrainian festivals held throughout the year is profiled on this website.
read more.."If Palace Walls Could Talk" - One old woman sweeps the Kiev streets. Another marches off to a construction site, pick axe and shovel in hand. On the corner, a third woman wrapped in a scarf sells sunflower seeds and flowers. Almost universal in their role in the family, Ukrainian grandmothers, known affectionately as babushkas are the sisters, widows, and mothers of over 20 million male soldiers who lost their lives during the Second World War and must work in the twilight of their lives.
read more..Every corner of Ukraine's streets carries a history lesson telling stories of resistance and abdication. Sometimes these stories are not only told by walking in the open air but unfold underground. Beneath the sandstone from which Odessa was built, the city's labyrinth of underground tunnels and caves wind across nearly 580 miles of the city and the surrounding Ukrainian countryside.
read more.."My House is on the Maidan" - A Ukrainian's house may have once been at the edge of the village, an expression suggesting one's reluctance to voice political views, but during the heady days of the Orange Revolution, the house moved. Written and painted on banners and chanted by millions in a sea of orange, "my house is on the Maidan [Kyiv's Square of Independence]", this traditional idiom's revision is one example of the influence Ukraine's recent political revolution has had on the country's folklore.
read more.."Ukraine is not yet dead", the first line of a patriotic poem written by Pavlo Chubynsky in 1862, the prose, later to accompany a musical score written a year later by Mykhailo Verbytsky, a Ukrainian composer and Catholic priest, denotes the cultural mix of hope and desperation felt by Ukrainians through the centuries to rule their own land. Widely sung as a hymn originally, both the melody and lyrics share similarities with Polish, Serbian, and Israeli anthems. Formally adopted as the national anthem of the briefly independent Ukrainian National Republic after Russia's Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, Ukraine's national anthem became a source of controversy in 1991 when the country's second, but permanent, independence declaration was secured.
read more..Once upon a time, a woman rejected a suitor's marriage proposal by returning the gift of bread he brought with him or by presenting the marriage seeker with a pumpkin. While rejections may have changed over the centuries, many Ukrainian wedding customs are still preserved today. Embroidering the rich origins of Eastern Rite Christianity with ancient pagan rites, the Ukrainian rite of marriage is steeped in mystery.
read more..Grief is the price paid for love. Marking a loss can take years especially when the loss is not only the inevitability of death but an unrequited love. In the case of the Crimean Khan that ruled the region between 1758 and 1764, a Fountain of Tears marks the passage of his ancient journey through the common experience of grief in the Crimean city of Bakhchysaray.
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