What, where, when on weekend in Transcarpathia (3 – 4 of September)

September 3 – Night tour and charity concert to raise funds for Yulia Mironova (sand animator), who got sick in Thailand. The beginning is at 21.30 (Palanok castle, Mukachevo).

September 3 – Charity Sale "City flea market." There will be a food court with Italian cuisine from the store PASTA. For kids – creative children’s zone and original photozone. In this way, the organizers will be raising money and supplies for orphanages in Transcarpathia. 11.00-20.00 (patio, Fedynets st., 6, Uzhgorod).

September 3 – presentation of sportswear to children from family-type homes. Brand clothing was purchased at the expense of benefactors from Germany. The beginning is at 11.00 (stadium "Spartak").

September 3 – 4 – 23th International Hutsul Festival and the Festival Fair "Hutsul bryndzya." Program: September 3 (Saturday) – 9.00 – 10.00 – arrival and registration of participants of the festival, 10.00 – 10.10 – formation of the festival column near Rakhiv children’s music school, 10.10 – 11.10 – festival procession, laying flowers to: the grave of fighters for the freedom of Ukraine, monument to Shevchenko and monument to "Hutsul."

11.20 – Opening of the XXIII International Hutsul Festival on the main stage of the festival (amphitheater "Burkut"), 12.30 – 19.00 – competitive programs of artistic groups participating in the festival at the festival stages (amphitheater "Burkut", auditoriums of the District Council, Rakhiv music school and the secondary school №1), exhibition and fair of masters of applied and decorative art (the square in front of the Regional House of Culture), film and photo art (club "Skrat") 20.00 – 21.30 – visiting concerts of the groups participating in the festival in settlements of Rakhiv district. September 4 (Sunday): 8.00 – 12.00 – deployment of exhibitions of the festival-fair "Hutsul bryndzya" in the amphitheater "Burkut"

10.00 – 11.00 – press conference of the heads of the organizing committee of the XXIII International Hutsul Festival. 11.30 – 12.15 – procession of the festival-fair "Hutsul Bryndzya" from the square to the amphitheater "Burkut." 12.15 – 12.55 – opening ceremony of the festival-fair "Hutsul Bryndzya"; inflammation of Polonyna campfire (amphitheater "Burkut"). 12.45 – 14.00 – review of exhibitions from settlements of the district (amphitheater "Burkut"). 14.00 – 20.00 – Gala concert and awarding ceremony of the XXIII International Hutsul Festival on the main stage of the festival (amphitheater "Burkut").   Closing of the XXIII International Hutsul Festival. 20.00 – 23.00 – performances of invited Ukrainian pop stars and professional groups. (Rachel).

September 3 – 4 festival of extreme and heavy music "UzhGoreRot 2016". Program of the performance. Saturday, September 3: NECROPSY DEFECATION (UA) – 15:20 – 16:00, KUYVA (UA) – 16:20 – 17:00, DRACULA (BY) – 17:20 – 18:00, REMORSE (UA) – 18:20 – 19:00, HEGEMONE (PL) – 19:20 – 20:00, GRINDZILLA (BY) – 20:20 – 21:00, CHRISTIAN EPIDEMIC (HU) – 21:20 – 22:00, BANISHER ( PL) – 22:20 – 23:00. Sunday, September 4, CHUPACABRA (UA) – 15:20 – 16:00, DISCONSOLATE (SK) – 16:20 – 17:00, GRAVECRUSHER (HU) – 17:20 – 18:00, FECALITY (UA) – 18:20 – 19:00, SCHIZOGEN (UA) – 19:20 – 20:00, EZOPHAGOTHOMIA (UA) – 20:20 – 21:00, ANDARTAR (HU) – 21:20 – 22:00, COFFINFISH (PL) – 22:20 – 23:00. Ticket price for 2 days is 180 UAH at pre-sale, and 200 UAH (100 UAH per day) during the festival. (club "Outsider" (Cyril and Methodius Sq., 5, Uzhgorod).

September 4 – opening the 36th theater season. Premiere of the performance "Ahneus’s Dreams" based on the works by Dickens (director, art director – Yulia Bilinska, senior lecturer of Kharkiv National University of Arts). The beginning is traditionally at 11:00 and 13:00 (Transcarpathian Regional Academic Puppet Theater "Bavka", Uzhgorod).

Exhibitions:

– Personal exhibition of Serhiy Biba devoted to his first-grader son "The Road of Knowledge". Slovak Culture Centre (secondary school № 4, Uzhgorod);

– Big art project of the VOTO art-café – exhibition of Transcarpathia artists "VOTO 2016". It features works of Lyudmila Korzh-Radko, Nadiya Ponomarenko, Odarka Dolgosh-Sopko, Vlad Gabda, Olena Kondratyuk, Anton Kovacs, Vasyl Kohutych, Ruslan Tremba, Emma Tremba, Taras Korzh, Lesya Korzh, Natalia Hrabar, Petro Ryaska, Victor Melnychuk, Mykhailo Khodanych, Eduard Prykodko, Beata Korn, Naum Repkin, Nadiya Didyk, Svitlana Kremin, Victor Derda, Olena Derda, Raisa Hluyk present their works. Works of famous Transcarpathian artist Havrylo Hlyuk will also be exhibited under the project (entrance fee is 20 UAH, for students – 10 UAH) Saturday – 11.00 – 21.00, Sunday – 12.00 – 19.00 (art center "Ilko Gallery").

– Art exhibition of National Artist of Ukraine Taras Danilich Timed to the Independence Day in the atrium of the Transcarpathian Regional State Administration, (Narodna Sq., Uzhgorod).

– Exhibition "Ukrainian State: The Road to Independence", prepared by employees of the State Archives of Transcarpathian region to mark the anniversary of the national holiday. Among the exhibited items, there are copies of archival documents: the order on the name of the Carpathian Rus, the appeal on the approval of the agreement on reunification in 1919, Augustine Voloshin’s appeal to the citizens of Carpatho-Ukraine, a copy of the Act of Independence of Ukraine from 1991, and many others. (Narodna Sq., Uzhgorod).

– Exhibition "Clean environment – clean future". 11.00 -15.00 ("Impasto" gallery, Vynogradiv).

– Retrospective exhibition devoted to the 70th anniversary of the establishment of the Transcarpathian Artists Union and the 25th anniversary of the Independence of Ukraine. This exhibition features works of the authors who were the founders of the Transcarpathian school of painting: Bokshay and Erdelyi, Hrabovsky, Kotska, Kontratovych, Sholtes, Manaylo, Boretsky. And also works by contemporary artists. Daily, 10.00 -18.00 (Regional Art Museum, Uzhgorod).

– The exhibition of works by Transcarpathian masters of folk crafts "To you, my Ukraine!"". The exhibition will feature works of embroidery, weaving, woodcarving, ceramics, pottery, bead work and basket weaving and artifacts in other forms of art that are prevalent in our area. Among the masters, there will be Lyudmila Hubal, Natalia Stehura, Vasyl Oros, Vasyl Sidak, Anatoly Sakalosh, Mykhailo Sachko, Vitaly Kincz, Yevhen Rubets, Maria Kupar, Andriy Hubenko, Nadiya Verbyschuk, Dosya Verbyschuk, Maria Chika, Maria Kovacs, Maria Fedornak, Hanna Poshtak, Liubov Poshtak, Yeva Karabyn and many others. 9.00 -18.00 (Transcarpathian Museum of Folk Architecture and Life, Uzhgorod).

– Exhibition of works titled "Children’s world in the works of People’s Artist of Ukraine A.A.Kotska." 10.00-17.00 (Sunday – 13.00-17.00 (Memorial House and Museum of People’s Artist of Ukraine Andriy Kotska, Vinnychna Str., 20, Uzhgorod).