Ivan Honchar Museum welcomes
Christmas program for the whole family!
This holiday reflects the national coloring and spirit: folk melodies, performances of the Nativity Play, traditional dishes etc. One will have a chance to feel this marvelous atmosphere soon by visiting the National Center of Folk Culture the Ivan Honchar Museum. There they cherish the traditions of Ukrainian Christmas, develop intercultural dialog, and care about friendly relations and family unity. Now they have initiated the unprecedented project “Tomorrow is Christmas!”
The goal of the project is to present Christmas traditions and integrate them into a global cultural context through the realization of a broad cultural-educational program. By lighting the Christmas star over the Museum, the organizers would like to stress the importance of reviving and supporting the traditions and development of cultural integration. The organizers of the activity see their objectives as follows:
– to bring family values up to date by means of reviving and developing traditions in the circle of famous Ukrainian families;
– to realize cultural interaction by means of integrating Ukrainian traditions in a European context, cooperating with embassies, and with the participation of the diaspora in the project “Tomorrow is Christmas!”;
– to present the tradition of Ukrainian Christmas through the art of painting, theater, literature, folk craft (making traditional gifts), photo, music;
– to unite and support regional communities (associations of people coming from a particular area) based on studying Christmas traditions;
– to involve the young generation, children, and their families in organizing the project “Tomorrow is Christmas!”;
– to hold a charitable activity “The Ivan Honchar Museum for Children,” aiming at the support of talented children from rural communities;
– to realize the international action “Night in the Museum.”
THE PROGRAM OF THE PROJECT “TOMORROW IS CHRISTMAS!”
December 16
LIGHTING THE CHRISTMAS STAR over the museum Opening of the CHRISTMAS FAIR
Painting a skating-rink
Presentation of the Nativity Play
Coffee from Lviv
CHARITABLE CONCERT
December 17
OPENING OF THE EXHIBIT “Signs and Symbols of Ukrainian Christmas”
THE TRIP OF ST. NICHOLAS
December 19
ST. NICHOLAS DAY
OPENING of the 3rd All-Ukrainian children’s folklore festival “ORELI-WINTER”
OPENING OF THE EXHIBIT-COMPETITION of Christmas-New Year’s attributes “The Marvelous Star is Approaching”
December 19-26
Preparation for Christmas: “Every Week Has its Holiday!”
CHRISTMAS FAIR
Christmas cuisine in the circle of famous Ukrainian families “12 DISHES FOR CHRISTMAS” (involving Oleh Skrypka, Haidamaky, the Kapranov brothers and others)
HOLIDAY MEETINGS “Meet the Carol Season, Ukraine!” (with local communities from Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Lviv and others)
TRADITIONAL WORKSHOPS “If You’re Happy, You’ll Buy a Gift, Thanks For That!”
PHOTO EXHIBIT “Tomorrow is Christmas!”
Performances of collectives, dance workshops
December 26
Christmas in Europe
THE PROJECT “NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM”
CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS IN EUROPE with the participation of embassies (Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, Greece, Romania)
Presentation of diaspora’s culture in Ukraine
Common Christmas dinner
“UKRAINE MYSTICAL,” A PERFORMANCE
January 8
Our Christmas, “Paradise Evolved”
THE PROJECT “NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM”
The All-Ukrainian children’s folklore festival “ORELI-WINTER”
Common project with the International Festival “COUNTRY OF DREAMS”
Closing of the exhibit. Award ceremony. Presentation of puppet shows of the Nativity
January 10-13
“ORELI” in Ukrainian villages (Lypianka, Lehedzyne, Velyky Khutir): performances of folklore groups from the Kyiv region, workshops for children of village schools, gifts from St. Nicholas
January 14
New Year in Ukraine
Winter traditions in Slovakia, Poland, and Macedonia (with the participation of embassies’ representatives)
Newspaper output №:
№74, (2010)Section
Day After Day
