The International Book Arsenal Festival announced its dates

The 12th International Book Arsenal Festival (Book Arsenal) will take place in Kyiv from May 30 to June 2, 2024. The festival includes a cultural program and a book fair, both held on the first floor of the Old Arsenal.

According to the CEO of the Art Arsenal, Olesia Ostrovska-Liuta, culture helps to form an international coalition in support of Ukraine, and the team makes every effort to keep the festival going and to continue offering it as a platform for discussing complex and important topics.

The festival will offer sections such as “Art Book,” “Fiction,” “Non-Fiction,” “Literature for Children and Teenagers,” and “Illustrated Books.” Both publishers and bookstores will present and sell books at the fair.

Book Arsenal will focus on books about war published after 2014, including books by veterans, war participants, and their family members. In addition to the publishers’ stands, these books will be presented separately in the “New Releases Showcase” created in cooperation with Chytomo.

The events of this year’s Book Arsenal will include:

•       discussions within the focus theme of the festival;
• a literary program;
• a program for children and adolescents;
• a special program from PEN Ukraine;
• professional events for publishers.

As part of its special program, Book Arsenal will host the literary festival Fifth Kharkiv, a program in cooperation with and curated by the Kharkiv Literary Museum. Lectures, discussions, performances, and poetry readings will take place on five stages of the festival. There will also be several art exhibitions of contemporary artists.

The 2023 Book Arsenal was attended by 28,000 people the weekend of June 22-25.

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Translation: Natalia Zhuk (Severa)

Editing: Tanya Mykhaylychenko