Ukrainian culture festival starts in Vylkove

On July 14-16, VydelkaFEST, a festival of Ukrainian culture, will be held for the first time in Vylkove on the Ukrainian part of the Danube. This was reported on the festival’s Facebook page.

The festival was founded by Serhiy Hnezdilov, who is originally from Vylkove and has been serving in the Armed Forces and is actively involved in public activities since 2018. Serhii says that for him, the festival is about memory and life during the war.

“War, as Vika Amelina said, does not actually stop life. It only makes its own adjustments. We cannot live thinking only about explosions and what is happening on the front line. On the other hand, doesn’t the front line exist for Ukrainian culture to live and develop? Isn’t the aggressor’s goal today to destroy Ukrainian culture?” said the festival organizer.

The three main directions of VydelkaFEST are Ukrainian cinema, books and music. Throughout the festival, readers of Vylkove libraries will be able to meet with poets and writers, philosophers and journalists, as well as participate in discussions about culture, war, the development of Vylkove and the post-war period.

The festival program includes meetings with PEN Ukraine writers, discussions on culture and society during the war, concerts by the Marianychi Trio, Pyrig i Batih band and others, as well as screenings of the films Butterfly Vision, Homeward and The End of the River.

VydelkaFEST also has a charitable purpose: to raise funds for the modernization of the vehicles of the unit where Serhiy Hnezdilov serves. You can join the fundraiser here.

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N. Vdovenko

Vylkove is known as Ukrainian Venice because of its water channels. Each house in Vylkove has its own pier, and residents use canals instead of streets. The only pedestrian routes are narrow wooden sidewalks.

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Main image: Festival’s Facebook page