Sumy National Academic Theatre of Drama and Musical Comedy named after M.S. Shchepkin
The Sumy National Academic Theatre is a multidisciplinary cultural and artistic institution that successfully presents classical drama, comedy operetta, modern avant-garde, and various concert programmes. It is a full-fledged theatre with a clearly defined growth strategy. Successful development is based on the spirit of creative experimentation, continuous improvement of professional skills, application of modern styles and trends, and dialogue with the audience. The theatre staff is constantly looking for new ideas. In recent years, the Shchepkin stage has become a real creative laboratory not only for leading Ukrainian but also foreign directors. This approach is fully in line with the theatre's creative credo, as contemporary theatre should be ahead of the public's tastes, contribute to the formation of new aesthetic priorities, introducing the audience to the best achievements of national theatre.
Theatre / Performative practices
State institution
Municipal Institution "Konotop Children's Music School No. 2"
cultural educational institution (art school)
Music
Education
NGO "Ostvytsia" Historical Reconstruction Club"
We are creating and developing the "Ostvitsa" Historical Reconstruction Park of the Ancient Rus in Rivne. Main areas of activity: - historical reconstruction and experimental archaeology; - research and revival of ancient boat building; - reproduction and presentation of archaeological finds of the region; - research and promotion of ancient crafts and trades; - organising and conducting educational, historical and cultural events.
Creative industries
Heritage
Rivne Oblast Academic Music and Drama Theatre
Production and demonstration of theatre productions and concerts
Theatre / Performative practices
State institution
NGO "Bereznivska Brama"
The main goal of the NGO 'Bereznivska Brama' is to represent and protect the rights and freedoms of women, to meet the social, in particular, economic, labour, political, cultural, educational interests of its members and other persons, to promote the principles of gender equality, and to improve the status of women in society. The NGO 'Bereznivska Brama' was founded in the summer of 2020 by a group of enterprising people who want to change the life of the community for the better. Currently, the organisation has 7 members (permanent) and about three dozen people (heads of individual organisations, educational institutions, businessmen) who are involved as needed. During this time, we have organised many projects to introduce our organisation to the community. In addition, for the same purpose, we created NGO pages on Facebook and Instagram, an information group of our community 'Bereznivska Brama' (with seven thousand subscribers) and a volunteer Telegram channel 'Berezne. Volunteer Movement' (about a thousand participants), which was founded on the day of Russia's full-scale invasion of our land. In 2020, the team of the NGO 'Bereznivska Brama' was awarded a diploma by the Bereznivskyi District State Administration and District Council, the Charitable Foundation 'Treasury of Hope', and in 2021 by the NGO 'Loyalty to Ukraine and the Oath'. In 2020, we signed a memorandum of cooperation with the Dubno Local Development Agency (Pryvilne community) and Avanti (Bereznovo community). We constantly cooperate with the Charitable Foundation 'I care' and the NGO 'Special Kinder' (Berezne). During 2021, the NGO 'Bereznivska Brama' was a partner of the Bereznivskyi Local History Museum in the implementation of the project 'Renovation of the exhibition and event space of the Bereznivskyi Local History Museum' from the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. On 25 February 2022, in partnership with the Berezne City Hospital, daily first aid courses were launched, with more than 200 people attending. On the basis of the Christian Centre, we organised the production of camouflage nets (we are still working), and involved the community's educational institutions (about 15) in this process. During this period, more than 1,000 camouflage nets were made, and IDPs were also involved in the work. All good initiatives in the community were published on our information channels #UnitedByMarch. In addition, we organised the #First Aid Kit for the Armed Forces campaign on social media, which helped us raise and deliver over UAH 100,000 worth of medicines to our fellow Ukrainians. On the eve of the Day of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the NGO's activists (7 volunteers) initiated the #TeplaPara campaign to collect warm socks for the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which helped to collect more than 2500 pieces. It is worth mentioning the importance of the #GiveTemperature campaign to make trench candles. We have lost count of the number of candles we made. I would like to note that we worked with the humanitarian needs of IDPs only until June 2022, after which the Charity Foundation 'I care' took over this function. We realised that it is important for people to communicate with local residents and integrate into the local community. So we started organising creative workshops for children, and engaging adults in volunteering and cultural initiatives in the community. Among them is the Necklace of Ukraine project, which features short stories of IDPs in a local newspaper and on social media. Between September and December 2022, the NGO CrimeaSOS implemented the Visible Ukrainians project as part of the initiative 'Strengthening IDP Communities in Western and Central Ukraine', where a thematic ethno-style photo shoot with short interviews of participants was organised for 14 IDPs. From October 2022 to April 2023, the NGO was involved in the implementation of the project 'Advocacy Support for Internally Displaced Women in the Western Regions of Ukraine' by the NGO 'Women's Perspectives Centre'. Since March 2023, we have been working in cooperation with the Rockada Charitable Foundation, where we have been organising art therapy activities for displaced children.
Creative industries
NGO "People's Youth Theatre "ASKAL"
The People's Youth Theatre "ASKAL" was established in 2006 to promote contemporary Ukrainian art among the residents of the region. Since then, the organisation has created dozens of projects and organised hundreds of public events. It also built the only chamber theatre in Kremenchuk. Over the past year, the teams of the People's Youth Theatre "ASKAL" have been implementing mainly charitable projects aimed at uniting IDPs and community members through culture, namely - In 2022, the Cartoon Theatre for Children implemented a volunteer project for children aged 3-16, a series of charitable entertainment and educational events for IDP children and children of the Kremenchuk community, which aimed to comfort, psychologically relieve and distract children from the horrors of war. The events took place at the NGO's premises and at the Centre for Assistance to Internally Displaced Persons; - The MO Comedy Theatre staged four performances (Station, At Sea, Climbers, Striptease) in 2022-23 and performed several dozen performances for the audience aged 16+ from among IDPs and residents of the Kremenchuk community. The events take place at the premises of the NGO and serve as a kind of art therapy that psychologically relieves people. In addition, a series of trainings on vocational guidance for IDP adults was recently held on the basis of our NGO, organised in partnership with the NGO "Community Development of Kharkiv Region", which was created by active representatives of the newly arrived residents.
Theatre / Performative practices
Creative industries
NGO "People's Youth Theatre "ASKAL"
The People's Youth Theatre "ASKAL" was established in 2006. Since then, the organisation has become a real agent of change in the community: it has created several sustainable projects for different age groups, built the premises of the first independent theatre in Kremenchuk in the last 80 years, created an all-Ukrainian social and entertainment project for children that has been running for over 16 years, etc. Thus, the main tasks and activities of the Organisation are as follows are to popularise Ukrainian contemporary art among residents and guests of the region; organise meaningful leisure activities for citizens; organise exhibitions, festivals, create groups, studios, clubs for children and youth, and educate their artistic tastes; support socially important initiatives in the cultural and creative sphere, participate in charitable activities, etc.
Theatre / Performative practices
Creative industries
NGO "MYTH.ART"
The MYPH School of Conceptual and Art Photography was founded in 2018 by Serhiy Melnychenko in his hometown of Mykolaiv, but quickly gained notoriety throughout Ukraine. Nowadays, the school's students are artists from both the country and abroad. The institution aims to expand the circle of consciousness and understanding of contemporary conceptual and artistic photography among photographers. Thus, in theory and practice, online and offline, and even during the war in Ukraine, Serhiy and his guest lecturers share their diverse artistic and commercial experience with students. Over 5 years, more than 250 students have graduated from MYPH. For many of them, it was the first step in their creative careers. For others, it was the starting point for the inevitable changes in their approach to photography. But MYPH is not only education, but also a collective of photographers-alumni of the school, which today has more than 100 active authors. The main goal of working with the collective is to further help promote and popularise their work among galleries, specialised publications and collectors. Dozens of MYPH students exhibit and sell their work in galleries around the world. Many of their works are in prestigious private collections far beyond the borders of Ukraine. Group and solo exhibitions, art fairs and festivals, winners of international competitions and grants, mentions in popular photo books and magazines - this is just an incomplete list of the school's graduates' achievements. Since 2018, MYPH has organised and participated in more than thirty projects: exhibitions, festivals, fairs in Ukraine, Poland, Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Hungary, the Netherlands, the USA, and Norway.
Visual arts
MY ART Platform (NGO ROOM)
A creative platform that creates and supports cultural projects in Mykolaiv: digitisation of cultural heritage, Mykolaiv ART Week, festival of contemporary art, open screenings of festival films and contemporary animation, research and analytical work, thematic workshops and master classes
Cinema
Creative industries
OSRZ4 Residency
Our organisation supports cultural initiatives for artists who need this support due to the Russian invasion. We create working conditions and help implement personal projects of our residents; we organise and participate in collective art events.
Visual arts
Music
Cinema
Theatre / Performative practices
Fashion
Creative industries
Alternative cultural union "Tinova"
We are engaged in artistic and educational activities in the field of art.
Visual arts
Theatre / Performative practices
NGO "ZOLOTI ROKY"
A platform for support and personal development of people 55+
Social projects
Older audiences
Lviv Music School №6 of Bogdan-Yuriy Yanivskyy
Primary art education
Music
Education
State institution
Ivan Franko National Literary and Memorial Museum in Lviv
The Ivan Franko National Literary and Memorial Museum in Lviv is one of Ukraine's most authoritative museums. Here, the spirit of Franko, a great experimenter of new artistic and scientific worlds, lives on in memorabilia, old books and artworks. Even today, Franko is a challenge for us - a challenge that encourages us to think, create, and search. The Franko Museum is not a house on the outskirts, but a place of power. It is a modern, creative and dynamic space for communication, learning and recreation. It is a place where life is in full swing, where ideas and images are born, where talented people of different professions communicate with each other, and where they come back here again after visiting the museum. It feels like home. After all, the Franko Museum is, first and foremost, Franko's home. A house of science. A house of music. A house of dialogue. A house of knowledge. A house of family.
Visual arts
Literature / Publishing
State institution
Heritage
Individual Entrepreneur Bohdan Kolesnyk
Audiovisual content (music videos, commercials, films), poetry
Visual arts
Cinema
Literature / Publishing
Ethno band YELKA
Promoting Ukrainian song folklore and traditional music
Music
Takflix
Promoting artistic cinema and Ukrainian films, producing films and curating film-related events
Cinema
MOZGI GROUP
MOZGI GROUP is a marketing company that helps artists grow systematically and creates integrated advertising projects for brands. We united around one of the most successful music labels in Ukraine - MOZGI Entertainment. In 2018, we became part of the Ukrainian advertising and communications market. We have combined expertise in celebrity and influencer marketing, production, sound recording, music distribution, PR, graphic design, and the experience of a communication agency. MOZGI GROUP is the largest systematic company in the Ukrainian music market. Artists turn to us for a full range of services: building an information campaign, designing music releases, working with music aggregators and platforms (YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, Deezer), organising and selling concerts, and working with Ukrainian and international brands. The result is an increase in the popularity of the artist/musician, expansion of the audience, and access to new international markets. Through MOZGI GROUP, we help Ukrainian artists to be heard and become known all over the world. We strive to unite the creative industries and promote the development of Ukrainian culture. The team has over 12 years of experience in the music market. The company's artists have a total of more than 3 billion plays on YouTube. The artists' audience reaches more than 30 countries, including the key ones after Ukraine: Poland, the USA, Canada, the UK, Germany, and Israel. MOZGI GROUP's competitive advantage is the breadth of its services and unique practical expertise. This allows customers to receive the full range of services in one place. We create unique product solutions that have global consumer demand and financial prospects.
Visual arts
Music
Theatre / Performative practices
Design
Creative industries
"Ukraine Forever - Ukrainian cultural broadcaster"
"Ukraine Forever - Ukrainian cultural broadcaster" is a non-profit digital media platform that covers Ukrainian cultural events and the activities of Ukrainian artists: musicians, filmmakers, poets who are fighting for Ukraine, its freedom and independence in every possible way.
Visual arts
Music
Cinema
Theatre / Performative practices
Literature / Publishing
Creative industries
#ActorsForFuture
ActorsForFuture is a young and creative team that was founded in 2019. We talk about important social issues and problems in a creative way. Types of our activities: - performance - installation - documentary performance - artistic action - activist action
Theatre / Performative practices
Addenda Press
Addenda Press is a publishing practice aimed at exploring the everyday urban culture of Kyiv. The project's communication tools include poster campaigns, postcards, zines, books, literary events, etc. We focus on design based on experimental typography.
Literature / Publishing
Design
BOOKSHA
We research and present phenomena that influence Ukrainian and global culture. We pay attention not only to the content of publications, but also to new communication forms of book design. The company's publishing interests include educational, scientific and popular projects about artistic and socio-cultural phenomena. With our books, we promote Ukrainian culture and present its history internationally.
Visual arts
Architecture and urbanism
Literature / Publishing
Design
Cegla
A young Ukrainian project that produces interior items
Design
Cultural Hub | Cultural Business Education Hub NGO
Cultural Hub is a Ukraine-born international non-profit and independent think tank for those who “dare to know” and have the courage to own their Genius. We are a small community of authors, scientists and project curators from the global Cultural and Creative Industries who explore the Present to think the Future. We care of Ukrainian Cultural Diplomacy, being focused on special programme 2022-27.
Visual arts
Music
Theatre / Performative practices
Literature / Publishing
Design
Creative industries
Research
Depot12_59
A self-organised space on the left bank of the river Kyiv. We strive to decentralise art events and explore new places.
Visual arts
Architecture and urbanism
detunesaw
detunesaw is a production team that aims to develop the modern Ukrainian electronic scene and a new era of high-quality pop music.
Music
Flute Dolce music studio
Music therapy classes
Music
Gorsad.Kyiv
Gorsad.Kyiv - a collective specialising in alternative photography and video
Visual arts
Creative industries
Harmata
Alternative music
Music
Harmatna
An indie rock music band
Music
Module Exchange
An electronic music school that operates online and offline in Kyiv and Paris.
Music
Creative industries
Education
Opera aperta
Opera aperta is a contemporary opera laboratory based in Kyiv. It was founded by Ukrainian composers Roman Hryhoriv and Ilya Razumeiko. The aim of the laboratory is to create contemporary multidisciplinary opera projects. The "Chornobyldorf" opera is one of the Ukrainian art projects that is actively presented abroad. Since its first premiere in Kyiv in 2020, the opera has been presented at several international festivals, received the Top 6 award at Music Theatre Now, and has been covered by the BBC and The Times.
Theatre / Performative practices
Port of culture.
"Port" is a cultural development agency. Port creates and implements international cultural projects aimed at promoting Ukrainian culture around the world.
Visual arts
Architecture and urbanism
Music
Theatre / Performative practices
Design
Creative industries
Printostan
A silk-screen printing studio in the centre of Kyiv, well-equipped with a full production cycle with the possibility of manual replication of gallery-quality works and high-quality printing on fabric. We use only environmentally certified materials. The ability to apply paints with amazing special effects - gold, silver, metallic foiling, glow-in-the-dark, luminescent colours, colour change under certain conditions. We have more than 5 years of experience and a high level of expertise confirmed by many completed projects. We are open to attending training workshops, planning art residencies, and implementing individual creative projects.
Visual arts
Design
Fashion
Creative industries
RISOdentia riso studio cultural printing house
The first RISO studio and cultural printing house in Ukraine that cultivates riso printing and design on cult Japanese RISOGRAPH printing presses. It prints art graphics, art zines, art books, magazines, art and author's publications, posters and posters. Conducts creative workshops on riso printing for artists, designers, illustrators, students of art universities and art schools.
Visual arts
Design
Creative industries
Selection Room
Recording studio, electronic music label (publisher)
Music
thesteinstudio
'thesteinstudio' is an independent artist-run space that primarily organises exhibitions and fairs of ultra-contemporary art in its own (but not only) space. We also organise lectures, artist-talks, and group visits to the studios of contemporary Ukrainian artists (with a special focus on artists living outside Kyiv). Equally important, we have created a club of Ukrainian ultra-contemporary art collectors on the basis of art collectors who started their journey by buying works through thesteinstudio, which is now actively developing the culture of collecting and supporting young artists. Also, thesteinstudio has 2 free educational projects: the podcast "Hi, it's me, Stein", which features interviews with artists, curators, discussions about current processes in art and exhibitions. And also the Stein Telegram channel, which collects announcements, useful articles, interviews, podcasts, life hacks, tips for artists and other useful content.
Visual arts
Ukrainian Logo Archive
Online Archive of Ukrainian logos 1960-2000
Visual arts
Design
Ukrainian Signal
Promoting contemporary Ukrainian culture in the world
Visual arts
Music
Cinema
Design
Creative industries
YATA design
Yata design is a young project at the start-up stage, which aims to foster a culture of recycling and smart consumption by recycling plastic and making interior items from it (furniture, lighting, etc.)
Design
Environment
Association of Producers of Ukraine
The first production organisation uniting independent film and media producers in Ukraine was founded in 2006.
Visual arts
Music
Cinema
Theatre / Performative practices
Creative industries
Baby Theatre
A theatre for children aged 0-5 and their parents. We are based in Kyiv and have been creating fabulous chamber performances for the youngest audience since 2018.
Theatre / Performative practices
NGO "Rushiina Syla"
NGO "Rushiina Syla" is a non-profit public organisation founded in 2016, according to its Charter, working in the field of creating Ukrainian-language content, including documentaries, TV programmes, and educational artistic content on various topics. In peacetime, our mission is to be a driving force for change in the Ukrainian information and cultural space by creating high-quality educational Ukrainian-language video content, and in wartime, to resist the aggressor on the information front by documenting its crimes on the territory of Ukraine and debunking information special operations. The target audience of our organisation's projects is Ukrainians living in the country and abroad, both men and women. Age groups: 1) schoolchildren aged 11-17 2) audience aged 25-64 who are interested in military history, history, museums, monuments, cultural heritage, information warfare, media security, including journalists, bloggers, reporters, volunteers, and civic activists.
Cinema
Literature / Publishing
Education
NGO "All-Ukrainian Association of Music Events"
We are an association that unites and represents the interests of the largest participants in the cultural and music sector of Ukraine. Among our members are the largest Ukrainian music festivals (Atlas, Respublica), producers (Mozgi, etc.), ticket operators, technical contractors (Ritmo and Profi), musicians and bands (e.g. Antytila), music channels M1 and M2, TAVR Media holding, etc. However, our work is not limited to this, as we want to develop the music and entertainment sector of Ukraine in general. We have experience of cooperation with European festivals, performances at specialised music conferences, etc. We are currently preparing as representatives of a Ukrainian cultural and musical NGO to work during the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 in Liverpool. We are engaged in cultural diplomacy and the promotion of Ukrainian music and culture abroad, and we have active plans for 2023. We also try to give young performers a chance to showcase themselves (before the full-scale product
Music
Creative industries
NGO "Renovation Map"
The NGO Renovation Map is a community of like-minded people who have united to protect and preserve Ukraine's architectural heritage. The organisation started with an interactive map of abandoned buildings in Kyiv, but later grew into a project to preserve valuable buildings in Ukrainian cities. Today, the team of architects, lawyers, programmers, and historians researches and advocates for valuable buildings on the verge of destruction - initiating the assignment of protective statuses, cooperating with the authorities and responsible businesses, defending buildings in courts, and creating art and educational projects.
Architecture and urbanism
NGO "Toloka Association", Toloka Studio
Promotion of young artists, organisation of performances, concerts, and plays.
Visual arts
Music
Theatre / Performative practices
Creative industries
European Institute of Chornobyl NGO
The NGO is engaged in comprehensive research, popularisation and dissemination of information about the Chornobyl accident and its consequences for Europe and Ukraine through the implementation of cultural, environmental, educational, scientific, research, social projects and initiatives to prevent new disasters in the future. We cooperate with the Exclusion Zone, the Chornobyl NPP, the city of liquidators Slavutych, the National Museum of Chornobyl, the Ministry of Ecology of Ukraine, etc. The organisation protects the rights and provides humanitarian assistance to the liquidators of the Chornobyl accident and to citizens affected by the Chornobyl disaster, including during the war.
Visual arts
Architecture and urbanism
Music
Cinema
Theatre / Performative practices
Environment
Creative industries
Culture Innovative
Our organisation helps educational and cultural organisations to attract new audiences by introducing the latest technologies such as XR, AR, VR, immersive and digital technologies. We also address important social issues, such as countering Russian propaganda, increasing media literacy, preserving cultural heritage, and providing inclusive access to cultural products for a wider audience. We have held more than 200 interactive exhibitions in Ukraine and abroad on Chornobyl and countering propaganda and developed our own technological solution - a mobile application for holding our own exhibitions on various topics that can be implemented by both cultural and educational institutions and NGOs. Within the application, you can place text materials, animated paintings, 360 panoramas, 3D models with the ability to place them on the floor or table through augmented reality, audio materials, etc. We are currently looking for international partners (locations and institutions) to host an exhibition on countering Russian propaganda. This exhibition was presented at the end of April 2023 in the lobby of the Zoloti Vorota metro station in Kyiv. More than 8 TV stories were shown about it and more than 20 news items were published. Now we have more than 150 partners from Ukraine to hold it in the regions. To do this, all you need to do is print out the posters and install the app. Through the app, you can learn about the principles of propaganda, put an occupier's tank burned in Kyiv region on the floor, use the portal to find yourself in a destroyed apartment in Borodyanka, see military equipment in the reactor hall of the Zaporizhzhia NPP, or find yourself near a destroyed house a minute after it was shelled with bombs with the inscription "For Peace". This autumn, we want to develop and hold an exhibition dedicated to Ukrainian culture and history in Europe to promote understanding of the common history and values of Ukraine and Europe, as well as to continue the support of Ukraine and Ukrainians by Europeans, which is extremely important due to war fatigue.
Visual arts
Music
Cinema
Literature / Publishing
Design
Creative industries
Cultural and Artistic Charitable Foundation "Kyiv-Classic"
The Cultural and Artistic Charitable Foundation "Kyiv-Classic" was established in 2002 on the initiative of the People's Artist of Ukraine, famous Ukrainian pianist, Professor Yevhenia Basalaeva to support and develop Ukrainian culture, education and academic music. Under the leadership of its President, Yevhenia Basalaeva, the Foundation's activities make a significant contribution to the preservation of the national spiritual heritage, the development of creative industries, international cultural relations, and the promotion of cultural diplomacy.
Music
Creative industries
National Museum of Folk Architecture and Folkways of Ukraine
The museum is an ethnographic treasure trove of architecture and life of the Ukrainian people. Its goal is to preserve, promote and educate about the tangible and intangible heritage of the Ukrainian people.
State institution
Heritage
Antonin Artaud Fellowship
The Antonin Art Fellowship supports artists in the field of performing arts working in Ukraine. The scholarship was established by the proto produkciia foundation and the Opera aperta contemporary opera laboratory. It is focused on the search for new progressive theatrical forms. It supports chamber experimental works that can become the basis for future larger projects. It does not consider projects based on the principles and traditions of spoken theatre.
Theatre / Performative practices
Theatre "U Bilii vitalni" at the Kyiv House of Scientists of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Chamber theatre
Cinema
Theatre / Performative practices
Creative industries
State institution
TeleProstir Studio
The company produces documentaries. Our portfolio includes the highest-grossing documentary film in Ukraine, YUKI.
Cinema
The Crown Bar'n'Music
Organising concerts, art exhibitions, art performances, music conferences, masterclasses, etc.
Visual arts
Music
Creative industries
Lavina Concert LLC
The "Sounds of Chornobyl" is a cultural and social music project in which Ukrainian and international artists recorded an album on the theme of Chornobyl. All compositions are united by the Sounds of Chornobyl audio library, a collection of sounds recorded by Ukrainian media artist and author of the ARTEFACT project Valerii Korshunov back in 2018, which was the beginning of the project. Each composition of "Sounds of Chornobyl" is based on sounds typical of the Exclusion Zone: the crack of a dosimeter, the squeak of a viewing wheel, the noise of a red forest, echoes, the roar of the current, and even sounds from inside the Chornobyl NPP. As part of the project, we are creating audiovisual products with added 3D graphics, developing an immersive exhibition to be held in Ukraine and abroad, a VR project, an interactive exhibition, an audiovisual performance, and a concert project with Ukrainian and international musicians, which was planned to take place in autumn 2022.
Visual arts
Music
Cinema
Theatre / Performative practices
Environment
Creative industries
Media art
Khvylia Records
We are the first music label and creative agency that opened during the war in April 2022 and was created by people who have been in the country's music industry for over 8 years. Our main mission is to facilitate the creation and distribution of a new wave of Ukrainian music, to become a visual and audio medium between the artist and the external online and offline space. Over the years, we have opened up a generation of new artists to Ukraine and the world, such as TUCHA, jockii druce, Dobryva, Badwor7h, Oi Fusk, YUVI, Love, Mary, who are now leading the new wave of Ukrainian music. Our partners have included such institutions and festivals as Na Chasі, Closer, Arsenal XXII, Vohonik, Tsekh33, and the Danish Cultural Foundation. We are currently developing our video production and education business and are looking for trusted partnerships.
Music
Cinema
Creative industries
Bezodnya Music media space
Our goal is to promote Ukrainian music. To do this, we use various digital platforms. The main one is our YouTube channel, which contains various music selections, videos about historical music figures, criticism, and we also create a video podcast. We were one of the first to create genre playlists on music platforms, and we are also developing our Instagram and TikTok accounts. We are also working on a website with chords. And we are planning to go beyond the online world by organising offline events and shooting documentary videos.
Music
Creative industries
NGO Cultprojector
Mission: Development of the creative economy. Implementation of participatory projects: urbanism, art and photo exhibitions, festivals, theatre, cinema and literary events, educational lectures/trainings on the development of culture and art. European integration.
Visual arts
Architecture and urbanism
Cinema
Design
Creative industries
Hatka
Ceramic studio
Visual arts
Ēzra Pastor
I am an artist and designer of Karaite descent. At the moment, I am engaged in fashion design, drawing on clothes and painting double-sided paintings. Each canvas is painted on the front and back and the perception of each work depends on which side is considered dominant. In addition, I try to invest in educational activities on the history of Ukrainian culture of the 20th century (especially the history of Ukrainian artists and cultural figures who were killed by the regime) and in the promotion of the history and culture of the indigenous peoples of Crimea
Visual arts
Design
Fashion
Art space Soniakh
Psycho-emotional recovery of children and youth through art
Visual arts
Music
Design
Creative industries
Alexjazz
Music activities, music distribution
Music
NGO for orphans, people with disabilities and low-income citizens "Posokh NT"
Performances, literary readings, competitions, concerts; theatre for life courses - all aimed at socialising and integrating people with disabilities and IDPs into the present and future society of Ukraine.
Music
Theatre / Performative practices
Sport
NGO "Pravopolis"
We implement projects online, as well as with partner organisations and artists in various locations in the government-controlled area of Ukraine.
Creative industries
TV and press studio "Pink Elephant"
Shooting news stories
Visual arts
NGO "Dobropillya Youth Centre "DOBRO"
Our organisation has been developing the potential of young people in Dobropillia and Donetsk and Luhansk regions for over 10 years. In 2015, we established the first youth centre and later a children's centre. Before the full-scale invasion began, we created our own community centre together with other NGOs in the city https://repost.org.ua. Since 2012, we have been training young people and running the Volunteer School, and since 2016 we have been partners with the British Council in the Active Citizens programme in Donetsk Oblast, administering youth projects and training through our own facilitators. In this particular programme, much attention is paid to young people from vulnerable groups. Our "students" have implemented about 70 social projects and many of them have started NGOs and started helping to develop civil society and their own communities. Since Dobropillia is a small town, there has always been a problem with unbiased media, so we managed to create our own website with the support of the ABO agency https://dobronews.city , which is still working, but with less frequency. We also deal with environmental issues in mining regions and are members of the platform for the fair transformation of the coal industry https://justtransition.org.ua. We have installed an air monitoring system in Dobropillya, which is still in operation. Another important area of our organisation's activity is community development through culture, we have held a large number of events from workshops to festivals, and last year we created an artistic residence in Bakhmut, which has unfortunately already been destroyed https://thinredline.com.ua. Some of the works were rescued and transported to Berlin. After the start of the full-scale invasion, part of our team was evacuated to different regions and countries, while the rest stayed in Dobropillya, where we set up a humanitarian headquarters. Currently, we are coordinating a network of humanitarian headquarters in the mining towns of Donetsk Oblast, with six other NGOs. Part of the team works in Odesa, where they also help IDPs and local residents from Mykolaiv Oblast to survive this difficult fate.
Visual arts
Architecture and urbanism
Music
Environment
Creative industries
Pridneprovskiy barvinok
Prydniprovskyi Barvinok is a non-profit public organisation founded by local artists in late 2018. The main goals are to create a cultural environment in remote areas of the city, preserve cultural tangible and intangible heritage, and draw attention to the historical narrative.
Visual arts
Architecture and urbanism
Research
Creative association "Farba Fabra"
If the obligatory question is "nothing", our answer is "something that is important to be able to rely on".
Theatre / Performative practices
Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture
Prior to the outbreak of full-scale war, the Dnipro Centre for Contemporary Culture (DCCC) operated as a cultural centre focused on international cooperation and working with the local context. It hosted exhibitions, festivals, educational programmes, artist residencies, and art and urban projects. On 24 February, the DCCC temporarily ceased operations, and in March it turned into a social hub for local residents and internally displaced persons. Since then, we have been organising events that promote communication between different communities in the city and the integration of IDPs, support Ukrainian artists, and provide a space for exploring and understanding Ukrainian culture and identity. In 2023, we plan to launch a new programme, DCCC: We Work. It will combine several areas and will be aimed at restoring cultural practices in Dnipro and the surrounding regions. The project's mission is to support and intensify the cultural activities of the communities of Dnipro, surrounding cities and IDPs. Aware of the importance of cultural development even in wartime, DCCC resumes its own cultural and artistic activities and provides opportunities for other initiatives or individuals to implement their own projects.
Visual arts
Architecture and urbanism
Music
Cinema
Literature / Publishing
Creative industries
"Centre of Culture and Leisure" of the Tsarychanka Village Council
Everything to do with art and tourism
Visual arts
Creative industries
Community centre "From Varta to Bug"
Community centre in Ladyzhyn, Vinnytsia Oblast. Areas of activity: European integration and reforms, advocacy campaigns, self-organisation of people, development of creative industries and cultural studies, support for artists, protection of cultural heritage
Visual arts
Architecture and urbanism
Creative industries
Research
Detali
The Detali formation has organised about 30 events since 2017. The vast majority of them took place in industrial locations in Ivano-Frankivsk. We started with raves in their classic form: factory premises, exceptionally high-quality audio systems and professional audio engineers, non-trivial lighting projects, selected artists and crowds of visitors, from 700 to 1000 people. We achieved such attendance by paying special attention to security and face control. Since the beginning of the project, we have made it a rule not to repeat locations and choose places where no one has ever held anything before. So we held each event in a new place and prepared it from scratch for just one event. In 2019, we launched the Detalisation festival, which added a significant artistic component to its content. The festival took place on 3 dance floors and included more than a dozen expositions on the territory of the plant, which we had been preparing for two months. It also stretched over time, lasting 27 hours non-stop. In 2020, the festival did not take place due to the pandemic, and we launched the online series "In Detail", which had an educational vector: discussions, lectures and workshops related to the history, culture of electronic music and nightlife. In 2021, we managed to hold a large-scale festival again, spread over 4 dance floors, 15 art zones, and lasting 30 hours. We held showcases in the following clubs: Kultura Zvuka (Kharkiv), Closer (Kyiv), Black market (Vienna), Spatif (Warsaw), Secta Selecta (Krakow). We organised a joint festival with the Fantazery artistic community on Drahobrat. We also collaborated with such formations as Capsule, Materia and twice with Rhythm Buro. SOUND OF THE RESIDENTS Detali is, at its core, a flexible musical machine. We have never limited ourselves to genres and have been enlightening in our sound, ranging from ambient to techno, downtempo to trance, house or broken rhythms and all their subgenres. For 6 years of activity, the promo group's family of residents has become a particularly valuable asset: LAWRIN, MA-GOOCH, ROMAN KAPIY, MAKS YOS, OLES, RUSTAM, HAZE. The sound of each of them is developing in its own direction, but everyone is able to be flexible and try something new, find and combine similarities in different styles of music. Over the past few years, a certain musical vector has been formed that we have been following together: deep, trap music, emotionally coloured, with a progressive sound history and a slight taste of industriality. Emotionally, we broadcast the feelings and sounds of space, parallel worlds, at the same time old-school and relevant, trance-hypnotic and therapeutic for the soul.
Visual arts
Music
Asortymentna kimnata
A gallery and project space in Ivano-Frankivsk, a hub for artistic residencies in the region and abroad, and a scalable model for supporting contemporary art formats.
Visual arts
NGO "Engage and Change"
NGO "Engage and Change" was created to activate the community and develop entrepreneurship
Creative industries
Sneaker Mate
Sneaker Mate was a streetwear hub in Kharkiv, a centre of urban culture that combined a sneaker dry cleaner, a coffee shop, a concept store, a recording studio and the editorial offices of rap.ua and ssweep.media. It was destroyed by Russian missiles on 2 March 2022.
Creative industries
Urban and street cultures
Garage 127
Garage 127 is a space for cultural initiatives by and for artists. The artist Anton Tkachenko and curator Nastia Khlestova opened the space for exhibitions, lectures, performances, meetings, discussions and, most importantly, experiments in the garage in the summer of 2019. The main goal and mission of Garage 127 is to create a community that is comfortable for work and interaction, supporting young artists. Garage 127 focuses on various formats of knowledge exchange and the development of new tools for understanding the present and the changes of the future. Through residencies, projects, festivals, curriculum management, seminars and lectures, Garage 127 opens up new lines of discourse. Garage 127 strives for a world of horizontal connections and the absence of borders.
Visual arts
Майстерня 55
The theatre group that emerged on the basis of graduates of the courses of Honoured Artist of Ukraine L.V. Sadovskyi at the Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I.P. Kotliarevskyi. Since its foundation in 2006, it has been working as a laboratory where directors and actors develop their own method of theatre education based on psychological theatre with elements of performance, various types of training and contemporary practices. "Maysternya 55" is dedicated to the development of contemporary Ukrainian theatre and is open to cooperation. Temporarily, during the war, the company's activities were switched to a project basis, but they plan to return to regular repertoire activities.
Theatre / Performative practices
University Philharmonic of KhNUH named after I.P. Kotliarevskyi
The University Philharmonic is an informal organisation established on the basis of the Kharkiv National University of Arts named after I.P. Kotliarevskyi (artistic director - Doctor of Arts, Professor Yuliia Nikolaievska). The goal is to organise various events for Kharkiv residents. The list of events includes concerts, art therapy projects, lectures, meetings, theatre performances, classes with children in hospitals, displaced children, etc. The main task is to unite citizens around the University of Arts as a hub of opportunities.
Music
Theatre / Performative practices
State institution
Харківська міська художня галерея
Kharkiv Municipal Gallery is a modern platform for creative and socio-cultural initiatives of artists, curators and active participants of the Kharkiv art movement, which has become an integral part of the art process in Ukraine over the years. MG was one of the first Ukrainian galleries to start the process of popularising and institutionalising contemporary art, and it has been and remains a representative of the main trends and processes emerging in the Ukrainian art scene. The main activity is working with contemporary Ukrainian artists. The gallery has hundreds of projects, events, exhibitions, and festival programmes. In its exhibition policy, MG combines programmes and exhibitions of masters of traditional painting, graphics, sculpture, and photography with projects of contemporary art and new media. Since 2003, every two years, the Municipal Gallery team has been organising a major contemporary art festival for young artists called NonStopMedia, with a large-scale theoretical platform, workshops, special projects, film, music and theatre events. The festival is the gallery's main business card. In 2008, MG opened a new exhibition space, ARTpidval, which specialises exclusively in youth and experimental art.
Visual arts
Theatre / Performative practices
State institution
Kharkiv Theatre for Adults
Private professional drama theatre
Theatre / Performative practices
NGO "TRANSLATORIUM"
TRANSLATORIUM was founded to support the translation community in Ukraine. A central part of the organisation's activities is the TRANSLATORIUM festival, which is the only literary and translation festival in Ukraine dedicated to literary translation. Timed to coincide with the International Translation Day, it has been held annually in Khmelnytskyi in late September and early October since 2017. Other projects include literary residencies, including the ongoing BAZHAN residency in Kamianets-Podilskyi for poets and poetry translators, as well as various projects working at the intersection of literature, translation, and other arts. TRANSLATORIUM is constantly expanding its activities and participating in the creation of programmes at literary festivals in Ukraine and abroad.
Literature / Publishing
31artspace
31 artspace is an informal art gallery created on the territory of the former Rhema factory at 31 Sofiia Yablonska Street in Lviv. We strive to give freedom and opportunities for young artists to realise their potential. The works exhibited in our space are not censored, so artists have the opportunity to be free in their creative expression. We also have no restrictions on the format of the works: a painting, a photo, a sculpture or anything else that can be hung, placed or displayed on a monitor. We want to spread contemporary art! Translated with DeepL.com (free version)
Creative industries
NGO GEN Ukraine
Our eco-settlements are places for green tourism, recreation, festivals, platforms for inventions, renewable energy experiments, educational seminars, restoration of crafts and authentic cuisine, and an opportunity for people from all over the world to learn about the culture of our people.
Environment
Creative industries
Education
NGO "Svitanok sela Yakovlivky"
satisfaction of public, including social, economic, creative, age, national, environmental, cultural and other interests of citizens; promotion of sustainable development of the community; promotion of improvement of the living standards of the community; promotion of development of the human potential of the community; strengthening the capacity of the community and local authorities to solve the problems of the community.
Visual arts
Social projects
NGO "Zahody"
The Zakhid NGO was established in Mariupol in 2017. The founders of the organisation were internally displaced persons from the territories of Donetsk and Luhansk regions occupied in 2014 and students of Mariupol universities. For 5 years in a row, Zahidy has been developing civil society, youth, culture, entrepreneurship and the creative economy.
Creative industries
NGO THERE IS A TIME
Since 2015, we have been operating in the city of Berdiansk, Zaporizhzhia region, as a hub for community events, including cultural and educational activities. After the outbreak of Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine in 2022, most of our team members were forced to leave the city of Berdiansk and suspended their activities in the temporarily occupied territory. We are currently implementing the We Are Berdiansk project, which aims to help create a community of residents of Berdiansk district, including those who evacuated, to support each other, strengthen each other, and form a common vision of community development after the victory.
Creative industries
NGO Ukraine.Time to unite
social theatre, forum theatre, preparation and presentation of a forum performance with the participation of non-professional actors on socially important topics or topics relevant to a particular community
Theatre / Performative practices
BABYLON’13 Civil Society Cinema
An association of filmmakers that was founded at the beginning of the Revolution of Dignity and films the most important pages of modern Ukrainian history
Cinema
NGO Art Travel
The main project of the organisation is the Odesa Photo Days International Festival, the main focus is photography, educational programmes, exhibitions, research, and support for authors from Ukraine. We work internationally and in Ukraine.
Visual arts
NGO Lanka.pro
Lanka is a professional initiative that aims to strengthen Ukraine's cultural and creative ecosystem and its contribution to creating a healthy, beautiful and progressive world. Lanka builds meaningful bridges so that individual projects feel the holistic context around them and have the resource to reinforce each other.
Creative industries
Education
NGO Kontrabass promo
The organisation organises tours and concerts for Ukrainian underground and middle-class artists, promotes young Ukrainian music, and searches for new names. In 2023, they started working as a kontrabass label. The agency's roster includes the following bands: Stas Korolev, The Unsleeping, To Eternity, Kurs Valut, Ragapop, Structure of Happiness, Artillery, and others.
Music
NGO Ksi Prostir
Ksi Prostir was founded as an initiative of young artists in Dnipro in 2014. Since then, we have been organising events for the city's artistic youth: debut exhibitions of artists, film and animation screenings, lectures, discussions, and residencies. Since then, we have organised over 450 different events. Ksi Prostir has also been working all this time as an open art studio for those who need a space to work. Now we are continuing our activities, but now in a new format, doing cultural and social projects, research, decentralised residencies, and educational projects.
Visual arts
NGO "Media Centre "Third Capital"
Creation of audio and video content for radio, television, YouTube, Internet platforms (websites, social networks), in particular in the field of culture
Visual arts
Music
Cinema
Literature / Publishing
Design
Creative industries
NGO Culture Hub
Target audiences in Kherson or from Kherson; target audiences are artists affected by the war
Cinema
Creative industries
UA Fishing Club NGO
Protection of the rights of IDPs and IDP families with children. Psychosocial support for families with children. Rehabilitation of ATO/JFO and war veterans in Ukraine. Protection of water resources and the environment. Development, support and implementation of youth/volunteer initiatives. Development of responsible parenthood. Evacuation of civilians from the area of active hostilities. Monitoring and provision of comprehensive humanitarian aid
Theatre / Performative practices
Environment
NGO "Centre for Support of Public Activity "Kryla"
Until February 2022, the activities of the Kryla NGO were aimed at developing domestic tourism in the northern part of Donetsk Oblast. For five years, the organisation has been implementing projects known outside the region. To ensure comprehensive work, partnerships were established with representatives of the authorities, business, specialists and colleagues from other regions. The organisation participated in the work of specialised committees of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the development of local tourism development strategies, spatial planning plans, etc. The organisation held events aimed at bringing together all stakeholders to expand the range of tourism services, and worked with residents to support their creative activity, motivate opportunities for self-development, and learn from the experience of other regions. After 24 February 2022, the NGO Kryla resumed its work in Cherkasy region. From June to December 2022, in addition to humanitarian projects, the organisation implemented several strategic stages of the "Salt Way" project aimed at economic support for the network's partners and adaptation of IDPs in local communities. Full information about the activities of the NGO Kryla is available at https://saltway.in.ua/kryla-about/
Literature / Publishing
Environment
Creative industries
NGO FUSION
The FUSION community was created to unite young musicians in Ukraine, to provide them with a space for meetings, collaborations, research and development of the culture of contemporary jazz trends. Over the four years of its existence, FUSION jams and events have become something more - an environment united by the desire to give a boost to Ukrainian jazz and hip-hop culture. The community exists not to bring culture to Ukraine, but to develop its own.
Music
NGO "Theatre of Changes"
The NGO Theatre of Changes promotes the practice of participatory theatre methodology of the Theatre of the Oppressed (TOT) as a tool for non-violent change, dialogue and local analysis.
Theatre / Performative practices
Фонд культурної спадщини Скалатський замок
Спільна діяльність на данадання всебічної допомоги НЗ «Замки Тернопілля»,закладам культури,освіти у збереженні пам’яток національної культури в популяризації і відновленню забутих традицій та промислів,реставрації пам’яток культурної спадщини.
Heritage
Культурно-мистецька "Кронау"
З початку своєї діяльності ми зосереджуємося на реалізації різноманітних соціальних культурно-мистецьких програм та проєктів, спрямованих на розвиток нашої громади. Започатковано фестиваль української та німецької культури, створено Молодіжний хаб, кімната тактильного та комунікативного розвитку дітей, проекти вказані реалізовані нашою командою.
Creative industries
Креативний кластер Na пошті
Креативний хаб, приймаюча локація та організатор концертів неформальної музики, літературних презентацій, вечорів стендап-комедії, кінопоказів, мистецьких виставок тощо
Visual arts
Music
Cinema
Creative industries
Кам'янець-Подільський національний університет імені Івана Огієнка
Заклад вищої освіти
Visual arts
Music
Literature / Publishing
Sport
Environment
Creative industries
Education
State institution
Social projects
Дерев'яне мереживо Чернігова
Відновлення різьблених фасадів старих дерев'яних будинків, дослідження їхньої історії, їх фото- та геофіксація. Популяризація дерев'яної архітектури Чернігова та Північної України.
Architecture and urbanism
Гурт "Їжаки сміються"
Організація дозвіллевих заходів, музичних міроприємств та концертів. Арт-простір для творчості та репетицій. Саундпродюсінг, запис музикальних гуртів.
Music
NGO "Artistic Association "PLAI"
Our team was formed in 2018 after working together on the AIR Gogol Fest contemporary art festival in Vinnytsia. As an initiative group, we organised art events, and after the festival, we realised the need to unite and work together. So in early 2019, we opened a non-governmental organisation whose main goal is to develop and promote contemporary art in Vinnytsia, as well as support local artists. Six months later, we launched our own art festival, Ticket to the SUN. In 2020, during the pandemic, they opened the PICH art space. After the full-scale invasion, they teamed up with the artistic community in Vinnytsia to continue their cultural activities during the war. The artistic association PLAI was founded in 2019. Until February 2022, they lived and worked in Vinnytsia. The main activity is the creation of cultural and artistic projects, promotion of contemporary Ukrainian art and support for artists. The PLAI team includes: Oleksandra Venslavovska, head of the organisation and cultural manager; Volodymyr Podolian, deputy head, project manager; Oleksandr Shcherba, member of the organisation, art director of the PICH cultural space; Iryna Babenko, communications and SMM manager of the organisation's projects. Before the full-scale invasion, they were engaged in cultural activities at the city and national level. We support young artists and invite national art projects to Vinnytsia. We work on popularising and promoting Ukrainian author's content and contemporary art, especially as part of large-scale festival events where we attract a wide audience of visitors. We strive to create a cultural, informational and educational space in the city so that Ukrainian identity is not a question, but a priority. Especially in times of war, when there is a clear understanding that the struggle is not for administrative borders, but for our culture, language, identity and identification of Ukrainians.
Creative industries
NGO "Art Oborona"
A non-profit organisation dedicated to the sustainable development of territories in Ukraine through cultural heritage. The aim of the organisation is to create and implement programmes, projects and activities aimed at sustainable development of communities through addressing cultural, social, economic, environmental and urban planning issues.
Architecture and urbanism
Heritage
Department of Culture and Tourism of the Pechenizhyn Village Council
During the war, the public library became a hub for IDPs. The team of employees created unique opportunities for people and children to feel at home here. Master classes, columns, tourist tours, authentic dishes, museums and much more.
Visual arts
State institution
CF "Soliana Fortetsia"
Charitable Foundation
Social projects
Charity organisation Mykola Babak Foundation
The Mykola Babak Foundation is a charitable organisation established in 2017. The Foundation's mission is to preserve, present and promote the cultural heritage and contemporary art of Ukraine. Since its inception, the Foundation has participated in international exhibition projects featuring Ukrainian and foreign artists. The Foundation has a long history of cooperation with the Cherkasy Regional Art Museum, with which it signed a cooperation agreement in 2020. As part of the agreement, the Foundation transferred several collections to the Museum's collection: a collection of folk icons of the Middle Dnipro region of the late 18th-20th centuries, a collection of 20th-century folk paintings, a collection of 20th-century pottery, and other artefacts. A major jointly implemented project was the Collection of Contemporary Art of Ukraine, which was collected by the Foundation's Director General Mykola Babak and donated to the Museum. The Collection presents 268 best works by 168 contemporary artists from all regions of Ukraine, which is the first state collection of contemporary art of museum level. The wide presentation of the Collection was postponed due to the war. Russia's large-scale military aggression against Ukraine dramatically changed the Foundation's activities and the life of the whole country. In the first days of the war, the Foundation posted an official statement condemning the war on its website and social media. After that, the Foundation was forced to look for ways to preserve its collections of more than 10,000 artefacts. Thanks to a grant from the Prince Klaus Foundation (Netherlands), it was able to carry out a set of measures that made it possible to protect unique items of Ukrainian cultural heritage from destruction. At the end of spring 2022, the work on the preservation of the collections was completed and the Foundation decided to hold events in support of the Ukrainian army. In June-July 2022, the Artification charity project was implemented, which was designed to help wounded soldiers undergoing inpatient treatment in medical institutions in Cherkasy by conducting excursions. In October 2022, the Foundation began cooperating with the NGO Technopark Centre for Medical Innovation to perform logistics functions for the supply of medical products to the military: individual first aid kits, medical backpacks, evacuation slings and soft frameless stretchers. Since February 2023, the Foundation has been cooperating with the NGO Medicine in Action to supply humanitarian aid to IDPs in Cherkasy region in the form of food packages consisting of non-perishable food. Over the course of the cooperation, the Foundation has provided more than 20 tonnes of food parcels.
Visual arts
"Vilnodumni. Ne khustka"
We reproduce paintings by Ukrainian artists on headscarves to bring Ukrainian culture and art closer to ordinary people. We popularise and make Ukrainian art a trend
Visual arts
Design
Fashion