7 Days in Kyiv

Legendary band Whitesnake, playing solid bluesy rock, is coming to Kyiv with their latest world tour “Good to be Bad.” Officially Whitesnake was founded by former Deep Purple vocalist David Coverdale in 1977. He toured for the solo album he released between exiting Deep Purple and founding Whitesnake— “White Snake” (1977) and in the late ‘70s, Whitesnake's first albums were fairly popular in Europe and Japan. Later Coverdale re-emerged with a new version of Whitesnake in 1984, making the band sound more energetic by mixing Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple’s old tricks. Three years later, Whitesnake released an eponymous album which was even better. It was an enormous international success, selling over six million copies in the United States alone. In 1993, he released a collaboration album with former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page. Together with guitarist Adrian Vandenberg Coverdale released the album “Restless Heart.”  But soon Whitesnake fell apart again and was renewed only in 2002 with new band members, still fronted by Coverdale of course. Their latest album “Good to be Bad” was released in April 2008, reaching the No. 5 position on the U.K. album charts. The band co-headlined a U.K. tour with Def Leppard this summer. And this November Whitesnake received the “Best Album” prize from the Classic Rock Awards for “Good To Be Bad.”

Palats Sport (1 Sportyvna Ploscha, 246-7406). Dec. 7, 7 p.m. Tickets are Hr 150 – 300

Art Club 44
44 Khreshchatyk, 279-4137
Fri 5 Riffmaster
Sat 6 Red Rocks
Sun 7 Solomin band
Mon 8 Perfect Strangers
Tue 9 Fake Elegance

Route 66
87/30 Zhylyanska, 239-3865
Fri 5 Rocking Wolves
Sat 6 Landcruisers
Sun 7 Tex Mex
Mon 8 Night Block
Tue 9 Angie Nears

Bochka Khmilna
3B-1 Khmelnytskoho, 390-6106
Fri 5 Tekila
Sat 6 In White, Drugies
Sun 7 Inshyi Den, Alisa & Band
Mon 8 Cherniy Tanets, Tire, Gurt Yogurt
Tue 9 Brazil

Bochka Pyvna
17/1 Moskovskiy Prospect, 461-8788
Fri 5 Chill Out, Red Rocks
Sat 6 Chill Out
Sun 7 Wild Peoples

Porter Pub
10 Rybalko, 483-7150
Fri 5 Tres Deseos
Sat 6 Tex Mex
Sun 7 Max Tavrichesky

Pivarium
31 Peremohy, 391-5285
Fri 5 Tres Deseos
Sat 6 G-sound
Sun 7 Max Tavrichesky

U Kruzhki
12/37 Dekabrystiv, 562-6262
Fri 5 Esperansa & Zeleny Svit
Sat 6 Perfect Strangers, Bangladesh Orchestra

Docker’s ABC
15 Khreschatyk, 278-1717
Fri 5 Ot Vinta, Second Breath
Sat 6 Mad Heads XL, Tex Mex
Sun 7 Eastern Express

Docker Pub
25 Bohatyrska, 451-8528
Fri 5 Grazhdanin Topinambur
Sat 6 Karamazovy Brothers, Mr.Och & His Root Boys
Sun 7 Foxtrot Music Band

River Palace
Dnipro metro, 490-6695
Thu 11 C-Men

The Wave (Die Welle)
Drama/Thriller, Germany (2008)
Directed by Dennis Gansel
Starring J?rgen Vogel, Frederick Lau and Max Riemelt
Language: German

Even more than 60 years after the Second World War ended, German film-makers are still understandably obsessed with trying to understand what it was that turned their nation for a while into a monstrous totalitarian and genocidal regime. “The Wave” is a remake of German film “The Experiment,” made in 2001, which was based on a real-life American experimental project to find out what happens when you give one group of people absolute power over another. Teacher Rainer Wenger (Jurgen Vogel) conducted an experiment with his students. They had brought up the question of how people accepted the Nazi’s rise to power and couldn't understand how people had let them. So Wenger decided to recreate a dictatorship within his classroom. This is when they start the role playing, starting with what appear to be harmless, and indeed positive, experiments with discipline and a sense of community, but which then move into more dangerous areas, such as blind conformity and notions of superiority until the whole thing gets totally out of control.

Ashes of Time (Dung Che Sai Duk)
Action/Drama, South Korea (1994)
Directed by Kar Wai Wong
Starring Brigitte Lin, Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung  Chiu Wai Language: Chinese

“Dung Che Sai Duk” that translates literally as “The Heretic East and the Venomous West” is a 1994 Hong Kong film written and directed by Wong Kar-Wai. Inspired by characters from Louis Cha’s martial arts novel “The Eagle-Shooting Heroes,” it centers on a man named Ouyang Feng. Since the woman he loved rejected him, he has lived in the western desert, hiring skilled swordsmen to carry out contract killings. His wounded heart has made him pitiless and cynical, but his encounters with friends, clients and future enemies make him conscious of his solitude.

Sorry, If I Love You (Scusa Ma Ti Chiamo Amore)
Romance /Comedy, Italy (2008)
Directed by Federico Moccia
Starring Raoul Bova, Michela Quattrociocche and Luca Angeletti
Language: Italian

In this Italian romantic comedy, viewers are invited to feel sorry for a bunch of male friends, approaching middle age and beginning to feel a little lost in their carnality. One of the friends has an accident with a motor-scooter, whose owner is a sexy and adventurous 17-year-old girl. “Though almost adults,” says the promo, “she and her friends can still get up to the most incredible mischief.” Heartthrob Raoul Bova (“Alien vs Predator,” “Under the Tuscan Sun”) stars as the older man. He looks over 37 and behaves like a teen ager and in a love relationship with a young girl. The only challenge is guessing whether there will be a moral sting in the tail.

Breath (Sum)
Drama, South Korea 2007
Directed by Kim Ki-duk
Starring Chen Chang,  In-Hyeong Gang and Jung-woo Ha
Language: Korean

Jang Jin (Chang Chen) is on death row and already tried to end his life twice without success. The news report about Jang’s case over and over again, so that unhappy housewife Yeon (Park Ji-ah) also hears about him. Yeon has to struggle with dull everyday life and is married to a boring husband, who also seems to cheat on her. Then, one day Yeon goes to the prison Jang is kept in. On the first meeting with Jang, Yeon tells him about her own near-death experience when she was still a child, and asks him not to try to kill himself in the future again. During the weeks that follow Yeon visits Jang over and over again, whereas she gets closer to him.

Zhovten
26 Kostyantynivska (Kontraktova Ploscha metro),
205­5951, 417­3004, www.zhovten-kino.kiev.ua
Breath – Daily at 1 p.m., 8.10 p.m.
The Wave – Daily at 9.40 p.m.

Kyiv 
19 Chervonoarmiyska (Lva Tolstoho metro),
234 ­7381, 251­ 2199.  www.kievkino.com.ua
Paris – Daily at 4.15 p.m., 6.45 p.m.
Ashes of Time – Daily at 3.30 p.m.
Sorry, If I Love You – Daily at 1.30 p.m., 7.20 p.m.
The Wave – Daily at 5.20 p.m, 9.20 p.m.

Kinopanorama
19 Shota Rustavelli, 287 ­3041, 287­1135
Breath – Daily at 11 a.m., 12.30 a.m., 2 p.m., 3.30 p.m., 5.50 p.m., 7.20 p.m.

Master of psy-trance, British deejay Simon Posford, aka Hallucinogen, known by his psychedelic downtempo music project Shpongle, will perform his live set at Alta-Expo Center. Simon Posford is a pioneer of electronic music and founder of the psy-trance scene. Project Shpongle is the brainchild of Simon Posford and Raja Ram. Their sound has sampled eastern ethnic instruments and western contemporary synthesizer-based psychedelic music. Posford is responsible for the synthesizer and studio work, while Raja Ram performes flute arrangements. These days, the duet often spends time playing live sets around the globe.

Hallucinogen’s second album, “The Lone Deranger,” became a real sensation with The Pink Floyd musical riffs, one of Posford’s major influences. Shpongle’s debut album “Are You Shpongled?” was released in 1998 and became a significant occurrence in the psychedelic downtempo genre. If you think of looking up the word “shpongle” in the dictionary don’t bother, as it’s not there. History claims that one day Raja Ram was asked at a party how he was feeling and he replied “I feel...Shpongled.” That is how name of the project was born. Today Simon Posford is working on the new Shpongle album with Raj to be released in early 2009 and touring the world, spreading their music.

Alta-Expo Center (11A Moskovskiy Prospect, 426-5454). Dec. 5, 9 p.m. Tickets are Hr 200

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Barsky
5 Chervonoarmiyska, 496-0606
Fri 5 Evolution party. Eva, Alfred, Saxo Live Show
Sat 6 Euphoria. Light feat Percussion Live PA, Bro
Sun 7 Cubana Party

Disco Radio Hall
Naberezhno-Khreshchatytska, quay No. 6
Fri 5 Comedy Disco, DJ Romantic, DJ May
Sat 6 Xit FM hits, DJ May
Sun 7 DJ Marcus

Heaven
7 Hrinchenko, 279-8629
Fri 5 Tara Mc Donald live
Sat 6 House Mania. Special guest DJ Gav Mc Call (UK)

Xlib Club
12 Frunze
Fri 5 Intelligent Minimalistic. Virginia (Peppermint Jam Booking). Paul Fox

Tsar Project
1V Hrushevskoho, 278-6246
Fri 5 Djejula Show. DJ Light, DJ Bumer
Sat 6 DJ Gerbut, DJ Misha Zaitsev

Shooters
22 Moskovska, 254-2024
Fri 5 Love Party, DJ Badrove and DJ Vova Blak’s
Sat 6 Royal Night. DJ Dream and DJ Roma Rio, MC Jumper
Sun 7 MC Elena Dark, DJ Roma Rio, MC Jumper

Prime
8 Prospect Nauky, 524-2209
Fri 5 Techno.ua, Phateq, Smailov, Normal, Kruger, Maer
Sat 6 Topless Party. DJ Jully, Loop, DJ TE100, DJ Belena, DJ Sorry, DJ Killer Sister
Sat 6 ElectrOtechn1chka, Dmitry Gren, Vzyal Soundsystem, Telekinez, Standart, DJs Dubmasta, Jiva, New Jesus

Arena Dance Club
2A Baseyna, 492-0000
Fri 5 Chris Willis (USA), DJ Lady Kate, DJ Rocket, DJ Indigo
Sat 6 Comedy Club UA, Ice Party 2 Ya DJ, DJ Vanya Shuz, DJ Lady Kate
Sun 7 Lazy Sunday, DJ Lady Kate, DJ Rocket

PinchukArtCentre together with music band SOSka presents new exhibition called "Dreamers." The multimedia installation created by a group of young Ukrainian artists, includes video, five big photos sized 1х1,5 m, and show-window with photos, documenting the creation of the project. "Dreamers" exhibition reveals a new type of heroes – youngsters, who hide their personality, by becoming a part of a subculture. Heroes of this project are Kyiv emo-kids. On the photos they are shown soaring through the air, pulled out from social system, on the videos – they are crying out their slogans-claims. SOSkа group had already taken part in PinchukArtCentre projects. Its video “Be Happy” was shown at the exhibition of young Ukrainian and American artists “Generations. UsA” in 2007.

PinchukArtCentre (1/3-2 Baseyna, 590-0858). From noon till 9 p.m. Through Dec.14

More galleries in Kyiv:

Bottega
22B Mykhaylivska, 279-5353
Mon.- Fri. 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.
Sat. –Sun. 11a.m. – 6 p.m.
Paintings by Lev Markosyan. Through Dec. 18

Sribni Dzvony
18/29 Mazepy, 254-3904
Mon-Fri 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Sat noon-4 p.m.
Paintings by Anna Dokhno. Through Dec. 6
“New Year’s exhibition.” Paintings and herbal sculptures by Svetlana Kubrak. Through Jan. 15

Da Vinci 
85-87 Chervonoarmiyska, Format Dio Concept Store
Mon-Sat 11 a.m. – 7 p.m.
“Girls.” Paintings, graphics, embroidery by Yulya Lazarevska. Through Dec. 11

Sofia Kyivska National Architectural Historical Reserve
24Volodymyrska, 278-6706
Daily 10 a.m.-4:30p.m.
“Apollo in a Volcano Forge”: Bronze sculptures from the collection of Ludwig XIV. Through Dec. 13

Caras Gallery
22A Andriyvsky Uzviz
Mon-Sat. 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
“Stamps.” Serigraphy and paintings by Alexander Druganov. From Dec. 3

Triptych Gallery
34 Andriyvskiy  Uzviz, 279-8385
Tue – Sat 10 a.m. – 7 p.m., Mon – Sun 10 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Paintings by  Alexander Zhyvotkov. Through Dec.10

Center for Contemporary Art at NaUKMА
2 Skovorody, 425-7778
Tue-Sun 1 p.m. – 6 p.m.
“And Soul, and Mind, and Body”: Sculptures by Elena Toryanska, Myroslav Mashlyanko (Poland). Through Dec. 21

PinchukArtCentre
1-3/2 Baseyna, 590-0858
Tue – Sun Noon – 9 p.m.
“Reign on the Dnipro”:  Photography by Andreas Gursky. Through Dec. 15   
“Dreamers” by group SOSka. Through Dec. 14  

Ra, Ra Photo
32 Khmelnytskoho, 235-3619
Daily 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.
“No Trespassing.” Kyiv artists’ exhibition. Through Dec. 17
   
Kiev Fine Art
12 Velyka Zhytomyrska, 279-3960, 278-1359
Daily except Mon. 1 p.m. – 7 p.m.
“Burnt out reality.” Paintings by Kiril Protsenko. Through Dec. 28