Editor’s Note: Kyiv public relations specialist Zhanna Kobylinska’s “Good News Ukraine” blog sticks to uplifting news and steers clear of controvers.
First teaser to ‘Mavka. The Forest Song’ Animation Feature (video)
The first teaser to ‘Mavka. The Forest Song’ animation feature is available in Internet.
‘Our teaser is more about ambiance than plot. Its objective is to immerse the audience in the unusual forest world of Mavka, to let the viewers meet the protagonist, to show her magic connection with nature and demonstrate Mavka’s Willow.
We’ll also denote several unique features of the project: Mavka’s tattoos in the form of pagan runes, which illuminate when she hears Lukash’s music; a unique outfit created by nature itself (but carefully designed by Olha Navrotska) and, of course, music by ‘DakhaBrakha’ band based on a Ukrainian folk song, a vesnyanka (a song calling the spring in). This soundtrack is among the main components of our teaser; it helped us a lot with demonstrating the authenticity and spirituality of our future project’, Iryna Kostyuk, the project producer, shares.
It is worthy adding that the project has been introduced to the European audience at Annecy festival.
More: http://ukrainegoodnews.com/mavka.html
More than 2,000 specialists from different countries to connect Ukraine
July 28-30, Art-zavod ‘Platform’ in Kyiv will bring together over 2,000 social entrepreneurs, inventors, businessmen, theorists, technologists and corporate sector representatives from Ukraine and around the world to ‘Connect Ukraine Festival’.
The event will serve as a platform to connect creations and investors, ideas and opportunities, and a business incubator and idea marketplace as well.
The project’s mission is to stimulate innovation and creativity in Ukraine, strengthen the creative sector of the national economy, redefine undervalued creative assets and make them attractive for domestic and international investors.
More:http://ukrainegoodnews.com/more-than-2-000-specialists-from-different-countries-to-connect-ukraine.html
Ukrainian students enter TOP-20 at International Robotics Olympics
At 2017 FIRST Global Challenge, International Robotics Olympics, held in Washington a team of Ukrainian students entered the TOP-20 among 163 participants from different countries of the world. Ukrainians took 19th place.
Valeriy Chaly, Ambassador of Ukraine to the USA, congratulated the students with the success and presented them memorable gifts.
More: http://ukrainegoodnews.com/ukrainian-students-in-top-20-at-international-robotics-olympics.html
Aerobatics of Ukrainian pilots at the UK air show deserves a prize
Ukrainian military pilots of the 831st Tactical Aviation Brigade won the ‘Best Aerobatics among NATO partners-countries’ nomination at The Royal International Air Tattoo 2017 held in Great Britain.
At the air show Ukraine represented two Su-27 fighter planes and Il-76 military aircraft of the Ukrainian Air Force.
More: http://ukrainegoodnews.com/ukrainian-pilots-at-the-uk-air-show-win-a-prize.html
Master Yoda settles in Kyiv’s botanical garden
Lilia and Maksym Kazmins, one of the alley creators, ‘Anyone will relax and find peace here because Master Yoda represents inner strength and helps to concentrate and get thoughts in order’.
Europe’s only monument to ‘Star Wars’ character, Master Yoda, was unveiled on the alley ‘Strength and Knowledge’ in Mykola Hryshko National Botanical Garden.
The monument is made of plastic and concrete, the height is equal to the size of the identical character, 66 cm. A similar statue can be found in Queensland, Australia.
A team of 13 enthusiasts has worked on the sculpture creation.
More: http://ukrainegoodnews.com/master-yada-settles-in-kyivs-botanical-garden.html
