Vsi Svoi Market
Visitors to the Vsi Svoi Ukrainian goods market can buy everything they might need for the home – various furniture, textiles, interior décor, and hand-made ceramics – and all of it Ukrainian-made.
Vsi Svoi Market. Feb. 25 – 26. 10 a.m. – 8 p.m. Vsi Svoi (12 Desyatynna St.) Free
Kadnay concert
Kyiv’s Atlas night club will host the concert by Kadnay, a popular Ukrainian indie-pop band. Kadnay took part in Ukraine’s national selection competition for Eurovision 2017 with their song “Freedom in My Mind.”
Kadnay (pop) music concert. March 2. 7 p.m. Atlas (37 – 41 Sichovykh Striltsiv St.) Hr 300 – 500
Rock Symphony concert
The legendary hits by Nirvana, Led Zeppelin, Muse, The Beatles, Metallica, System of a Down, The Doors, Queen will be performed by the Mykola Lysenko symphony orchestra on the stage of Kyiv’s Palats Ukraina.
Rock Symphony. Feb. 25. 7 p.m. Palats Ukraina. (102 Velyka Vasylkivska St.) Hr 1,750 – 800
Art exhibition
Kyiv’s Mystetsky Arsenal museum invites visitors to enjoy a personal art exhibition by Oleksandr Hnylytsky, a famous modern Ukrainian painter and installation artist. The exhibition features his paintings, sculptures, and graphic and media works.
“Oleksandr Hnylytsky. Reality of Illusion” art exhibition. Feb. 23 – March 26. Mystetsky Arsenal 11 a.m. – 8 p.m. (10 – 12 Lavrska St.) Hr 60
Festival of American films
The program of the sixth American Independence Film Festival in Kyiv and Kharkiv includes documentaries and feature films on various topics, including women’s rights, the conservation of endangered species, educational issues and problems with the judicial system. The five-day film festival is dedicated to the celebration of the 25th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Ukraine and the United States.
American Independence Film Festival. March 2 – 6. Kyiv Cinema (19 Velyka Vasylkivska St.) Hr 10 – 100
Maslyana Festival
Courtesy of Mamayeva Sloboda Museum
Ukrainians celebrate Maslyana, a holiday marking the coming of spring and the beginning of a new life cycle, before the beginning of Lent. The Mamayeva Sloboda Museum invites everybody to celebrate a merry Ukrainian Maslyana – eating varenyky, enjoying a Cossack show, and having fun participating in folk dances.
Maslyana Festival. Feb. 25 – 26. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Mamayeva Sloboda Museum. (2 Dontsya St.) Hr 55, Hr 35 for schoolchildren, pensioners and students, free for Ukrainian soldiers
