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Supported by Arseniy Yatsenyuk ‘Open Ukraine’ Foundation, Yaroslav Fedoryshyn, Manager-Art Director of Lviv Academic Theatre “Voskresinnia” (‘Resurrection’), Manager-Art Director of ‘Zolotiy Lev’ (‘Golden Lion’) International Theatrical Festival, Honored Artist of Ukraine visited International Hanoch Levin Theatrical Festival that was held from 17 to 26 June 2013 in Tel Aviv.

On July 6-7, supported by Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation the Literary ‘Kraina Mriy’ Festival was held for the sixth time. Traditionally the festival guests were welcome by Book Fair, various activities on ‘Master Classa’, ‘Kurin’, ‘Literary Kitchen’ stages and on the Literary stage.

For the third time Arseniy Yatsenyuk ‘Open Ukraine’ Foundation became a partner of the International Neighborhood Symposium that was held on June 25-30 in Istanbul at the initiative of the Center for International and European Studies at Kadir Has University. This year young experts from 25 countries got together to discuss the key problems of security, democracy, economics and business in the Mediterranean South Region and Eastern Neighborhood countries.

On July 6-7th Kyiv hosts the tenth international ethno festival ‘Kraina Mriy’ (Land of Dreams). The separate part of the festival is a literary part, which already takes place for the second year in succession, supported by Arseniy Yatsenyuk ‘Open Ukraine’ Foundation.

‘Dash Arts’ Agency, known on the cultural stage of London for its big-scale presentations of contemporary artistic life outside the borders of the EU, drew its look on “the East” – “countries of the former USSR”, which is almost entirely “invisible” so far to British in cultural terms. The first event, targeting this purpose and supported by the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation, was the meeting with Oksana Zabuzhko. The meeting was promoted widely by the media and held by the Agency jointly with the English PEN-Club in popular art-café ‘Rich Mix’ on the occasion of her novel “The Museum of Abandonned Secrets”, which recently was published in English translation and already succeeded in attracting attention of British reader.

On June 20 in ‘Chasopys’ Creative Space the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Foundation initiated a poetry and music evening as part of ‘FACES’ Art Club featuring Oksana Borovets, Yaroslav Dzhus and Maksym Berezhnyuk.

On June 20 at 7 p.m. the website www.openukraine.org will host webcast of ‘FACES’ Art Club. On the programme: presentation of “417 Minibus or the Tree of Buddhas” book by Oksana Borovets with participation of Yaroslav Dzus’, famous bandura player and Maksym Berezhnyuk, musician of bands “Dudar Band” and “Veseli Vuyki”.

The ‘Open World’ Discussion Club hosted Daniel WARNER who spoke to young people about new challenges for international relations and problems the countries cannot solve without support from the other countries. The Discussion Club has taken place on June 18th in Kyiv upon initiative of the Arseniy Yatsenyuk ‘Open Ukraine’ Foundation and with the support of Friedrich Ebert Foundation Office in Ukraine. According to the experienced expert of international relations “there are some challenges that go across borders of various countries. That’s why those challenges should be addressed together. This implies co-existence and cooperation between countries for the sake of the common global results”.

The Arseniy Yatsenyuk’s Open Ukraine Foundation initiates informal meeting for youth as part of ‘Open World’ Discussion Club. On June 18th Daniel WARNER, Deputy Director of Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces will speak about what will international relations be like in the nearest future. The meeting will take place with support of Regional Office of Friedrich Ebert Foundation in Ukraine.

Sponsored by the Arseniy Yatsenyuk Foundation, Tymofiy Havryliv, Ukrainian writer, traveled to Norway to participate in the biggest literature festival Norsk Litteraturfestival in the countries of the Northern Europe that is already being held for the 19th time this year.