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With the support of Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation composer Bohdan Sehin visited the third international festival “NeoArte - Spektrum Muzyki Nowej”, which was held from 3 to 5 October 2014 in Gdansk and was dedicated to modern classical music. The festival program presented the most interesting trends in classical music in a form of concerts and master classes. The event brought together artists from different countries, cultures and schools of art and gave them an opportunity to communicate among themselves and listeners by the means of music.

With the support of Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation the Ukrainian film director Iryna Pravylo visited the 65th International Film Festival of short-length films held from 12 to 19 October 2014 in Montekatini, Italy.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation initiates an informal meeting of young experts and professional in the area of international relations, students, post-graduates and civic activists with renowned Ukrainian political scientist Oleksiy HARAN and Program Director of the Ukrainian Center for Independent Political Research Maksym LATSYBA.

«There will be no such thing as Ukrainian cinema until we start respecting it», - Olena Fetisova stated at Faces Art Club, that was held at the initiative of Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation on 28 October at Chasopys Creative Space. The Ukrainian film director added that «we need to watch Ukrainian cinema regardless of anything, only then it will progress».

On 28 October at 19:00 Chasopys Creative Space as part of FACES Artistic Club will hold a meeting with Ukrainian film director and producer, winner of many international film festivals awards Olena Fetisova.

Head of Supervisory Council of the Open Ukraine Foundation Tereziya Yatsenyuk visited people displaced from ATO area who temporarily staying in Teteriv sanatorium of Zhytomyr region, the city of Korostyshiv. Mrs. Yatsenyuk spoke with temporarily displaced people and staff of sanatorium, which is home now for totally 400 people, including 140 children.

With the support of Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation Dmytro Honcharenko made a trip to Turkey to implement the Artistic Project «I:O - Koktebel Art Residence Bahçecik Edition 2014».

Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation supported the release of a book by Andriy Kurkov "Maidan Diary" in German language. This work is intended primarily for a foreign reader, who needs to know more about the essence of Ukrainian events of recent months and see them with the eyes of popular writer and hear his thoughts and explanations. The book contains quite many comments, necessary to comprehend by a foreign reader the Ukrainian history and present day of the country: explanation about Holodomor, Stepan Bandera, "The Right Sector", about some other personalities of the politicum.

«People's Philharmonic» together with «Open Ukraine» Foundation visited Irpin military hospital where the wounded soldiers from ATO zone are recovering. Artists of "People's Philharmonic" prepared a martial concert for the servicemen. The staff of the Foundation contributed to the volunteering aid, and passed warm clothes for soldiers.

Arseniy Yatsenyuk Open Ukraine Foundation initiates informal meeting for young experts and professionals in the area of international relations, students, post-graduate students and civic activists with renownd Ukrainian diplomat, minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine (February – June 2014 року) Andrii Deshchytsia. The meeting will be held on 9 October 2014 in Kyiv («Hilton» hotel, «Istambul» conference hall, Taras Shchevchenko blvd. 30) at 18:30 (the registration starts at 18.00).