Contests
“The Singing Spirit of the Unconquered”
A city-wide online contest of patriotic song held for the Day of Ukrainian Cossacks. Open to amateur groups and soloists, from choral singing to original compositions. Songs are performed in Ukrainian only; each entry lasts up to five minutes and is submitted as a horizontal video recording.
Held every two years. Applications are accepted from 17 to 27 September.
Contests
“The Poetic Voice of the Kobzar”
Applications are closed
A city-wide online contest marking Taras Shevchenko’s birthday. Three categories: recitation, sung poetry, and staged scenes. Entrants submit a video of their performance lasting up to ten minutes.
Held every year on the eve of Taras Shevchenko’s birthday.
Guidance materials
Guides written by the community’s culture department: how to write a script for a public event, how to run an amateur theatre group, how to record folklore in the villages. Each one is a PDF you can download and print
How to carry out folklore and ethnographic fieldwork
A field guide for anyone recording songs, rites and crafts in the villages. How to prepare for a conversation with a tradition bearer, what to capture on camera and audio, and how to organise the material so it becomes a usable source rather than a pile of files.
Download PDFHow to write a script for a public event
The longest of the three handbooks. Concept and theme, episodes, the rules of composition, and genres from entertainment programmes to folk ritual performances. Written after annual reports from village clubs repeatedly turned up scripts assembled from the internet.
Download PDFTheatre for everyone: running an amateur theatre group
A digest for the leaders of amateur theatre groups: choosing a repertoire, teaching stage speech and movement, planning rehearsals and keeping records. The appendix holds a glossary of theatre terms and a diagram of the stage.
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