The Verkhovyna Town Council in partnership with the NGO “All-Ukrainian Democratic Forum” submitted an application for the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation’s “Small Cultural Capital of Ukraine – 2022” competition
LOT A small cultural capital is one of the three honorary annual statuses of the Cultural Capital of Ukraine, which can be awarded to a territorial community with a population of less than 100,000 people and with the ability to implement an annual program of cultural and artistic projects (a portfolio of initiatives) aimed at achieving the goals of the “Cultural Capitals of Ukraine” program.
“Hutsulska Verkhovynshchyna – a small cultural capital” with such a name and a portfolio of initiatives, they will fight for victory.
At the heart of this project is the idea of gathering writers, theatergoers and the intellectual elite of Ukraine together in a place that they themselves used at the beginning of the 20th century. named “Ukrainian Athens”. “Gathering together” through reading, understanding and performing their works in the places where Ivan Franko, Lesya Ukrainka, Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi, Hnat Khotkevich created and drew their life force and inspiration at one time, and in the veins of Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit, Petr-Shekeryk Donykovy, Stanisław Vincenz flowed the blood filled with Hutsulshchyna, which permeated their creativity legacy
Within the framework of the project, six initiatives are planned, each of which is dedicated to the writers mentioned above:
- Hutsulshchyna Theater Platform 2022 is dedicated to the work of Paraska Plytka-Horytsvit;
- Educational conference named after Petro Shekeryk Donyk and the 3K festival (horses, cows and flowers);
- Annual International Forum of Central and Eastern Europe Via Carpatia and the Vincenz Circle conference;
- The exposition of the labyrinth exhibition “Franko from A to Z” will be brought to Franko’s Kryvorivnia;
- “Lesyna Pysnia” is a package of cultural initiatives of the theater of the Ukrainian tradition “Dzerkalo”;
- Cultural and literary conference “Writer’s Bonfire over Cheremosh”.
The leitmotif of the portfolio of initiatives is to focus attention on prominent figures of Ukrainian culture and science, whose lives were closely connected with the Hutsul region, or who themselves were Hutsuls.
The general thematic concept of the portfolio of initiatives is aimed at supporting the development of culture in Ukraine, popularizing it abroad, increasing the cultural identity and intercultural dialogue of the Carpathian region.
