Kharkiv Music Mini-Festival
About us
We are young and creative people who, inspired by a common goal and desire for change in the city, created the Public Union "Cultural View", and now boldly work on promoting Ukrainian heritage. Language, history and culture are the aspects that are key to defining one's own identity; these are the main topics with which we familiarize Kharkiv residents, with the aim of strengthening their sense of belonging to Ukrainian society.
The foundation of our activity is Conversation clubs in Ukrainian. Over the past year we held more than 20 meetings: speakers at our events are people who shape the cultural life of the city: Ivan Senin, Artem Vusyk, Dina Chmuzh, Hamlet Zinkivskyi, Zhenia Kurgan and many others!
We also organized 2 creative evenings: "Vinyl Evening" and "Cultural Event", where we raised over 20,000 UAH for our military.
Charity and donations for the army remain the main beacons of all Cultural View activities: admission to our events is based on affordable contributions, no less than half of which we send to current fundraisers of our friends.
About the problem
Working in Kharkiv's art and cultural sectors, we often notice problems caused by war: people leaving, business closures, threats of shelling. One of these is cultural isolation of local niche artists. Many solo artists and musical groups live and work in Kharkiv who don't have the opportunity to perform on large venues and don't enjoy media popularity, which means their creativity often unfairly remains unnoticed.
For city residents, this problem manifests in limited access to new musical performances and cultural events. This also contributes to feelings of cultural poverty and community isolation, especially among those seeking new forms of expression and support for local culture.
About the solution
Our project aims to popularize lesser-known Kharkiv artists by holding a music festival. This will be a great opportunity for beginning musicians to gain their first fans, get experience of a full concert, meet other performers for future collaboration.
By involving specialists from other fields, such as painting, cooking, humor, we will cover a much wider audience and diversify visitors' pastime, giving them the opportunity to get acquainted with a Kharkiv artist's work, taste modern Ukrainian cuisine, learn to brew coffee by a special recipe and laugh at stand-up comedian stories.
This will be a true multi-genre interactive event, where everyone will find activities to their liking, expand their understanding of Ukrainian art and culture, learn something new about their city and the people living in it.
Like any other, this event will be made possible thanks to our defenders who daily fight for our freedom. Throughout the festival we will encourage people to donate to our fundraiser, and we will also hold an auction, the entire proceeds from which we will transfer to Ukraine's defense forces❤️
