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January 2–8, 2012: Igor Bobrin Ice Theater to Perform in Kyiv
The European Champion of 1981, Soviet competitive figure skater Igor Bobrin brings his famous ice theater on tour to Ukraine. A team of professional figure skaters will perform some of the best holiday stories – Cinderella, The Snow Queen, and Swan Lake on Kyiv stage during the holiday season.
January 6–8, 2012: Christmas in Donets’k
At 7 a.m. on January 6, 2012, a religious service will kick-start the Christmas celebrations in the east Ukrainian city of Donets’k. Another Christian service will start at 4 p.m. for local Orthodox Christians.
January 7, 2012: Kyiv Celebrates Orthodox Christmas
Kyiv City State Administration organizes a celebration of the Ukrainian national holiday – Orthodox Christmas – in the main street of the capital – Khreshchatyk. The celebrations will include traditional Christmas vertep (a puppet theater that recreates the Biblical scene of the birth of Jesus Christ), carolling, holiday souvenirs fair, contests, games, etc. Organizers promise to bring Christmas cheer to everyone in attendance.
January 7, 2012: Crimea to Celebrate Christmas with Vertep Festival
On January 7, 2012, according to the Julian calendar (as Orthodox Christians celebrate the holiday), the celebration of Christmas will take place in the Crimean Kyzyl-Koba (a cave located close to the capital of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in southern Ukraine).
January 12, 2012: Kyiv to Welcome Christmas Holidays With a Fest
Kyiv city is launching the new tradition – a Christmas festival. The event will become the all-Ukrainian festival of koliadky and shchedrivky (Ukrainian version of Christmas carols).
January 12, 14–15, 2012: Lutsk to Welcome Christmas With Three Different Festivals
Western Ukrainian Lutsk will celebrate Christmas Holidays with a number of events: vertep, traditional Christmas singing, and Christmas in Lutsk celebrations.
January 15, 2012: Christmas Carol Celebration to Begin in Cherkasy
Festival Rizdvyana Kolyada (Christmas Carol) will take place on January 15, 2012. Various folk teams from several regions of Ukraine will perform traditional Ukrainian Christmas carols – kolyadky, shchedrivky, vinshuvannya, and other kinds of themed festive songs. After vocal performances at the Cherkasy drama theater the celebration will move in the street, where bonfire and gingerbread treats will welcome the attendees of Rizdvyana Kolyada.
January 16, 23, 30, February 6, 13, 20, 2012: Classics of World Cinematography to Be Screened Using Celluloid Film
The audience will be able to enjoy the classic feel of movie theaters before the DVD era at a festival of retro masterpieces at the Chapayev Cinema in Kyiv through January and February 2012. World cinematography masterpieces will be screened using celluloid film at Chapayev Cinema starting January 16 to February 20, 2012.
January 25–29, 2012: Kyiv to Host Modern Serbian Cinematograph
One of Kyiv’s oldest cinemas, bearing the name of Ukrainian capital, is to welcome yet another film festival. This time Kyivers will be offered to view Serbian cinematography, represented by five films that received multiple national and international awards in 2009-2010.
January 26 – February 29, 2012: French Cinema Nights Come to Ukraine
Starting January 26, 2012, Ukrainian cinema theaters will screen most outstanding French films of 2011. The festival French Cinema Nights will feature The Artist, Mon pire cauchemar, Tomboy, 17 filles, and others.
January 29, 2012: All-Time Favorite Christmas Ballet to Come to Kharkiv
A renowned Moldovan choreographer Radu Pokalitaru presents his new show – ballet extravaganza Nutcracker. A ballet team from Ukraine’s capital Kyiv-modern-ballet will perform the two-act play in Eastern Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on January 29, 2012.