The day provides the people with an opportunity to deepen their understanding of the values of cultural diversity and to learn to live together better.
Nowadays authenticity or national cultures are threaten by very different factors, almost everywhere languages are disappearing under influence of globalization, traditions are lost, vulnerable ethnic groups with their originality are left the roadside and even are lost completely.
In this regard UNESCO and the United Nations have launched a campaign under the slogan Do one thing, which is designed to challenge people from all over the world desire to preserve and maintain the diversity of cultures, nationalities, languages and traditions.
The action will be lasting not only on the water but also in the air. The ceremony of opening will be organized on the 28-th of January twice, at 6 pm with the repetition at 8 pm at the channel Cannaregio.
Since 20-th of September in Kyiv the exclusive exhibition starts in the course of which there will be objects of mass-market art, mean presswork on the paper or metal from the printing form.
Classic works created by the famous British artist and children writer Quentin Blake as well as pictures painted by English rock-musician Erik Clapton, the composer of electronic music Brian Eno, and Scottish actor Peter Capaldi are put for the sales on the 7-th of December. The organizers of the stated event are planning to collect money for the further functioning of London gallery.
UNESCO has recognized as the heritage the songs performed by Cossacks within the territory where Dnepropetrovsk region is situated now. It is reported at the web-site of the international organization.
In the embassy of Lithuania the presentation of project ‘Angels of nation, with the belief in Ukraine’ happened. The organizer of project was ‘Fund of Ignas Yurkonis’ along with the embassies and upon the support of Kyiv city state administration.
The week of Israeli cinema will start from the 8-th of September in five cities of Ukraine such as Kyiv (from the 8-th of September, cinema ‘Kyiv’), Odessa (from the 8-th of September – Inotheater), Vinnitsa (from the 16-th of September, cinema ‘Rodina’), Kharkov (from the 22-nd of September, cinema 8 ½), and Lviv (from the 22-nd of September, cinema palace ‘Copernicus’).
The work of Banksy ‘Madonna with pistol’ has been preserved being put under glass window. As the web-portal ‘Italy in Russian’ reports, it is the only creation of the most famous street artist in Italy.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Great Britain published a list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites dangerous for attendance. In total, the institution recommends to refuse to travel in sixty-seven places, as The Telegraph reported on Wednesday, on the 6-th of April.
Scientists from Queen Mary University of London identified the personality of street artist who hides under the nickname Banksy, as The Independent writes.
Kevin Abosch, 47 years old, who used to take photos of Johnny Depp and Steven Spielberg shot its historical photo of absolutely insignificant vegetable in 2010.
National museums of Switzerland will become free-of-charge for attendance of citizens of the country and tourists. Such a proposal is offered by Swiss government.
Year by year, on the 19-th of August the photographers from the different countries (amateurs as well as professionals) celebrate International day of photographic art.
The auction house Auktionshaus Weidler in Nurenberg has sold fourteen watercolor drawings, which allegedly were created by Adolf Hitler from 1908 to 1922, as British television and radio broadcasting corporation BBC reported on Monday.
Museums participating in the action MUSEUM WEEK – 2015, from the 23-rd to the 29-th of March are to try attracting the new audience with the help of up-to-date technologies.
Picture of Paul Gauguin «Nafee Faa Ipoipo» («When to get married?») was sold for record $300 million, as it is written by The New York Times as referred to in European and American sources.
