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25 April 2006 13:07
The Yesterday Area
The Foundation sees its mission as drawing public attention to major problems in the sphere of history and culture, preparing recommendations for their settling on the basis of open dialog, and putting them into practice.
A nation that doesn’t learn lessons from the past has no future. This saying had repeatedly proved itself in various historical periods. Thus, we need to realize that our past, present, and future are inseparable links of the single chain of existence.
Millions of links connect today’s Ukraine with the roots of our people, which has now got a unique chance to find its destination in this world.
Ukraine’s history and culture present an inexhaustible source of creative energy and vitality, which will help us get over all obstacles on the way to the making of the young state. The priority now is to reveal this potential, turning it into a resource for the country’s development and directing it for the benefit of the Ukrainian society.
The Foundation sees its mission as drawing public attention to major problems in the sphere of history and culture, preparing recommendations for their settling on the basis of open dialog, and putting them into practice.
The Foundation’s priority in the Yesterday area is support for the projects aimed at:
- protection and preservation of Ukraine’s historical and cultural heritage
- historical, archeological, culture-related, and ethnographic research
- introducing new forms of work with the historical and cultural values
- popularizing historical and cultural monuments
- introducing international standards of cultural work into Ukrainian practice
- integration of the Ukrainian culture into European cultural space
The Foundation's activities in this fields are grouped into two major programs:
Unique Ukraine, aimed at protecting, studying, and popularizing concrete monuments of Ukraine’s material and spiritual culture (museum collections, architectural, archeological, and historical sites, folk traditions and crafts, etc.)
The Lessons of History, envisaging work with complex phenomena or periods in history and culture in order to interpret and appraise them from contemporary viewpoint.
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Grants Program for Small Cultural and Art Projects
The program’s key objective is present opportunities for self-fulfillment and development of a cultural sector, independent from the state, which is unable to implement its projects without external support. The program’s range is very wide: from popularizing folk traditions to developing the newest and most unique artistic trends.
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The Horowitz Memorial International Young Pianists’ Contest
In the last decade the musical forum commemorating one of the twentieth century’s most outstanding pianists has become one of the central events in Ukraine’s cultural life and has gained global popularity.
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Special Award For the Development of the National Cinematograph
In 2003 the Foundation founded a special award For the Development of the National Cinematograph, which will be conferred on an annual basis during the Molodist International Film Festival on outstanding actors and directors who have made a significant contribution into the development of the Ukrainian cinematograph. The award is to serve as a symbol of the society’s gratitude to these people and encouragement for their younger colleagues.
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Museums Development Program
Ukraine has over 4,000 museums varying in their status and specialty. In terms of the size and quality of museum collections our country potentially is among Europe’s leaders, and it can become a center of world culture tourism.
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Folk Traditions Support Program
Folk traditions, rites, arts, crafts, and trades are among factors helping one realize oneself as a part of certain cultural environment and mentality.
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The Lessons in History: Manmade Famine of 1932-1933 Program
Goal of the program: present to the Ukrainians and the international community a true account of the tragedy of 1932-1933; creating a fundamental base for scholarly research of various aspects of the Holodomor Manmade Famine; create favorable conditions for its political and legal evaluation by the state and international institutions as an act of genocide against the Ukrainian people.
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