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23 March 2010 18:04

Seven organizations in five Ukraine’s oblasts qualified for the finals of the second stage of the Small Cultural and Artistic Projects Support program

March 18, 2010, the results of the second stage of the Small Cultural and Artistic Projects Support program were announced at the Ukraine 3000 International Charitable Foundation premises. Members of the Ukraine 3000 Foundation and heads of the organizations-finalists were present at the event.

The heads of the competitor organizations presented their projects, describing their goals, their uniqueness and relevance for the development of the Ukrainian culture. The Ukraine 3000 Foundation members explained the mechanisms of further cooperation on the projects’ implementation and covering their results.

By the decision of the panel of experts of the Small Cultural and Artistic Projects Support program, the following organizations became finalists of the second stage:

No.	Organization	Project
1.	Ideas Museum Lviv city public organization	Reviving Ukrainian Yavoriv Wooden Toys Making
2.	Drabyna [Stairs] Art Studio Lviv City Youth Public Organization	Drabyna Sixth International Theater Festival
3.	Ivan and Yuri Lyp Charitable Fund, Odesa	Ukrainian Silent
4.	Treasure Trove of Good Deeds  village public organization, v. Halahanivka, Snihury district, Mykolayiv oblast	Halahanivka Talents
5.	Charitable Organization of the Friends of Organ Music and the Arts, Lviv	Organ Revival: to the 100th anniversary of the birth of Arseny Koltliarevsky, the founder of Ukraine’s organ school
6.	Donetsk City Youth Club	Art Alternative Sixth Theater Festival-Laboratory
7.	The Heritage of Millennia History and Archeology Charitable Fund, Simferopol	Restoring the local history museum at the Zuya village school, Bilohirsk district, ARC

The second stage of the Small Cultural and Artistic Projects Support program was launched August 26, 2009. The total of over 100 applications from all Ukraine’s regions was submitted. The proposals were divided into sox groups: music, literature, arts, theater, folk arts and crafts, and interdisciplinary projects.
Six experts were invited to the panel of judges, each selecting projects on their area of expertise. The head experts were:

• Serhiy Yakutovych, Merited Artist of Ukraine and corresponding member of the Academy of the Arts of Ukraine;
• Oleksandr Chayka, Deputy Director of the Les Kurbas Center;
• Alla Zahaykevych, composer, professor’s assistant at the National Tchaikovsky Music Academy of Ukraine;
• Oleksiy Dolia, research fellow with the Literary and Memorial Museum-Apartment of Pavlo Tychyna;
• Vladyslav Pioro, Director of the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s Culturology Dept.;
• Sofiya Riabchuk, expert with the Ukraine 3000 Foundation’s Culturology Dept.

The Small Cultural and Artistic Projects Support program was announced June 26, 2008. Its major goal is encouraging self-actualization and development of a cultural sector, independent from the state, which is unable to implement its projects without external support.