August 03-07
Vedalife Island

Trukhaniv Island, 5 Trukhaniska Str.
Vedalife is one of the most positive festivals in Ukraine that gathers thousands of guests from all over the world for celebrating the holiday of healthy and conscious life, knowledge and creativity, peace and beauty. The program includes meetings with spiritual teachers, yoga and fly yoga classes for adults and children, yoga marathon on the bank of the Dnipro River, river walk on a boat, food court including vegetarian, vegan, raw food cafes, culinary master classes and lectures on healthy eating, concerts, kirtans, music and dance master classes, practices and workshops, fairs and exhibitions and it is only part of the story!

Website: vedalife.camp/island

August 12- 13
Holi Festival Of Colours 2017 in Ukraine

Expocenter of Ukraine/VDNH (1 Akademika Hlushkova Ave.)
The well-known Indian Holi festival also known as the “festival of colors” or the “festival of love” will be celebrated this August in Kiev. This year the program will be especially diversified. Together with the traditional throwing and applying of colored water and powders on friends and family, all participants will be able to enjoy bodі art, including mehndi painting, entertaining program for children, Indian dance performances and master classes, inflating large soap bubbles, constant music accompanied by DJs, artists, lots of delicacies of the world-wide cuisines, numerous of interesting souvenirs, exciting competitions, and various surprises.

Website: www.holi.in.ua

August 18-20
Street Food Festival (“Ulichnaya eda”)

Art-zavod Platforma (1a Bilomorska Str., Kiev)
Street Food Festival is a large gastronomic platform for the representatives of food businesses where all visitors can enjoy the gastronomic discoveries, novel entertainment, and various recreation areas. In July the festival will be dedicated to baking, so you will have opportunity to dive into the fascinating world of confectionery traditions of Ukraine and other countries.

Website: ulichnayaeda.com.ua/festival/ssf-august-2017

August 23-24
Brave! Factory Festival

Factory Metrobud (Avtoremontna Str.)
Welcome to the great concert of electronic music that will be conducted on the territory of a big factory on the Eve and on Independence Day of Ukraine. Warehouses and machines will turn into a rave-space and a gallery, walls will become the huge canvases, concrete platforms will be transformed into concert stages and there are lots of other reorganizations that will let to organize this special event. More than fifty cutting edge and legendary musicians, DJs, and artists from all over the world will come here to present their talents. Be ready for this fabulous show!

Website: brave-factory.com

August 24
Celebration of Independence Day

Different venues
In Kiev there are numerous events that are timed to the 26th celebration of Independence Day of Ukraine: the All-Ukrainian festival-contest “You are in my heart, Ukraine” (when: 23-24/08, 10 a.m. – 9 p.m.; where: Pechersk Landscape Park), the Fair of Folk Art (when: 24/08, 12 a.m. – 8 p.m.; where: Ivan Honchar Museum (19 Lavrska Str.)), the Arts & Culture Campaign and Concert with the participation of creative teams (when: 24/08, 1 p.m. – 10 p.m.; where: “Rakushka” open-air stage at Mariinsky Park), the Arts & Culture Project “Kiev Festive” (when: 24/08; where: Victory Park (2 Perova Ave.)), the International Intercultural Festival “Dialogue of Cultures” (when: 25/08, 7 p.m.; where: “Rakushka” open-air stage at Mariinsky Park). Also, in the morning, you can watch the military parade on Khreshchatyk Str. and Maidan Nezalezhnosti.

August 24-27
EURO DOG SHOW 2017

International Exhibition Center (15 Brovarskoy Ave.), Kyiv Expo Plaza (2B Salyutna Str.)
This year Ukrainian Kennel Union has the honor to host the Euro Dog Show 2017 and welcomes the guests from all over the world to the capital of Ukraine – Kiev. The worldly known and honored experts from different countries will be examining the exterior of the best dogs of Europe during four days. The national breed shows and dog sports championships will be held together with the Euro Dog Show 2017.

Website: eurodogshow2017.org/en/

August 02
Marilyn Manson

The Kiev Palace of Sports (1 Sportyvna Square)
Famous American rock band Marilyn Manson will come to Kiev to present the band’s tenth studio album with the working title SAY10. As Manson said: “It’s not very much in any way like The Pale Emperor. It’s pretty violent in its nature for some reason, and it’s not emotional in the same way. It’s got a chip on its shoulder. I can’t wait for people to hear it. I think they’re going to be quite surprised.” The concert in Kiev is expected to be the еpatage show with unpredictable scenario.
Website: www.concert.ua/eventpage/marilyn-manson

August 03, 10
Jazz on the Beach

UBK beach, Trukhaniv Island
There is a great idea to combine jazz and beach relaxation at the same time, isn’t it? In August you are invited to visit Jazz on the Beach concerts and enjoy the informal atmosphere, summer lightness, and live music. While on August 03 you will have an opportunity to dive into the delicate sound of JAZZ performed by the National Symphonic Band of Ukraine, on August 10 be ready to explore a genre of Brazilian music Bossa Nova (a lyrical fusion of samba and jazz) performed by Ruslan Egorov Quartet.

Website: www.concert.ua/eventpage/dzhaz-na-pljazhe-bossa-nova

August 17
Tom Harrell Trip

Caribbean Club (4 Symona Petlyury Str.)
Welcome an American jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer, and arranger Tom Harrell with his band Trip in Kiev. During the concert the musicians will present the entertainment TRIP to the world of jazz variations. Apart from Top Harrell, the band also consists of saxophonist Mark Turner, bassist Ugonna Okegwo and drummer Adam Cruz.

Website: www.concert.ua/eventpage/tom-harrell-trip

August 25
SKAI

INDIGO (3 Kudryashova Str.)
A famous Ukrainian pop-rock band “SKAI” organizes the concert dedicated to the Independence Day of Ukraine. For 16 years the band has been presenting quality music and lyrics to their numerous fans. During the concert, the audience will hear such well-known hits as “Best druh”, “Tebe tse mozhe vbyty”, “Ty spodobalas’ meni”, “Struna”, “Idealna”, and many others.

Website: www.concert.ua/eventpage/skai

August 28
Amon Amarth

Sentrum (11 Shota Rustaveli Str.)
Amon Amarth is considered as a Swedish melodic death metal band formed in 1992 that mostly deals with Viking mythology and history. In 2016 the band released the tenth studio album Jomsviking that tells the story of a young man who is in love with a girl but she’s being married off. He accidentally kills a bridegroom of his beloved one. So this is a story about the internal struggle against the injustice of this world. On August 28 you will have the possibility to hear this and other live hits of the legendary Vikings Amon Amarth.

Website: www.concert.ua/eventpage/amon-amarth

August 28
alt-J

Art-zavod Platforma (1a Bilomorska Str., Kiev)
On August 28 there is a Ukrainian debut of the English indie rock band alt-J formed in 2007. The band’s debut album An Awesome Wave was released in May 2012 in Europe and in September 2012 in the United States and won the 2012 British Mercury Prize. Their second album, This Is All Yours, was released on 22 September 2014 and went straight to the UK number one. Just seize the chance to visit their concert in Kiev this summer!

Website: www.concert.ua/eventpage/alt-j

August 16-20
Beekeeping-2017 Fair (Summer)

P.I. Prokopovich Institute of Melittology (19 Akademika Zabolotnoho Str.)
Ukraine is the largest and fastest-growing European producer and exporter of natural honey due to the high quality and comparatively inexpensive price of Ukrainian honey ($3–$8 per liter). The annual Beekeeping Fair will be organized in August in Kiev where various types of honey from all regions of Ukraine, the pollen basket, honey in honeycombs, bee-glue, royal jelly, beekeeping equipment, wax, beehouses, bee treatment, literature
will be presented. Within the fair, there will be scientific and practical conference “Actual problems of beekeeping industry and possible ways of its solution”.

Website: prokopovich.com.ua

August 17-18
The conferences of IRES

ibis Kiev City Center (25 Tarasa Shevchenko Blvd.)
The Institute of Research Engineers and Scientists (The IRES) organizes a great variety of events in August in Kiev. Among them, there are the International Conference on Recent Advances in Medical and Health Sciences (ICRAMHS), International Conference on Management and Information Technology (ICMIT), International Conference on Environmental Science and Development (ICESD), International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing (ICAISC), International Conference on Science, Social Science and Economics (IC3SE), International Conference on Nanoscience, Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (IC2NM), International Academic Conference on Engineering, Technology and Innovations (IACETI), International Academic Conference on Development in Science and Technology (IACDST), International Conference on Mining, Material, and Metallurgical Engineering (ICMMME), International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture (ICLLC).

Website: www.academicsworld.org/Conference2017/Ukraine/2/ICMIT/

August 29-31
IEEE Microwaves, Radar, and Remote Sensing Symposium

National Aviation University (1 Kosmonavta Komarova Ave.)
The IEEE Microwaves, Radar, and Remote Sensing Symposium is aimed to exchange ideas and results in the field of electromagnetic theory and applications; microwaves; radar technology and systems; signal processing, including acoustic signals and advanced signal processing in nanoelectronics; remote sensing methods and data processing.

Website: mrrs2017.ieee.org.ua

July 18 – August 31
Open-Air Dance classes by La Rêverie

A.V.Fomin Botanical Garden (Tarasa Shevchenka Blvd.)
Starting from July 18 every Tuesday and Thursday at 7 p.m. there is a course of open-air dance classes conducted by the studio of ancient dances La Rêverie that has been organizing such events in Kiev for 7-8 years. Come here and you will be able to learn British-American contra dance for Salon in the style of wild west, based on the works of Mark Twain. The classes will be conducted as a preparation for the great party with thematic dances, competitions, and refreshments that are planned for September.

Website: www.facebook.com/events/1884091418511297/

August 24
Vyshyvanka Run 2017

Rusanivka Quay, the Monument to Mykola Gogol
On 24th of August, there will be one of the most patriotic running events in Ukraine – Vyshyvanka run. For the fourth year in a row, this special day unites all runners to celebrate the Independence Day of Ukraine. This event is possible due to the idea of the inspirer of Vyshyvanka run and Master of Sports, International Class, Alexander Kuzin and the president of NGO «Sports fans federation» Natalia Galatsan. On Rusanivska Quay, professional athletes, amateur runners, children of preschool and school age, dressed in Vyshyvanka T-shirts will overcome the chosen distance (from 100 m for the youngest runners to 10 km for experienced athletes). You will be generously rewarded with water and fruits at the finish.
Distances for running:
100 m – children aged to 6 years old
500 m – children aged 7-10 years old
5, 10 km – adults

Website: vyshyvanka.club/organization