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Calendar of Events in Lviv

















January

Joyous New Year and Christmas celebrations, bustling Nativity plays, melodic Ukrainian Christmas carols sung by the young and old, exceptionally tasty local Christmas dishes and warm cosiness of coffee-houses with snowstorms blowing outside. “Christmas in Lviv” is Christmas you’ll remember for the rest of your life.

February

CHOCOLATE FESTIVAL
Dates:14-17 of February, 2019
Location: The Palace of Arts, Copernicus st., 17.
This year during the festival there would be an improvisational chocolate factory, the best confectioners will demonstrate the complicated process of chocolate making for everyone to see.

THE III FESTIVAL OF PYSANKA (EASTER EGGS) IN LVIV
 April 2019
At the time of the festival Lviv turns into a “Museum of Eggs” open air, where different materials are used for Eggs creating (with branches, flowers, balloons, chocolate, polystyrene, wood, etc.). The main idea of the Festival is manufacturing and decorating an essential symbol of Easter - Pysanka.

EASTER IN LVIV
Easter is a family holiday in Ukraine and Lviv is the best place to feel this atmosphere. It is only here that the family spirit is present in each temple, on every square and in each street where traditional Easter folklore celebrations, fairs, concerts and theater performances take place. World renown Ukrainian Easter eggs, embroidery, ceramics, decorations, woodcarvings attract the guests of the Easter Markets.

May

“LVIV – THE CAPITAL OF HANDICRAFTS” FESTIVAL
Lviv has always been famous for its craftsmen in Europe. The traditional festival of Lviv handicrafts is not only a fair but a presentation of the craft guilds, direct personal contacts with well-known artists, master classes, open-air exhibitions and entertainments everywhere in the city historical center.

 LVIV BEER FESTIVAL
3-5 of May 2019 Third Beer Fest will take place. The main element of the festival is an ethno-theatrical programme that makes this feast different from other beer festivals organized ever before. The celebration is based on folk music, dances and games combined with sampling various beer brands.

LVIV CITY DAY, PARADE-CARNIVAL
“Where else can it be so good for us?” This symbolic question is answered every year during the Lviv City festivities by the simple phrase: “Only in Lviv.” A great number of original events have become representative of this day, such as, street theater productions, dancing and entertainment, festivals : “Lviv – Handicraft Capital”, or “Street Music”.

“FLUGERY L’VOVA” (“WEATHER-VANES OF LVIV”) –  INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL
 Ethno-jazz festival “Flugery Lvova” is the most exquisite and extraordinary event in the city. And as usual the event will be happening in the very heart of Lviv- in the City Hall Courtyard. Year after year, it is expands and the amount of its participants – ethno and jazz bands – grows.

 CITY HOLIDAY “THE BATYAR’S DAY” (RASCAL DAY)
Taking part in the Batyar’s Day program visitors and citizens easily catch the special feeling of the immortal Lviv spirit and the old city humor. Concerts of Batyars’ bands, different comedy competitions, and quizzes for children, a retro movie festival, Batyars’ song and dance master-classes for everybody, as well as tasty refreshments and drinks are everywhere to enjoy for all the participants of the city holiday.

June

LEOPOLIS JAZZ FEST 2019
Alfa Jazz Fest is a festival on an international scale that will take place in Lviv. The festival will not only bring the world’s best jazz artists together; it will plunge the city into the spirit of European-level music performance during an incredible summer weekend. A huge jazz-wave will sweep over the old town, covering its highest roofs with excitement and euphoria. New traditions will arise: Lviv will overflow with groovy jazz that will become a trademark of the city. From now on Europe will open its summer fests under Lviv blue sky with Alfa Jazz.

 GASTRONOMIC FESTIVAL “LVIV ON THE PLATE”
Top Lviv chefs and experts of Lviv cuisine will present special recipe dishes (snacks, soup, main dish, beverages and dessert). Special combination of architecture, music, meals and wine tasting, and friendly conversations with Lviv celebrities will create a unique atmosphere of unique city social life.

July

“WIZ-ART” INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL
Dates: July, 2019.
Location: Location: Lviv Palace of Arts (17, Copernicus Street)
That is a festival of short films produced during the previous year: fictional films and animations, video art, experimental movies and video artists’ presentations.


August

INTERNATIONAL FOLKLORE FESTIVAL "ETNOVYR"
Dates: 21-25 August, 2019
Location: Rynok (Market) Square
International Folklore Festival "Etnovyr" annually explodes with bright colours during Ukraine Independence Day celebrations. Colourful performances of foreign ensembles, spectacular parades of participants through the central part of Lviv, national cuisine presentations, evenings of friendship, dancing and singing workshops create special authentic and friendly atmosphere during the Festival.


September 

PUBLISHERS' FORUM
18-22 September 2019, an event having no rivals in the artistic life of Ukraine was launched in Lviv –"Week of Contemporary Art" “7”. From now on, a large-scale topical art project aimed at the promotion and development of the modern Ukrainian art will take place in our city every year. The Week is a space, a search, and a way to generate innovative trends in art. 

COFFEE FEST
Lviv has always been famous as the city of coffee. On the 28th-30th of September the coffee culture of our city the Third festival of coffee will promote. Bathed in the aroma of coffee, you can taste the drinks and enjoy the conversations that are integral attributes of the coffee culture.


October 

DIAPASON
The longest organ music festival in Ukraine will take place in Lviv. The task of the new festival is to return the honourable title of the organ music centre to Lviv and present high artistic traditions. The list of participants is always a good testimony to the "star" level of the festival.


December

LVIV CHRISTMAS FAIR
Dates: the 10th of December 2019 – the 15th of January 2020.
Location: prospect Svobody, Rynok square
The Annual Christmas Fair is a center of celebration, which offers many interesting events: carols, games, sweets and mulled wine, a traditional Ukrainian meal “varenyky”, souvenirs and presents, and of course a warm festive atmosphere.