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The two-day festival in Mariupol fosters community, culture, cooperation, social activity, and sports in the city.<\/em><\/p>\n

Kyiv, August 2, 2016. \u00a0<\/strong><\/em>The traveling festival \u201cFrom country to Ukraine\u201d brought two days of holiday to Mariupol, a large southeast city on the boarder of the Azov Sea close to the frontline. There were sport & art locations in the downtown and on the beach areas, small street food vendors offered dishes of various countries, civil activists presented their projects, and a number of bands played on several stages.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe festival was a success. We invited many art activists, intellectuals, and sportsmen to the festival \u2013 and a lot of them participated. I\u2019m very happy to see there are so many creative and active people in our city,\u201d said Ksenia Tkachuk, festival organizer from Mariupol, at a press conference in Ukraine Crisis Media Center, held as a part of UCMC project \u201cSpokesperson of peaceful life, supported by the German Embassy in Kyiv. \u201cWe tried to choose locations that would be easy for the visitors to get to and where a lot of people would end up at even if they did not know about the festival\u201d, noted Maksym Svetlov, administrative manager of the festival. According to the organizers\u2019 estimates, over these two days, the festival hosted up to 17,000-19,000 of visitors. \u00a0The backbone of the organizers\u2019 team consisted of 30 people, while 40 more took part as volunteers.<\/p>\n

New leisure activities for a frontline town<\/strong><\/p>\n

At the hackathon, the activists presented their start-ups: concepts of social projects aimed to make the life in Mariupol more comfortable and pleasant. There were also a photo exhibition and a film contest where the visitors could see 10 films by directors from various cities. \u201cAmong the particularly interesting achievements are the four murals created by the festival artist. Four groups worked there, from Dnipro (former Dnipropetrovsk), Zaporizhia and two more of local artists. This is a great gift for our city,\u201d said Maksym Svetlov. In art locations, one could take part in various workshops. In sports locations, there was an opportunity to play football, basketball, beach volleyball, to try Greco-Roman wrestling, English boxing, roller-skating, sailing, kayaking, yoga or equilibristics. \u201cIn fact, there are a lot of sport activities available in Mariupol, as there are a lot of coaches and teams here. I guess this festival gave people more ideas about which sports their children could participate in\u201d, says Semen Fisinchuk, curator of the sports section of the festival. One of the most outstanding events was a quadcopters race through an obstacle course in a specially equipped space.<\/p>\n

Festival as a starting point for cooperation between authorities and activists <\/strong><\/p>\n

The best result of the festival is that the unity between people has strengthened, the organizers say. \u201cWe succeeded to create a powerful local team. This is the most important result, that people were united by a common idea to show Mariupol as a city of happy people,\u201d noted Maksym Svetlov. Local activists have already decided to continue the hackathon on a regular basis as a platform for new ideas and social activity. \u00a0\u201cThe city authorities were incredibly helpful \u2013 they did for us almost everything that we asked. It is pleasant to see that not only ordinary people have changed, but the authorities have changed as well. [\u2026] Civil society often saw itself as an alternative to the authorities, but now things took a new turn. The activists found out that the authorities can support their initiatives and now consider them as a partner for creating positive changes in our city. And we can already see this\u201d says Oleksiy Semanin, technical director of the festival.<\/p>\n

Two days of holiday in Mariupol were the final chord of the vagrant festival \u201cFrom country to Ukraine\u201d, sponsored by the USAID. The festival started on July, 1 and wandered through 11 cities in the east of Ukraine \u2013 Polkovsk, Kostyantynivka, Bakhmut, Lysychansk, Severodonetsk, Starobilsk, Nikopol, Kryvyi Rig, Zaporizdzhya, Berdyansk and finally Mariupol. For the latter, it is already the second festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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