Culture

On June 12, the Ukrainian-Japanese Center of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute opened the exhibition Warriors and Flowers, featuring classical Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock prints alongside works by contemporary Ukrainian artists.

The Trade Union Committee of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, with the support of the Ukrainian-Japanese Center, organized the Japanese Summer School for Children for the second time. The cultural program was designed to introduce participants to Japanese culture, language, traditions, and arts.

🎥 For the third time since the beginning of Russia's full-scale invasion, the Kyoto International Choir organized a musical telebridge on Kyiv Day between the two sister cities as a gesture of support for the people of Kyiv and solidarity with Ukraine.

The State Polytechnic Museum at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute recently hosted an exhibition by renowned Kyiv artist Larisa Pukhanova. The exhibition featured her paintings and graphic works depicting cityscapes from around the world, historic neighborhoods, charming courtyards, and Kyiv streets shrouded in the morning mist.

An exhibition by renowned Ukrainian artist Vasyl Klymyk was held in April at the Hryhorii Synytsia Art Gallery of the Center for Culture and Arts of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

Igor Sikorsky KPI hosted the charity “Artistic Spring”—an evening that brought together students, faculty, staff, and guests of KPI around creativity and a good cause. On the stage of the Center for Culture and Arts, creative groups from the Center performed: contemporary dance numbers, folk motifs in original interpretations, and vocal performances by the best artists of Kyiv Polytechnic Institute.

More than 30 years ago, the Hryhorii Synytsia Art Gallery was opened at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. Today, his paintings adorn the foyer of the university’s Centre for Culture and Arts. In reality, however, they do far more than decorate the space. They speak, ask questions, and address us with the voices of our ancestors as we hurry past in the bustle of everyday life. Their creator—monumental artist, Boychukist, member of the Sixtiers generation, mentor, and teacher of a distinguished cohort of Ukrainian artists, Hryhorii Ivanovych Synytsia—through his talent and his entire life, embodied a profound love for and devotion to Ukraine’s national identity, its people, and its cultural heritage.

At the beginning of April, the Scientific and Technical Library of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute hosted a friendly game of What? Where? When?, organized by the student association ESTIEM LG Kyiv. True to its "friendly" format, the event focused not on fierce competition for prizes but on intellectual enjoyment, teamwork, and creating a lively atmosphere in which participants could challenge themselves while having fun.

Living stories about poet Maksym Rylsky—Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1943), Chairman of the Writers’ Union of Ukraine (1943–1946), director of the Institute of Art Studies, Folklore, and Ethnography (1944–1964)—were heard by students, faculty, and staff of KPI, as well as everyone who visited the Scientific and Technical Library on March 17 for a meeting with his grandson—also named Maksym Rylsky, a writer, public figure, and Honored Journalist of Ukraine.