The implementation of arts programs in Ukraine and abroad represents a significant component of the International Educational Cultural Association’s (IECA) activities.
In 2009, the International Educational Cultural Association launched the International Charitable Arts Program “MASTERS OF BEL CANTO”. For many years the Program has been a unique and highly successful event. The list of its participants includes leading soloists of the Ukrainian National Opera among whom the People’s Artist of Ukraine, Taras Shevchenko National Prize Laureate Angelina Shvachka, Honored Artists of Ukraine Irina Semenenko and Susanna Chakhoyan, leading ballet dancers Kateryna Khanyukova, Yevhen Lahunov, and Tetiana Tsygankova, Honored Artist of Ukraine Konstantin Vinovoy and others.
The Program ran a series of creative meetings titled “Oleg Martsynkivskyi Zaproshuye” (Oleg Martsynkivskyi Invites) during which a well-known singer, composer, and People’s artist of Ukraine Oleg Martsynkivskyi gave concerts at the Great Hall of the Petro Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv, 2009), the Mykola Gogol Ukrainian Regional Academic Theater of Music and Drama in Poltava (2011), the Taras Shevchenko Regional Academic Drama Theater in Ternopil (2013), and the Mark Kropyvnytsky Ukrainian Regional Academic Theater of Music and Drama in Kirovohrad. During the concerts, the best voices of Europe performed in a new, modern and refined way the world’s greatest hits and classical masterpieces of Georges Bizet, Tomaso Albinoni, Franz Schubert, Gaetano Donizetti, Ernst Weber, Nino Rota, Carole Bayer and contemporary Ukrainian music compositions.
“MASTERS OF BEL CANTO” inspired the Creative Union of Documentary Filmmakers of the National Television Company of Ukraine to shoot a documentary “BEZ MASKY” (Unmasked) about professional work of O. Martsynkivskyi. More information at (UNIAN news agency): https://press.unian.ua/press/976287-u-kievi-prezentovano-dokumentalniy-film-pro-zaslujenogo-artista-ukrajini-olega-martsinkivskogo.html
Events of the Forum of Intercultural Dialogue “ROAD TO THE TEMPLE OF THE SOUL” were held in the cities of the Kharkiv, Poltava, Chernihiv, Cherkasy, Zhytomyr, Volyn, Rivne, Transcarpathian, Ternopil, Odesa, Kherson, and Mykolayiv regions and in Crimea.
Also, the cultural events of the International Program “ROAD TO THE TEMPLE OF THE SOUL” were organized at the National Cultural Center of Ukraine in Moscow (2012), in the areas of concentration of Ukrainians in Spain (2015) and in Poland (2015). During the event, the Ukrainian publishers provided the libraries of the Ukrainian communities and Sunday schools with the books published under the “Ukrainian Book” state program.
The International Educational Cultural Association pays special attention to the support and development of the CHILD’S CREATIVITY. For that reason, in 2007, we started the International Competition & Festival of Children’s Creativity “WE ARE ALL YOUR CHILDREN, UKRAINE!” which over the years has brought together 10 thousand talented children from different parts of Ukraine and Ukrainians scattered around 16 countries across the globe.
During July 27-29, 2019, the All-Ukrainian Scientific and Practical Conference “Cultural Dominants in the 21st Century’s Realia. Primary Arts Education Serving as a Component in Raising the Individual’s National Culture Awareness by Means of Art” was held for the heads of art collectives participating in the finals of the International Competition & Festival. The Conference was initiated by the State Scientific Institution “Institute of Education Content Modernization” of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine in partnership with the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine and the International Educational Cultural Association.
The WORLD YOUTH ART COMPETITION PLATFORM “HARMONY” is to promote creative and intellectual development of talented children and youth, including those with disabilities, their INTEGRATION into the global YOUTH fine arts COMMUNITY, to create for them opportunities to DIVERSIFY, within existing challenges, their elementary FINE ARTS LEARNING beyond school on account of participation in INTERNATIONAL education and interest-enhancing programs and COMPETITIONS with the partner support and promotion campaigns held by leading Ukrainian and global fine arts schools, trade unions, foundations, museums and galleries, associations, and public organizations operating in the sphere of culture and education.
WYACP “HARMONY” is an open COMPETITION PLATFORM serving to attract professional partners in the course of the development of programs that cover a WIDE RANGE OF FINE ARTS CATEGORIES: literature, fine arts (painting, sculpture, graphics), decorative arts, music, choreography, architecture, clothing design, theater, cinema, photography, installation, digital art, etc.
We plan to release on an annual basis the calendar of art competitions, shows and exhibitions along with their relevant regulations. OUR PANEL OF JUDGES CONSISTS OF THE HIGHLY EXPERIENCED AND MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE IN THE ART WORLD.
WYACP “HARMONY” is also an open EDUCATION PLATFORM serving to IMPROVE PROFESSIONAL SKILLS and share experience for TEACHERS and leaders of creative collectives and associations whose work is connected with teaching young artists and whom we invite to join online international conferences, seminars and workshops.
The organizers and partners of the fine arts competition platform prepared various awards, diplomas and certificates for the participants and their leaders.
- The First INTERNATIONAL virtual EXHIBITION & COMPETITION OF YOUTH ART “WORLD OF HARMONY”
- The First INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION & FESTIVAL OF NATIONAL CULTURES “CHRISTMAS JOURNEY AROUND THE WORLD”
NOVEMBER 29, 2020 marked the opening of the ALLEY OF STARS of the Global Youth Art Competition Platform “HARMONY” – ALLEY OF STARS of WYACP “HARMONY”.
This section bears details of the arts events to be held on the YOUTH ART COMPETITION PLATFORM “HARMONY” and of the EDUCATION PROGRAMS for the leaders of groups and collectives to take place under the title: “Primary Art Education – a Component of the Formation of National Culture of an Individual Through Art” as well as of the EXPERIENCES SHARED among them. READ MORE.
- The first program of the INTERNATIONAL YOUTH COMPETITION “THE GREATEST UKRAINIANS AROUND THE WORLD. Lesya UKRAINKA”, commemorating the 150th anniversary of the poet’s birth
- The second INTERNATIONAL Virtual EXHIBITION & COMPETITION OF YOUTH ART “WORLD OF HARMONY” commemorating the 160th anniversary of the birth of the painter Mykola PYMONENKO
- Angelina SHVACHKA, a soloist of the National Opera of Ukraine, laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize, People’s Artist of Ukraine;
- Natalia SUMSKA, an actress of the Ivan Franko National Academic Drama Theater, laureate of the Shevchenko National Prize, laureate of the Lesya Ukrainka Prize, People’s Artist of Ukraine;
- Oleksii KONONENKO, a poet, writer, journalist, Honored Art Worker of Ukraine
- The UKRAINIAN NATIONAL FOLK DECORATIVE ART MUSEUM
- The NATIONAL ART MUSEUM OF UKRAINE
The program also announced the launch in March 2022 of the INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION & COMPETITION OF THE YOUTH ART “MY UNCONQUERED UKRAINE”. This section bears details of the INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF YOUTH ART “WORLD OF HARMONY” and of the EDUCATION PROGRAM for the leaders of groups and collectives. READ MORE.