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Daydreaming About Odessa’s Soho: The Revival Of The ‘Devolanovsky’ Descent
For decades, the Devolansky Descent (or the ‘Ditch’), the long street stretching from the foot of the port to the plaza about a kilometer...
Koktebel Jazz Festival Diary: Days 1 + 2.
Ukraine’s Independence Day celebration this year in the Odessa port town of Chernomorsk was a very special affair this year as it coincided with...
OIFF Update: Ogres (2015)
The international competition program of the 7th Odessa International Film Festival opened with the film “Ogres”. This picture was expected to be one of...
The Different Ways That Christmas Is Celebrated Around Europe
Christmas is considered to be the main holiday of the year in most Christian societies but it is celebrated in vastly different ways across...
Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Ode to Charms of Odessa
Globally acclaimed historian and author Simon Sebag Montefiore is convinced that Odessa is unlike any other city.
About the author: Simon Sebag Montefiore is a...
Actor Oleg Filimonov muses on his favorite place in Odessa: 7 Gogolya Street
I had migrated across Odessa and lived in many places, but this one was by far the most beautiful.
I moved here when I was...
Remembering The Bloodiest Days of Ukraine’s Revolution
Four years ago today, Ukrainian special forces fired on protesters gathered on Kyiv’s Maidan nezalezhnosti (Independence Square), wounding, maiming, and killing demonstrators against President...
Photographer in Focus: Juliya Podvigina
Juliya Podvigina was born and raised in Odessa. She remembers looking at the world around her and thinking — “these moments pass and die,...
Small Is Beautiful Is Not Just A Slogan: On American Artist George-Ann Gowan...
In May 2017, H.E. Marie Louise Yovanovitch, the 9th United States Ambassador to Ukraine, invited the artist George-Ann Gowan, a longtime friend and a...
