The program of the festival included theatrical performances, nativity scenes by Kharkiv and Kyiv actors, and a project created together by the Kharkiv and Lviv puppet theaters.
Moreover, the animated nativity scenes, a choral music concert, a lecture, a Christmas carols master class, as well as exhibitions and a film screening awaited the guests.
“It is important for us that the theme of Christmas, the traditional nativity scene unites artists from different cities – Kharkiv, Kyiv, Lviv. The festival synthesizes modern theater, visual art, music, and Ukrainian traditional culture.
Christ is born every year, and he is born in Ukraine, which is currently torn by war. And this gives the inspiration to continue living, to continue creating, gives faith in the inevitable victory of Light and Good,” – add the organizers of the mini-festival.
The festival was organized by Kharkiv Academic Puppet Theater named after V. A. Afanasyev in partnership with the Goethe Institute and the Kharkiv Nuremberg House.
Vertep in Ukrainian culture is a portable puppet and drama, which presents the nativity scene, mystery plays, and later secular plots as well.
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