The Days of L’viv in  Krakow took place in late June and presented the paintings of  Yuriy Kokh, Volodymyr Kostyrko, Yevgen Ravskyj,  Volodymyr Kaufman & the photos of Yuriy  Dyachyshyn photos and music groups ShockolaD and MT-3.

In June Lublin city hosted its traditional large-scale festival "Night of Culture" and over twenty artists and musicians from L’viv ("Dzyga” curatorship) took participation in it. The installations were presented by Vlodkaufman, Olexiy  Khoroshko, Sergiy Petlyuk and Myroslav Wajda. The performance “Clean Angel or the Return of Icarus " was “demonstrated” by Volodymyr Topiy.  . The experimental part was represented by the formation of DJs & VJs «RESTart». The group «ShockolaD» presented to the Polish audience its new album "Pokosy” with a special  gift - a song inspired by the poetry of the famous Polish Romantic poet Juliusz Słowacki. The band  "MT-3" presented their  literary- jazz program (poetry of the renown Ukrainian poets Ivan Franko, B-I. Antonych and Hrytsko Chubay. . The jazz program  was performed by the  most experienced L’viv  jazz band  «Dzyga Jazz Quartet».

The phantasmagoric defense forts of the I World War in the border area  became the place of foundation & conduction of the  major International art festival «Fort.Missia». That were three July days of non-stop stormy rock, colorful jazz, philosophical installations ... and all above mentioned was complemented by readings of famous and young Ukrainian poets. The idea is simple and creative one: the joint work of artists, poets and musicians on the ruins of war. The  installations were created by the artists from Poland & almost all regions of Ukraine.  The great  stage “hosted” the groups "Plach Yeremiji”, "Mertvyj Piven", "Gorgisheli", "Dyvni», «Shockolad» «Fayno” ... Electronic and jazz experiments were represented by « Zsuf »,« DagaDana »,« Dzyga Jazz Quartet », DJ Derrik , "Zeleni Sestry" formation «RESTart», Polish DJ Hosh and DJ Smola, «L-Quartet. Tokar, Yaremchuk, Hnydyn, Lytvynyuk », DJ Tonika,« Waclaw Zimpel & Mark Tokar » + multimedia performance of Olexiy Khoroshko ... Literary project« Kabi.net»  united many popular & young writers. 

From 28 August to 6 September L’viv became the  venue for the major art event "Tyzhden/Week of Contemporary Art” that  brought together more than 50 projects of 56 artists from Ukraine, Poland, France, Switzerland, USA, Austria, Belarus, Lithuania ...  The theme/subject of the week was" BN” (ie untitled).    L’viv inhabitants & the artists have discovered for themselves  a new space  - "Jam Factory". The chimeric building  of the former canning factory with the  history dated to the XVI century and that only fact provokes the creativity. .

The  first day of  «Tyzhden’» also presented the new issue of the oldest Ukrainian art-magazine «Kitets’-Kintsem». It was published   /theme «The Voice of Artist»,  editors Anatoliy Zvizhynskyj & Rostyslav Koterlin/  in cooperation with Art Association  «Dzyga» & it included over thirty exclusive interviews with significant artists, gallery owners, curators  of Ukraine, Poland and Russia

«Tyzhden’»  has invited many renown  masters of contemporary art -  Erwin Redl (USA), Patrick Bailey-Kouel (France),  Janusz Baldyga (Poland), Sibylle Omlin [Switzerland] and others.  The  usual “Tyzhden’” structure  includes Author Projects,  Days of Performance Art in L’viv, MediaDepo and those “ingredients”  inspired Artem Volokitin, Andriy Sahaydakovskyy and Igor Yanovych, Rostyslav Koterlin, Oleksa Furdiyak, Anatoly Belov, Sergiy Savchenko, Sergiy Petlyuk, Olexiy Khoroshko, formation REP, Stas Volyazlovsky,  Olena & Max Afanasyev, Yuriy Barannik, Ruslan Tremba, Jaroslav Pershko, Ilona Silvashi, Vladimir Bakhtov, Oles’ Dzyndra, Tamara Hridyayeva,  Anna Bernadska Martha Bosovska, Dominique Yalovinskyy,  Denys Romanovsky, Hamlet Zinkovsky, Volodymyr  Topiy, Waldeck Tatarchuk, Bogdan Shumylovych and others ...

The “School of Performance” was launched within the  "Days of  Performance Art in L’viv” , the last one “Dzyga” organized in collaboration with the Polish Institute in Kyiv.  The tutors were the most authoritative Polish performer Janusz Baldyga  and Sibylle Omlin ,  Prof. of the  Basel University. About 30 students  from different regions of Ukraine finally  (after the graduation from the School) demonstrated their own, quite presentable performances. Waldemar Tatarchuk., the famous Polish artist , was the curator of the “Days”. The performances were presented by Vlodko Kaufman, Yaroslav Yanovsky, Rostyslav Koterlin, Volodymyr Topy,  Myroslav Wajda, Oles’ Dzyndra, Hamlet Zinkovsky, Natalia Sholomiy, Martha Bosovska, Dominique Yalovinskyy, Michal Baldyga, Denys Romanovsky.

12 – 13 September within the In IV International Literary Festival “DZYGA” hosted the   "Night of Poetry and Music Non-Stop 2009”  presenting 12 author  projects, 70 poets and  groups" MT-3”&  “ShockolaD ". The  curators of the project were: Sergiy Zhadan, Yurko Izdryk Irena Karpa, Oles’ Doniy, Halyna Kruk, Lubko Deresh, Ludmyla Taran, Natalka Snyadanko, Oleg Kotsarev , Igor Sid and Yuriy Kucheryavyj.

The beginning of the current year gave the birth to the idea of a great and long-term International environment-project  "Transgresii/Transgressions". The curator of the project - Myroslav Wajda. The project was started in June 2009 and consisted of several stages, each one was held in different  areas: the fortifications of the I World War within the  Festival "Fort.missia", "New Noah's Ark" -  in Sida  farm (the Carpathians), within the “Tyzhden’/Week of Contemporary Art” and in the gallery "Dzyga" (presentation of the catalogue “Transgresii”). The participants of the Project - Maxim & Olena Afanasyev,  Volodymyr  Bakhtov, Piotr Vysocki, Andriy Gurenko, Jaroslav Kozhyara, Dominique Yalovinski, Jaroslav Prysiazhnyuk, Ilona Silvashi, Yuri Barannik and others.

And as always the end of the year “Dzyga” decided to meet with a real holiday for the  lovers of good music. From 4 to 15 December, like the  Jazz Marathon, the IX International Festival "Jazz Bez" was held in L’viv, Przemysl, Lublin, Sanok, Ternopil, Odessa, Lutsk, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kyiv. This year the Festival was also joined by Nowica (now the territory of Poland), the  native village of Bohdan - Ihor Antonych, one of the best Ukrainian poets . The Festival has brought  together over 20 jazz projects, about 100 musicians from 13 countries (USA, Japan, Egypt, Germany, Denmark, Great Britain, Netherlands, France Russia, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine). The most prominent guests -  «Jagodzinski Trio», «Avtokar: Sanders-Trzaska-Zimpel-Tokar”, Michael Doneda, Yuriy Yaremchuk, Frederic Blondy, Tatsuya Nakatani, Grazyna Auguscik , Thuillier Trio,« EMPE-3 », Off -Quartet, «Shockolad + PL», Igor Zakus, Happy55 and Mariana Sadovska with her  German project «Borderland Mariana Sadovska & band» ...
 
Dzyga – literally “whirligig”. 
So, year after year our life is whirling as well as “Dzyga” is whirling but a half-rev ahead of the contemporaneity.  Economic crisis, political attractions, climate changes are wearing off but  Dzyga is whirling & makes people,ideas, legends, narratives & discourses, projects & presentations, social processes &  cultural phenomena running along with it (sometimes you can be even sick of it).  And that movement is measured not by  speed or trajectory but by permanent renewal & update.

We wish you the same in this year & all subsequent years.

With respect and optimism, "Dzyga”