Open Ukraine Foundation Eliminates Borders with Concert Kordon 803
On August 30th, an extraordinary event took place in the village Ugryniv/Dolgobychiv - the festival "Kordon 803" within European Days of Neighbourliness. With the assistance of Open Ukraine Foundation and corporation Industrial Union of Donbass, Ukrainian bands Okean Elzy, Tartak, Boom Box, Kayah, T.Love and Karimski Club gave a unique performance. Despite cold and rainy weather on the last summer day, more than 10,000 Ukrainians and Poles assembled at the point of intersection of the Ukrainian-Polish border. During the concert, welcoming speeches from the presidents of Ukraine and Poland were read, and Arseniy Yatsenyuk, founder of Open Ukraine Foundation, addressed participants of the festive event with a video greeting. Before the concert, festival guests visited a trans-border fair, took part in integration events and handicraft fairs and from the border tower everyone could see trans-frontier land-art by Jroslav Koziar, which has the shape of two fish "swimming" simultaneously near the border.
One of the zestful things of the holiday was the solemn award presentation ceremony of Kapitula figure (as a symbol of Polish-Ukrainian union) to this year's laureates: Jezhy Gofman and Bohdan Stupka. An unofficial football match between a Polish team comprised of members of Seim and a Ukrainian team composed of people's deputies of Ukraine and the combined team of Lviv City Council, added some sport and political mood to the holiday. The front men of Tartak band Sashko Polozhynskyi and presenter of the concert Igor Pelykh also played football for a couple of minutes.
Photos by Andriy Mochurad
