Dzyga Art Center
The Dzyga Art Center is an artistic association, gallery, theater and concert facility in Lviv, Ukraine. Activities Dzyga showcases and produces in the genres of art, music, literature, holds theater plays and displays various films. History The Dzyga Art Center was founded in June 1993 by members of the student brotherhood of Lviv (Markiyan Ivaschysyn, Andriy Rozhniatovsky, Yaroslav Ruschyshyn, Andrian Klisch) and famous Lviv artists (Serhiy Proskurnia, Vlodko Kaufman). The Dzyga Art Center was opened in the former monastery of the Dominican Order in March 1997. Main projects Jazz folk festival "Flyugery Lvova" Jazz festival "Jazz Bez" Ethnofestival "Pidkamin'" 2007-2008 "Tyzhden aktualnogo mystetstva" Ukrainian-Polish cultural exchange "L2" International arts festival "Fort.Missia" Literary internet museum "Zhyvi holosy" Dzyga is a co-organizer of the International Publishers' Forum, which helped establish Lviv as the book capital of Ukraine. The association has organized a large number of events involving leading artists from Ukraine, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, the Czech Republic, USA, Russia and Japan. Dzyga founded the first informal radio station in Ukraine, named Radio Initsiatyva, on which figures of Ukrainian journalism and public life, including Roman Chaika, Mykhailo Barbara, Marta Bilska, Kostya Bondarenko and others spoke out. Dzyga founded the oppositional newspaper, named Lvivska