Cyrillic Fest 2008

andrijko
18.Jun.2008 2.35am

„Свято Кирилиці” („Cyrillic Fest”) is a typography and calligraphy festival, which traditionally takes place in 24-25 May in Kharkiv (Ukraine). This year it included type seminars and presentation by Vitalij Mitchenko’s book, type games and exhibition of typefaces and calligraphy from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus and Bulgaria.

here is online exhibition (sorry, no English version):
http://www.cyrillic.org.ua/ua/exhibition

and some photos from participants:
http://community.livejournal.com/ua_typography/207861.html
http://community.livejournal.com/ua_typography/208693.html
http://community.livejournal.com/ua_typography/209218.html
http://community.livejournal.com/ua_typography/209925.html

and publication about Fest in Novynar, Ukrainian newspaper:
http://igordudnik.livejournal.com/194177.html

oprion
18.Jun.2008 11.14am

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Miss Tiffany
18.Jun.2008 1.11pm

Thank you for sharing this information. Very beautiful and inspiring work. Good to see other conferences have success this year.

paul d hunt
18.Jun.2008 2.51pm

i hope i can make it to one of these someday! I better brush up on Ukrainian!

Henyk
19.Jun.2008 12.19am

Unfortunately archive of previous “Fests” is inaccessible now :(

dberlow
19.Jun.2008 4.16am

Guitars, Pens and Potatoes! Looks like it was real hands-on! Did this conference have any translation, or is it live in one language? Well done, and thanks for the picts.

Cheers!

Henyk
21.Jun.2008 9.23am

dberlow: Sorry. But you may take part in next year “Fest” and write reporting in more understandable language ;)

andrijko
2.Jul.2008 5.36am

thank you for replies, friends! sorry, i didn’t reply sooner.

Paul, i hope we can invite more people next year and i hope to see you in Kharkiv!

David, now it pass sometime in ukrainian sometime in russian without any translations. maybe it changed next year.

yuri
2.Jul.2008 8.50am