The powerful V Festival of Creative Industries lasted in Rivne from August 29 to September 11. It combines education and technology, culture and space, design, make-up and audiovisual. All activities that have the potential to create added value and jobs through cultural or creative expression.
Also, the Festival became a platform where young entrepreneurs met and became friends. Where everyone had the opportunity to be heard, to feel needed and socially important, say the organizers - NGO "Platform of Interactions".
The Festival was financially supported by 18 partners, people and businesses, who share the idea of joining forces to develop local entrepreneurship.
According to the organizers, a total of more than 500 people visited the festival. This is a new record for the event, which took place in the fifth.
This large-scale event was organized by a team of 11 people in 68 days. In addition, 40 volunteers, mostly schoolchildren and students, joined the project.
August 29-31
The cycle of events was opened by the special project Promo Lab - an intensive on digital marketing and production for business.
Speakers were: Artem Vyshnevsky - "Acting", Nadiya Gladkevych - "Leadership", Natalia Pavelko-Maksymchuk - "Voice Production", Halyna Zhyrun - "Philosophy of Marketing", Maryna Svist - "Hard Realities of SMM" and Maksym Tatusko - "Goal" the audience and the client's path in simple words ".
The participants of the project managed to shoot several promotional videos, learned to write texts that they want to read, and most importantly - gained new knowledge and understanding that they want to develop in the direction of creating quality content.
September 4
FORUM is one of the largest venues in the city for those who have or are planning their own business. This year was held under the call: "Create your own at the crossroads of industries."
"Creativity and education: why does it matter?", "Entrepreneurship and culture. How does it work? ”,“ Spaces: a combination of architecture and communities ”,“ Technology. IT as a lifestyle ”and“ Creative industries. Those Who Can't Be Stopped "- five topics that brought together speakers from different parts of the country.
During the forum day, 42 speakers took the stage, most of them guests of the city.
Opinions and experiences were shared by: Viktor Moshinsky (NUVGP), Lyudmyla Melnyk (IT Step School), Iryna Pervushevska (PDM), Alyona Dmukhovska (Creative Europe), Mykola Smolinsky (CEASC), Yulia Hemberg (Radio SKOVORODA), Pavlo Gudimov Gallery), Volodymyr Vorobey (PPV Knowledge Networks), Mariana Savka (Old Lion Publishing House), Yaroslava Gres (Gres Todorchuk), Mykola Antonyuk (LENOVO), Valery Siroshtan (RENOME SMART), Yevhenia Zhovnach (Zagrava Games), B ' jacheslav Melnyk (KTS), Maria Semenyuk (SoftServe), Oleksandr Melnychuk (Honeycomb), Vitaliy Byshuk (Chairman of the Board of Rivne IT Cluster), Volodymyr Hlashchenkov (HD Partners), Yuriy Filyuk (Promprylad), Olga Tadai (hallway), Dmytro Vasilyev ( archimatika), Dmytro Kotlyarov (Chief Architect of Rivne), Mykhailo Korylkevych (Family Dairy Farms), Mykhailo Shmatov (KTC), Iryna Plisetska (Vilis), Taras Komarenko (Smart People), Vitaliy Belenky (Dybok.ua), Maksym Serdyuk (Slukh Media), Christina Sivolap (Director), Ruslan Gutnikov (MOZGI GROUP), Ole Mr. Nechidyuk (radio TRACK) and others.
In addition to lectures, guests had the opportunity to attend workshops on business strategy, design thinking, sales, work with grants, creative meetings with publishers, writers, artists, watch outdoor movies. And also to hear success stories of Ukrainian, local brands and get acquainted with some of them at the Festival. It was:
The WOM - a fashion brand engaged in sewing coats;
TAK office - a young team working on creative spaces and implementation of architectural projects;
Wave Leather Workshop - leather goods;
GASTROLAVKA - shop of craft Ukrainian food producers;
Kazvan.Hats - a brand of hats;
Town Image Studio - production team that implements creative projects in the field of culture, tourism, education, inclusion;
Tystra Travels - an agency that develops tourism in the Rivne region;
Tit - baskets and bags made of plait.
There were separate locations for children during the day with a separate program: French lessons, robotics, a master class on artistic animation and media literacy.
The bright end of the dynamic day was a performative light show with the participation of: ethnoduet from Kyiv Folknery, which travels the world and in its music uses the sounds-vibrations of different countries, cities, places; VJ group Cube from Ivano-Frankivsk, specializing in creating media art, media performance, mapping, video art and media installation; dance studio from Rivne, working in the areas of parcour, hip hop, freestyle, hip hop choreography and sports choreography - NoName dance studio. Everything merged in an unsurpassed circle of light, music and dance!
September 5
For the first time in the framework of the Festival there was a "Sketching Marathon", which was organized by the NGO "Coloart" and the NGO "Platform of Interactions" Space ". Its purpose is to promote modern artistic practices, to support the creative community of cities