center of subcultural initiatives
WHO ARE WE? The All-Ukrainian Youth Public Organization Center of subcultural initiatives "Urban X" "URBAN X" combines the latest trends in street culture aiming at its development and promotion in Ukraine. "URBAN X" is represented in 22 regions of Ukraine. We are interested in everything that goes along with life in the city: beginning with the design of urban space, its landscaping, equipment, courtyard areas and construction of skate parks and up to creation of pieces of street art and organization of activities on the street sport. In the year 2010 we created the "URBAN X" in order to make the life in Ukrainian cities brighter and more interesting, so that with the help of joint efforts it would become possible to transform the faceless and dull urban landscape into a lively place, to fill it with music sounds and colours, inspiration and positive mood. It is for the first time that we managed to gather together the best representatives of outdoor sports and alternative street art, such as: muralizm, graffiti, skateboarding, BMX, Parkour, beat-boxing, hip-hop, etc within one project.
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IMPLEMENTED PROJECTS STARTING FROM MAY 2010
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STREET GALLERY OF SMILES Dare held: may 15, 2010. Location: Kiev, Mariinsky Park
The campaign "Smile at a new day!" The main events of the campaign: • design of benches (the essential attribute of parks & cities) by young artists • decoration of the Mariinsky Park with big smiles in the form of plates, pre-painted by students from specialized boarding schools & art clubs of Kiev •Participation of all interested in creating the own original version of a smile to decorate the city •The concert from street performers
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DESIGN OF BENCHES
During the event, 20 young artists were covering with drawings ordinary benches, turning them into the real masterpieces of street art.
The artists were chosen on the basis of sketches competition, in the latter everyone was welcomed to participate. It turned out that among the participants there were young men from France as well.
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DECORATION OF SMILEYS
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DECORATION OF THE PARK WITH SMILES
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STREET CONCERT
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SOME INTERACTION WITHIN GOGOLFEST EVENT “STONE, PAIR OF SCISSORS, PAPER… TREE!” DATE HELD: 4-5 September, 2010. Location: Gogolfest, film studio named after Dovjenko Creation of installations out of urban garbage within just three days!
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PLACEMENT OF BENCHES & AUCTION PLACEMENT DATE: June 2010. LOCATION: Kiev, Proreznaya str.
DATE HELD: September 2010. LOCATION: INTERNET- RESOURCE AUKRO
Together along with AUKRO there was held a charity auction, where could be purchased a nominal bench: “Square meter on Khreshatik str. starting from 1 hryvna”. The proceeds from the auction were directed to the boarding schools, whose students took part in adorning of smileys in the forms of plates for the decoration of the Mariinsky Park.
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MASTER CLASS IN UP-CYCLING Making use of the proceeds, derived from the auction, we purchased artist-kits & delivered them to children from boarding schools, the authors of smileys in the forms of plates. Meeting at the boarding school # 9 for deaf children An educational moment of the meeting was a master class on Urban X on making different knick-knacks out of recycled - up-cycling. Meeting at the art studio of the boarding school # 26 for the children with developmental defects
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CONTEST OF GRAFFITI SKETCHES DATE HELD: August 2010. LOCATION: KIEV, RA-PICTURE GALLERY
The winner of the contest BVS against the background of his piece of art © 2011, URBAN X
DEVELOPMENT OF STREET ART IN UKRAINE “Urban X” supports the development of street art in its authorized form & gives the artists an opportunity to express themselves & improve their skills: creation of graffiti by novices, mural painting by professionals. Authorized graffiti of the winner of our contest Decoration of the subway of the light rail station “Polevaya” by “Graffit” team
Request by KMSA
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Legalisation of wall-art «URBAN X» became one of the initiators of wall-art (muralism) legalisation in Ukraine. Together with world-known graffiti-band «Interesni Kazki» we created and presented for city administration the programm «Social-cultural concept of design of city area». “Interesni Kazki” wall-pictures Sevilia, Spain, 2010 Kyiv, Ukraine, 2010
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STREET GALLERY OF SMILES Date: 21st of May 2011. Place: Kyiv, Mariinskiy Park Art-Event„Smile, Europe!”
The main events of the campaign: • design of benches (the essential attribute of parks & cities) by young artists • decoration of the Mariinsky Park with big smiles in the form of plates, pre-painted by students from specialized boarding schools & art clubs of Kiev •Participation of all interested in creating the own original version of a smile to decorate the city •The concert from street performers – live acoustic
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DESIGN OF BENCHES
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SMILES
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PLACEMENT OF BENCHES & AUCTION DATE: july 2011. PLACE: Kyiv, Policeyskiy skver (Krasnoarmeyskaya- Fedorova)
DATE OF CONDUCTING: july 2011 PLACE: AUKRO.UA
Together along with AUKRO there was held a charity auction, where could be purchased a nominal bench: “Square meter on Krasnoarmeyskoy str. starting from 1 hryvna”. The proceeds from the auction were directed for the building of yard playground for cecutient children in Boyarka boarding.
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2012-2018 we were working on other projects for Ukraine development
WE ARE OPEN FOR COOPERATION! OUR Contacts http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=364331541672
site: www.urbanxngo.org (under design)
Serhii Prokopenko Ilona Dubitskaya 099.336.84.64 050.440.09.20 IDubitskaya@gmail.com prokopenko.serhii@gmail.com © 2011, URBAN X
Mariya Boguslav 050.387.80.26 Urban.boguslav@gmail.com