Competition and festival movement in Ukraine during the Russian-Ukrainian war

Abstract

The article analyzes the peculiarities of conducting contests and festivals in Ukraine in the conditions of a full-scale invasion of Russian troops into Ukraine. Significant security risks, which are still present in many regions of the country, led to the search for new formats of events. It was found that the key tasks of artistic events were: support of the moral spirit of society, accumulation of aid for the Armed Forces, promotion of Ukrainian culture both in Ukraine and abroad. The change in the format of the event itself is due to the specified tasks: the theme of war has become an important part of the theme of the festivals, and the charitable focus of the events has acquired key importance. Territorial changes are associated both with a threatening situation in some regions and with cooperation and support from other events located in safer places. The purpose of the article is to create a comprehensive archive of materials that will allow analyzing the functioning of the competition-festival movement of Ukraine during the time of Russian military aggression, understanding the cultural strategies determined by the tasks of the military today. Methodology of work. The article uses the following general scientific approaches, principles and methods that made it possible to consider the peculiarities of the functioning of the competition and festival movement of Ukraine during the war from different vector positions, thus, with the help of the comparative method, the formats for the task of events are compared, the phenomenological method is applied at the stage of revealing the essence of the phenomenon of competition festival movement of Ukraine and its transformation during the military invasion of Russia.