May is the most interesting and saturated month in Lviv. In May we celebrate many holidays including Lviv City Day and enjoy warm weather!

 

Lviv City Day

http://www.ct.lviv.ua

May 7-13

“Where else can you feel as fine as here?” Annually this question gets the same answer: “Only in Lviv”, at the time of the City Day celebrations. It is a holiday of great entertainment traditions: impressive street theater performances, concerts and festivals. Holiday events include performances of jazz, world music, rock and pop, dance, comedy, film premières and award ceremonies to fit any taste.

In 2012, guests will have the opportunity to enjoy thousands of participants of the Great Street Parade-Carnival. Among them: children amateur groups, armored knights, walking on stilts actors, carriages with angels, city sightseeing car-train called “A Miracle Train” bringing disable children to the holiday, members of youth and sport organizations, folk dance ensembles, representatives of national minorities and public organizations... All the parade is singing, dancing and performing. Everybody is welcome to participate!

This colorful festive action unites the citizens of Lviv and guests every year.

 

The 5th City Holiday "The Batiar`s Day" (Rascal Day)

www.batyar.lviv.ua

May 1-2

You’ll get the unique opportunity to dive into stylistics and the atmosphere of an authentic Lviv phenomenon, the Batyars’ World. It is a world with its own street language and city folklore of the beginning of the 20th century. Lviv Batyar is a freedom–loving, witty, gallant and romantic idler. 
Taking part in the Batyar’s Day program visitors and citizens easily catch the special feeling of the immortal Lviv spirit and the old city humor. Concerts of Batyars’ bands, different comedy competitions, and quizzes for children, a retro movie festival, Batyars’ song and dance master-classes for everybody, as well as tasty refreshments and drinks are everywhere to enjoy for all the participants of the city holiday.
Being Batyar is universal. It does not depend upon ethnic, religious or political belongings. It is just a special kind of self-identification with the native beloved city. Batyars of the whole world, unite! Join Lviv’s jolly crowd!

 

Festival "Lviv - the Capital of Handycrafts"

www.idem.org.ua

during May

Lviv has always been famous for its craftsmen in Europe. The traditional festival of Lviv handicrafts is not only a fair but a presentation of the craft guilds, direct personal contacts with well-known artists, master classes, open-air exhibitions and entertainments everywhere in the city historical center.

 

The 31st International Musical Festival "VirtuosI"

www.philharmonia.lviv.ua

during May

The “Virtuosi” (“Virtuosos”) festival is a popular three-week summer season of daily classical music concerts. The event was founded in 1882, and now each season consists of over 30 concerts of well-known musicians and orchestras. It is a period when many musical stars, winners of prestigious international contests, gather in Lviv to perform! The “Virtuosi” festival time in Lviv is paradise for opera and classical music lovers!

 

19^th Youth Pilgrim “Univ-Lviv”

May 18-20

Each year hundreds of young people from Lviv, other cities of Ukraine and other countries go over 40 kilomets by foot singing and praying together.