Ukrainian conductor Kirill Karabits, Music Director of the Bournemouth Symphony and upcoming Generalmusikdirektor of the city of Weimar, conducted a big open air concert on 24 August at the Independence Square in Kiev. The concert was performed by the I Culture Orchestra, a band put together by Polish Mickiewicz Institute with young musicians from Poland, Ukraine, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia and Moldavia. Several thousand people attended the concert.