Fire Festival of Kiev
Kiev is home to the annual Fire Festival where pyrotechnic experts put on shows with extra bang.Since 2007 Kiev, in the Ukraine, has been the host of a very unusual festival. Each year hundreds of visitors pile into Kiev to watch the amazing work of world pyrotechnic experts at the annual Fire Festival. Kiev has a long history of street theatre and circus arts and it incorporates these forms of entertainment into the Fire Festival. This two day event includes stunning fire shows, jaw-dropping circus acts and culminates in a spectacular parade.
Professional fire performers and flame throwers travel across the world to appear at the festival. In recent years, artists from Germany, Great Britain and America as well as the Ukraine and Russia have put on displays to wow the crowds with their stunning, fiery acts. There are audience participation events such as fire battles in which the performers use props, and their artistic fire skills, to win applause from the crowd, and ultimately the battle.
Fire artists, who perform in the festival, have the opportunity to take part in residential workshops so they can gain skills in fire theatre. Arts, such as fire-breathing, fire-juggling and fire poi are taught to budding fire performers.
Daily and affordable flights to Kiev from London Gatwick make the Kiev Fire Festival an attractive destination. The festival organisers offer camping facilities for visitors who want to make the most of the festival. If camping isn’t your style you can buy day pass tickets to the festival and stay in one of the local hotels instead.





