The 3rd International Children’s Cultural Forum has started its work in Moscow Palace of the Pioneers on the Sparrow Hills. The participants of the official ceremony of opening were young talents from Russia, Byelorussia, India, Abkhazia, Serbia, Egypt, South Ossetia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Trans-Dniester, Syria, Cuba, Algeria and China, as well as representatives of the cultural community – curators and speakers of the Forum, satellite groups and volunteers of culture.
The space of the Palace of the Pioneers has turned into a great creative territory, where beginning musicians, artists, actors and journalists can display their talents, communicate with the eminent cultural professionals and create their own projects. Tatyana Golikova, the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, said a welcome address at the ceremony.
“I wish everybody to manifest themselves, because a number of competitions and activities to be held here is unique, in various sections the children can display their talents and share their ideas. I think for them this is the most important thing, because the best ones were selected, they had been preparing, and it is desirable that by passing through the hardship of this competition they would really choose things which they came here for. Due to this, I think, we’ll get many talents in a variety of areas of cultural development”, – the Deputy Prime Minister shared her thoughts with the reporters.
Workshop sessions, debates, artistic schools, creative workshops, excursions and concerts – the managers have prepared an eventful program for the participants. Totally 69 events under participation of 111 speakers, 47 partner sites and nine satellite groups from the regions of Russia have been planned during the Forum on August 22-24.
Curators of six theme-based sectors of the Forum are eminent cultural figures: “Theatrical and Circus Art” — Sergey Bezrukov, Art Director of the Moscow Governorate Theatre and Edgard Zapashny, General Director of the Great Moscow State Circus on Vernadsky Prospekt; “Choreographical Art” — Egor Druzhinin, choreographer, Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation; “Literature and Journalism” — Dmitriy Bak, Director of the State Museum of the History of the Russian Literature named after V.I. Dal; “Museums and Art” — Yelena Pronicheva, General Director of the State Tretyakov Gallery; “Cinema and Animation” — Gavriil Gordeev, General Producer of Okko streaming service, president and ideologist of the All-Russian Children’s and Family Films and Animation Festival “Medvezhonok”; “Musical Art” — Olga Khomova, Head of St. Peterburg State Academic Capella.
The event managers are the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and the Federal State Educational Institution of Culture ROSCONCERT.
