The Russian Academy Of Arts

From August 10-12, 2023 the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow hosts the Second International Children’s Cultural Forum organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. The Forum has become a traditional annual event aimed at supporting the creatively gifted children. The Forum participants are children at the age of 12 -17, who became winners of various creative competitions, festivals and exhibitions. 

Earlier, the Russian Culture Minister Olga B. Lyubimova told about the program of events, the geography of participants and Forum’s special formats. The program includes 140 events: lectures, master classes, dialogues, workshops, sessions on the topics “choreographic art”, “cinema and animation”, “theatrical art”, “journalism”, as well as “cultural projects” allowing the children to turn their ideas in creative programs and present them for the expert commission. This year, there will be more than 2000 participants from 88 regions of Russia and international guests from 13 countries: Abkhazia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bolivia, Egypt, India, Qatar, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Palestine, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. 

Olga Lyubimova has noted, that the Forum offers a vast cultural program: excursions to the Pushkin Museum, Tretyakov Gallery, Museum of Music, the Moscow Big Circus, Zaryadye Park, VDNKH and Mosfilm Studio. “These are the key cultural spaces which are very popular in Moscow”, - said the Minister.

Many famous figures of culture including Yuri Bashmet, Nadezhda Babkina, Egor Druzhinin, Edgar Zapashny, Evgeny Mironov and others have been invited to the Forum as special guests. The opening ceremony and exhibition “The Image of Teachers and Tutors in Works of Young Artists” have been also attended by the People’s Artist of the USSR and Russia, President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli, Vice-Presidents of the Russian Academy of Arts Anatoly A. Lyubavin and Andrey N. Kovalchuk. 

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