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Festival Summer is coming soon to Vologda Region.
15.05.2024 10:43
This summer Vologda will host several inter-regional and international events - International Drama Festival Voices of History, International Folk Crafts Festival “City of Crafts” and VOICES Festival (VOlogda Independent Cinema from European Screens).
Alongside with these international events, the so called Festival Summer project will include several inter-regional festivals covering different genres and styles of music, theatre, literature and crafts.
Vologda will become home to XVI International Drama Festival Voices of History from June 19 to 27. In 2003 it received an international status. The performances are shown not only in the theater buildings, but also in the open air, in the historical setting of the Vologda Kremlin, which is a point of interest itself.
An International Festival “City of Crafts” will be held in Vologda on June 27-30. The festival is aimed at popularization of folk arts and handicrafts among the younger generation. According to the organizers, every day of the festival will be devoted to various programs that reveal to the audience the secrets of one of the folk crafts in the heart of Vologda - Kremlin Square. Artisans will show off their virtuosity in several categories - traditional female crafts, wooden and birch bark craft painting, valenki (kind of felt boots), wood engraving and wicker-work, blacksmithing, potter's craft and forgotten handicrafts.
VOICES Festival (VOlogda Independent Cinema from European Screens) is to take place on July 3-7 in the Vologda Region.
Since 2010 VOICES has become an essential event for all European and Russian independent cinema lovers. Hundreds of guests and films, dozens of concerts and workshops were welcomed by Vologda all along these years.
The basis of the Festival is the most interesting novelties of cinema and interesting guests. As always the organizers are preparing different workshops, interesting exhibitions and the traditional Picnic.
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Culture, International and Interregional Cooperation, Ministry of Culture