V international cultural festival "FLOWERS OF RUSSIA" Slovakia 2015

From November 4 to November 15, 2015, the V International Cultural Festival “Flowers of Russia” will be held in three cities of the Slovak Republic: Bratislava, the youngest capital of Europe, Kosice, the second largest city in the country, and Trnava, the city that is called the Slovak “Rome”.

The festival program is built in accordance with the main principle of the UN Declaration on International Cooperation: "Dissemination of knowledge, promotion of talent and enrichment of various cultures." The project’s attention is focused on the most talented children in the field of musical, visual arts and on the field of creative and aesthetic education of children in Russia.

The festival will include: a gala concert of classical music performed by young talents of Russia, the performance of the Novgorod Maly Theater for Children and Youth, round tables, exhibitions of puppet dolls and children’s drawings, creative meetings and master classes in acting and classical dance.

Festival program:

From November 4 to 7, interactive puppet theater in Kosice (Tajovského 4) will be held exhibition "Puppets of the Demmen Theater" St. Petersburg State Puppet Theater named after E. S. Demmen. Viewers will see a collection of author’s theatrical puppets - a kind of “golden pantries”, which in St. Petersburg is called the “big troupe of a small theater”. Among them are the popular European characters Max and Moritz (1925), characters in the novel by Nikolai Gogol “How Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich” (1929), dolls by the artist Ivan Pavlovich for the play “The Tale of the Dead Princess and the Seven Knights” (1937).), characters of the pop number of Evgeny Demmen “Anna and Vronsky” (1938), “The Mischief Windsor” (1947) by Maria Artyukhova, as well as dolls of the Russian folk tale about Kolobok (2010). A visit to the exhibition involves interactive communication between spectators and professional puppeteers.

From November 4 to November 15 at the Puppet Theater in Kosice (Tajovského 4) an exhibition of children’s drawings “Russia through the eyes of the child” will unfold. The best works of students of art schools from different regions of the Russian Federation were selected by experienced art historians. The drawings, made in different styles, genres and techniques, combined the "reasoning" about the homeland: landscapes of native places, home still lifes, illustrations of your favorite books and much more.

November 5 at 10:00 in the International House of Arts for Children "Bibiana" in Bratislava (Panskej č. 41) - a round table on social, cultural and leisure education of children.

November 5 at 13:00 in the Russian Center for Science and Culture in Bratislava (Fraňa Kráľa 2) - a round table on the exchange of experience in the field of teaching and learning the Russian language.

November 5 at 18:00 in the center of Bratislava - in the Zichy Palace (Ventúrska 9) the official opening of the V international art festival "Flowers of Russia" - a gala concert of classical music "Russian Souvenir". Young musicians - laureates and diploma winners of national and international competitions - will perform piano, cello, button accordion, violin, flute and marimba pieces.

On November 6, at 09:30, at the Evy Jaczovej Choreographic School in Bratislava (Gorazdova 20), there will be a creative meeting and master class in classical dance, Vladimir Shklyarov - the premier of the State Academic Mariinsky Theater, winner of prestigious international competitions and prizes, winner of the Zegna - Mariinsky New scholarship Talent Awards. "

November 6 at 14:00 on the stage of the Studio of the Youth Theater of Jan Palarik in Trnava (Trojičné námestie č. 2), viewers will see a restrained in a European manner children’s play "Little Feelings" Novgorod Theater for Children and Youth "Small", which is a member of the International Association of Theaters for Children and Youth (ASSITEJ). The production of “Little Feelings” by the director and artistic director of the theater, Nadezhda Alekseeva, focuses on episodes of a small children’s life, which is based on a whole palette of emotions, feelings and experiences of the child. The performance-participant of the Russian national theater awards and festivals "Golden Mask" and "Harlequin", toured in Switzerland, South Korea and Austria.

November 6, 16:00 in the theater hall of the Bratislava Conservatory (Tolstého 11) - a creative meeting and a master class in acting with the participation of a theater and film actor, Tsarskoye Selo art prize laureate, Russian National Theater Award “Golden Mask” and the Higher Theater Prize of St. St. Petersburg "Golden Spotlights", the teacher of the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts and the Institute "School of Russian Drama" named after Igor Gorbachev - Andrei Shimko.

The festival program, presenting the true wealth of the country - young talents, contributes to the mutual cultural development of states and their mutual understanding.