VI international festival "Children’s Petersburg"

From November 27 to December 4, 2015 the annual international cultural project of the Government of St. Petersburg - the festival "Children’s Petersburg" will be held in Tel Aviv - the cultural, business and political center of Israel.

A varied program of the festival, including musical, artistic, drama and educational events, will once again provide the viewer with a unique opportunity to get acquainted with the creative achievements of the collectives of the Northern capital.

Festival program:

From November 27 to December 4, the Russian Cultural Center in Tel Aviv (38 Geula St., Tel Aviv) will host an exhibition of children’s drawings "Petersburg through the eyes of a child." The best works of students of art schools in St. Petersburg were selected by experienced art historians. The drawings, made in different styles, genres and techniques, combined the "reasoning" about the cultural capital of Russia.

November 30 at 18:00 in the Concert Hall of the Cultural Center "ENAV" at the Tel Aviv City Hall (71 Ibn Gabirol St., Tel Aviv) will be the official opening of the VI International Festival "Children’s Petersburg" - a gala concert of classical music "Russian Souvenir". Young musicians - laureates and diploma winners of national and international competitions - will perform pieces on the piano, button accordion, oboe, violin, cello and xylophone.

December 1 at 17:00 in the Russian Cultural Center in Tel Aviv (38 Geula St., Tel Aviv), viewers will see the musical puppet show "Fun Concert" of the St. Petersburg Bolshoi Puppet Theater. This is an interactive musical performance full of humor and surprises, in which many new and interesting events will be told to young viewers. The heroes of the performance will not only sing, dance and play funny scenes, but will also involve children in the mysterious world of puppet theater.

Duration: 45 minutes.

Additionally, the performance “Fun Concert” will be held on November 30 and December 1 in Tel Aviv general education institutions.

December 1 at 18:00 in the Panov Ballet Theater (Derech Eretz 6, Ashdod) a master class in the art of ballet will be conducted by Ilya Kuznetsov - People’s Artist of the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania, Honored Artist of Russia, Laureate of the Golden Sofit Theater Prize of St. Petersburg; founder and artistic director of the network of dance schools "Children’s Ballet School Ilya Kuznetsova" and president of the charity fund "Advocacy and Revival of Russian Art".

December 2 at 18:00 in the Russian Cultural Center in Tel Aviv (38 Geula St., Tel Aviv) a master class in acting will be held with the participation of a theater and film actor, laureate of the Tsarskoye Selo Art Award, Russian National Theater Award “Golden Mask” and St. Petersburg Higher Theater Award "Golden Spotlights", the teacher of the St. Petersburg Academy of Theater Arts and the Institute of Russian Drama School named after Igor Gorbachev - Andrei Shimko.

The international festival "Children’s Petersburg" will be a bright event in the cultural life of Israel and will once again show the importance of children’s creativity and creativity aimed at a young audience, proving the relevance and interest in this field of art.