Russia and China bought “Childhood on the Amur”
VIII International Festival “Childhood on the Amur” took place in Blagoveshchensk
The eighth creative festival “Childhood on the Amur” ended with a colorful gala concert in Blagoveshchensk. This year, almost one and a half groups of children and teenagers from different regions of Russia and China took part in the selection, 150 children reached the finish line. The strong friendship of all the finalists began in the Kolosok camp. There, under the guidance of teachers, children attended seminars, master classes, exhibitions and prepared for the main show.
Svetlana Yakovleva, Deputy Speaker of the Parliament – Minister of Education of the Amur Region:
“This year, for the first time, we gathered the finalists of the competition in our center and support talented children in the Kolosok camp, and the guys spent a creative shift with us. Our masters taught them, and the guys are talented, and here they were helped. Can you imagine what kind of stars are explained in our Amur region.
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Tatyana Bederina, director of the Central Children’s Art School named after A. M.F. Knauf-Kaminskaya:
“There are winners in our competition, but no losers, improve your vocal skills, be devoted to serious vocal art.”
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“Childhood on the Amur” is a competition not only for vocalists, but also for young artists, poets, composers, fashion designers. The festival grows and develops, acquires new nominations and creative directions.
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Grigory Gladkov, President of the festival “Childhood on the Amur”, composer, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation:
“Festival of the meeting, in 6 nominations, the nomination “Fashion” was added. It began as a vocal competition, then a competition of drawings, folk crafts, poetry, “Kinamurchik” was added – the children made films and cartoons. 6 festival days, I remember this trip as one of the most pleasant, fabulous, because this is how to come to Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region, to observe China from afar. The main thing is friendship, it has no boundaries.
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Author of popular children’s songs Grigory Gladkov – the permanent president of the international union and its ideological inspirer. For him, the creative project “Childhood on the Amur” is a model of a happy childhood, not only for Russian, but also for Chinese children. This year, due to the pandemic, children from the Celestial Empire took part in an online meeting, they went to the jury to judge their drawings and crafts. 9 schoolchildren from China became diploma winners of the fine arts competition “Box with Pencils”.
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The winner, holder of the diploma of the laureate of the first degree became Zhang Xinyu 16 years. Despite the closed borders, natural rewards are sure to be found with the owners in the Chinese People’s Reserve.
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For the first time this year, the festival became the winner of the competition of the Presidential Fund for its Cultural Initiatives, for which more than 6 million rubles were allocated. Half of the funding for the promotion of talented children.
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Vladimir Pavlov, President of the public organization “Open Heart”:
“The grant policy continues in Russia, and the Amur Region was actively involved in this grant policy, and these grants will continue, and for you, children, studying the history of our Russia, which is more than 1000 years old, let your talent reveal even more. You are at the beginning of the journey!”
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Thanks to a grant from the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives, 66 participants received one-time scholarships, and 13 more prizes were awarded to creative teams. Such support is another incentive to further develop their talents. According to the jury, Blagoveshchensk can be considered the heir to creativity in the Far East. Alexandra Khaimuzina Originally from this city, she took the grand prix of the competition among artists and the special prizes of the jury “Graphic Notebook”. She painted her work in 3 days.
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Alexandra Khaimuzina, Participant of the VIII festival “Childhood on the Amur”:
“Before one topic, how to come up with an idea, I read a collection of Amur fairy tales, and one of them was “Ayoga”, it was she who inspired me to create this work.”
The eighth festival “Childhood on the Amur” is held in the Year of the Cultural Heritage of the Peoples of Russia, so all competition areas are somehow covered by the popularization of folk culture and art.
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Grigory Gladkov, President of the festival “Childhood on the Amur”, composer, Honored Art Worker of the Russian Federation:
“Russian is the language of wisdom, science and friendship.”
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The participants of the festival presented works in the field of arts and crafts, sang folk songs, recited poems about the Motherland, showed authentic beautiful outfits. As a bonus, they received a charge from the “star jury”, among which was a famous composer Grigory GladkovRussian singer Natalya Manulik, artist – painter Konstantin Miroshnik. They are held not only as experts at competitive selections in creative areas, but also participate in master classes for festival participants.
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Oleg Imameev, Mayor of Blagoveshchensk:
“For 8 years in a row, famous people have been coming here to teach our children to develop talents in various fields, of course, this is worth a lot. We are proud of you guys, I wish you to win on the upcoming life path and I am very proud that in the city of Blagoveshchensk there are such talented children and youth.”
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Every talented patient has a chance to show their creativity and be heard. And thanks to the festival “Childhood on the Amur” they have this opportunity. This is evidenced by statistical data that participants of past years continue to successfully create. They take part in all-Russian and international competitions, become participants in intensive creative sessions for gifted children.
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