Literature Festival
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2023
The festival's program featured a slew of edutainment activities including lectures, master classes, creativity workshops and quests, as well as meetings with contemporary Russian writers such as Shamil Idiatullin, Anna Matveyeva, Alexei Oleynikov, and Yuliya Ivanova. The festival kicked off with a performance given by Grigory Gladkov, a famous Soviet and Russian composer and Merited Arts Figure, who performed popular songs from favorite animated films on the stage of the city's Palace of Culture.
Sergey Barkhatov, a journalist, TV presenter and film critic from Ufa, gave a series of lectures about several famous writers including Nikolai Gogol and Sergei Dovlatov, and about one literary character - the sleuth Sherlock Holmes. The festival also included an educational session for professional librarians organized by writer Anna Matveyeva and Anton Skulachov, Chairman of the Guild of Wordsmiths Association. The festival's fascinating program culminated in a performance given by its headliner Ah Astakhova (Irina Astakhova), one of Russia's most popular contemporary poets.
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