The third ‘One nation, one culture’ festival will open in Armenia

armradio.am

16.08.2008 17:29

The third Panarmenian cultural festival ‘One nation, one culture’ will

be organized in August 17-23 in Armenia. Cultural delegacies from

Armenia and other 16 countries will take part in it. During the

conference the RA Minister of Culture David Muradyan noted that the

chief aim of the festival is to gather the creative potential both from

Armenia and from Diaspora.

The executive director of ‘One nation, one culture’ foundation Tamar

Pokhosyan thinks that this festival is politically, nationally and

culturally great event which has been able to achieve its aim since

1999. The festival is being financed by the state from 2003. To remind,

there are delegacies from 16 countries to take part in the festival.

The greatest delegacy is from Russian Federation (239 participants),

then Georgia (199) and Iran (172). Cultural groups from NKR, Turkey,

Lebanon, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Macedonia, Syria, Holland, Hungary,

Serbia, Bulgaria and the USA will also take part in the festival. The

main genre directions are the music, dance and theatre. In the scopes

of the festival ‘Dprats das’ choir from Turkey will have private

concert. Today 350 people have already entered Armenia from Turkey,

Georgia and the USA. The festival will be opened in the National

Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet. The solemn ceremony of closing

will take place in the Republic Square. The organizers hope that the

festival will be passed with great attention and care.

To remind, the festival ‘One nation, one culture’ is being organized

under the high favor of RA President Serzh Sargsyan, RA Ministry of

Culture, RA Foreign Affairs Ministry and `One nation, one culture’

foundation.