VITEBSK, 7 July (BelTA) – By tradition Vitebsk will arrange the event "Visiting Marc and Bella's" to celebrate Marc Chagall's birthday, BelTA learned from Director of the Vitebsk Marc Chagall Museum Lyudmila Khmelnitskaya. The annual festival will be held in the garden of the Marc Chagall House-Museum in Pokrovskaya Street. The organizers invite the city residents and guests to attend the literary-musical evening with the participation of Jewish artists. The daughter of the late...

VITEBSK, 30 June (BelTA) – Delegations of Armenia, Bulgaria, Israel, Latvia and Russia took part in the celebrations of the 1040th anniversary of Vitebsk on 28 June, BelTA has learned. Representative of the Bulgarian delegation Ivan Ivanov told reporters that the delegation from Bulgaria’s Haskovo came to Vitebsk in order to congratulate its residents on the 70th anniversary of Belarus’ liberation from the Nazis and the 1040th anniversary of Vitebsk. Ivan Ivanov stressed that the...

VITEBSK, 26 June (BelTA) – By the 23rd international festival of arts, Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk, the oblast center will start offering hotel rooms decorated in the style of different countries and continents, BelTA learnt from Director General of Vitebskturist Company Lyudmila Senkovskaya. A part of the Vetraz Hotel will be decorated in the theme, The Wind of Wander. The work is underway to decorate the rooms in the traditions of Africa, France and Scotland. Vitebsk guests will have an...

VITEBSK, 23 June (BelTA) – Representatives of Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Germany will take part in the Energy Week that will be held in Polotsk on 23-29 June, BelTA learnt from the Polotsk District Executive Committee. The highlight of the event will be the exhibition-seminar “Renewable energy in the energy conservation system” and the international conference “Covenant of Mayors as an innovative approach to energy management”. Invitations to take part in the events were...

VITEBSK, 18 June (BelTA) - Five productions of puppet theaters of Belarus and Russia will be shown at Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk as part of the Puppet Quarter project, BelTA learned from the Vitebsk culture center. All productions will be shown on stage of the Belarusian theater Lyalka. The Puppet Quarter project will feature the theaters from St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Minsk and Vitebsk. The project will start on 9 July with the Queen of Spades by the Grodno regional puppet theater based...

MINSK, 13 June (BelTA) – Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has sent greetings to the participants and guests of the 14th National Song and Poetry Festival in Molodechno, BelTA learned from the presidential press service. “This prestigious cultural forum has an honorable mission to develop and promote Belarusian literature and music,” the message of greetings reads. Molodechno has brought together the most famous singers united by the love for the native language and songs. An...