Moscow International Ringing Cedars Festival!

UPDATE! The Festival program had been confirmed, see below:

The Anastasia Foundation is announcing the first International Ringing Cedars Festival, which will take place in Moscow on March 27, 2010 from 10am to 9pm at the CSRA Football Hall which can hold 4000 people.
The Festival program:

  1. Foyer - 9:00 to 11:00
    1. Festival Opening
    2. Presentations, Discussions, Round Table Meetings
    3. Trade Fair
    4. Folk Art Exhibits
    5. Folk Games and Rites, Songs, Round-Dances
  2. Main Hall - 11:00 to 12:00
    1. General Seating - with tickets only
    2. Free Drawing of several sets of RCoR books, autographed by Vladimir Megre
  3. Main Hall - 12:00 to 12:30
    1. Opening: concert, contests, welcoming speeches
    2. Visiting Artists' performances
  4. Main Hall - 12:30 to 1:30
    1. Best Narrator Contest (reading an excerpt from the RCoR series)
  5. Main Hall - 1:30 to 2:30
    1. Music Contest "Vedrussia Art"
  6. Main Hall and Foyer 14:30 to 15:30
    1. Launch Break
  7. Main Hall - 15:30 to 16:30
    1. Presentation of V. N. Megre's new book (Russian) from his best-selling series
    2. Presentation of a new Award: a Figurine entitled: "Ringing Cedars"
  8. Main Hall - 16:30 to 17:00
    1. Award Ceremony for Contest Winners (with a Figurine "Ringing Cedars" and other types of awards)
    2. Completion of the Concert, Festival sponsors and partners introduction
  9. Foyer - 17:00 to 21:00
    1. Presentations, Discussions, Consultations, Round Table Meetings
    2. Tradefair
    3. Folk Art Exhibits
    4. Folk Games and Rites, Songs, Round-Dances
  10. 21.05
    1. Closure Ceremony of the Ringing Cedars Festival - Fireworks

The Festival program includes:

• Readers conference - meeting with V. N. Megre
• Presentation of the new book (Russian) from the series by V. N. Megre
• Discussions and Round Table Meetings
• Consultations on Kin's Domain questions
• Trade fair
• Folk Art Exhibits
• Music Art Performances/Contests
• Performance Art Contests

The winners of the music and performance competitions will receive a small statue ("Ringing Cedars") and other types of awards.

For tickets and other details contact Yuri Smirnov at radaryu @ gmail.com (make sure to remove the white space in the email - I added white space so that Yuri does not get too much spam).