June 21, 2010

The Okrug Governor’s press-service informs:

The All-Russia Festival of the North,  Siberia and Far East  Indigenous Peoples’ Art “Northern Lights” will be held in Khanty-Mansiysk on June 23-24. Representatives of peoples from the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Chukotka, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Altai and Krasnoyarsk Krai, Taimyr Dolgano-Nenets municipal district, Tyumen Region, Murmansk Region, Komi Republic will arrive to the Okrug capital.

Governor of Ugra Natalia Komarova said that one of the key goals of the event is to unite efforts for preservation and development of the best traditions of art and crafts of Finno-Ugric Peoples in Russia and in the world.

Peoples of North, Siberia and Far East will come to Ugra to participate in the Festival “Northern Lights”, to demonstrate cultural diversity of indigenous peoples, to exchange experience in studying and preserving their traditions. The Festival will help performing groups  to strengthen their creative links, to raise the prestige of unique cultures. The Festival will  be finished with the gala-concert to be held on the central square of Khanty-Mansiysk on June 24 at 06.00 p.m.

At the same period the VI International Finno-Ugric Peoples’ Crafts Festival “Ugra-2010” will be opened under the auspices of the Okrug Government and with the support by the RF Ministry of Culture.

10 delegations from the Russian regions and also representatives of Finland, Montenegro will participate in the exhibition-fair of crafts, scientific and practical conference “From Craft to Art”, workshops to be devoted to painting, bone carving, weaving, wicker-work, fir mosaic and etc.

The closing ceremony of the Festival will be held on June 27 at the  outdoor museum “Torum Maa”.