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Children from 36 countries to perform at Vladimir Spivakov Moscow festival

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Children from 36 countries to perform at Vladimir Spivakov Moscow festival


14.11.2019

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Over a thousand young musicians, dancers, circus performers and artists from 36 countries will participate in the International Moscow Meets Friends Festival, which will open on November 25 and will last until December 3. The head of the festival is the world-famous musician and conductor Vladimir Spivakov, TASS reports.

The festival will bring together gifted children from fifty regions of Russia and dozens of countries. Young participants will demonstrate their talents on the leading stages of the Russian capital and in Moscow museums - in the halls of the House of Music, the Pushkin State Museum, the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve and other institutions. Special events will be held at the Center for the temporary detention of juvenile offenders.

The art program will become the special part of the festival; creative works of more than 230 young artists will be shown at various venues. According to the organizers, the current festival was ahead of the past in the number of applications from participants. This year Moscow Meets Friends celebrates its fifteenth anniversary. It is held with the participation of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, the Government of Moscow and other Russian departments, as well as the UN and UNESCO.

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