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St. Petersburg Cultural forum brings together more than 40 thousand participants

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St. Petersburg Cultural forum brings together more than 40 thousand participants


20.11.2019

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The number of participants in the current St.Petersburg International Cultural forum has exceeded forty thousand people, TASS reports. According to the organizers, this figure is more than five thousand more than last year. Representatives of almost a hundred countries from around the world came to the forum, official delegations represented more than fifty states. Almost twenty of them were headed by ministers of culture.

More than thirteen thousand people participated in the business flow events, about twenty seven thousand - joined the public flow.

The forum united almost a hundred different sites throughout the city, and the main headquarters of the Hermitage has traditionally become the central venue. The open lecture hall Culture 2.0 worked at the Manezh exhibition center. This year China presented its program in the status of a guest country.

Almost a dozen sections of the business program worked in the Ethnographic Museum. Each one was dedicated to specific cultural activities: museums, theaters, cinema, circus, mass communications and much more.

Lectures and master classes by the best practitioners and theoreticians of art, conferences, performances, exhibitions, film premieres took place within the forum. Many of the exhibitions prepared for the forum continued working after its ending.

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