Festival of Urals-Scottish culture

The second festival of Urals-Scottish culture - "Burns&Vysotsky: one soul - two poets"

The event took place on January 22nd in the big hall of Sverdlovsk State Philharmony.

The mission of the event was to promote scottish culture in Urals and Urals culture in Scotland, establish and strengthen partnerships with state, social and commercial organizations of Urals region, Russia, Scotland and Great Britain for futher realization of joint activities.

Programm:

1. Photo-exhibition "Russian Scotland" devoted to memorable to Russians places in Scotland

2. Wisky-tasting sponsored by USS partners "The famous grouse"

3. Performance of Urals State Conservatory symphony orchestra. Musical compositions played by the orchestra were written by urals composers in Scottish style and specially for the festival.

4. Awarding of the translation contest winners. Participants translated poems of Burns into Russian language.

5. Performance of Sverdlovsk State Child Philharmony jazz-choir

6. Special guest from USA Vadim Astrakhan performed the songs of Vladimir Visotsky in English translation from his new album.

7. Traditional guest from Scotland - musician, poet and singer Tommy Beavitt - performed the songs from his new album.

Partners:

The Famous Grouse™

Ministry of Culture and tourism of Sverdlovsk oblast

Ministry of international and external economic links of Sverdlovsk region

Legislative Assembly

External links commitee of administration of Ekaterinburg

Robert Burns World Federation

Regional brunch of Russian geographic society

Sverdlovsk regional scientific Belinsky library

Russian-British trade chamber

League of small and medium business of Sverdlovsk region

«Vidicor» company

"Veresk" found

Urals branch of russian official news agency "ITAR-TASS"

Internet portal www.e1.ru

Internet portal www.ekaterinburg.com

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The second festival of Urals-Scottish culture - "Burns&Vysotsky: one soul - two poets"

Date and place: the event took place on January 22nd in the big hall of Sverdlovsk State Philharmony.

Mission: the mission of the event was to promote scottish culture in Urals and Urals culture in Scotland, establish and strengthen partnerships with state, social and commercial organizations of Urals region, Russia, Scotland and Great Britain for futher realization of joint activities.

Programm

Photo-exhibition "Russian Scotland" devoted to memorable to Russians places in Scotland

Wisky-tasting sponsored by USS partners "The famous grouse"
Performance of Urals State Conservatory symphony orchestra. Musical compositions played by the orchestra were written by urals composers in Scottish style and specially for the festival.

Awarding of the translation contest winners. Participants translated poems of Burns into Russian language.

Performance of Sverdlovsk State Child Philharmony jazz-choir
Special guest from USA Vadim Astrakhan performed the songs of Vladimir Visotsky in English translation from his new album.