“Night of Arts” in Kirillov!

13 December 2017

Read here and now about “Night of Arts” in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve and the events that local residents and guests of the town liked most of all.

“Night of Arts” in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve could please a lot of people. The cultural program destined both for children and adults went down a storm. Residents and guests of the town joined in the quest “A Time to Gather Stones”. Its participants from Severodvinsk and Cherepovets admitted that they came to museum not for the first time, knew its history in detail and would cope with all tasks. They visited the Dormition (Assumption) Cathedral, the Treasury Chamber, the Cook-House and even the Monk’s Cell during the game.

Those who didn’t come to museum visited the exhibition “Black. Red. White” in the People’s House. O.G. Kuzmichyova, guide of the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve, conducted an interesting tour for them. She recollected the history of the October Revolution together with the visitors and even sang songs of those years.

After a difficult, but interesting talk about the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks, participants of “Night of Arts” attended the lecture “You Can Draw!” that was given by Lyudmila Lupushor, deputy director general of development and exhibition work. She told about some methods of drawing the environment using some works of the great artists, such as Vincent van Gogh, Leonardo da Vinci, Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn, Claude Monet, Edvard Munch.

She managed to persuade almost all visitors that everybody could draw. “What is a drawing? It is a dot and a line. Cannot you put a dot and draw a line from it? I think everybody can do it. A drawing is how you can see the reality. It is another story whether you become an artist or not”, said Lyudmila Lupushor.

At the end of the meeting, teachers of the Vologda Regional College of Culture and Tourism asked Lyudmila Lupushor to give a cycle of lectures about the creative work of different artists.

Participants of the master-class in calligraphy delivered by People’s Artist of Russia Marina Vasilieva were also not satisfied with one lesson. Now they are ready to study the Cyrillic alphabet and uncial every week.

The performance of Tatiana Vassa (Vasilieva), Vologda’s writer, narratress and founder of the new literary genre “kozy” (meaning goats), became a present for participants of “Night of Arts” in the Kirillo-Belozersky Museum-Reserve. She told the audience about old fairy tales. They were certainly not for children. All adult fairy tales were adapted for kids after the revolution. The matter was about the standards of morality and the meaning of life. Both the youth and senior citizens took part in the event. Kind and sometimes not, funny, bordering on life and death, the fairy tales made a lot of people smile, feel sad and think. What is true? How is it right to live? What shall we do to find peace getting to eternal life?

The audience thanked Tatiana Vassa who could reach out to them speaking the ancient dialect of the Belozersk district for the hour of kindness, warmth and joy.