VITEBSK, 11 July (BelTA) - The 21st International Arts Festival Slavonic Bazaar in Vitebsk has brought together over 1,000 craftsmen and artists, BelTA learnt.
Artists started working on 11 July. Their pictures will be showcased in Tolstogo and Suvorova Streets near the Vitebsk Regional Local Lore Museum. Representatives of the Vitebsk center of modern art said that this year the festival is attended by over 150 artists from all over Belarus.
An unprecedented number of folk artists and...
VITEBSK, 9 July (BelTA) – Chinese business shows an interest in starting up a new manufacturing project based on Vitebsk Fur Factory, BelTA learned from Yelena Zhuravleva, Head of the Economy Office of the Vitebsk City Executive Committee, as she summed up results of the visit of the official and business delegations of the city of Harbin to Vitebsk. The visit ended on 8 July.
The project provides for modernizing and relocating the manufacturing facilities of the existing company to a new...
VITEBSK, 9 July (BelTA) – The art gallery of Yehuda Pen, Marc Chagall’s teacher and mentor, will be recreated in Vitebsk, the deputy chairman of the Vitebsk Oblast Executive Committee, Vladimir Terentiev, said at a ceremony to open an one-painting exhibition “Portrait of Marc Chagall by Yehuda Pen” loaned by the National Art Museum of Belarus. The exhibition is dedicated to the 125th anniversary of the birth of Marc Chagall.
The art gallery will be housed in the building of the...