Minsk City Executive Committee

15 June 2010 → Belarus hosts Week of Iranian Culture

Iranian folk arts are represented at the Week of Iranian Culture that opened at the Palace of Arts in Minsk on 14 June. The event is supposed to strengthen Belarusian-Iranian friendly relations and cultural cooperation, said Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Belarus at the opening of the forum.

Deputy Culture Minister of Belarus Viktor Kurash noted that Belarus and Iran are actively developing cultural cooperation. Iran’s representatives regularly partake in Belarusian cinema and arts festivals. The cultural cooperation is sustainably developing owing to close high-level contacts between the two countries.

At the Palace of Arts the Iranian culture is represented as a large workshop in a street of Tehran. Taking part in this cultural forum are more than fifty Iranian craftsmen.

The program of the Week of Culture includes exhibitions of photos, paintings, carpets and traditional clothes of Iranian ethnic groups. The Iranian artists demonstrate their calligraphic skills.

Belarusians may also get familiar with Iranian sculptures and paintings, mirror furnishings, gold plating, embossing, wood engraving, and mosaics.

The exhibitions are accompanied by traditional Iranian music and national dances. The guests may also enjoy performances by actors of Iranian puppet and mummery theaters.

News provided by Agency «BelTA»

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