More than 60 sites will be arranged in the capital at which celebration festivities will be held during the City Day. This, as "Minsk-News" Agency correspondent reports, was said today at the weekly planning meeting at the Minsk City Executive Committee by the Acting Head of the Department of Culture Valentina Rudikova. As is generally known, the City Day is traditionally marked on the second Saturday of September.
The prologue to the festivity will be honouring the winners of the Minsk city competition "Minsk Master" to be held at the Belarusian State Academic Musical Theatre on September 10. On Saturday, September 11, the event will begin with laying flowers at the memorial "Minsk – Hero City". On the platform adjoining the National Library there will be held a fair of goods produced by Minsk City enterprises. Here, the city residents will also be offered a musical program.
According to Valentina Rudikova, a new tradition in arranging chamber festive programs in the Upper City is born. On Saturday, near the Museum of the History of Minsk, the city residents will be offered a theatrical fancy-dress show and concert. Revolutsionnaya street will turn into an Opening Day in the open air where they will exhibit works of modern Belarusian artists and students studying at departments of arts of higher educational institutions. A concert of brass band music will take place near the City Hall. Here, actors and actresses of the Minsk city theatres will arrange their performances for the residents and guests of Minsk. At the Palace of Sports there will be held a holiday of sport and art in which artists of various art are going to participate. And in the evening the National Academic Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre will be the venue of a solemn ceremony of presentation of awards "Minsk Citizen of the Year". At 22.00 the sky above the "Minsk – Hero City" memorial will flood with lights of festive fireworks.
On 11 and 12 September concerts, contests, sports competitions are to be held in all the districts of Minsk.
