More than 500 artisans and artists will delight guests of the "Slavianski Bazaar" with their works.

July 8, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. More than 500 folk masters and artists will delight guests of the jubilee arts festival "Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk" with their works, the Vitebsk City Executive Committee's Culture Department informed a BELTA correspondent.

Masters of folk crafts will welcome residents and guests of the festival city at the cultural and historical complex "Golden Ring of the City of Vitebsk 'Dvina'" on Chaikovskogo Street. This year, more than 400 people from all over Belarus have gathered here, and representatives from Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic states have also arrived. The trade rows will delight the eye with a variety of handicrafts, jewelry, items made of beads, straw, willow, and clay, and many other trinkets that will decorate the home and lift spirits.

The grand opening of the City of Masters will take place on July 9. On the same day, the willow weaving competition "Willow Rod" will start here. 31 masters will take part in the creative competition, half of whom will be artisans from the Houses of Culture of the Vitebsk region. For two days, they will demonstrate their home collections and complete a practical task. The jury members will announce the winners on July 10 in seven nominations: traditional item, author's development of tradition in willow weaving, use of willow in combination with other materials, willow furniture weaving, creative debut, utilitarian household item, decorative item.

Ceramicists will also compete in their skills. Already today, on the territory of the cultural and historical complex, they will load their raw products into a specially prepared kiln and set up an open-air exhibition of finished utensils.

More than 120 artists of various genres have displayed their works on Suvorova Street. Art connoisseurs can not only purchase a work they like here, but also have their portrait taken as a souvenir or a friendly caricature as a gift. The open-air exhibition hall encourages improvisation and will leave its visitors with only pleasant impressions.-0-