More than 500 students from Belarus and Russia will gather at the youth creativity festival in Vitebsk

April 29, Vitebsk / Sergey Kochetov - BELTA /. More than 500 students from higher education institutions of Belarus and Russia will gather in Vitebsk on May 13 for the opening of the regional youth creativity festival "Student Spring-2009", dedicated to the Year of the Native Land. This was reported to a BELTA correspondent by Valery Kunashko, head of the youth affairs department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee. This year, the creative competitions will be held for the first time in three festival nominations. Along with the popular concert program competition and the KVN open tournament, the organizers decided to include a competition of dance and entertainment programs in the program. During the three festival days, the jury will have to identify the best creative teams of universities, as well as the winners and prize-winners in 7 individual nominations: instrumental, vocal-choral, choreographic, theatrical art, directing, and acting. The funniest and most resourceful teams of the festival will be awarded the titles of "Academicians", "Masters", "Bachelors" and the audience award - "Freshmen of Student Spring". In addition, the organizing committee has established a special prize for personal contribution to the aesthetic education of student youth. In the concert program competition titled "One Day on Earth", student teams will have to reveal the theme of the Year of the Native Land using various creative genres. The organizers have limited the duration of the performances to 40 minutes. KVN teams will be invited to compete in fun and resourcefulness in such tasks as the warm-up "Here we are!", freestyle "All the Colors of the Rainbow", home assignment "Summer is Coming!" and "biathlon" (joke competition). Student delegations from Smolensk, Pskov regions and St. Petersburg will take part in "Student Spring-2009". The goal of the festival is to develop amateur student creativity, improve the organization of youth leisure, spiritual, moral and patriotic education of young people, as well as friendly ties and cooperation between students of Belarus and Russia. The organizers of "Student Spring" are the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee and the regional committee of the BRSM. -0-