Glubokoye residents read Kolas's "New Land" together for Belarusian Written Language Day

August 30, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Residents of Glubokoye read Yakub Kolas's "Novaya zyamlya" together for the Day of Belarusian Written Language, the director of the District Organizational and Methodological Center of the Culture Department of the Glubokoye District Executive Committee, Tatyana Gavrilova, told a BELTA correspondent. The project "Chytayem 'Novaya zyamlya' razam" was implemented in April-August on the initiative of the district culture department on the occasion of the 130th anniversary of the birth of Yakub Kolas and Yanka Kupala. Favorite excerpts from this programmatic work were read on camera by representatives of local authorities, enterprises and organizations, teachers, representatives of working professions - about 40 people in total. Then, specialists from the organizational and methodological center edited a 45-minute film from the collected recordings, which also used illustrations for the poem by various artists. The result of five months of work will be presented to the general public and its direct participants on September 1 at the Day of Belarusian Written Language in Glubokoye: in the evening at 9:00 PM. in the center's courtyard (in case of rain - indoors) there will be a film presentation, to which everyone is invited. The project, being one of the events of the Year of Books, is designed to popularize reading and Belarusian literature. -0-