Youth of Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine will gather for the Orthodox festival "Odigitria" in Vitebsk

July 30, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. Youth from Belarus, Russia and Ukraine will gather for the VI Orthodox festival "Odigitria" in Vitebsk, the Vitebsk Eparchial Administration informed a BELTA correspondent. The festival will be held from August 1 to 5. This year, about 150 people are expected to participate. Over five days, a lot of interesting events await them: lectures and seminars related to spiritual topics and eternal questions, sports and intellectual competitions. The main event of the forum will be a competition for novice authors and performers. It will take place on August 2 at the concert venue on Millennium Square. Participants will perform in the nominations "author-performer", "author collective", "performer" and "ensemble". The best artists, along with applause, will receive another opportunity to perform at the gala concert. This time they will have to perform their work on the main stage of the regional center - in the Summer Amphitheater. The festival will traditionally conclude with a religious procession from Vitebsk to Smolensk for the feast in honor of the Icon of the Mother of God "Odigitria". The Orthodox youth festival "Odigitria" serves to strengthen friendship between young people from different countries and is designed to promote the development of creativity and spirituality among youth. -0-