The Easter festival has started in Vitebsk

April 20, Vitebsk / Olga Bogacheva - BELTA /. The Easter festival started today in Vitebsk, the diocesan administration of the Vitebsk Orthodox Diocese informed a BELTA correspondent. The festival, organized as part of the republican program "Family. Unity. Fatherland," includes various events. Thus, today, members of the Union of Folk Art Masters are holding a master class on painting Easter eggs for young people and everyone interested at the "Dvina" cultural and historical complex of the regional center. In the coming days, exhibitions of icons "Image of Christ the Savior" and photographs "City of Light" will open in the city. An exhibition of children's works "God's World Through the Eyes of Children" will be held at the "Maladzik" center for aesthetic education. Concerts of spiritual music will be organized at the art museum and the regional philharmonic. An exhibition-fair of works by students of the Sunday schools of the Vitebsk Diocese will be held on May 1 at the Holy Assumption Cathedral. Here, on May 4, an exhibition of works by folk masters of the city will be held, and on May 12-13, the international scientific conference "Belarus in the Patriotic War of 1812" will take place, dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Russia's victory in this military conflict. A number of events within the framework of the Easter festival will be timed to coincide with the Days of Family, Children's Protection, and Slavic Written Language and Culture. The concluding chord of the festival will be a religious procession to the Holy Assumption Cathedral on June 5. -0-