The Vitebsk Regional Forum of Young Cultural Workers will bring together over 200 people
The forum "Modern Culture: New Challenges - New Heights" will be held by the Vitebsk region for the first time. Young people aged 18 to 35 will become participants in meetings and dialogues. Employees of library and museum spheres, club activities, and educational institutions in the field of culture will present their information and educational projects. During the open dialogue "New Perspective," representatives of the authorities will also familiarize themselves with the ideas of the youth. The best presentations will receive cash prizes from the industry trade union. Valuable prizes from the Department of Culture are provided for second and third places in the competition.
"A total of over 200 people plan to participate in the youth forum. Specialists will exchange experience, get the opportunity to update their knowledge and bring their projects to life. Thus, conditions are created for the professional self-determination and development of young workers. The goal is to reveal their creative and organizational potential and identify current problems in the field," noted the Department of Culture of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, adding that the most creative ideas will be implemented throughout the year with the support of local authorities.
The venue for the first stage of the forum on May 31 will be the V.I. Lenin Vitebsk Regional Library, where about 40 specialists from the library system will gather. They will discuss issues of patriotic education and preservation of historical memory in local history electronic resources, joint work of libraries with clubs on perpetuating the names of soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War, leisure and publishing projects, and innovations.
More than 50 specialists in club activities will take part in the second zonal stage of the forum, which will be held on June 1 at the venues in Polotsk. The discussion will include the preservation of traditional culture and the development of children's folklore. Master classes will be conducted by dance and theater groups.
The final two days of the youth forum will be held in the regional center itself. The main topics of the meeting of employees of educational institutions in the field of culture will be forms of creative self-realization for a universal specialist and methodological developments. In museum work, the main issues will be educational aspects, as well as forms and technologies for working with visitors.