Events
Ksenia Khoruzhnikova (Chair of the International Youth Diplomacy League) and Dilbar Sadykova (CEO of the League) took part in the International Forum «Youth of the CIS — the future of public diplomacy» which became a key event of the visit of young political, social, scientific and business groups of the CIS countries to Russia. International Forum 2011 was held 20 years after creation of the CIS.
International Festival «Master Class» is one of the highlights of the cultural life of Saint-Petersburg. For two weeks the people of creative professions and interests of created works in different genres and categories: architecture, painting, drawing, sculpture, arts and crafts, photography, music, theatre, film, fashion, museum, restoration, design, computer graphics, advertising, journalism, dance.
On May 18 in St. Petersburg there was the first event of the XI International Festival of Arts «MASTER CLASS». The action, in which at the same time about 250 children from orphanages, schools of art and general consulates of various countries in St. Petersburg drew the images of angels in St. Isaac’s Cathedral, the Smolny Cathedral and the Church of Christ Revival was called the «Children under the Isaac sky."
On June, the opening of the XVI International Festival of Arts «MASTER CLASS» was held in the Russian Ethnographic Museum. The leitmotif and the main theme of this year is the image of Madonna, mother and child and the charity ball held in the beautiful Marble Hall of the Museum held on the occasion of the opening was dedicated to the International Children’s Day.