The Finno-Ugric Transit Festival took place in Karelia

The Finno-Ugric Transit Festival is one of the long-term projects of the branch of the Finno-Ugric Cultural Center of the Russian Federation (Syktyvkar).

The main goal of the festival is the preservation of the cultural heritage of the Finno–Ugric and Samoyed peoples, the formation of a unified cultural and information space of Russia. The concert program in Karelia was organized by the Center for Folk Art and Cultural Initiatives of the Republic of Karelia with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Karelia.

In the period from October 14 to October 16, the events of the International Festival of Arts and Folk Art “Finno-Ugric Transit. Projection into the theater 2.0” were held in Petrozavodsk.
As part of the festival, a lecture was held at the House of Crafts by the director of the Karelian folk theater “Cičiliušku” Natalya Golubovskaya, who told the audience about the peculiarities of the theater’s work related to productions in the Karelian language, as well as the specifics of transmitting the plot idea through puppet “mimicry”.
The main events of the festival were held at the National Theater of Karelia. A photo exhibition was organized with shots of vivid fragments of performances and scenes of the backstage life of folk theaters, as well as the screening of ethnographic films about the historical and cultural heritage of Russia. A transit concert consisting of 4 acts based on the epic poem “Kalevala” took place on the stage of the theater. In a theatrical performance, concert numbers were presented by well-known collectives in the republic: Karelian Folk theater “Cičiliušku”, folklore theater “Karelskaya Gornitsa”, theater studio “Impulse” (g. Belomorsk), as well as students of the Karelian College of Culture and Arts. The ethno-art theater “Varma” from the Republic of Mordovia presented the theatrical narration “Aralai”.