Tсhistopol will host the 3rd festival of the author's song "Literary Tchistopol"

August 17-19, 2018 for the third time the festival of the author's song "Literary Tchistopol" will take place. The organizers of the festival are the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Tchistopol State Historical, Architectural and Literary Museum-Reserve, the Tchistopol Municipal District.

The festival "Literary Tchistopol" was held for the first time in 2016. In 2018 applications for participation were submitted by authors, performers, fans of bard songs from many cities of Russia. Participants from Moscow, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ufa, Voronezh, Yoshkar-Ola, Cheboksary, Cherepovets, Naberezhnye Chelny, and Menzelinsk will share their skills at the festival "Literary Tchistopol".

Within the framework of the festival will  work  creative workshops, contest performances of participants in nominations "Author", "Performer", "Duet", "Ensemble", "Literary Chistopol" will take place. The well-known authors, performers of Tatarstan and Russia - Dmitry Bikchentaev, Yulia Ziganshina, Vladimir Goltsman, Yulia Tuzova, Ilya Olenev, Anatoly Shenberg will become members of the jury and honorary guests of the festival "Literary Tchistopol".

The peculiarity of the festival is that the obligatory condition of participation in the contest program is the performance of the song on poems by poets associated with Tchistopol: Boris Pasternak, Mikhail Isakovsky, Viktor Bokov, Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, Lev Oshanin and others. This approach allows us to expand the boundaries of the popularization of creativity of famous figures of literature and opens up talents for new authors and performers to the public.

The main event of the festival will be a ceremony of awarding the winners and a gala concert with the participation of members of the jury and honored guests, which will be held on August 18, 2018 in the Cultural Center "Tchistai".

The concert begins at 7 pm.