the Pandemic has not enabled this year to hold a “Pear” in the same place – on the picturesque glade Mastrokosta lakes. There were many doubts, but the festival decided not to move for a year, and gather in the virtual space in the traditional time – the first weekend of July. Even without “hug”, as expressed by the famous bard, Chairman of the artistic Council of the festival Oleg Mityaev, but reproducing the spirit of the annual gathering around the campfire with guitars. Travelers are warned in advance – the entry to the meadow is prohibited. The fire this time each was lighted at his dacha, on nature outside the city. The most active have pitched tents on an interactive map “Pears”, by registering at your favorite camp to chat with old friends and meet new.
– this format festival even won. We received twice more applications than in years past – 530. Before it was impossible to apply remotely – said the head of the Samara regional Grushinsky club Sharafieva Anna.
vastly expanded the geography of participants: joined in Kaliningrad, Chukotka, Baikal and other regions. The festival has become truly international. There were guests from new York, Chicago, San Francisco, Paris, Toronto… On the website and social networks to the area joined hundreds of thousands of people. While the audience had the opportunity in good quality and with the picture close up to listen to all the speeches. And everyone was as if in the first row.
Thanks to this scale is the song, not the entourage, became the main festival. At the same time, emotions have not gone away, the participants could experience for the contestants, to watch the jury leave your comments. The speech was broadcast simultaneously in four videoannex for four days. Have students, as before, was the ability to “jump” from scene to scene. The festival’s novelty was the “Project of the Pushkin Institute online”, it was available in the fourth box, “Literary living”.
the Jury, chaired by Alexander Gorodnitsky this year raised the bar of the poetic text. And judging by the songs 14 winners, with their task. The idea was born to carry out during the year of creative poetry workshops.
At the Saturday evening gala concert, much of which passed on a copy of the Grushin scene guitar, but in the suburbs, the audience heard not only the winners, but my favorite authors: Alexander Gorodnitsky, Oleg mitiaeva, Tatyana and Sergey Nikitin, Galina Homchik.
