the Prize Fund of one million rubles. It is for ten winners. To join them, you first need to go through the external stage. First to develop the concept of volunteer centres. And to conduct an information campaign in the region to promote the ideas and values of volunteerism.
Then followed a face-to-face stage. And here the expert Committee will select ten winners who will receive 100 thousand roubles that will be spent on the development of volunteer centers. Who is going to this contest and the volunteers of different regions is ready to surprise the jury, found out the correspondent “the Russian newspaper”.
the movement of the “Volunteers of culture of the Orenburg region” has started to work again on July 26. And this year it celebrates its first birthday. The guys hope that the coincidence of dates – a good sign.
“Our community brings together more than 400 volunteers. Nobody needs to explain how the cultural institutions of the region needs their help,” – said the regional coordinator Alexander De forest.
One of the first projects of the “cultural volunteers” Orenburg became involved in the promotion of the regional Museum of fine arts. She was devoted to puchooa Orenburg shawl. Thanks to volunteers last year this event was truly massive. A successful eleven sites, covering not only schools and colleges, and kindergartens.
“last year we took part in the organization of more than 180 events. We have coordinators and municipalities in the region – more than 40 caring people. They are all ready to take part in the I all-Russian competition of volunteer centres in the field of culture. The guys are creative and ambitious, expect to win,” shared Alexander. – We have a project “Mobile school of creative initiatives” volunteers roam the region, educate the rural children and young people to engage with art.”
the Most popular among young villagers are master-classes on choreography, makeup and acting. And in March, the volunteers wanted to put on the streets of Orenburg “Poetic trolley.” Prepared weekly program – planned to sing songs, to play, to read fiction. Unfortunately, because of the epidemic, the project had to be postponed. I think going back to him in the fall.
the Number of volunteers of culture in Bashkortostan has exceeded a thousand people and continues to grow. They came together in a community at the end of 2019.
“Volunteers are needed where not enough hands – said the regional coordinator of the public movement “Volunteer culture” of the Republic of Bashkortostan Lira Volkov. – They help to bring the guests into the auditorium and then out of the building wheelchair, tell the viewers route. Those without whom cultural events are, of course, would take place, but not so asNGOs”.
Volunteers culture want to become a: from high school students to retirees, by the way, the age of the oldest over 80. Among them there are workers of culture, for example, a lot of librarians. They are happy to be included in the process. It is necessary to make the stage props or MIC please! Become an illuminator or work backstage in the wings – easy! They are ready for anything.
Can be equal participants and even event organizers. And proved it during the Republican youth rally “Folk drive.”
“We asked for volunteers to undertake in remote rural areas, the holiday – what the imagination will suffice, and who sees it, continues Lira Volkov. – It was a real kaleidoscope.” Somewhere over the tea party people were singing to the accordion, somewhere showed the old rites somewhere telling stories. At the end of “hillbilly drive” held a seminar that brought together leaders of creative teams, Directors and volunteers that they saw each other and realized that doing the same thing.
“Often, says Lyra, the cultural workers are volunteers with a certain degree of distrust and skepticism. But then the ice began to melt. The workshop was organized by experts from Moscow, Ufa, who talked about folklore. It is necessary to know, because the world Folkloriada to us there will arrive delegations from dozens of countries.” Work for volunteers there will be no end.
Volgograd volunteers culture provided moral support for the doctors of the 25th hospital that took patients with coronavirus infection. The students organized a concert and donated paintings that have written themselves. Come volunteer in a social centre to play with hearing impaired children. Helped in the organization of the play inclusive equestrian theater: where kids with special needs preparing performances together with horses and ponies.
Students of Institute of culture did musical greeting cards for the elderly. It was songs, poems or just kind words in this difficult period no one superfluous.
Now you have already earned a library, but in the spring of volunteers helped to quench the book famine. Pensioners, the disabled and others with limited mobility home delivered literature. “To walk in the heat with my asthma seriously, says a former teacher of mathematics and physics Anna Petrova. – So I really appreciate such help. I love detectives. Sometimes art or physics, take a book to the brain is not soured. I am an active reader, it is with great joy that the book brought”.
“Now the guys close the session. We also give them rest. And in August, if not a second wave of the coronavirus, you plan to visit in Pechory Pskov oblast, – says the regional coordinator of the movement “Volunteers of culture” An��stasiya Bessmertnova. – Restore the objects of cultural heritage, to preserve the original appearance of the small city. Last year our students were already there: they painted fences, bailed hay to feed the deer”.
it Remains to add that apply and see the status of competition in the unified information system “Dobro.ru”.
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