International youth club Solveig: IV International Musical and Theatrical Festival for children and youth “Golden Keys”

During the 24-26 of April the IV International Musical and Theatrical Festival for children and youth “Golden Keys” will be held in Petrozavodsk, Karelia. The organizers are “School of Child’s Arts” and the society “Karelia-Norway” with the assistance of the Ministry of culture and public relations in the Republic of Karelia and the Administration of Petrozavodsk. The subject of this year is “North Fairytales”, and plays in Norwegian, Finnish, English, and Russian staged by young actors from Murmansk, Olonets, Saint-Petersburg, Segezha, Petrozavodsk, and Finnmark (Norway) are in the program. The premiers of the plays after the Norwegian project of Harald Setervoll, the composer and the author of the musical “Missia Macrell”, will be showed at the festival by club “Solveig” and choir “Vozrozhdeniye”. The Finnish opera by Harry Vessman will be performed by choir “Podsnezhnik”.
For the first time the seminar “The role of arts. Child’s theatrical pedagogic” will be held within the framework of the festival. Composers and directors from Finland, Norway, and Russia will share their experience and discuss new Russian and foreign theatrical technologies, among them Scandinavian.
Now young artists work at the projects of festival symbols and the pictures for International Contests of Drawing “North Fairytale”. The works of winners will be placed at the itinerant exhibition.

In 2009 an International youth club “Solveig” (under the Society of friendship «Karelia-Norway») and Pasvik folkehogskole will celebrate 10 years of collaboration . During this period of time 14 people were sent to Norway within the framework of the program of cooperation. And youth exchange educational trips are annually conducted, more than 300 people have already taken part in them.

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International youth club “Solveig” was created on the base of Karelian-Norwegian society in 1999. The aim of the club is to organize international youth cooperation: realization of transboundary projects, which are made for youth; organization of cultural, educational, ecological, and journalistic international events and festivals.

Nowadays the club consists of 120 members in Russia and 70 members in foreign countries. The club works in 7 directions:

international (meetings and communication with foreigners, travels, education abroad);
cultural (representing of Karelian and Russian culture for foreigners, organization of festivals);
international journalism (education, practice and internships in foreign mass-media);
ecological (ecological actions, projects related to environment);
human rights (publications, international conferences, defense of youth rights);
indigenous people (preservation of culture and traditions, seminars, theatre);
youth enterprise and tourism (educational tourism).

During the past 10 years long-lasting partner cooperation with Norwegian, Finnish, and Swedish youth organizations has been established. The club assists in reception of youth groups coming to Karelia and represents Karelian and Russian culture abroad.

Within the framework of its activity “Solveig” conducts educational meetings devoted to history, geography, culture, and traditions. The meetings take place two times a month, and representatives of different countries take part in them.

The club has also participated in several drama projects. Among them International youth musical and theatrical festival “Golden Keys” (in 2000, 2003, and 2006) and International ecological festival “Let’s Defend the Earth’s Beauty” can be named. During the past 10 years the club have staged several performances in Russian, English, and Norwegian: “Opplevelse på historisk grunn” (”1703. Peter the Great and Kornelius Kruis”), ”Per Gunt”, ”Kalevala”, ”Troll’s smile”, which were put into stage in Russia, Finland, Sweden, and Norway.

The club “Solveig” is a Russian partner in the project of International youth theatrical-historical camp “Travel into History: 200 years of Finnish autonomy” (2008-2009). The major directions of the work of the camp are history, theatre, video, and press. The moderators are well-known Finnish producers, historians, and journalists. The participants are young people from four Finnish cities (Helsinki, Juvaskyla, Turku, Lappeenranta) and from Russia (Petrozavodsk).

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