The films of the winners of the IV International Biennale of Children's Creativity “Letter. Word. Book – 2019” to be shown in the Presidential Library

The Presidential Library invites viewers to the cinema club meeting, where the IV International St. Petersburg Biennale of Children's Creativity “Letter. Word. Book - 2019” dedicated to the Year of the Theater in Russia will be held on October 16, 2019 at 4 p.m. The event will be open with a slide show about the winners of the multimedia nomination of the previous years’ contest, and then the films of this year will be watched and the children will be awarded.

The biennale is organized by the Nevskaya Raduga Foundation for the Support and Development of Children and Youth Creativity with the assistance of the St. Petersburg Government Youth Policy Committee House of Folk Art in Leningrad Region. This original event is held in partnership with the Pushkin Central City Children's Library, Children's Art Gallery of the centre "Na Vasilyevskom", School of Arts № 10.

Young participants from different cities of the Russian Federation and neighboring countries have become winners of the multimedia nomination since the project launched. The geography of the settlements from where the work was sent is quite wide: Udmurt Republic, Primorye Territory, Tyumen Region, Ulyanovsk Region, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Altai Territory, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area, Republic of Belarus, Moscow and St. Petersburg.

The biennale is unique as it is the first and only in St. Petersburg cyclic contest for children and youth, attracting their attention to Russian literature. Together with the traditional nominations “painting”, “graphics”, “bookplate”, participants present works in such relevant forms of creativity as: “art object”, “book layout”, “computer graphics”, “multimedia”. At the event children share their first creative discoveries and plans for the future.

This year the contest received about 15,000 works of various genres from young artists from different parts of Russia. A professional jury defined about 150 winners.

The Presidential Library is a regular partner of the contest. Peter Lerner, a member of the Union of Artists of Russia, is the head of the biennale.

The cinema club meeting will take place in the multimedia hall of the Presidential Library at Senate Square, 3.