The festival of national cultures "Rainbow of Tolerance" united foreign students of the Faculty of Pre-university Training of the Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno and schoolchildren of the gymnasium No. 5
This year the festival was held within the framework of the " F.-ART.bу" ,National festival of creativity of foreign students of institutions of higher education, under the slogan "We are different and this is our wealth, we are together and this is our strength!"
Gymnasium No. 5 once again became a place for creativity not only for schoolchildren but also for foreign students of the Faculty of Pre-university Training from 14 countries: Belarus, Turkmenistan, China, Nigeria, Congo, Sri Lanka, Ghana, Pakistan, Germany, Iraq, Turkey, Ecuador , Cameroon, Nepal. Foreign guests introduced the audience the peculiarities of the national culture of their countries.
Master classes on origami and Chinese calligraphy successfully passed.
Elena Mohan, a senior lecturer of the Department of language training of Belarusian and foreign citizens, said: “Chinese students Gao Di, Wu YuYu and Zhou Xinyu demonstrated art technique of origami, taught Belarusian friends to make a jumping frog, this was especially liked by junior schoolchildren and a beautiful rose from which all girls were delighted. Shi Kan, Gu Tsin and Chi Shinwei gave a master class on Chinese calligraphy. Characters "Belarus", "China", "friendship" and personal names of participants have traditionally enjoyed great popularity among schoolchilden”.
Musical part of the festival, during which both students of the Faculty of Pre-university Training and schoolchildern of the gymnasium performed with musical and choreographic compositions, allowed nobody to be indifferent. At the festival songs were sung in Russian, Belarusian, Polish, Turkmen, Chinese and English. And presenters, Chao Tung, a student of the faculty of pre-university training and Veronika Kuzikevich, a young pedagogue of the gymnasium, kindly welcomed all the participants of the festival, keep up the mood of artists and spectators.
Spectators greeted with a prolong applause the Turkmen and Chinese international team, who performed the dance with umbrellas. The same pure and sonorous, like a mountain stream, was the performance of the song "Bracelet" by Shemshat Rahmanova.
Shi Kan from China introduced a song “Little Fortune”. And although he sang in Chinese, everyone understood the meaning of the song, because it was a song about love, and the language of love is understandable to everyone. Audience warmly supported Rihanna Adams from Nigeria, who sang a song “Star Warships”. All people join in a song “Katyusha”, which was presented by the “China-city” group. A song “Avalanche” performed by Chiara Gregor from Germany was very heartfelt. Khodavia Mantsiantima presented the audience a lyrical composition “Do not leave me”. Henry Carvahal (Ecuador) with his partner very gently and passionately performed a variety of salsa, bachatu.
Hospitable hosts are schoolchildren of the most creative gymnasium, who also delighted guests with gifts in return. Foreign students highly appreciated the beautiful vocal numbers and Belarusian national dances "Viarba", "Galepka" performed by the choreographic collective of Gymnasium No. 5.
In acknowledgment of gratitude, a student Sun Guohui presented a Chinese lantern, a symbol of the holiday, in memory of the meeting.
