11
July
2012
METROPOL Group of Companies is a Partner of the IV International Music Festival Golos Kochevnikov (Voice of the Nomads)
According to the tradition, Voice of the Nomads Festival opened
on 11 July in Ulan-Ude. The opening ceremony took place in the
Buryat Drama Theater. This year the festival has new formats. It
now has a movie theater at the city philarmonic hall that will be
used to show best movies by Buryat and foreign directors. The movie
theater was presented by film director Bair Dyshenov whose movie
Nakaz Matery (Mother’s Advice) opens the movie program of the
Festival, and Bair Tsyrenov, Director for Regional Activities with
IFC METROPOL.
MOKOOMBA (Zimbabwe), BOMBINO (Niger), BAIANASYSTEM (Brazil),
UULZULGA (France - Buryatia) and other creative groups are among
the Festival participants. For the first time the world renowned
Buryat singer Namgar will take part in the Festival. Her
performance was a part of the Festival’s opening ceremony.
The Festival now also has an open air stage. Guests and
participants will perform their experimental musical compositions
on the open air stage at the Transbaikal Ethnographic Museum.
The main news of this Festival is an announcement made by the
METROPOL Group of Companies that starting next year Voice of the
Nomads will be the main part of a new major cultural project –
Baikal Harbor Art Forum.
“Buryatia needs a center for attracting creative forces, and the
Baikal Harbor Art Forum might become one”, said Timur Tsybikov,
Minister of Culture of the Republic of Buryatia.
“The Baikal Harbor Art Forum is to become the main cultural
event of 2013 in the Baikal Region”, says Bair Tsyrenov.
Nataliya Ulanova, Art Director of Voice of the Nomads
Festival
Bair Tsyrenov, Director for Regional Activities with IFC
METROPOL LLC, and Bair Dyshenov, film director, opening the movie
stage
Director of Regional Activities with IFC METROPOL LLC
answers reporters’ questions
Festival participants answering reporters’
questions
Audience of the specially created movie theater
Festival participants from Brazil, BAIANASYSTEM
Showbill of Voice of the Nomads Festival
Showbill of the movie theater organized for the
Festival