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Belarus Events Calendar: MARCH 2024
Retro Phototechnics in the Mikhail Savitsky Art Gallery
Over its 200-year history the camera has gone from a bulky pinhole camera to a camera built into a smartphone. Visitors to the exhibition can trace the milestones in the history of photography, immerse themselves in the photography process and understand the principles of operation of cameras of different designs. The exposition presents various models of photographic equipment, the earliest of which date back to the early 20th century (Le Glyphoscope stereo camera, 1905). Among the rare exhibits are design models of Zenit cameras from the 1980s, stereo cameras for three-dimensional images, microcameras...
When: 17 January – 7 April
Where: Mikhail Savitsky Art Gallery, 15 Svobody Square, Minsk
NeuroBelarus project in Minsk
One of the most innovative art exhibitions, NeuroBelarus, demonstrates Belarus through the eyes of artificial intelligence. The exposition includes more than 90 pieces created by neural networks and showing Belarusian history, mythology, architecture, nature, cuisine... The culmination of the project is the immersive film "Digital Evolution", which represents a rethinking of the world of ideas and the world of matter, a free artistic reflection on development and evolution. You can tour the exhibition in an exciting way by taking a thematic quest and by listening to a podcast on your smartphone.
When: 18 January – 3 March
Where: FARBA Gallery, 8 Svobody Square, Minsk
New program in the Belarusian State Circus
The Belarusian State Circus presents an enchanting water show Magic of Fountains which will embody the most daring projects - colorful fountains with a laser installation, giant jets of dancing water, rain and waterfalls under the dome of the circus! The program will feature tightrope walkers, aerialists on belts, a gymnast with hula hoops on a mirror ball, a juggler, and a clown. Fur seals, parrots, trained bears, monkeys will be features as well...
When: 3 February - 12 May
Where: Belarusian State Circus, 32 Nezavisimosti Avenue, Minsk
Maslenitsa 2024 in Belarus
Maslenitsa is one of the most cheerful and favorite holidays in the folk calendar of Belarusians. It bids farewell to the long cold winter and welcomes the long-awaited spring. Since ancient times, every day of the Maslenitsa week, that precedes the strictest Lent of the year, has its own name and is filled with original rituals: The Welcoming of Lady Maslenitsa, Playing , Sweet Tooth , Mother-in-Law's Eve and Sister-in-Law's gatherings, The Forgiveness Sunday.... The Maslenitsa menu traditionally features homemade pancakes and blinis, cheese and butter. Our ancestors believed that pancakes symbolized the sun and the approach of spring, and cheese and butter "attracted" wealth.
In 2024, Maslenitsa is celebrated from 11 to 17 March but tourist locations launched the themed holidays in February.
Where to celebrate Maslenitsa 2024 in Belarus?
Winter in the Countryside! program in Zdravnevo
When: 2 March 12.00
Where: I.E. Repin's Museum-Estate Zdravnevo, 16km from Vitebsk
How Emelya Welcomed Maslenitsa program in Korobchitsy
When: 9-10 March, 12.00 – 17.00
Where: Korobchitsy farm tourism estate, Korobchitsy village, Grodno District
Maslenitsa in the Pripyatsky National Park
When: 9 March, 11.00 – 15.00
Where: Pripyatsky National Park, Petrikov District, Gomel Oblast
Generous Maslenitsa in Sula
When: March 16-17
Where: Grand Duchy of Sula History Park, Sula village, Stolbtsy District, Minsk Oblast
Maslenitsa in the Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Lifestyle
When: 16 March, 12.00 – 16.00
Where: Belarusian State Museum of Folk Architecture and Rural Life, Ozertso Village, Minsk District
Maslenitsa festivities in Dukora Estate (Dukorsky Mayontak)
When: March 16-17, 13.00
Where: Dukora Estate (Dukorsky Mayontak) museum, 15 Shkolnaya Street, agro-town of Dukora, Pukhovichi District, Minsk Oblast
Maslenitsa 2024 celebrations in Stankovo
When: 17 March, 11.00
Where: Stankovo eco-tourism center, Stankovo village, Dzerzhinsk District, Minsk Oblast
The Art of Loving Life. Dolce Vita exhibtion in Naitonal Art Museum
The National Art Museum of Belarus invites you to learn "The Art of Loving Life". The Italian Dolce Vita presupposes the enjoyment of the process and embraces a whole range of understanding and perceptions of life: from daily routine to aesthetics, from leisure to hedonism, from pleasure to contemplation. The the exhibition presents works of Belarusian, Russian and European art of the 18th -21st centuries from the collections of the main treasury of the country . All in all, the exhibition will feature more than 150 works of painting, sculpture, original graphics, porcelain, art glass... The theme of Dolce Vita is complemented by women's outfits of different eras, accessories, perfumes, cosmetics from the private collection of Tatiana Fedosova "Beauty and Fashion of the 19th -21st centuries".
When: 12 February – 1 April
Where: National Art Museum of Belarus, 20 Lenina Street, Minsk
Passion for Architecture exhibition
The Passion for Architecture project at the National Center for Contemporary Arts willtake visitors on a journey through architectural styles usingsound, light, spatial objects, installations, videos, works of art in various techniques and even smells: everything here serves to evoke an emotional responsein the audience. Visitors will see works by fledgling and established contemporary Belarusian authors, as well as works by Belarusian artists from the holdings of theNational Center for Contemporary Arts. At the end of the exhibition, the audience will see the immersive film The World as Gaudí Saw it that will offer a different perspective on the most famous works of the brilliant Spanish architect Antoni Gaudí.
When: 17 February – 28 April
Where: National Center for Contemporary Arts, 3 Nekrasova Street, Minsk
Kinovek: Festival to Mark 1000th Anniversary of Belarusian Cinematography
Belarus will celebrate the anniversary of the national cinematography with the national festival Kinovek, which will be held across the country. Throughout the year the festival will present 33 best films from the Belarusfilm studio, which tell the story of the national cinematography development. The festival will feature films of different genres - historical and social films, war and adventure films, and also famous children's films The Adventures of Pinocchio, My Name is Harlequino, War Under the Roofs, Nesterka. The festival opened with a screening of the restored silent film Forest Story (1926) directed by Yuri Tarich and based on Mikhas Charot’s The Swineherd.
When: 28 February – 11 December
Where: Cinema houses of Minsk, oblast and regional centers of Belarus
Song of the Year of Belarus concert
The Song of the Year of Belarus gala is an annual showcase event for the country’s pop music. The lineup includes both established and young performers. The organizers promise a spectacular show featuring the most popular songs of the year. The songs were selected based on their ratings on the radio and the internet and the voting results by the audience.
When: 2 March, 17:30
Where: Palace of Sports, 4 Pobeditelei Avenue, Minsk
Chopin and His Muses concert
The concert “Chopin and His Muses” will be timed to the birthday of one of the best composers of the Romantic period. The concertwill feature internationally acclaimed Belarusian musician Aleksandr Polyakov, beautiful soprano Lyudmila Karpuk and Yulia Arkhangelskaya (piano). Frédéric Chopin dubbed “the musical Heine” by his contemporaries dedicated each work to his loved one. The evening program will include compositions for voice and piano, mazurkas, waltzes, nocturnes, ballads, scherzos, polonaises, and lullabies.
When: 2 March
Where: Upper Town Concert Hall, 23a Svobody Square, Minsk
Man & Woman at the Philharmonic Society concert
The project "Man & Woman at the Philharmonic Society" will be presented by Honored Artist of the Republic of Belarus, conductor Viktor Babarikin. The pop music and symphony orchestra will perform pieces by world-famous composers, including Astor Piazzolla, Michel Legrand, Ennio Morricone, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. The line-up includes People's Artist of Belarus Vladimir Gromov, Anna Yankovskaya, Goar Akopyan, Iosif Nikitenko, Maksim Obrovets, Maimuna, Igor Levchuk, Aleksandr Zhurovich, Tariel Maisuradze, Irina Verkovich, as well as the choir, soloists and orchestra of the Sonorus musical chapel under the baton of Vyacheslav Larin.
When: 3 March
Where: Belarusian State Philharmonic Society, 50 Nezavisimosti Avenue, Minsk
International Women's Day in Belarus
International Women's Day is a global holiday celebrating the women's rights movement. Along with it, Belarus celebrates Women's Day on 8 March, which is a national holiday viewed in the country as a holiday of spring, women's beauty, tenderness, warmth and attention to women regardless of their status and age. The beautiful half of humanity is congratulated with words of gratitude for creative labor, love and spiritual generosity.
Festive events honoring women will be held all over the country. Minsk alone will host quite a number of great concerts:
6 March – “Music of the Big City: Strings of Women's Soul” by the Presidential Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus, Small Hall of the Palace of the Republic
7 March – “To You, Most Beloved!” by the Variety Theater in the Palace of the Republic
7 March – a concert to mark International Women's Day at the State Philharmonic Society
7 March – “Spring is Coming!” concert in the Verkhny Gorod Concert Hall
8 March (15.00, 18.00) – “All Flowers and Songs” at the Youth Variety Theater
10 March – “To Beauty Queens”: a concert of the National Academic Folk Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus named after I.I. Zhinovich at the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society
Minsk International Book Fair
The 31st edition of the Minsk Book Fair, the largest specialized forum in Belarus and the CIS, will once again run a packed program and review the performance of the book publishing business over the past year. The exhibition will be themed around the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders, the 30th anniversary of the Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, the Year of Quality, anniversaries of famous Belarusian writers and poets, etc. The National Stand, which will be styled after the Victory Square of Minsk this year, will feature the books dedicated to the Great Patriotic War and the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus from the Nazi invaders. The central exhibitor of the International Quarter program will be the Islamic Republic of Iran. The program of the fair will include the international symposium of writers "Writer and Time. Non-Book World", presentations, autograph sessions, author meet-and-greets, workshops...
When: 14–17 March
Where: Administrative compound, 14 Pobediteley Avenue, Minsk
Spring calling rite Chyrachka
The spring calling festival Chyrachka is held on the last day of Shrovetide week. Its name is derived from chiroks [Eurasian teal in Russian]. These are birds that herald in warm days. Locals believe they also bring spring on their wings. On the eve of the rite housewives bake cookies in the shape of Eurasian teals and distribute them to all participants. Young Tonezh girls gather under the supervision of elders and go to the Blueberry Mountains - the highest place in the vicinity where they make a bonfire and burn a "winter" doll on it while calling for spring and Eurasian teals with spring songs. They also do round dances, eat ritual dishes, and attach a decorated New Year tree to the highest tree as a symbol of spring.
When: 17 March
Where: The agrotown of Tonezh, Lelchitsy District, Gomel Oblast.
XVII International Youth Theater Forum M.@rt. contact
The youth theater forum M.@rt. contact will unite actors from different countries and cities on the theater stages of Mogilev for the 17th time. The one-week event in the city on the Dnieper will feature 25 productionsfrom leading theater companies from Armenia, Belarus, Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia. The festival will open with two performances - Antarctica by the St. Petersburg Drama Theater On Liteiny and Two on a Swing by the Lodeynoye Pole Drama Studio Theater April (Lodeynoye Pole, Russia). In addition to the shows of Belarusian and foreign theater companies, the festival will comprise master classes, meetings, and a youth creative laboratory.
When: 20-27 March
Where: Mogilev Oblast Drama Theater, Mogilev Puppet Theater, Mogilev Concert Hall
Show of Orchestras: popular classics and world-famous soundtracks
A concert celebrating the birthday of the conductor Alexander Vysotsky will feature outstanding music bands. The National Academic Folk Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus named after I.I. Zhinovich and the Belteleradiocompany Symphony Orchestra will perform at the Great Hall of the State Philharmonic Society. The program will feature famous classics by Tchaikovsky, Lecuona, Brahms, Khachaturian, and world-famous soundtracks, such as Lullaby for an Angel from Schindler's List, soundtracks from the films Harry Potter, The Mission, New York, New York, Mission Impossible, Pirates of the Caribbean.
When: 22 March
Where: Belarusian State Philharmonic Society, 50, Nezavisimosti Avenue, Minsk
Boris Eifman Theater on tour in Minsk: The Seagull and Eugene Onegin
As he creates a psychological theater in ballet with his work, the famous Soviet and Russian choreographer, ballet master, People's Artist of Russia Boris Eifman strives to reveal the inner world of a person through the language of choreography. On the Belarusian stage the St. Petersburg Eifman Ballet will present two performances - The Seagull. A Ballet Story and Eugene Onegin. The interpretation of Chekhov's play, which premiered in honor of the 45th anniversary of Eifman's ballet company, was a new stage in the master's artistic evolution. And the choreographic version of Pushkin's poetic novel combines the classics and modernity to convert the characters that readers already loved into iconic characters of our time, who live at the turn of the century.
When: 28 and 29 March; 30 and 31 March
Where: Bolshoi Theater of Belarus, 1 Parizhskoi Kommuny Square, Minsk
Stage Virtuosi: World Piano Day at the Philharmonic Society
The World Piano Day will be celebrated with the gala concert Stage Virtuosi in the Great Hall of the Belarusian State Philharmonic Society. The 88th day of the year – to match the number of keys on a piano! - will delight the audience with a program that includes solo numbers, performances of duets and quartets with 4-16 hands on two pianos or even four pianos as well as exciting piano duels. The concert will feature Belarusian virtuoso pianists and laureates of international competitions: Igor Olovnikov, Irina Shumilina, Sergei Mikulik, Marina Rusakova, Aleksandr Muzykantov, Elena Naumenko, Alexander Danilov, Yulia Arkhangelskaya, Artyom and Marina Shaplyko, Anastasia Alekseichik, Anastasia Torop.
When: 28 March
Where: Belarusian State Philharmonic Society, 50 Nezavisimosti Avenue, Minsk
Together and Forever. 20 Years of Success: Ilya Averbukh's anniversary ice show in Minsk
The famous director, producer, creator of the popular TV show Ice Age Ilya Averbukh will return to Minsk with the anniversary show Together and Forever. 20 Years of Success. Over the years of his career he has revealed himself as an athlete, a champion of major tournaments and Olympic medalist, coach, director of ice performances and major ceremonies, one of the most popular Russian directors of today. Friends and colleagues who have taken part in Ilya Averbukh's many productions will take to the ice of the Minsk-based Chizhovka Arena. Among the star participants are Roman Kostomarov, Alexei Yagudin, Tatiana Totmyanina and Maxim Marinin, Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin, Albena Denkova and Maxim Staviski, Evgenia Medvedeva, Alexandra Stepanova and Ivan Bukin, Alexander Enbert, Mikhail Kolyada, Matvei Vetlugin, Artem Fedorchenko, Maria Golubeva, Alexei Uskov.
When: 30 March
Where: Chizhovka Arena, 19, Tashkentskaya Street, Minsk
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