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Literary Chistopol, the 2nd Author Song Festival will take place in Chistopol on August 18-20, 2017. The festival is organized by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan, the Chistopol State Historical, Architectural and Literary Museum-Reserve, and the Chistopol Municipal District.

Literary Chistopol festival was first held in 2016. In 2017 more than 100 authors, performers, fans of bard songs and poets from 22 cities of Russia have applied for participation. Participants from Moscow, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ufa, Rostov on Don, Yoshkar Ola, Cheboksary, Cherepovets, Kineshma, Naberezhnye Chelny and other cities will come to the festival to share their talents.

scientists, choreographers, filmmakers, children and their parents will gather in Black Lake Park.                                                                                                                                             This year the festival will have the following venues: design market featuring 100 designers; lecture area with lectures about politics, culture and the history of Kazan; guided tours about the history of water bodies, the park and architecture styles; master classes by the best Tatar chefs and a cooking battle; poetry booth (tête-à-tête poetry); poetry audio-video-slam; children’s playground from Sabyilar and Kidspace centers; venue of Gyilem project with the lectures on astronomy, biology and mathematics, and presentations of new Tatar publishing house and translation of Harry Potter into Tatar language; dance master classes “Biyu for you”; short films by young Tatar filmmakers.