The reception of applications for the festival of children's creativity “Good Wave” has started

(KZN.RU, May 14). Today the reception of applications for the All-Russian Cultural and Charitable Festival of Children's Creativity “Good Wave” has begun. Airat Faizov, the chairman of the Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, opened ​ the application campaign at the Business Monday.

The first gala concert-presentation of the festival “Good Wave” was held in Kazan on November 30 last year. Then, children with disabilities, pupils of the Igor Krutoy’s Academy of Popular Music from different regions of the country, and artists of the Russian stage Vladimir Presnyakov, Natalya Podolskaya, Anita Tsoy, and others performed on the same stage.

Airat Faizov said that this year the festival will become an all-Russian movement and will cover 9 cities of Russia. Its participants will be talented children aged 9 to 16 years. Regional selections will be held in Kazan, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Novosibirsk, Vladivostok, Sevastopol, Krasnodar, and Kursk. Winners will be chosen in such areas as music (vocal, gesture singing, playing the instrument), choreography, stage art (original genre, reading). Applications are accepted until June 3 by e-mail dobrayavolnakazan@yandex.ru.,Tthe festival will be held in Kazan on June 5. “The joint project of the Kazan City Hall and the Igor Krutoy’s Academy of Popular Music will become a platform for children's creativity, regardless of their physical health”, said the chairman of the Committee for Children and Youth Affairs.

The festival will host thematic creative and charitable events throughout the country. The gala concert of the festival will be held on November 30 in Kazan.

“We wish you luck in the “Good Wave”. The festival is gaining momentum. We hope that it will become a permanent platform for the realization of children from different regions”, said Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan. He marked that the project that started last year aroused great interest in different cities of the country. The head of the city expressed his confidence that the project will become larger and permanent.

The start of applications was on May 14, on the first day of the Decade of Good. Within 10 days, there will be lessons of good in the city schools, “Fair of Good” will be organized in the parks. In addition, the charitable market “Yardem Bazar” will join the Decade of Good. A charity race is among the events that will be held these days in Kazan. All proceeds from it will go to the construction of a second hospice in Kazan. Also, there will be a fashion show for the elderly “Podium of mature beauty”. The Republican Blood Center will host the city's donor day. In addition, the results of the municipal project “Diary of Good Deeds” will be summed up. Entrepreneurs will also join the Decade of Good.

“The path to a good Kazan will be long, we have no illusions. It is important to be consistent, systematically work in this direction”, believes Ilsur Metshin, the Mayor of Kazan. “The audience of charity fairs is growing both in quantity and quality every year. More and more people are involved in charitable activities. We have help in this in various ways, such as the service Dobro Mail.Ru”.

The head of the city supported the project of corporate social volunteering, which started on the eve of the Victory Day. Airat Faizov said that city organizations will take care of veterans, rear workers or children of the war from among single elderly people on social security within the framework of the project. Within a year, representatives of companies will be able to systematically help the needy, over which took the patronage. To participate in the project it is necessary to apply to the administration of the “Good Kazan” by phone 239-26-36 or on e-mail dobro@kzn.ru.

“I fully support the project of corporate social volunteering”, said Ilsur Metshin. “It is sometimes difficult for an individual to deal with these issues on an ongoing basis. If this is done by enterprises or organizations, then this work should be on an ongoing basis. I am glad that the business from individual stocks goes to system work. We will support them in this direction as well”.