Other events in Baltic States

The International Folklore Festival "Pokrovskije Kolokola" takes place in Vilnius today from October 2, 2012, to October 5, 2012, the Vilnius Convention Bureau reports.

From October 2nd through October 5, 2012, Lithuanian Folklore and Ethnography Center of the National Minorities together with school of traditional Slavic music and Vilnius Russian folklore center are organizing the 7th international folklore festival "Pokrovskije Kolokola", writes LETA.

The festival boasts concerts of the best folk groups performed by Lithuanians and national minorities, living in Lithuania, as well as the concerts performed by the guests, coming from the ethnical homelands of the national minorities, living in Lithuania (Georgia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Latvia, Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Byelorussia etc.); a scientific conference for solving the problems of traditional cultural preservation will take place; master classes will take place, during which the leaders of folklore groups will share their experience with others and will take an opportunity to get to know unique method techniques of how to preserve the traditional culture.