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14 September, 11:05
Perm to host the 3rd International Festival of the twinned cities

“Come together!” International Festival of the twinned cities of Perm takes place every 5 years  and is related to  memorable events in the city’s life.  The coming Festival is dedicated to the 295th anniversary of the city’s foundation. 

On September 19-23, 2018 Perm will host the 3rd twinned cities festival “Come together!” , which will get together the actors and performers from the  cities twinned with Perm – Agrigento (Italy), Duisburg (Germany), Louisville (UAS), Oxford (the UK) and Qingdao (China).

The festival takes place every 5 years, traditionally  related to the city’s “jubilee  birthdays”.  Its mission is seen  as creating  cultural space with no borders, providing the venue for communication and exchange of experience and values.  With this goal in view, the festival  sets up an art residence to produce unique collaborated projects involving musicians, artists, choreographers and actors from different countries.  The twinned cities envoys  include arts leaders and groups  who work  in collaboration with their Perm partners to create  a variety of joint productions – performances, concerts, fashion shows, exhibitions, etc. 

This year the festival will present 8 joint productions.  The participants from the twinned cities have already been involved into  staging and rehearsals in a  distant mode,  planning the production process, exchanging the materials  – from ideas to  sheet music and scores.  Rehearsals are already underway and  will shortly continue in Perm. 

The Festival participants include Graziano Mossuto (Agrigento, Italy) who is collaborating with the famous Perm group “Voskresenie”; designers from Duisburg (Germany) representing the Esthetique brand of the Duisburg Disability Workshops will produce a joint fashion show  with the DIVA Fashion House from Perm.  The  dancers from  the Oxford-based “Justice in Motion” Theatre Group  will  perform together with  Eugene Panfilov’s Ballet Group.  The Festival program features an International Argentina Tango Fest with  world-famous dancer Marcella Duran (Louisville, USA)   and champion  of Russia and the Baltics Dmitry Liferov as headliners.  Find more on the Festival program and participants here.   

It is worth noting that the festival invitees include representatives of the countries  with which Perm  has traditionally friendly links.  Eva Maliti (Bratislava, Slovakia),  writer, playwright, literary critic and translator, will present the reading of her play together with the actors from the New Drama group led by Marina Olenyova. 

 

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The twinning links of Perm have been developing for over 25 years, using the best practices and the experience gained by the twinned cities.   Perm implemented Louisville’s experience in creating Extreme Park and the city’s call-center.  Oxford shared the ideas to organise the community centres.  Theatrical productions  of the Carmen, the Westside Story  and others were staged in Oxford  with the participation of  Perm actors and musicians.  Agrigento has become a regular venue for the Perm Culture Days festival  with around 200 Perm representatives participating each year.  German Duisburg  started a number of important and useful  joint initiatives :   business-missions have become  a traditional event  for both cities; the Perm Zoo became the home for lemurs  donated by the German partners; there is a new project underway aimed at  developing cooperation in social integration of the disabled. 

This year will mark the a 15-year anniversary of the links between Perm and  Chinese city of Qingdao. According to many of the twinned cities representatives,  the  twinning  relationships  have been based on and largely stimulated by the openness  of their Perm  partners to  new ideas and their readiness to use the best practices, as well as by the cultural environment of Perm, providing both for keeping up  traditions and  a challenge of the most avant-garde performances. 

In 2018 Perm  was top-listed in the ratings of  the Eurasia Regional Section of the World organization "United Cities and Local Governments"  for international activities of the cities with over 1 mln  population. 

In the same year Perm  became the winner in the nomination  “People’s diplomacy as efficient local government “  at the V International Forum of the best municipal practices  organized by the  Union of the Russian  Cities in Bishkek (Kyrgizia).


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