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Source: Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University – Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University –
On February 21, the jubilee tenth All-Russian festival “Book Lighthouse of St. Petersburg. Music of Meanings” started. Students of the Higher School of Media Communications and Public Relations of the Humanitarian Institute of SPbPU helped with the opening ceremony in the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg and the work of the media studio, as well as at 50 thematic sites of the three-day event.
The ceremonial meeting in the Mariinsky Palace was opened by the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Marina Shishkina, the general director of the State Hermitage Museum Mikhail Piotrovsky, the director of the Central City Public Library named after V. V. Mayakovsky Zoya Chalova, the initiator of the festival, the president of the festival movement “Book Beacons of Russia” Denis Kotov.
Our students have been participating in the media support of the festival movement for the third year. They organize photo and video shooting, communicate with writers, experts and media personalities in the studio, and fill the festival’s social networks with content. This is a high level of project work, and I am proud of our students, since each of them brings something unique to make the festival bright and memorable. It is very important for us that we participate in the development of the country’s cultural sovereignty with such a significant industrial partner as “Book Beacons”, – noted Marina Arkannikova, Director of the SPbPU GSMiSO.
The festival cultural project lights its light and sets benchmarks in the book ocean twice a year for five years in a row. This socially significant non-profit initiative is held in a hybrid format, uniting thousands of Petersburgers and a large online audience. A special feature of the festival program is the variety of master classes, round tables and meetings with writers at various venues in the city: from traditional ones – the House of Books, the House of Journalists, libraries and schools of St. Petersburg, to the House of Officers, the Central Broadcast Studio, city shopping centers.
For the first time, the Book Lighthouse became inclusive, adapted for both blind people and people with other disabilities.
The festival is designed to unite librarians, publishers, writers, managers and readers to achieve a strategic goal: to create conditions so that 80% of Russians read an average of at least 12 books a year, says Denis Kotov, president of the festival movement “Book Beacons of Russia.”
The final event, held at the House of Journalists, became a real celebration for guests and connoisseurs of Russian prose, poetry, music and art. The media volunteers of the Higher School of Music and Social Sciences together with the audience not only enjoyed poetry readings and music, but also took part in activities dedicated to Russian literature.
“The Book Lighthouse” became a door to the world of art and creativity for me. Before it, I had read modern literature, of course, but I was not very interested in the authors of these books. But here I saw writers who were my compatriots. I heard their stories, and this changed my attitude to modern Russian literature, – shared third-year student of the Higher School of Music and Social Sciences of the State University of the Russian Federation Anastasia Kalinina.
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