OUTLOOK World Culture Festival 2015 successfully took place!

In incredibly friendly and casual atmosphere second annual festival of cultures of peoples of the world OUTLOOK World Culture Festival took place. OUTLOOK is its orchestrator. OUTLOOK World Culture Festival is a large-scale event of OUTLOOK Project that annually takes place in Ukraine. The Festival is held with the support of diplomatic missions and embassies of foreign states in Ukraine, Kyiv City Mayor Vitali Klitschko as well as with the cooperation of State Enterprise "Directorate General for Rendering Services to Diplomatic Missions". The ceremony began with a salutary address of Deputy Kyiv Mayor Mykhailo Radutsky, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Uzbekistan in Ukraine Alisher Abdualiev, Director General of GDIP Pavlo Kryvonos. Editor-In-Chief of online media about the world THEOUTLOOK.COM.UA and Director General of OUTLOOK Project Daria Kariakina thanked everyone who had joined the celebration: "I would like to thank everyone who together with us has taken the initiative of promoting cultures of peoples of the world in the territory of Ukraine. This festival is a message to the whole world that Ukraine is ready to learn, experience and feel other cultures". OUTLOOK World Culture Festival was attended by representatives of over 30 diplomatic missions. All guests of the celebration, and there were about two thousand of them, could learn how many-sided different cultures were – the ones that orchestrators attempted to present in as many shapes as possible: displays of everyday items of various peoples, national dances, workshops, tasting and many other things! Embassy of the United States in Ukraine prepared for the visitors of the event an exhibition of a collection of unique artifacts called "History of Tribes: Art And Craft of American Indians of Southwest". Embassy of Kyrgyzstan gave all the guests a possibility to create a souvenir to remember by learning felt fulling techniques. Shared area was organized by Embassies of Arabic world representatives. Lebanon, Iraq, Kuwait and Palestine created for all guests an exhibition area of unique eastern items, among them elements of table decorations, traditional embroideries, forged and carved furniture, copper and bronze articles. Embassy of Indonesia impressed with exhibition of traditional instruments, brought from Bali Island, brightly decorated and adorned with gold and carved wood. Hospitable Uzbeks were warmly welcoming visitors of the event in their topical location, prepared by the Embassy of Uzbekistan. Sudan was especially enthusiastic when preparing their display. The Embassy decided to demonstrate to Ukrainians attributes of their country's weeding ceremony. As to traditional crafts, during OUTLOOK World Culture Festival one could create a picture on water with own hands after learning basics of Turkish art of Ebru – when visiting a workshop arranged by the Embassy of Turkey in Ukraine. Female visitors of the event took fancy in the area of amazing Pakistan. Not only could every guest delight own eyes in items and outfits that reflect the color of the country but also take away on her hand traditional Pakistani henna painting – mehndi. And there is no way to pass over colorful stand of Latin American countries – Mexico and Argentina. In the territory of the festival unique photo areas operated constantly that allowed every willing person to get to various spots of the world for several minutes: to bright Italy with a touching mine, to romantic France or a nook of fairytale Denmark. For those willing to get acquainted with cultures of various peoples through national dancing and singing routines, there was permanently operating cultural and entertaining program on stage of OUTLOOK World Culture Festival. Catching Brazilian, Azerbaijani, Argentine, Uzbek, Afghan, African, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Mexican routines and routines of Crimean Tatars charged everyone with national colors! http://theoutlook.com.ua/article/3403/outlook-world-culture-festival-2015-uspeshno-sostoyalsya-foto-chast-1