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Independent Noncommercial Organization
Saint-Petersburg Centre for Humanitarian Programs

«ALL FLAGS» international cultural
and business cooperation program.

Introduction: The «ALL FLAGS» international cultural and business cooperation program is a common but, experience, most efficient project of Saint-Petersburg Center for Humanitarian Programs, implemented for over 5 years. The project has been developing in line with UNESCO Declaration of Principles on Tolerance 1995, and UN Declaration on World Culture.

The «ALL FLAGS» project is designed to promote the open society ideals once proclaimed by Peter I, founder of Saint Petersburg. The city has always been multinational and open to world culture. Its history is by definition polyphonic, defying ethnic segmentation. Saint Petersburg developed in a synthesis of West European Enlightenment and Russian traditions, with continuous exchange of national cultures and humanist knowledge. Today Saint Petersburg appears as a crossroad of Russia, the West and the East, a global political and cultural centre.

Festival tourism as an «ALL FLAGS» project instrument perfectly meets current development goals of Saint Petersburg as a European city maintaining proper consistency with global tolerance and multipolarity standards.

Project goal: The project involves inviting foreign tourism and business partnership, and comprehensive development of international humanitarian contacts for Petersburg citizens. In addition, the «ALL FLAGS» Program for international cultural and business cooperation will promote in Russia positive attitudes to ethnic and confessional diversity, respect for different values, traditions and ways of life.

Format: The project essentially models and embodies year-round, "non stop" presentation, in various concert and exhibition areas, of fascinating projects promoting beneficial international cooperation. Saint-Petersburg Centre for Humanitarian Programs sponsors, in collaboration with international partners, cultural and business programs similar to familiar culture months or days.
Technique: The ideological mainspring of the project is citizen diplomacy, active social and creative initiative. Extensive international experience of various festivals promoting international cultural exchange indicates uniform interest in such programs.

Our festival programs often provide a stage for performing arts, and a forum for potential business and socio-cultural cooperation of international scope.

Content: «ALL FLAGS» Program for international cultural and business cooperation is implemented on a twelve-month basis, in seasonal quarterly units presenting independent and diversified projects.

The winter session (December through February) is dedicated to West European academic music. A reference project of the season is the annual Music Station Festival held between 20 December and 15 February and covering social and musical history of Russia’s first public concert hall, Music Station at Pavlovsk. Performers in all genres of academic music are invited Russia and else.

The spring session (March through May) is dedicated to Slavic folk- and traditional culture. The Succession Festival, held between 20 March and 30 May in Saint Petersburg, suburban palaces and parks, and museum-tourist facility Verkhnie Mandrogi in Podporozhie district Leningrad Region, includes a series of festive events facilitating exchange of ideas and techniques between experts in traditional culture, museum education, patriotic civil education and cultural and leisure activities.

The festival is held under the motto of “Folk culture as a life-bearing spring”. The festival invites scholars and performing s post-Soviet states, and international visitors interested in Russian Orthodox culture, Russian mode of life, folklore, and traditional crafts.

The summer session (June through August) is dedicated to traditional culture of the Far East. The main point of the summer session is the Garden of Delight Festival held between 12 and 18 June.

The festival week will include various programs covering traditional forms of women’s creative leisure activities and fancywork, exhibitions of art textiles, ikebana, master classes in Oriental cuisine and cookery.

The autumn session (September through October) covers Indo-Iranian subjects (the Arctic Issues Festival). The project co-sponsored with Moscow Conservatoire investigates seats of Indo-Aryan culture in modern Europe, Russia, Iran and India.

The project involves various forms of cooperation between musicians coming the regions in question, including conference sessions, expeditions, research meetings, festivals and concerts. Derivatives will include video-, audio- and various printed products. Participants are awarded with diplomas and souvenir prizes, and Russian performers are invited to international partner festivals.

In the month of arrival, each contributing country or of countries generally presents their concert performances and exhibition projects, including photography and text, visual arts and handcrafts, to give the best possible indication of their culture.

Among more important components of the «ALL FLAGS» project, enhancing public interest, are master classes and demonstrations in all genres and subject areas, singing classes and conducting master classes, to painting and crafts classes.

Importance and impact: Using the annual program cycle system, cooperating with international partners, and following familiar culture week- and day principles, we attempt to satisfy persistent human desire for knowledge of the world, and cultural, social and domestic life of friendly nations. Only recently, major cultural actions were conducted under the program, utilizing effective forms of citizen diplomacy, active social and creative initiative, in collaboration with art partners in Austria, South Korea, China, UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan, Iran, US, Norway, and many other countries.

Moreover, in the course of implementing the program our partnership contacts extended and consolidated in a mirror project involving participation of Russian art s and individual art workers in foreign festivals and celebrations.

Partners: As mentioned above, projects developed under the «ALL FLAGS» Program for international cultural and business cooperation demonstrate synthetic genre character and strongly pronounced policy, stirring up public interest in program actions, and enhancing interest among communication media. That is why most beneficial contacts with Saint-Petersburg Centre for Humanitarian Programs are readily made by our principal partners, managers of major concert halls, celebrated museums in Petersburg and cultural preserves in suburban palaces and parks. Our projects hold great interest for them because our partner is not a mere person leasing an area for a certain event but an equal talent contributing to a festival, celebrations or cultural action.

By taking our projects “in their bosom”, our partners appear at the centre of positive public interest, their activities are promptly covered by the printed press and TV. Thus the issue of advertising and attracting the public to the concert hall or museum is handled in an “umbrella approach”, avoiding extra efforts or costs. Event-driven travel type actions hold special interest for museums, stimulating visitors’ attention on the one hand, and tackling long-term museum advertising questions via the «ALL FLAGS» Program advertising and promotion campaign.

It is safe to say that cooperating with museums in the city not only provides for our core activities but also contributes to improved and diversified museum tourist services, and augmented content of aggregate Saint-Petersburg tourist product.

As a result of successful and effective activities under the «ALL FLAGS» project, our standing partners and awarders include state structures like RF Culture Ministry, Saint-Petersburg Government Committees for Culture and Social Security, district and municipal authorities in Saint Petersburg, as well as Embassies and Consulates of our partner states: Austria, US, Norway, China, Japan, UK, the Netherlands, Germany, etc.

Financing: This is a non-commercial project. Since entrance is generally free or on (free) personal invitation, events are sold out for every performance. Basic expenses (preliminary-, printing-, rental- and project costs) are generally covered by our awarding partners and project membership fees.

Terms: We offer the best stages and concert areas of St.Petersburg To actors and musicians: the M.I.Glinka State Academic Capella, the Small Hall of the State Philharmonic, the Throne-Room of the Catherine Palace (Tsarskoe Selo), the White Hall of the Peterhof Palace, The White Column Hall of the Yusupov Palace, the A.I.Glazunov Hall of the St.Petersburg Conservatory, the State Hermitage Theatre and Halls, the Room for the Knights of the Maltese of the Pavlovsk Palace, the Picture Hall of the Vitebsk Railway Station, the Cultural Centre of the Russian Musical Society, Peterkirche, Festival Hall of the administration of the town of Pushkin, the Round Hall of the State Museum-Preserve “Pavlovsk”, and the White Hall of the Sheremetev Palace.

In addition to the organization of engagement for our guests we provide them with rich cultural program including the acquaintance with all main cultural and historical sights of St.Petersburg.

Our Moscow representation we can also ensure the similar program in Moscow.

Contacts:
URL: ww.artvita.spb.ru E-mail: artvita@nm.ru;
Тел: +7 (812) 494-65-52; +7 (812) 972-38-69;
84/9, Petergofskoye Shosse, Apt. 31, 198206 St.Petersburg, Russia

The report was prepared the coordinator of programs for the St.-Petersburg centre of humanitarian programs by Elena Vasileva.
Thank you for your attention.
We invite interested persons to cooperation.

Автономная некоммерческая организация «Санкт-Петербургский Центр гуманитарных программ», занимается разработкой и реализацией гуманитарных проектов в области культуры и искусства, в том числе организацией и проведением фестивалей, конкурсов и праздников, способствующих сохранению единого культурного пространства, развитию межрегиональных, межнациональных и межгосударственных культурных связей.

НАШИ ВИДЫ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТИ :

• организация и проведение фестивалей, конкурсов, праздников (в областях музыкального и изобразительного искусства, а также муниципального, общегородского, корпоративного и отраслевого характера), творческих смотров, встреч, семинаров, конференций, выставок, спектаклей, концертов, спортивных и зрелищно-массовых мероприятий;
• организация культурного обмена с зарубежными культуро-творческими организациями и партнерами. Содействие организации туристической деятельности (проведению экскурсий, туристических путешествий и других мероприятий), в том числе – организации туристических поездок иностранных граждан в Россию и российских граждан за рубеж. Организация паломничества по святым местам России и за рубежом в установленном законом порядке.
• организация художественных выставок, выставок-продаж;
• рекламная деятельность, направленная на освещение мероприятий, проводимых АНО. Дизайнерские и оформительские услуги в рамках уставной деятельности АНО;
• полиграфическая деятельность, подготовка, издание и реализация газет, журналов, книг и иной печатной продукции культурно-художественного назначения в рамках уставной деятельности АНО;

Учредитель и Генеральный директор
АНО «Санкт-Петербургский Центр гуманитарных программ»:
ВАСИЛЬЕВ ВИТАЛИЙ ВАСИЛЬЕВИЧ.
Тел.: (812) 494-65-52; 972-38-69; E-mail: artvita@nm.ru.

Исполнительный директор. Представитель СЦГП в Москве:
ИСАЕНКО ОЛЕГ КОНСТАНТИНОВИЧ.
Тел.: 8 (903) 289-44-00; Е-mail: zgp-zato@mail.ru.

Коммерческий директор:
ВАСИЛЬЕВ АНДРЕЙ ВИТАЛЬЕВИЧ.
Тел.: 8 (962) 709-89-07; Е-mail: andrey.vasyliev@gmail.com.

Арт-директор:
ВАСИЛЬЕВ АРТЕМ ВИТАЛЬЕВИЧ.
Тел.: (812) 494-65-52; 8(911) 999-30-98; Е-mail: artvita@bk.ru.

Координатор программ:
ВАСИЛЬЕВА ЕЛЕНА ИГОРЕВНА
Тел.: 8 (911) 999-30-96; Е-mail: artvita@bk.ru.