III INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NATIONAL

THEATERS
June 1-10, 2025
ORGANIZERS
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL "BAIKAL TALISMAN"
The III International Festival of National Theaters "Baikal Talisman" will be held in Irkutsk in 2025. The project was created by Irkutsk TyuZ named after A. Vampilova together with the Foundation for the Development of Russian Culture became the winner of the Second Competition 2024 of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives

Organizer of the festival "Baikal Talisman"
Viktor Tokarev, Deputy Worker of Culture of the Russian Federation, director of the theater, director
The main feature of the festival is that it is attended by collectives, the performances of which are created on the basis of national literature: folklore, epic, myths, legends and tales of the peoples inhabiting a particular region.

The purpose of the festival is to consolidate the creative efforts of the theatrical community for the patriotic education of young people and popularization of the idea of national unity. The festival contributes to the strengthening of civil identity and the transfer of traditional spiritual and moral values to the younger generation. Our team will have a lot of preparatory work ahead of us, which will end with a large-scale festival in 2025, and we are confident that together with the Foundation for the Development of Russian Culture, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Irkutsk Region, LLC "INK" and other project partners, we will achieve our goals and make the festival a significant theatrical event in Russia," said Viktor Stepanovich Tokarev, organizer of the festival, director of the Irkutsk TYUZ named after A. Vampilova.
The festival is scheduled for the beginning of June 2025, it will be visited by more than 5,000 spectators, and almost 400 representatives of the theater community from Russia and foreign countries will be involved in 20 theatrical productions, the geography of participants will expand. The project program will also include a unique creative experiment — a joint theatrical production of the groups participating in the festival based on early stories and scenes by A. Vampilov’s "We ran away from the sunset" (online broadcast is planned), as well as the work of the international director’s laboratory.

In order to introduce young people to the culture of the peoples of Russia, representatives of national and cultural centers of the republics and other regions of the country will be invited. Exhibition spaces will be organized for them, where they will be able to demonstrate the cultural heritage of their people — costumes, crafts, musical instruments, performance of national dances and songs in their native language.
Maxim Khvostishkov, Director of the Russian Culture Development Fund.

"A huge contribution to this victory at the PFKI competition was made by the Irkutsk TYZ named after A. Vampilov, who is the initiator and organizer of the festival. The project was supported by the regional Ministry of Culture, as well as the Irkutsk Oil Company, which acted as a partner of the project and will provide additional funding. In conclusion, I would like to once again express my gratitude to the team of the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives for their support and trust!

FESTIVAL IN NUMBERS
  • 5000

    Festival viewers
  • 400

    Representatives
    Theater community
  • 20

    Performances of participants' theaters
  • 10

    Theater days
FESTIVAL AWARDS
FESTIVAL PARTNERS
ORGANIZING COUNCIL OF THE FESTIVAL
  • Viktor Stepanovich Tokarev
    Project coordinator. Founder and director of the festival "Baikal talisman". Last worker of culture of the Russian Federation. Director of TyuZ named after A. Vampilova
  • Kaplina Svetlana Zhanovna
    Deputy Minister of Culture of the Irkutsk region
  • Olga Alexandrovna
    Kurilenkova
    Head of the Department of the Governor of the Irkutsk Region and the Government of the Irkutsk Region for Public Relations and National Relations
  • Inga Viktorovna Bulgatova
    Deputy Director for Planning and Economic Issues of TyuZ named after A. Vampilova
  • Irina Nikolaevna Dyachuk
    Deputy Director for Marketing and Public Relations of TyuZ named after A. Vampilova
  • Olga Vladimirovna Kharina
    Director of the Department of Regional Policy and Interaction with State Authorities of INC
  • Maxim Alexandrovich Khvostyshkov
    Project Manager, Director of the Russian Culture Development Fund
EXPERT COUNCIL OF THE FESTIVAL
  • Valery Nikolaevich
    Khairyuzov
    Prose writer, playwright, honorary citizen of the Irkutsk region, secretary of the Union of Writers of Russia (Moscow)
  • Alexandra Borisovna Nikitina
    Head of the pedagogical part of the structural unit of the Moscow State Pedagogical University - "ROST Theater in Tsaritsyno", associate professor, leading researcher of the Research Institute of Urban Studies and Global Education of the Moscow City Pedagogical University, theater critic, candidate of art history (Moscow), theater critic.
  • Valery Anatolyevich Zinoviev
    Actor, director, theater teacher of the highest category, professor, honorary worker of education of Russia (St. Petersburg).
  • Olga Troadievna Ignatyuk
    Theater critic, candidate of art history (Moscow).
  • Elena Ivanovna Streltsova
    Theater critic, theater historian, candidate of art history, member of the Union of Writers of Russia and the Union of Theater Workers, member of the Chekhov Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow).
  • Laura Albertovna Tyron
    Head of the literary and dramatic part of the Irkutsk Youth Theater named after A. Vampilova, theater critic, theater critic, member of the Union of Journalists of Russia (Irkutsk).
Organize
Irkutsk Regional Theater of Young Spectators named after A. Vampilova
+7 (3952) 33-33-61
Tuzvampilov@yandex.ru
Https://tuzvampilov.ru/

City Irkutsk, Lenin St., d. 23
Project manager
Maxim Khvostyshkov - 8-914-926-57-75
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