MOSCOW, August 10 You need to work with the youth of Russia and set an example for them in order to develop culture in them, said Edgard Zapashny, general director of the Great Moscow Circus on Vernadsky Avenue.
Earlier Thursday, Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova opened the II International Children's Cultural Forum at the New Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The forum is held in seven creative areas: «Musical Art», «Literature and Journalism», «Choreographic Art», «Producing», «Museums and Fine Arts», «Film and Animation» and «Theatrical and Circus Art», curated by Zapashny.
«No matter what anyone says, our young people are very good, you just have to work hard with them. Work is about communicating, communicating with good people, communicating with good examples, because now the information space is largely directed towards the negative,» the agency's interlocutor said.
Zapashny noted that he was grateful to the guys with whom he talked at the conference of the cultural forum — they showed him their education and developed outlook. «The cultural forum is aimed at ensuring that in the future our citizen, the future voter, in the end, that is, this is the future of our country, they will determine the policy in this country. (It is necessary — ed.) That they be cultural, because that a cultured person is an educated person, a cultured person is a patriot,» Zapashny stressed.
The director of the circus added that the main task of the forum is to take the child out of the virtual space and demonstrate live communication «here and now.» «The virtual world is already an inevitability for us, but the work of adults is also very important here … Here, once again, parents need to be reminded that they need to take the hand, take them to the zoo, to the theater, to the circus, to go to the cinema together , to the right movie,» Zapashny added.