On February 25-27, the first Beauty-market was held at the Versailles shopping center, which brought together modern, concise and intricate designer jewelry made in various techniques from natural stones, shows from Ulyanovsk designers and useful lectures from various specialists. On the final day of the Beauty-market, the management of the Ulyanovsk-UNESCO City of Literature program presented the international interdisciplinary project of the Decoding Ornament art workshop as part of the national project Genius of Place.

Natalia Dashuk, head of the Ulyanovsk-UNESCO City of Literature program, conveyed to the citizens the words of Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Olga Yarilova: “The launch of the Genius of Place project will have a positive socio-economic effect for the territories themselves. Points of concentration of talents will appear not only in large cities with a large selection of platforms for creativity and self-realization. They will also be created in small settlements, single-industry towns, villages, which are practically not included in the creative industries at the moment. Having studied the unique heritage of the region with the help of the library resources and having mastered modern communication tools, the geniuses of the place will create a new intellectual product based on the local identity of the territory. This will increase the media capital of the regions, allow them to integrate into global information processes and form their own brand.”

The Decoding Ornament project is aimed at solving the issues of preserving national cultural traditions and the historical and cultural identity of the peoples of the Volga region living in the Ulyanovsk region and telling about our cultural heritage in the UNESCO Creative Cities network. The project participants will be able to explore the ornaments characteristic of these peoples and creatively explore this topic by developing and implementing their art projects in various fields of art.

The project program is designed for 10 months of work and includes a series of two-day intensives every two months and two-day lectures every month. The participants of the project are waiting for work and thematic meetings with speakers from all over the world from different creative fields. You can learn more about the project at the link from our presentation: https://clck.ru/dVxgj .

We remind you that registration for participants is still open, we look forward to receiving your applications. For all questions, please contact the head of the program "Ulyanovsk - UNESCO City of Literature", Natalya Dashuk at +7-937-454-69-21.