Photo exhibition “Vitebsk Old Believers: Long-Time Newcomers” from 23 April 2014 in Vitebsk

Ethnologist Uladzislau Ivanou and the public cultural campaign “Budzma Belarusians!”

invite you

to the photo exhibition “Vitebsk Old Believers: Long-Time Newcomers”

Opening: 23 April 2014 (Wednesday) at 16:00

The exhibition will run until 10 May 2014

Admission is free, from 10:00 to 18:00

Address: Vitebsk, Dzvina Centre of Folk Crafts (formerly Zadzvinne), 5 Chaikouskaha Street

 

We also look forward to seeing you at every event of the educational and ethnographic project “Vitebsk Old Believers: Long-Time Newcomers”.

29 April, 16:00 (Tuesday) – Lecture “The Evolution of Old Believer Culture in the Vitebsk Region (19th-21st centuries)”.

Lecturer: Uladzislau Ivanou, lecturer in political science, ethnologist, EHU (Vilnius).

1 May, 13:00 (Thursday) – Presentation and tasting of Old Believer cuisine.

(all events will take place at the Dzvina Centre of Folk Crafts)

The project presents the results of ethnographic expeditions in the Vitebsk region conducted from 2002 to 2013.

Project author and photographer: Uladzislau Ivanou. Curator of the photo exhibition: Uladzimir Parfianok.

The educational and ethnographic project “Vitebsk Old Believers: Long-Time Newcomers” and

The project author, ethnologist Uladzislau Ivanou, can be contacted by email at [email protected]