Volgograd hosts interregional festival of gesture songs

The Sixth Interregional Festival of Gesture Songs "Like Wing Beat" has opened in Volgograd with participation of pupils of correction schools for deaf and hearing impaired children from 20 regions of Russia.

This year the festival brought together 150 children aged up to 21 from Krasnodar, Belgorod, Kirov, Voronezh, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Samara, Ryazan, Volzhskiy, Volgograd and other Russian cities.

"The festival gives a chance to every participant to show his or her creativity to broad audience; it allows every child to feel like a bright and unique actor," says the message of the Administration of the Volgograd Region.

Besides, the festival acquaints the general public with a new, interesting and beautiful form of creativity - a gesture (mute) song, says the website of the Volgograd Regional Administration.

The festival will be summed up on November 19 at 4:00 p.m. at the Volgograd Young Spectators' Theatre.