Belarusians held memorial events on the Night of Executed Poets PHOTOS
On Thursday, our compatriots around the world held events in memory of writers and cultural figures annihilated during the Stalinist repressions.
In Vilnius, the memorial event "Night of Executed Poets" took place, initiated in 2017 in Kurapaty. Among the speakers were former political prisoners Zmitser Dashkevich — the initiator of the first such event in Kurapaty, media manager and former political prisoner Andrei Aliaksandrau, as well as Deputy Head of the Belarusian Council for Culture Nadzeya Haretskaya, Belarusian theater VARTA, one of the signatories of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania Emanuelis Zingeris, Radio Svaboda reports.
Photo from the event in Vilnius: Radio Svaboda
Reading out the names of the executed to the sound of a bell
The traditional Belarusian song group "Barana" performs the folk spiritual song "The soul has flown from the body"
Andrei Aliaksandrau
Zmitser Dashkevich
Ethnocenter "Svitanak", children's folklore collective "Patsierki", directed by Maryna Strunieuskaya. They performed Yuli Taubin's poem "I love the land where evenings...", the song "Oh, mommy, autumn came early", Mikhas Charot's poem "Living Chords", and the song "How the grey horse neighs on the beard"
Speech by Nadzeya Haretskaya, Deputy Head of the Belarusian Council for Culture
Lithuanian politician, Member of the Seimas, one of the signatories of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania on March 11, 1990, defender of democracy and human rights — Emanuelis Zingeris
Belarusian theater VARTA, created in Vilnius at the theater school under the direction of actress and director Natalia Liavonava. An excerpt from Anatol Volny's poem "Kastus Kalinouski"
Head of the Belarusian Church in Vilnius, Heorhi Roi
In Bialystok, a mournful event took place near the Belarusian consulate.
Photo from the event in Bialystok provided by participants
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