"AREVORDI" FIRST ENVIRONMENTAL REGIONAL FESTIVAL TO BE HELD ON APRIL
1-15 IN ARMENIA
YEREVAN, JANUARY 31, NOYAN TAPAN. The "Arevordi" first environmental
regional festival will be held on April 1-15 in Dilijan. The
organizers of this environmental festival are the Charitable Fund on
Protection of Nature and Cultural Values in Armenia and the "Arevordi"
public organization.
As the Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by the fund, the goal of
the festival is to draw the society’s attention to ecological problems
existing in the region, to create a neutral field of cooperation
avoiding regional conflicts and tension which will assist search of
new and effective solutions.
Within the framework of the festival, shows of films in the
competition and extra-competition departmens, photo-exhibitions,
concert-actions as well as a number of ecological events, trips,
tree-planting, gathering of rubbish are envisaged in different regions
of the republic.
Besides, ecological seminars will be organized during the festival
days with a goal of exchange of international experience. Experts,
ecologists and journalists invited from the region and abroad will
participate in the seminars. Modern problems like protection of
interests, creation of an ecological co alition, net cooperation and
development of ecotourism in the region will be discussed during the
seminars.
The slogan of the festival will be "For Children, with Children’s
Active Participation."
Courses were organized, ecological films were shown in schools of the
marzes with the fund’s efforts to bring children closer to the nature,
to estimate values of native nature, to arise interest in ecological
problems. Giving corresponding equipment and professional
consultation, children were given possibility to shoot own films on
nature protection the best among which will be presented at the films
competition department of the festival.