XX International Festival "Student autumn 2016"

This long-awaited day - Friday, 28 October, has at last arrived. And we have been waiting for it not only this was the last day of work and study of the week, but also because the jubilee XX International Festival "Student autumn 2016" was officially launched this day. Back in 1997, at the initiative of the rector of the then medical institute, Kosinets Alexander Nikolayevich, sport events, the culinary competition, intellectual tournament, Miss and Mister VSMU contest and KVN were added to the contest of pop songs - and in such a way our festival was born, which reached such an extent to be called international.

Rector of the University Anatoly Tadeushevich Shchastny opened the anniversary festival. In his welcoming speech, he talked about the history of the festival, its development and the extent of the current one. Then he wished the participants and audience the success and professional development.

Then a festive concert began... Perhaps, dance performances inflamed the audience and plunged them into the atmosphere of the real festival: there were Indian melodies from OSTF and Latin rhythms of the sports ballroom dance group "Quickstep", folk dance from the "Millennium" and a dance mix from "EXISTENCE". We seemed to have visited different parts of the world not leaving the auditorium. This is not surprising, because our university is a university of the Order of Peoples’ Friendship. Traditionally, there were lots of song turns in different languages and in different styles. "DeFacto" art-theater, a relatively young team performing in a new modern genre was a great success for the audience. We enjoyed the new musical number of our violinists Julia and Alexandra Sinkevich. Natalia Dashkevich sang the famous song "Maestro" under the piano accompaniment of Eduard Vyacheslavovich Shalyutin. For me personally, I liked and smiled at a song fragment performed by "Panacea" ensemble. When they sang "... let me listen to your heart ..." I involuntarily thought of auscultation of the heart, probably because of 5 years of study in our university. I wonder it was just me to have such thoughts?!

In short, the show was stunning, vivid, memorable and magical. Great start of the festival week!

At the end of the evening there was another surprise - a birthday cake presented by the Rector with 20 candles framed in fiery fountains! It was very beautiful and touching!

I wonder what kind this festival week would be? What surprises the artists and organizers have prepared for us? Quite difficult to image, but I look forward to something magic, fantastic and memorable ...

Chepurnenko Nadezhda, a fifth-year student of General Medicine Faculty