Even in the last century, Russian cultural figures did not have a professional holiday that could properly represent the merits of these creative people. In 2007, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, a holiday was designated and Cultural Worker Day in 2019 is celebrated at the end of the first month of spring.
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Who celebrates Cultural Worker's Day and when?
Russian Cultural Worker's Day is celebrated on March 25 every year. Celebrations are held for all people related to culture and art:
- employees of museums, libraries, theaters;
- musical groups;
- concert organizers;
- circuses;
- employees of leisure organizations;
- participants and leaders of folk art groups;
- recreation parks;
- cinemas, etc.
This year, on March 25, Cultural Worker's Day will be held for the 12th time. The purpose of the celebration is to celebrate the efforts of people who contributed to the development, revival and preservation of the national cultural heritage and wealth of the country.
How to congratulate?
Surely, many people have people in their circle of loved ones or acquaintances whose activities are related to the world of art. The most important thing is not to forget about their professional holiday and bring your congratulations on time. How to spend Cultural Workers' Day in 2021, useful tips.
Visit to the theater
This can be done using a postcard, which you can buy or make yourself. Over the 10 years of the official existence of this holiday, a lot of ideas have appeared on how to beautifully design a greeting card. Use all kinds of congratulatory words in the form of serious and humorous poems.
An appropriate gift would be an item that will be useful to creative people in their activities. Perhaps it will be a pointer, for a violinist - string rosin, for a musician - a notebook for notes.
A box of chocolate or flowers is always a relevant gift. This is pleasant for both the soul and the body. After all, people of art spend a lot of energy and nerves, and chocolate adds energy and mood.
On March 25, you can visit a theater or museum with friends or alone, watch a good play, and appreciate the brush of famous artists.
History and traditions of the holiday
The initiator of the appointment of a separate Day for workers who contributed to the development of national culture was A. Sokolov. In 2007, a Decree of the President of the Russian Federation was issued on the establishment of ceremonial events. Since this year, the holiday has become official throughout Russia. Until 2007, celebrations were held in some regions of the country, but did not have national status.
The day is not considered a day off, but is celebrated on a grand scale and includes official events with congratulations and awards for particularly distinguished workers in the field. Thematic evenings are held, concerts are organized with performances by professionals and folk groups. Literary readings attract many participants, as do museum days with the exhibition of particularly rare valuables and objects. Charity events are also organized for special groups of the population, children deprived of parental warmth.
Cultural figures are invited to rallies and conferences to exchange experiences, evaluate achievements and contribute to the development of society. Social events are complemented by skits and informal parties. Students of universities and courses present programs with jokes and competitions.
Celebrations dedicated to the holiday are organized at the federal level. People who have devoted more than 15 years to the profession and have special merits are awarded the title of “Honored Cultural Worker.” Regional authorities are marking the date of March 25 with concerts, fairs, and theatrical performances in the recreation center, at concerts, and sports grounds.
The events are attended not only by people related to culture, but also by everyone who wants to pay tribute to workers in the arts on this solemn day.
KVN dedicated to the year of Culture; methodological development on the topic
5th competition “Family Culture”
-Family - how much has merged in this sound for the Russian heart
1. Interruption
Husband to wife: - Listen... this... tomorrow will be the wedding of my best friend with this... what's her name... Julia Roberts... - What other friend? Couldn't you tell me before? What will I wear? I have nothing to wear! And a gift! Where will we look for a gift? - Well, you're a fool! This movie is “My Best Friend’s Wedding.” How dark and uncultured you are... - You’d better keep silent about culture. When I told you last time that we would go to Swan Lake, who showed up with fishing rods?!
2. Interruption
-Everyone imagines a family differently and this is what comes out of it
Son: - Pa, oh pa! You always say that a family is a small state. Then who are you? - President, of course! - And mom? - Power. - And grandma? — CIA. -Who am I? - And you... you are the people. An hour later my father gets a call at work. The son’s voice breaks on the phone: “Mr. President!” Another president has come to power, the CIA is asleep, and the people are worried.
3. Interruption
-All families raise their children, but each in its own way
- Mom, I want a tattoo!
- Bring the belt, now we’ll beat you with your father.
4. Interruption
-Families are different: cultural and uncultured, educated and uneducated, but everyone wants the same thing, happiness for their children. Let's see how it goes
5. “How my mother wanted me...”
Friends, if you had even a little fun today, we are glad.
Know that we love you all.
Well, if not all of them, then in a row for sure.
6. Interruption
Friends !
We are glad to meet you!
As one family we joke, laugh, sing, dance and it’s wonderful!
What is a young family? This is strength, fun, humor, perspective, initiative...
They say about a young family: “Young is green.”
Where does it begin?
Spring comes and everyone starts to feel aggravated...
Love comes first! Everyone is going crazy! And everyone wants to win something special!
- Wow! What a girl!
- Well, it's kind of mine.
- Is it your boyfriend who hugs her?
-or as my uncle, a womanizer, says: “A girl is a bullet with a displaced center of gravity: it hits the eye, passes through the heart, hits the pocket and comes out sideways.” But this doesn't scare anyone.
And love is followed by another seasonal exacerbation of the Unified State Geology. The scary Unified State Exam Baba comes to bad students!
It's time for exams. Young people are drawn to church...
Here comes June.
-Well, I don’t pass the Unified State Exam, so what next?
-And then, pick up a broom and that’s it, you are a landscape designer!
— All young people dream of becoming the daughter or son of the president. Do you know why? Competition – 20 universities per place.
- And now all roads open before us...
-and there is only one road....MARRIED!
-This is not a fact yet, one tried, but not everything worked out...
It’s really true that young people are welcome everywhere.
But I want to rush along the road, and not drag along like barge haulers on the Volga. Well, if we started talking about the president, then of course, on the e-mobile, our culture is clearly visible on it...
"Better to see once than hear a hundred times!"
song "Yo-mobile"
Friends, if today you had even a little fun, if you recognized your friends in our jokes, we are glad. Know that we love you all.
Well, if not all of them, then in a row for sure.
-Family - how much has merged in this sound for the Russian heart
Husband to wife: - Listen... this... tomorrow will be the wedding of my best friend with this... what's her name... Julia Roberts... - What other friend? Couldn't you tell me before? What will I wear? I have nothing to wear! And a gift! Where will we look for a gift? - Well, you're a fool! This movie is “My Best Friend’s Wedding.” How dark and uncultured you are... - You’d better keep silent about culture. When I told you last time that we would go to Swan Lake, who showed up with fishing rods?!
Everyone imagines a family differently and this is what comes out of it
Son: - Pa, oh pa! You always say that a family is a small state. Then who are you? - President, of course! - And mom? - Power. - And grandma? — CIA. -Who am I? - And you... you are the people. An hour later my father gets a call at work. The son’s voice breaks on the phone: “Mr. President!” Another president has come to power, the CIA is asleep, and the people are worried.
All families raise their children, but each in its own way
- Mom, I want a tattoo!
- Bring the belt, now we’ll beat you with your father.
Families are different: cultural and uncultured, educated and uneducated, but everyone wants the same thing, happiness for their children. Let's see how it goes
“How my mother wanted me...”
-Do you want a cultural family? Follow the family rules!
point 1. Mom is always right.
point 2. Mom doesn't scream - she pays attention to important things.
point 3. Mom doesn't swear - she advises.
point 4. Mom doesn’t argue - she explains the situation.
point 5. Mom doesn’t hang out on the Internet - she keeps up with the times
If mom is wrong, see point one...
Son: - Pa, oh pa! You always say that a family is a small state. Then who are you? - President, of course! - And mom? - Power. - And grandma? — CIA. -Who am I? - And you... you are the people. An hour later my father gets a call at work. The son’s voice breaks on the phone: “Mr. President!” Another president has come to power, the CIA is asleep, and the people are worried.
Husband to wife: - Listen... this... tomorrow will be the wedding of my best friend with this... what's her name... Julia Roberts... - What other friend? Couldn't you tell me before? What will I wear? I have nothing to wear! And a gift! Where will we look for a gift? - Well, you're a fool! This movie is “My Best Friend’s Wedding.” How dark and uncultured you are... - You’d better keep silent about culture. When I told you last time that we would go to Swan Lake, who showed up with fishing rods?!
- Tell me, young man, is there high culture, art, subtle creativity in your city? — What is the market about? We're not fools!
- Mom, I want a tattoo!
- Bring the belt, now we’ll beat you with your father.
Interesting Facts
Cultural workers in the Russian Federation have their own trade union.
The oldest museum is the Capitoline Museum in Rome, founded in 1471. The first nationalized museum appeared in Russia - this is the Tretyakov Gallery, and to walk around the halls of the Hermitage will take 12.5 hours, and this is without stopping in front of the exhibits. The most visited museum is the Louvre in Paris.
The largest library in the world is the Library of Congress in Washington, USA.
The oldest zoo is the Berlin Zoo, it was founded in 1844 and today has about 14,000 animals from more than 1,500 species. With the outbreak of World War II, all poisonous animals at the London Zoo had to be euthanized - the institution's workers feared that their establishment would be bombed and the animals would be released.
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Congratulations in verse and prose to cultural workers
A solemn congratulation on Cultural Worker’s Day might sound like this:
— Cultural worker. There is so much implied in these words, because people’s work is sometimes not noticeable at all, but we all enjoy the results of this titanic work, sometimes exhausting and many days. How much patience is needed to find and develop talent, to give a path to life for young professionals and to provide support to those who want to achieve more. So let your work always be appreciated, and the reward finds the best. Opening up the horizons of the world to us, you often forget about yourself, but remember only one thing - we value your contribution, respect your work and treat your work with great respect.
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It’s a good idea to supplement an official congratulation in prose with poetry:
We dedicate this verse to all those whose work is sometimes invisible, In libraries, workshops, In theaters, clubs and museums. Labor and zeal are invaluable - to create culture, from generation to generation, to accumulate, store, pass on. In houses of culture, rural clubs, people dance and sing, and Happy Cultural Worker's Day, all the people congratulate you!
The evening will then conclude with a concert or program of performances from leading figures. After the official part, it’s time for informal parties, skits and communication.
Scenario of the cultural worker's day event
We offer a scenario for Cultural Worker's Day, which is organized by a small group. The original approach and extraordinary story will attract the attention of the heroes of the occasion. The following scene can be used as a basis:
- there are rumors among people about the emergence of a new medicine that heals not only the body, but also the soul;
- everyone wants to know what it is;
- the team leader receives a “letter” with the encrypted name of the “drug”;
- to solve the mystery, it is proposed to perform a number of actions, this could be dancing, painting, song, sculpture, poetry, etc.;
- After completing all the tasks for which participants from the audience are invited, everyone understands that these tasks were the “medicine”.
To perform the skit you need 4 people - these are the performers of the leadership roles of the House of Culture and they are also the presenters. This can be a solemn event scenario with the inclusion of an awards stage or fun entertainment that will appeal to all spectators.
During informal communication, the action is complemented by a competition program. For example, at the time of drawing a picture, several participants are invited. They are given cards with proverbs, sayings, a description/name of a literary work or an object of fine art - people are tasked with drawing what is encrypted on the card, and the audience is tasked with guessing the work of the “artist”.
International Theater Day: congratulations in verse and prose, script for the gala event
Cool holiday invitations
If you are going to make an invitation to a skit party, let it be a beautiful and funny, and most importantly, original design. Here are a few images that are easy to prepare with your own hands:
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Nominations for Cultural Worker's Day
Nominations, like a skit, can be serious or comic. For example, these:
- For services to maintaining silence in the library. Awarded to the strictest manager of the establishment.
- For services to the development of fine arts. This is a solemn award, appreciated by the leaders of clubs and courses.
- For the development of search work in the museum of local history. Again, a comic nomination and award is given to a guide who knows his museum well.
There are also nominations that pay tribute to people who organize amateur creativity clubs and aesthetic education courses, expanding the “linguistic” space and drawing the funniest cartoons.
Sketch for Cultural Worker's Day 2021 – Dreams come true!
On the spring day of March 25, 2021, workers of clubs, palaces and concert venues celebrate their professional holiday. On this occasion, there is a wonderful skit for a fun concert on Cultural Worker’s Day.
The performance is attended by the honored cultural worker and his grandson. The guy reads news from periodicals to his grandfather, but the hamster makes his own adjustments. A funny production will tell you what this leads to.
Sketch for Cultural Worker's Day - Dreams come true!
There is a table and two chairs on the stage. The grandson comes running, takes his grandfather’s newspaper from the table and runs backstage. After a couple of seconds the grandfather himself comes out.
Grandfather : Grandson! Haven't you seen my newspaper? I can't find it.
Grandson from behind the scenes: I saw it! I gave it to the hamster.
Grandfather : So bring it back, I haven’t read it. Look what you came up with. Why does a hamster need a newspaper? (groans and sits down) He doesn’t know how to read.
The grandson comes running back and sits on another chair.
Grandfather : Did you bring it? Read what they write there.
Grandson : Grandfather, there’s a little hamster here... I made some edits.
Grandfather : Read it already, don’t delay!
The grandson unfolds the newspaper, and in the middle the hamster gnaws a large circle.
Grandson : Oh, and then the law on culture was adopted.
Grandfather : Really?! For the first time in so many years. I worked in culture for so long, I couldn’t wait, but here it is on you. Read quickly!
Grandson folds the newspaper: Maybe I’d rather read another article? That one is big, two pages long, but here there is a smaller one, “One Year in the Life of the Oligarchs”!
Grandfather : No, first about culture.
Grandson : Well, okay. So, cultural workers, namely directors of cultural centers, heads of clubs and artistic directors - in terms of wages are equal to the category (looks at the article on the back of the newspaper and whispers) Wow, damned hamster! To the category of oligarchs!
Grandfather : That's news! It is high time!
Grandson : Cultural workers living in rural areas will receive wages (another item) in foreign currency.
Grandfather : This is how culture was respected, it just warmed my soul! Let's move on!
Grandson : Every cultural worker must come to the village council (there is a hole in the article) for an expensive gift!
Grandfather : Is that so?! What about veterans of cultural work? Kukish with butter?
Grandson : No, grandpa, here especially for you. Veterans of culture are entitled to a free... oh, hamster, framed!.. trip to Bora Bora.
Grandfather: Oh, where is this?
Grandson : Far away, invisible from here. Wait, there’s more written about you! Once every two years, cultural veterans will be issued a sanatorium-resort card for treatment... in the palace of the United Arab Emirates!
Grandfather : Come on?! Previously, only trips to Zorka were given, but here to the Emirates?!
Grandson : Every club employee is required to take part in... Formula 1!
Grandfather : Well, this is for Ivanovich. They just gave him a bicycle. What's next?
Grandson : Each club employee will be given...a luxury car.
Grandfather : And they came up with a good idea. It won't be redundant. I’ll sit behind the wheel myself, my wife in the trailer, and I’ll take her like the Pope.
Grandson : Maybe like Elizabeth of England?
Grandfather : And so you can, read on, don’t get distracted.
Grandson : Each club employee will be given... a plot on the moon.
Grandfather : Great! I’ll plant cucumbers, tomatoes, and potatoes there. The main thing is that there are no Colorado potato beetles. How many acres do they give?
Grandson : Well, if for your merits, grandfather, then 50 hectares, no less!
Grandfather : Joker! Read on.
Grandson : Now the most important thing! The salary of cultural workers by the end of this year will be...3 million.
Grandfather : Rubles?
Grandson : Dollars!
Grandfather clutches his heart: Dear Mom! 3 million dollars! Eh, let's live! I’ll take Raisa Nikolaevna and Ekaterina Anatolyevna by the hand and take them to restaurants. Or better yet, go to a jewelry store!
Grandson : Why?
Grandfather : I’ll go up to the counter and ask – Are your gold chains fresh? Pack me a kilo! And if they think that I don’t have enough money, I will proudly tell them: I, by the way, am a cultural worker! Grandson, you better tell me who we should thank for our generosity: the government, the Ministry of Culture or our regional authorities?
The grandson looks guiltily at the floor and unfolds the newspaper: Hamster...
Grandfather addresses the audience: Well, let’s dream and that’s enough. Dreaming, as they say, is not harmful. But I would still like to appeal to our leaders. Dear people, give us, all cultural workers, at least a small hamster!
The audience applauds. End.
World Theater Day is celebrated on a spring day in March. Let's organize a small performance at school and show a skit for Theater Day for high school students. Maybe the boys and girls have not yet decided on their choice of profession, but this exciting production will show that the theater is a new home for creative, versatile personalities.
A theatrical scene does not need comments; everything is clear here without words. Stage a funny, meaningful pantomime on theater day to the delight of adults and children.
Author: Irina Mamedova.