And here is the fourth day. The Gala concert, accompanying preparations and excitements is left behind, and festival more reminds summer camp but, of course, not usual summer camp. It’s filled with creativity and allowing children to develop further. Since morning children are divided into six groups for master classes, and will be engaged with them both singing, and dances, and applied art, and even in theatrical skill.



“Sohnut” organized a lecture about the Israeli education. The head of branch of the Jewish Agency conducts in Uzbekistan Bella Lvovich makes this lecture. It’s the story about Israel: territory, geography, population, the largest cities and life expectancy. Children receive for the shown knowledge prizes from Bella Lvovich. Then — actual problems for youth: training in colleges and the universities, necessary level of knowledge of Hebrew, service in armies and psychometric tests. In the end of Bell Lvovich's lecture distributes cut-aways, explaining that if there were with children questions, start up don't hesitate of them to set.



In the meantime there is a lesson of theatrical skill. Ivan Nemtsev, the actor of the Karaganda theater tells about emotional contact of the actor to spectators, history of theater and the Jewish theater, and then practical exercises — voice training, expression of phrases by one gestures, without words... Certainly, this information is extremely useful to all participants of a master class, after all the festival is not only singing and dances, it’s ability to keep on a scene.



And Lyudmila Samsonova from Almaty teaches to sing. Till a dinner on all case of sanatorium Samal the Jewish songs are audible, at times they interrupt, when the strict teacher could rebuke wards — the tongue should be held so, and a word not to utter, and to sing... Certainly, our children are able to sing and are able well, but as they say, there’s no limits for perfection!



Continues her dancing master classes Lifanova Dana. Again in its groups, both small, and the elder children and even the teachers, aspiring to raise the qualification and to learn the new. They repeat each movement till the body remembers a correct order.



And, at last, the most material master classes. The head of the Cheerful workshop at Karaganda Hesed Larisa Brodsky learns to create from a cardboard, beads, stones, glue and a paint the present masterpieces. It’s so easy to paste a glittering thread, to add a stone and some pastes, and the result amazes imagination with the beauty. It is difficult to define a genre — an ikebana? A sculpture? So beautiful things are created by our children!

Maiya Polumisko