Introduction
In Pyongyang, capital city of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the 33rd April Spring Friendship Art Festival was held in a grandiose fashion.
The festival held in celebration of the 112th birth anniversary (April 15, 1912) of President Kim Il Sung, was a grand political event that was dedicated to the praise of the great man, reflecting the desire of the world’s progressive artistes to advance along the road of independence and peace singing songs of friendship and unity.
It took place from April 11 to 25, 2024 and video recordings of performances which had been given by world artistes and art troupes were televised through the Central TV and other media of the DPRK. And the going on of the festival and its result was posted on the website Korean Art and other websites on the Internet.
To have been staged at the festival were songs in praises of the great man and artistic works that sustained the specific features of the artistes and art troupes and their national emotions. Art troupes and artistes that had been selected after deliberation by the Festival Organizing Committee, including those famous of Russia, presented their works.
The festival adorned the April holiday thanks to the desire of the artistes of the world, who aspired to exchange and cooperation in art under the ideals of independence, peace and friendship.
Guidelines of the April Spring Friendship Art Festival
Application
Mission of the April Spring Friendship Art Festival Fund
Affiliated to the Korea Art Exchange Association, the Fund is a non-profit and non-governmental organization registered as a corporate body of the DPRK with its office based in Pyongyang.
It regards it as its mission to ensure that the April Spring Friendship Art Festival, which is held traditionally under the ideals of independence, peace and friendship, develop into a worldwide art gathering conducive to the promotion of exchanges and cooperation in the art and cultural sector with many countries around the world and development of art and culture of individual countries and humankind through multifaceted international cooperation and funding activities in the organization and operation of the festival, including invitation, publicity and performance, etc.
The April Spring Friendship Art Festival Fund encouranges wide-ranging international cooperation and fundraising necessary for the successful organization of the art festival with a view to developing the traditional event into a global art gathering conducive to the promotion of international exchanges and cooperation in the field of culture ＆ art and the development of culture ＆ art of individual countries and humankind as a whole under the ideals of independence, peace and friendship.
Structure of the April Spring Friendship Art Festival Fund
Members of the April Spring Friendship Art Festival Fund
Poster
