The play "Faith. Hope. Love" about strong Russian women was shown at the WYF

On March 6th, at the World Youth Festival in Sirius, guests from all over the world saw a musical and patriotic performance "Faith. Hope. Love." The Tavrida art cluster, with the support of the Russian Znanie Society, showed a production telling about Russian women working alongside their male compatriots in the SMO zone. The main roles were played by residents of the Tavrida art cluster, along with SHAMAN, ST and Irina Dubtsova.

Musical and patriotic performance "Faith. Hope. Love" is a story about strong Russian women working alongside their male compatriots in the SMO zone. Doctors, military officers, volunteers — all of them contribute to the course of events with their faith, hope, spiritual strength and courage.

The play consists of four short stories based on real events. One of the roles in the production is played by a real participant in the special military operation — Sergei Nikhaenko, a songwriter and a performer, a soloist of the Lugansk Philharmonic, who volunteered for the front. The first story tells about volunteer girls helping in the military zone. The second is about a military surgeon. The third part of the production tells about a girl who works as a military correspondent in the SMO zone. The fourth part in each show is always new, and the whole play has a different ending at every show depending on the events there.

On March 6th, at the World Youth Festival, the audience saw an updated version of the show, written specifically for the guests and participants from 188 countries. The final part with the symbolic name "Strength" on the eve of the International Women's Day is dedicated to female strength, because it is through strong women's hands, hearts, eyes and souls that you can encounter the real Homeland. In the new version of the production, SHAMAN acted as the on-stage narrator, who combined all the four stories into a single narrative and in the final sang his song “Vstanem!” (“Let’s get up!”).

The rapper ST also took part in the show with his song "Before Dawn", and in the final Irina Dubtsova appeared in front of the audience in the image of the Motherland with the song "For us!".

The premiere of the play took place in August 2023 in Crimea at the "Tavrida.ART" Festival of Youth Art. In November and December, screenings were held in Moscow at the ZIL Concert Hall and at VDNKh as part of the International Exhibition and Forum "Russia", and in January 2024 the performance was seen by the audience of Tula.

The World Youth Festival is taking place on the federal territory of Sirius from March 1-7, 2024 in accordance with the Decree of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin in order to develop international youth cooperation. The organizer of the World Youth Festival is the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh), the operator of WYF-2024 is the Directorate of the World Youth Festival. The Tavrida art cluster acts as a content provider of the event and presents a series of projects demonstrating the achievements of youth art in modern Russia in the Festival program.

Background information:

"Tavrida.ART" is an opportunity platform that helps young people fulfill their professional potential in culture and art. The organizer is the ANO "Center for the Development of Culture Initiatives". "Tavrida.ART is part of a federal project "Youth of Russia" of the national project "Education" and is implemented with the support of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodezh). Tavrida began its history in 2015, when it received the status of the All-Russian Youth Educational Forum. In 2019, Tavrida grew into an art cluster that combined educational events, a festival, a casting platform, a grant competition, a federal network of art residencies, an accelerator for creative projects, the Meganom Academy of Creative Industries and other projects.  In 2023, upon the order of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin, Tavrida was transformed into Russia's first youth touristic and educational cluster. Currently, work is underway to develop its territory and expand the infrastructure.

Russian Znanie Society traces its history to a Soviet public organization founded in 1947 at the initiative of Soviet intellectuals as the All-Union Society for Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge. In 1963 it was renamed All-Union Znanie Society, in 1991 the organization's name was changed to Russian Znanie (Knowledge) Society. The members of the Society popularized science, they read lectures on the achievements of soviet industry and agriculture. In 2016, the Russian Society Znanie was restructured into the All-Russian Public and State Educational Organization Russian Society Znanie. On April 21, 2021, the Russian president Vladimir Putin said in his address to the Federal Assembly that Russian Society Znanie needed to be relaunched on a modern digital platform.