Francophonie Days held at National Art Museum of Moldova
18:22 | 23.03.2016 Category: Culture
Chisinau, 23 March /MOLDPRES/ - The Days of Francophonie in Chisinau today were held at the National Art Museum of Moldova with a string of cultural events.
The programme included entertainment games, presentations, artistic items. Attending the event were 150 pupils from the Gheorghe Asachi Romanian-French theoretical lyceum, as well as their parents, who contributed to the preparation and organisation of the programme.
Contacted by MOLDPRES, the deputy director of the National Art Museum, Veronica Galcenco said that the Days of Francophonie had been carried out for the sixth year in a row.
“We initiated this project in 2011, when we opened children’s creation workshop at our institution, with the support of the French Alliance. Also at that time, a cooperation agreement with the Gheorghe Asachi theoretical lyceum was signed. Along with the pupils, we organise diverse activities which develop children’s creativity. Today, the pupils, organised in five teams, presented the five regions of France. They also displayed the dishes of this country,” Veronica Galcenco said.
Project manager Lucia Postica said the main goal of these activities was a better knowledge by pupils of the history of France, culture and traditions of this country.
The International Organisation of la Francophonie decreed the day of 20 March as International Francophonie Day – the most important holiday of the French language and French-speaking people from all over the world, a holiday of multiculturalism and tolerance. The date of 20 March was not chosen by accident: the agreement on the creation of the Intergovernmental Agency of la Francophonie was signed in the Niamei city on this day in 1970. The Agency’s mission is to promote solidarity between the 70 member states (56 members and 14 observers), which represent together 870 million people, of whom 200 million French-speaking persons.
An agreement on cultural, scientific and technical cooperation between Moldova and France was signed on 24 November 1994 and the French Alliance in Moldova was set up on 17 December 1995.
(Reporter N. Roibu, editor L. Alcaza)