We were active participants of Artania Festival of Folk Crafts which took place in our city of Novosibirsk (the capital of the Western Siberia) from June 15 to July 5, 2011 on the main square of the city near the Theater of Opera and Ballet.
A big territory near the Theater had been an area of Beauty and mastership. The Crafts Festival organizers supported ouidea of holding the World Peace Flag Ceremony with the flag cards we got from Peace World Organization, at the closing ceremony. According to the programme we were supposed to have it in front of the Theater just after the main greeting speeches and ceremonies of presenting the Festival rewards.
It started raining from the morning that day and at 12 o’clock the weather didn’t look inspiring for any ceremony, but we know that “where there is a will, there is a way” and decided to have the Flag Ceremony under the roof of the Theater near the columns. Galina Ermolina was given a microphone and started to speak out her short speech with the words from the famous song ”Nature has no bad weather, any weather is a bliss. Bad weather can be in our hearts…” She spoke about the power of thoughts and a good impact of the good thoughts. The thought of Peace is the best one.
The people, who joined the Flag ceremony were very happy to do it, nobody needed a help in translating the name of the countries. Some of them even said the words of Peace in English. A few schoolboys had a lot of fun and said, that would try to improve English at school. To close the ceremony we sang the song every Russian still know-“May there always be sunshine”, then guests from Uruguay and Bolivia sang their native song about peace in the world.
