On 19 May 2019, the Large Hall of the School Centre was the venue for the awards ceremony honouring the winners of the 20th Children’s Computer Graphics and Animation Competition – “Inspired by the myth. Iphigenia in Tauris” devoted to the Year of the Theatre.
School pupils from Years 2 to 11 participated in the competition, producing works on the themes: “Works of art on episodes from the myth of Iphigenia in the Heritage, “Myths on the stage of the court theatres of the Winter Palace”, “Tauris in the Hermitage: works of art from excavations in Tauris in the halls of the Hermitage” and “The Sources of the Theatre”. The winners were determined in two categories: “Computer Graphics and Painting” and “Video and Animation”.
After the ceremony, those attending became witnesses to and participants in a theatricalized performance, in the course of which they were able to learn and repeat scenic dance moves. The programme included a lecture by Irina Diubanova, the head of the Hermitage’s School Centre, on the dramatic fate of Pompeii, a city that, like the cities of Tauris, had close ties to the Ancient Greeks, the creators of myths and the art of theatre.
At the end of the programme, the children and their parents took part in a quest worked out by the staff of the School Centre – “Pompeii: gods, men, heroes” – and visited the exhibition, where they were able to uncover the secrets of Ancient Greek myths.
