Students and lecturers read in five languages to celebrate the World Book and Copyright Day and the 220th anniversary since the birth of the great Russian poet Aleksandar Sergeevic Pushkin. . The event was organized by the Russian Centre, the Department of Foreign Language Teaching and Postgraduate Studies and the University Library of VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar".
The university student Hristo Rusev presented his documentary photo book "The Last (Eternal) Mime", dedicated to Gerasim Dishliev - a pedagogical assistant of Marcel Marceau and to the preservation of the pantomime art world-wide. One of the last stage performances of Gerasim Dishliev will be on 29 April in the Marine casino in Varna. In the autumn , he will become part of the company of Cirque du Soleil in Paris.
The theme for the stage and the actors flowed into the images of the great Russian actors who have played Pushkin.
Immediately afterwards original works by A.S. Pushkin were read in the Russian Centre of VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar".
The students and lecturers of Varna Free University read in five languages on the World Book and Copyright Day. In the Russian language we heard our favourite Anton Pavlovich Chehov.
Fumiko Kobayashi, a lecturer of Japanese language and culture presented an excerpt in the original from "Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami. We heard Oscar Wilde's works in English, and the students from Turkey presented Nazim Hikmet.
Foreign language teaching and personal and social skills courses aimed at developing successful communication in a foreign language, flexibility, creativity, self-control and self-confidence, analytical thinking, leadership, etc. are strongly supported at VFU "Chernorizets Hrabar". The study of foreign languages enhances the competitiveness of the students of Varna Free University and gives them the opportunity to enter in their professional portfolio the knowledge of two or three foreign languages, some of them rare.