Rally-Concert In Honor Of BPR’s 100th Anniversary Is To Be Held In Brest

The festive event with white-red-white flags will be held at Freedom Square.

The Brest City Executive Committee adopted the application for holding the festival "Centenary of BPR" on March 25, but moved the event to another venue, Radio Svaboda reports.

According to one of the applicants of the event, Dzmitry Shymanski, the head of the Brest organization of the Belarusian Popular Front, the festival will start at Freedom Square at 13.00. First, there will be held a half-hour meeting, where political and public activists of the city, as well as representatives of the Brest authorities, will speak.

The officials allow bringing white-red-white flags and the coat of arms Pahonia along with other symbols "thematically related to the event" on Freedom Day.

During the music part of the festival, the Brest brass band will perform, and then a rock concert will take place. It is already known that the bands B: N, Re1ikt, Zolki Band agreed to participate in the concert.

During the festival, which will last until 5 pm, a souvenir bazaar, photo areas and children's playgrounds will be available. In addition to the music ground, master classes of artisans will be held, and the reconstruction clubs will restore the era of the Belarusian People's Republic.

Earlier it became known that the city authorities had given permission to celebrate the BPR’s 100th anniversary in Minsk and Hrodna.