The second day of the III International exhibition of calligraphy has started with a master-class lead by Manohar Desai, a renowned calligrapher from India. Maitre conducted a master class titled "Remove color, stroke and space fear by practicing letter compositions”. After that Valentine Kozhevina from Russia and a famous Frenchman of Iranian descent Hassan Makaremi demonstrated their skills to the audience. A great number of master classes were held this day. In particular, Bronislaw Vinogrodsky, a well-known researcher of China talked about sacredness in calligraphy and Michelle D'Anastasio - about modern Jewish calligraphy.
For the first time in Velikiy Novgorod a wakeboarding tournament for WakeWorld Russia Cup took place in the framework of the Exhibition. Best professional riders from Russia, Europe and Asia competed on the river Volkhov. The winner of the tournament is Ghosh Hudnitsky from St. Petersburg, Lot (Thailand) and Ian Calvet (France) went second and third respectively.
Once again Sergey Mitin, Governor of the Novgorod region visited the exhibition. He viewed a familiar exhibition and then handed a certificate to Alexei Shaburov, General Manager of the International Exhibition of Calligraphy in gratitude.
A concert was held at the end of the day. It was organized with the support of the Administration of Veliky Novgorod, Novgorod Region Administration and the Committee on Culture, Tourism and Archives of the Novgorod region.
Under the project "Museum Night" the exhibition was closed at 2 A.M.
Indian Manohar Desai’s bright colours
A fragment of a picture by Manohar Desai and associates to the master-class
A fine-drawn ligature by Valentina Kozhevina
Second master class with Hassan Makaremi
Salavat Ghilyazetdinov is writing names
of she-guests with an Arabic script
Young fans of Kim Jong-Chil
The Elders Faith under Vasil Khannanov
Bronislaw Vinogrodsky, a well-known researcher of China, calligrapher
Bright performance of modern Hebrew calligraphy by Michel D`Anastasio
Egor Lobusov’s Chinese Art of Life
Apollinariya Mishina and her Filigree skills
Karin Bauer is speaking of the cursive theory
Nikilay Taranov, Maitre of the Cyrillic script
Vitaly Mitchenko during his presentation on the Ukrainian calligraphy
Ekaterina Zarkh and the Poetry of Calligraphy
Isaac Freudman and Alexey Shaburov
Olga Soboleva
A wakeboarding contest final ride
Rain is not an obstacle
A girl with a quill
