The multinational holiday will be held in Grodno on June 5-6. But now the city is already breathing the festival: flags, banners, flowers are everywhere, the main stage is being installed on the central Lenin Square, and three festival photo exhibitions of the Grodno folk photography studio have already opened in different locations. 

«We started creating a photo chronicle of the Republican Festival of National Cultures in 1996, when its final events were held in the city on the Neman River for the first time,» said Alexander Losminsky, head of the Grodno Photo Studio. — We filmed every festival and made exhibitions. Now we have more than a thousand digitized photos in our archive, and these are only the best shots. Many are still stored on films, they have to be digitized. At the 15th anniversary festival, we decided to present its history as much as possible." 

All residents of Grodno and guests of the city can see the large photo collection on Metropolitan Filaret Street. He talks about the main events of all 14 past festivals. Today, it was installed next to the renovated bridge over the Jurisdicu River in the historical center of the city, which was inaugurated on June 2.

The Festival of Life exhibition is open in the city’s exhibition hall and has brought together 200 vivid festival photos from different years. And in the Festivalny cultural center, the photo project «Our Favorite Festival» was officially opened today, recreating the atmosphere of the 2024 holiday.