Madonna Myavanadze

Theatre scholar

The first Autograph Theatre Festival of youth and school groups is an essential event in the cultural and educational space. The festival takes place at the republican level and is being organised for the first time. Schools from the city of Batumi and the Adjara region will take part. The festival's main aim is to create permanent theatre groups in public and public schools to arouse the interest of young people and adults and introduce them to the most challenging genre of art - theatre. The most successful idea of the festival is Georgian drama, which once again allows participants to share the Georgian word. It is the first word in theatre. Who knows how many actors will be seen in the future? I am sure of one thing - the festival participants will become good spectators.I wish all the participants of the festival creative success and the authors of the festival project a victory, "First Autograph," a long life and expansion throughout Georgia. Then, we will congratulate you on your way to the international stage.

Chairman of the jury

Inga Khalvashi

Film connoisseur-journalist

The First Autograph is an unusual initiative that opens the doors to the magical world for teenagers. It allows them to get closer to the secret of the art of transformation that delights and delights the audience. The teenagers will learn that the reason for this admiration is not only the actor but also the artist, composer, choreographer, dramaturge, and director. Together, they create this mysterious magic.There is a lot of hard work behind every performance. The students will have a lot of fun discovering life behind the scenes. It is also important that contact with the theatre also means contact with different artistic disciplines and therefore deepens young people's erudition, broadens their horizons, teaches them to think, gets them used to analysing topics in-depth, and makes them more thoughtful and tolerant.I wish the festival success and its participants great joy and admiration when they share this magic.

jury

Medea Machabeli

artist

I greet you and congratulate you all on this enjoyable and joyful day, the opening of the "First Autograph" festival of youth and school theatre groups. It is nice because Adjara is the first swallow to lay the foundation for the special Days of Children's Happiness. Yes, there are unique and exciting days ahead of us.

Someone will have an interesting question - what do you know will be interesting? Haven't we seen anything yet?You can imagine, I think, that because we will come into contact with primal talents, untouchable and uncultivated talents, I am sure that an interesting spectacle awaits us. I am sure we will make some interesting discoveries in the form of snake children.

After all, we are a multi-talented people, and I know that there will be some small, artistically gifted actors here, too. A number of famous actors and directors have been involved in the art of acting from an early age, and perhaps future great directors and actors will be among them. And we will witness their first steps towards me.

This festival will play a positive role in discovering future actors and attract an excellent cultural audience. I want to thank the authors and founders of the idea for such a good, meaningful, and timely project: Mr Mikheil Gabaidze and Petre Chargeishvili. I would also like to thank the sponsor of this project, the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, for making this much-needed and good work possible. I want to bless this new initiative and hope it spreads throughout Georgia, not only in Ajara.

jury

Tekla Chkhartishvili

the teacher

I welcome the establishment of the theatre festival "First Autograph" for youth and school groups and all its participants, my colleagues and, I hope, future friends. I must tell you that I am very happy to be a member of the jury of this festival, because I have been connected with theatre since my childhood, I spent a lot of time in the theatre, my parents are also connected with theatre, and I remember that when I was not in the theatre, I watched the plays on the Internet and then replayed the scenes that I remembered the most. Theatre is a permanent holiday for me. I believe that these unforgettable days bring out sides of my fellow human beings that they may not even know about. That's why I am looking forward to the exciting creative days of the theatre festival.

Member of the peer jury