OREANDA-NEWS. The premiere of NucKids, a musical staged in the framework of NucKids 2009 international children’s festival, will take place in Moscow, in the concert hall of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation and in the concert hall of GUM (State Department Store), on Aug 17 and Aug 19, respectively, reported the press-centre of Minatom.

NucKids international children’s festival set off at the Yershovo holiday house in Moscow region on July 19 2009 under the aegis of Rosatom State Nuclear Energy Corporation.

In the framework of the festival 50 children of nuclear workers from Russia, Ukraine and Bulgaria are staging a musical about nuclear energy.

The Russian team represents Kursk, Volgodonsk and Leningrad NPPs, the Russian Federal Nuclear Center-All-Russian Research Institute of Experimental Physics (RFNC-VNIIEF) and Atomflot FSUE.

The participants are the best kids selected through preliminary screening. The key selection criteria were sociability, initiative, artistic skills, staginess and excellence in singing and dancing.
The objective of the project is to dispel myths about nuclear energy and radiation by means of a musical produced and performed by the children of employees of Russian and foreign nuclear facilities.

In Moscow the kids will not only perform but will also go sightseeing and spend good time.

For detailed information about NucKids see www.nuckids.ru.