Guests of the programme were Abay Kalshabek, senior manager of the Center of Excellence branch in Shymkent, Irina Burlak, senior manager of the Center for Educational Programmes, author of the collection of poems “Everything begins with love...” (Всё начинается с любви), and Uljan Shoraeva, manager of the Center of Excellence, author of collection of poems “Unaidy qaraganyn”.
Kulyash Shamshidinova, Chairperson of the Executive Board of “Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools” AEO, noted the importance of promoting spiritual values through modern poetry.
During the meeting, lyrical works about the homeland, life, love were performed. Creativity of our colleagues is interesting for many poetry lovers, while the authors themselves are well known in literary circles. Abay Kalshabek is a versatile individual, member of the Writers’ Union of Kazakhstan, “Best poet of Turkestan region – 2021”, holder of “Daryn” fellowship. Irina Burlak is known as the author of poetry texts for textbooks in Russian language, art and music published by “Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools” AEO.
Ulzhan Shoraeva, a young poetess, presented her first collection of poems “Unaidy qaraganyn” and spoke about the story of creation of songs “Ake”, “Astana”, “Zhanym”, “Izdeimin” and “Unatyp qalma”.
About 400 participants commended the work of their colleagues and wished them inspiration and new creative ideas.
