The traditional inclusive festival "School of Arts" will be held at the Piano Theater of Deaf Children in Nizhny Novgorod on March 28.

      This year guests from Japan and Canada will take part in it for the first time .

      Over one hundred children  - pupils of general and correctional schools in Nizhny Novgorod, volunteers, teachers and university students -  have been invited to the festival. Visitors will take part in performances, carnivals, engaging master classes, and exhibitions of dolls as well as paintings.

      "The main goal of the School of Arts project is the effective socialization of children with disabilities through the organization of creative, playful interaction on a par with normally hearing peers," - Vladimir Chikishev, the stage and art director of the Piano Theater points out.