Мой первый журнал SUNRISE November № 1 2018 | Page 68

INTERVIEW Creative People, Unite! Elena Rudakova Sunrise chief editor, Blagoveschensk (Russia) Viktoriya Ulko Poetess, Blagoveschensk (Russia) Our native Blagoveschensk is a small town, however, the public and creative life is in full swing here. The City Poets' Club is a good example. People of different ages and professions regularly hold poetry meetings within the union to share their work in a friendly atmosphere and just have good time together. I joined them this summer after I once visited an event held on a motor vessel and supported by Amur Regional Scientific Library. I was warmly welcome at once and for me the participants have become summer people forever: they were so open-hearted, kind and lively. Viktoriya Ulko was among the first of those I met. I remember that day she impressed me greatly with her beautiful eyes and the expressive and moving manner she was reciting a poem about a sunny bug. Later I learned that it was she who had founded the club and Yaroslav Lukoyanov, quite a famous local poet, had then started helping her with it. He engaged some new social and media partners and a permanent photographer… Once, at a weekend, we three decided to have a meeting in Skandi to talk in Danish setting about ways of promoting our creative activity and just about how it felt to be a poet those days. 67 SUNRISE Yaroslav Lukoyanov Poet, Geography teacher BSPU, Blagoveschensk (Russia) Ya r o s l a v, yo u h a ve b e e n w r i t i n g poetry for a long time and you must have vast experience, so how often do you have your recitals? Yaroslav: You know that I am studying a t B l a g ove s c h e n s k S t a t e Pe d a g o g i c a l University to become a geography teacher and that’s where I held charity events in the assembly hall. I recited poems. There was full audience. Of course, organization takes quite a lot of time but it is well worth it. Viktoriya: Events in a big hall always bring it to a new level. I often think that it would be helpful for us, too. We are going to have an anniversary soon. On the 3rd of January our club will be one year old. The 3 rd of January? And how did it all start? Viktoriya: Yes, it officially started on the 3rd of January in gastrobar Ivolga. By that time we had already stopped working with Maks Radman and I was trying to find out how unions like ours were living in other cities. While doing it, I had an idea to hold a poetry festival and I started looking for people via social networks. Moreover, I joined a blogger school where I was taught to promote my blog. Step by step, a group of people gathered who were moving in the same direction with me. As a result, we appeared in an amount of 40 people at the festival! November 2018 №1