Art, predominantly drawing and applied arts, is being taught at secondary school level from first to seventh grades. Lessons in theory, history of music and basic singing are scarce. No playing musical instruments are taught in public secondary schools. Instead, other educational institutions such as houses of cultures and art schools offer a wide range of art specialties and musical skills. Most of them have charges, but the fees are not very high and are generally available to the lower middle-class families.
According the defined culture development vision of the government, a number of programmes promoting the connection between education, culture and cultural education are being persistently implemented in the sector since 2019:
- The “Subscription System” programme, the goal of which is to increase the involvement of students in attending cultural events. The programme gives free opportunity to visit cultural institutions for school-aged children.
- “Your art at school” programme, the purpose of which is to fill the gap in “cultural education”, to increase interest in reading, classical music and fine arts, to promote the development of critical, analytical and creative thinking in educational institutions in the fields of music, fine arts, literature, to facilitate young people to meet modern artists, to raise the aesthetic taste and civic consciousness of schoolchildren.
On the initiative of the National Academic Theatre named after Gabriel Sundukyan, since 2018-2019, the National Academic Theatre named after Gabriel Sundukyan has been implementing the “Class + Classical” theatre educational programme.
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