The project Medal Plaza will be established on the Palace of Republic square during the Winter Universiade time. Starting from the 29th of January from 3 p.m. till 10 p.m. there will be protocol and cultural programs of the Universiade.
Protocol program implies the ceremony of awarding medals arranged in official format. The representatives of Almaty city authorities and FISU representatives as well as some others officials will be awarding the Universiade medals and Universiade mascot. The ceremonies will be done with a raising of the flag of a winner-country accompanied with the Universiade anthem «Gaudeamus». The ceremony starting time is 20.00. There will be arranged about 2 till 10 awarding ceremonies every day. Due to protocol screenplay the time of awarding of one set of medals is about 10 mins.
Extended cultural program presented in Medal Plaza is named “From the roots to the future”. Every day during the Universiade competitions is themed differently aimed to reveal and present a creative and sport potential of Kazakhstan. Official sponsor of cultural program in Medal Plaza is Astana Banki.
Under the cultural program in the Palace of Republic square there will be functioning the following zones: “warm” zone with wi-fi and master-classes for children and cinema zone arranged in a big tent in the center of the square, an inflatable tent “Krasnoyarsk – Universiade – 2019”, Flappy Sunkar game, sport zone for welcoming from Kazakh sportsmen and show program Kazakh singer stars. Organizers provide a bright and memorable show program with famous dance groups, acrobatics groups and singers.
Kazakh singer stars will be performing on Medal Plaza such as Ali Okapov, Madina Sadvakassova, Zhanar Dugalova, Yerbolat Kudaibergenov, music bands “Ringo”, “Renzo”, “Ayumi” and some others. Within the cultural program the best dancers and singers will be performing: TV project “Bile Kazakhstan” finalists, talent show “Muz Art LIVE” participants and “The Voice of Kazakhstan”. There will be arranged a public vocal competition “The voice of the Universiade-2017”. The MCs of the cultural program in Medal Plaza are Adil Zhumekenov and Aida Tleukhan. The MC of a sport part is Fima Ivanov. The starting hour of the show program is 6.30 p.m. every day.
