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HISTORY:From the winning of the first price of the state competition entitled as "The world around us" by the Children Art Studio and giving the birth of the idea, through the festive day of Slavs educators and the colony “Bitola”, till the forming of the final physiognomy of the “Small Montmartre of Bitola” and its growth and lasting whole 27 years. The Children Art Studio “St.Cyril and Methodi” is an organizer of “The Small Montmartre of Bitola” of the international exhibition of children paintings “Bitola” , art caravans and summer art schools. Also the studio is famous with its many successes on home and international festivals, and still it doesn’t lack other humanitarian and additional activities. The Children Art Studio St. Cyril and Methody - Bitola is found on 6th October 1981, on the initiative of the former Republic Committee of Culture and Education. The essential goal of the Studio was and remain to be gathering of the young art talents of Bitola's elementary schools and kindergarten facilities. The membership is free of charge, the entry is by the competition that is announced at the beginning of the school year. At the average the Studio counts 50 children each year between 5 and 14 years old. The Small Montmartre of Bitola deserves its greatness also with the organizing of the art caravans and traveling exhibitions which are working on the old Macedonian architecture, and with the summer art schools and workshops as the "Pelister rhapsody" and fresco painting. In summer workshops organized on Pelister the attendants work on a traditional theme "The beauties of Pelister". They created more than 1000 paintings and the best of them are exhibited in the collection entitled as "Pelister rhapsody". Summer art workshops of "The Small Montmartre of Bitola" are e true art workshops on the open air. Here many talented artists enlarge their knowledge about the fine arts, today some of them are academic painters or a students of academies of fine art in the country and abroad. That is the reason, which makes us believe that it is not so far the day when this Summer Art Workshop will grow into a small art academy. "PEARLS OF MONTMARTRE" IN EUROPE AND AROUND THE WORLD The most representative collection of the Children Art Studio "Pearls of the Small Bitola Montmartre" was found after the Second State children Art Colony "Bitola 83". The first exhibition of this collection (around 20 works) for the first time was promoted in 1984 in Mataruska Banja (Serbia and Montenegro), in the framework of traditional winter school of art pedagogues of foregone Yugoslavia. After each such art colony in Bitola this collection became wealthier for new art works created by the participants from many Macedonian towns: Bitola, Ohrid, Krusevo, Prilep who create works on theme "Old Macedonian Architecture". This collection nowadays counts more than 11 000 "pearls". "Pearls" of Bitola's Montmartre visited many towns in Macedonia, many towns from former Yugoslavia, Europe and worldwide. Here are some of the important visits of the "pearls" around the world. • Mataruska Banja, Lipik (twice), Vrsac and Obrenovac as a part of Winter School of art pedagogues of Yugoslavia. Skopje, Kumanovo, Kocani, Stip, Strumica, Resen, Ohrid • Subotica, Rieka, Veternik, Zabalj, Novi Sad, Banja Luka, Zivinice, Okucani, Belgrade (Twice), Kraguevac • Slovenia: Kranj, Ljubljana, Piran and Maribor • Bulgaria: Sophia, Asenovgrad, Pleven • Germany: Coln • Belgium: Bruxsseles, Vilwoard • France: Paris (twice) • Sweden Stockholm (when this city was capitol of culture of Europe), Baros, Gisslaved and Halmstad • Australia: twice for the first time in 1998 when "pearls" visited Sidney, Melbourne, and New Castle; for the second time this collection was promoted at Olympic Games in Sidney 2000. • Greece Florina and region Little Prespa art caravan • Czech Republic: Prague • Hungary: Pech • USA: Boston (organized by World Bank) • Romania : Bucharest • Finland - Savonlinna The interest about exhibition of "Pearls of the Small Montmartre of Bitola" grows from year to year and the best proof of this are the new invitations for visit to a great number of countries. The greatness of “The Small Montmartre of Bitola” is marked with the friendly visits of the festival by so many important guests like presidents, governors, ambassadors and other local and foreign diplomats.