Rustaveli Avenue is preparing to mark this year’s Independence Day with cultural, educational and entertainment events.

Set to run under the motto “This Day is Ours”, the programme for the May 26 celebrations will involve a choir of 300 children performing the national anthem on Tbilisi’s Freedom Square at 5:10pm, the exact time the independence of the First Democratic Republic of the country was announced back in 1918.

Rustaveli Avenue will be divided into spaces for cognitive, entertainment, sports and children’s events and activities. Literary spaces set up along the Avenue will host meetings of authors and poets with their readers, while startups will exhibit and sell their products on the location.