I MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FORUM "CULTURE. LOOK INTO THE FUTURE" LIVE, WORK, CREATE!

Festival program of the I Moscow International Forum “Culture. A look into the future ”, organized by the Moscow City Department of Culture, will be presented on the ground floor of the Manege Central Exhibition Hall. The festival program includes the best Moscow cultural initiatives of the last three years and projects of the future: master classes and lectures, presentations of museums, libraries, cultural centers, concerts and film screenings, performances and performances, as well as children’s events.

“Make culture with us!” The organizers urge, inviting all visitors to become full-fledged participants in the cultural process. In addition, all those institutions and professionals who, as a rule, rarely intersect in one place and even less often interact with each other, will meet and try to build a constructive dialogue in the single cultural space of the Festival. Librarians and souvenir designers, theater directors and museum workers, street food vendors and art gallery owners.

Milena Avimskaya, head of the ON.theatre theater laboratory, curator of the forum’s interactive, spectacular, theater and music events, says that her task is to collect and show people of culture, the general public, all the most promising, interesting, relevant in Moscow, and in just four days to present to the visitors of the Manege all those who are not afraid of censorship, are not afraid to express their opinion, are ready to defend their creative position and boldly look ahead. “Many interesting meetings with directors, actors and art directors of theater workshops will be held at the discussion platforms of the forum. Guests of the Manege these days are waiting for pleasant surprises and unexpected premieres. In particular, Kirill Serebrennikov is preparing a program specially for the opening of the forum, in which excerpts from various performances of the Gogol Center will be collected. The premiere of the play “Jealousy 16 ** - 201 *” staged by the young director of the Mariinsky Theater Vasily Barkhatov will take place in the large hall. On the second day of the Forum, in the big hall of the Manege, where there will be a big talk about the theater, 500 artists will gather - art directors, directors, actors, directors, screenwriters. There will be interactive exhibitions and concert productions. Such an event simply cannot be missed, it must be seen! ”, Avimskaya notes.

The space of the festival floor of the Manege will be divided into several zones, in each of which there will be a place for dialogue about culture, creative events of various forms and genres.

The grand opening of the forum, the concert of the participants of the Jazz Manor, the performance-concert “Sugar” by Ivan Vyrypaev, the screening of the film “Conduction” by Russian documentary director Alexei Loginov about the famous conductor Theodore Currentzis and others will take place in the large hall.

The program of the Oval conference hall includes the Vremya performance of the Theater of Taste, the storytelling of the Pushkin Theater and the Meyerhold Center, the flash mob of Yuri Kvyatkovsky and the performance Liquid Theater, performances by the hip-hop academy and india pop group on-the-go as part of the night in the Manege on October 17/18, the stereoscopic dance of the fashionable St. Petersburg collective Cannon Dance. Presentations of large city projects (Lavka-Lavka, Lambada Market, City Food Market and The Heart of Moscow) will be held on the open stage, and in the masterclass area you can learn about visual merchandising, music, storytelling, cooking, restoration at master classes from the NCCA, Strelka, MediaArtLab.

A big talk about the theater, to which participation are invited: Moscow director Boris Yukhananov, German theater director Peter Stein, artistic director of the St. Petersburg Maly Drama Theater Lev Dodin and others will be held in the most spacious hall of the Manege. The masters will raise the actual problems of the theater and talk about ways to solve them, open the "curtains of secrets" of the theater backstage and present one of the expected events of the year - the opening, after the reconstruction, of the Moscow Drama Theater. K.S. Stanislavsky. The renewed theater not only received a new artistic director in the person of Boris Yukhananov, but also returned its historical name “Stanislavsky Electrotheatre”. This fall, the theater will open with new premieres.

Children at the Manege will also not have to be bored: they will receive surprises from the Snark Theater, all kinds of games and quests, a journey through the world of professions from Masterslavl, a presentation of the Darwin Museum’s museum “Know Yourself - Know the World!”, Master classes in DJing and graffiti from Hip-hop academy, interactive exhibition "Island of Discoveries" Museum of them. K. A. Timiryazev and even a meeting with animals from the Moscow Zoo.

Throughout the forum, in the market zone, trending gastroformats from young popular city teams will be presented, as well as a prefabricated souvenir shop of museums and gift shops in Moscow.

Schedule of the festival program on the Forum website:

http://www.moscowcultureforum.ru/programma/festivalnaya_/index.php

Schedule of the open business and festival program:

http://www.moscowcultureforum.ru/programma/open/index.php

Press release “Festival Forum Program”:

http://www.moscowcultureforum.ru/files/press-reliz_festivalnaja_programma_foruma.pdf

Open business and festival programs are free to visit. The entrance is free.

All news and detailed information about the program, events and participants - on the official website of the forum "Culture. A look into the future" www.moscowcultureforum.ru .

Forum working hours: October 15–18 from 11.00–22.00.