Where to go in Moscow on the weekend of September 23-24, 2017 for free: during these two days the capital will delight not only with sunny weather, but also with a cultural and entertainment program. Muscovites are advised to spend the weekend as positively as possible, with help from event organizers.
New Year not so soon, but you will be able to plunge into the holiday atmosphere again this Sunday: the doors of Father Frost’s estate are open to everyone. You can feel like real French people during theater festival"Gavroche"
On Saturday and Sunday, two large-scale festivals will take place in the capital. The date of the VII Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light” falls on 23.09-27.09 inclusive. The most better performances to works of modern light art: projections - three-dimensional images - will appear on city buildings. Spectators will become participants in a musical and multimedia show with choreographic fountains, light lasers, and fire. An amazing performance will take place at the Ostankino Tower, Theater Square, Tsaritsyno Park, Patriarch's Ponds, Stroginsky Zaton, the Mir Concert Hall and the Digital October Center.
Ostankino Tower, central platform:
23.09, 20:00 — Grand opening festival with light and pyrotechnic shows.
24.09, 20:00 - light show.
Every day from 19:30 to 23:00, light and musical projections of romantic shows based on classical works will be created on the facades of the Bolshoi and Maly Theaters.
Tsaritsyno Park: an audiovisual show is planned, accompanied by Soprano Turkish.
Digital October Center:
Weekends, Sat and Sun: Muscovites are invited to lectures and seminars on visual art.
KZ "Mir":
24.09 — competitive program"Art Vision VJing".
Invitations to the above events are absolutely free. However, you need to pre-register for them by going to lightfest.ru.
Second festival - XI International festival performances for children “Gavroche”:
15:00 — in “Sovremennik” for children from 6 years old there will be a play “Zernyshki. Return to earth."
16:00 - at the theater. The Moscow City Council will stage a play “Romance” for children aged 3 years and older.
17:00 - at great hall The theater will host the play “Alice and Other Wonders” for children aged 7 years and older.
18:00 - at the theater. E. Vakhtangov for children from 5 years old there will be a play “Mobius”.
11:00, 13:30 - at the theater. E. Vakhtangov will host the performance “Mobius”.
11:00, 15:00 - in the theater. The Moscow City Council will host the performance “Romance”.
12:00, 16:00 - the play “Grains. Return to the earth."
15:00 - the play “Alice and Other Wonders” will take place at the Teatrium.
Tickets can be purchased at prices ranging from 600.00 rubles to 1,500.00 rubles.
On September 23, in Moscow, in honor of the 110th anniversary of the Darwin Museum, the events “Together for more than a century” are organized.
12:00 - 16:00 - museum staff as part of the "Parade" museum professions"will reveal their professional secrets.
13:00 - quizzes are held in the cinema hall: whoever wins will visit a closed storage room with rare and valuable museum exhibits.
15:00 - guests are invited to attend a free excursion, with I.V. Fadeev as a guide.
On September 24, the estate of Father Frost will open its doors: theatrical performances will begin, pop vocalists will perform, and artists will show amazing circus acts. There will also be a competition with lots of entertainment.
11:00 - start time for playgrounds.
12:00 - artists will begin performing.
There is no need to pay for entry.
Festival "Circle of Light"
Architectural video mapping - projection volumetric images on city buildings and structures - can be seen on the Ostankino Tower, which this year celebrates its half-century anniversary. In addition to the Ostankino TV tower, the Circle of Light festival program will feature four more open areas: Theater Square, Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Patriarch's Ponds and Stroginskaya floodplain.
"New Year in Russian style"
Since ancient times, the New Year was celebrated in September. People organized games, performed rituals, and visited each other. At the Moscow estate of Father Frost, they have been maintaining this tradition for many years and every year they choose a specific theme for the next holiday program. This year the organizers decided to turn to such folklore musical genre like a song. It is this that best reflects the versatility of the Russian soul.
Celebration “Together for more than a century”
In 1907, the young zoologist Alexander Cotes, fascinated by the ideas of Charles Darwin, decided to create a museum dedicated to evolution in Moscow. Story Darwin Museum very dramatic, but over the past years, from a small private collection it has grown into one of the largest natural history museums in Russia. Today it is difficult to imagine Moscow without the Darwin Museum. The highlight of the celebration for the museum’s anniversary will be the “Parade of Museum Professions” (from 12:00 to 16:00). Who are taxidermists? How do restorers work? Do museum objects have passports? Only on this day will the museum staff share their professional secrets with you. Directly in the exhibition you will be able to see the work of museum specialists: restorers and dummies, curators and taxidermists.
Where: State Darwin Museum
Exhibition “Geniuses of Disguise. Mimicry: disappear to survive"
Exhibition guests are welcome interactive adventures and amazing discoveries related to the phenomenon of protective coloring. The exhibition was created using innovative exhibition technologies: a variety of light and sound solutions create an immersive effect, thanks to which guests receive information about this complex biological phenomenon in a playful, interactive way.
Where: Moscow Zoo
Holiday " Emerald Grapes»
Viticulture has been practiced on the territory of Moldova since time immemorial. It is not surprising that grapes have become a cultural symbol of Moldova. The “Emerald Grapes” holiday will introduce Muscovites and guests of the capital to the unique culture of the country, its traditions, customs, cuisine and entertainment. For the whole day, the Hermitage Garden will become a kind of miniature of Moldova in the center of the Russian capital. On main stage Moldovan pop artists and folk groups will perform, performing both modern and native Moldovan music. Here you can get acquainted with traditional folk crafts and buy souvenirs.
Where: Hermitage Garden
Festival of performances for children "Gavroche"
Spectators can expect performances in all genres: drama, new circus, object, puppet and visual theater, modern dance. Theaters from Paris, Strasbourg, Lille, Grasse, Toulouse and Lyon will bring them to Moscow stages. In just ten festival days, more than 40 performances will be given here for spectators aged 1.5 to 16 years.
Venue: Theater on Serpukhovka
Exhibition “Photo album of Henri Cartier-Bresson. 1932–1946"
In 2000, as part of the Third Moscow international month photography in Moscow “Photobiennale 2000” at the “Moscow House of Photography” museum the exhibition “Henri Cartier-Bresson. USSR: 1950–1970”, today MAMM presents the exhibition “Photo Album of Henri Cartier-Bresson. 1932–1946", telling about early period creativity of the photographer.
Where: Multimedia Art Museum
7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art
The main project of the 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art “Cloudy Forests” will be held at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. For the first time in the history of the Moscow Biennale, it will last four months. The curator of the Main Project, Yuko Hasegawa, said that the “Cloud Forests” project shows a new generation of artists who stop living in the “forests” and, following the development of technology, move to the “clouds”. Participants in the Main Project include Matthew Barney, Olafur Eliasson, who are creating new works specifically for participation in the Moscow Biennale, and the famous Icelandic singer and artist Björk.
Exhibition "Flea Market"
If you love things with history and the first thing you do when you arrive in a new city is the local flea market, the Flea Market is an event worth marking on your calendar. Real treasure hunters will gather to find something truly unique. Ancient engravings, dishes, door handles, dolls, candlesticks, figurines, records - a small part of what can be obtained at the capital's flea market. Don’t forget: you can bargain here, but you need to ask about the product!
Where: Tishinskaya Square, 1
If you have arrived in the capital city for the first time and are wondering where to go in Moscow today, then you should immediately evaluate the Moscow poster with hundreds of events and places, because here you will always find where to go and what to see! Why not start your walk from the holy of holies - Red Square? Many attractions are concentrated in a small area, a tour of which will take the whole day. From the Lenin Mausoleum to the grandiose exhibition Historical Museum- but there is also GUM and the Armory Chamber, Alexander Garden and Okhotny Ryad. From the center it is worth moving along Tverskaya Street - the main avenue with adjacent streets that have preserved their unique flavor. Don't forget about comfortable shoes and a charger for your smartphone: there are many roads and reasons for selfies ahead.
The Moscow poster is literally filled with events for every taste.
On any day of the week, the capital is in a state of constant fiesta. Lovers of quiet, intellectual relaxation can visit museums, galleries and temporary museums, many of which have an international resonance. Sports lovers also have plenty to choose from: attend competitions in any discipline or take part in them themselves. Party-goers and hedonists have the opportunity to immerse themselves in the elements of night Moscow with its nightclubs and raves until the morning. In the capital there are interesting activities for both children and their parents: film shows, lectures, master classes. If you are still wondering where to go in Moscow today, tomorrow or over the weekend, check out the KudaGo poster. Moscow is already waiting!
Gray autumn days absolutely need to be diluted with bright weekends. Down with all kinds of precipitation and degrees, down with the approaching blues, we continue to maintain the festival mood, wrap up our favorite scarf and run through the exhibitions with a mug of cocoa - forward, autumn!
Exhibitions
55th anniversary of the Novator photo club
The legendary Moscow photographers' club was founded in 1961 by Alexander Khlebnikov and Georgy Soshalsky. Moreover, the club was created for the work of already established frame masters, for the communication of amateur photographers, for a kind of “advanced training.”
As part of the START project, the Russian Collectors Forum will host the exhibition “In a New Perspective”. START is a project that has been organizing debut solo exhibitions since 2008. The exposition will be directly dedicated to the project itself, as well as trends in the development of Russian young art and current topics for contemporary artists.
A total of 60 works will be exhibited, including paintings, graphics, photography, sculpture and installations. Among the names are Veronica Rudyeva-Ryazantseva, Evgeny Antufiev, Kirill Makarov, Alexander Zaitsev, Zinaida Isupova, Vladimir Omutov and many others.
Price: 350 rubles
Place: Krymsky Val st., 10/14, Central House Artist
House of impressions. Classic and modern media art
In the space of the Museum town of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin presents a collection of nineteen works by outstanding video and media artists of the 20th–21st centuries. The project is dedicated to the collision of past and present, innovation processes, which was happening at that time, contributing to the “liberation” of artistic means.
The idea is this: a 21st century museum is no longer a quiet, elevated place where the caretaker shushes you for every sneeze. A modern museum is about paintings that have gone beyond their frames, screens, sounds, tactile sensations - all together and allows guests of the exhibition to immerse themselves in the image, to “drown” in the works.
By the way, this weekend is the last days of the project, so hurry up!
Price: from 200 rubles
Place: Poplar Alley, 6, Estate of Princes Golitsyn
Educational program "Positions"
As part of the exhibition “Everyday Life. Simple steps» will pass educational program"Positions". Experts will tell their positions regarding the rapprochement of theater and art and the special messages that are “encrypted” in the performances and exhibition in conversations with Dmitry Volkostrelov.
On September 24 at 17.00 there will be a meeting with Mikhail Ratgauz, a film critic who wrote about cinema in Vedomosti and Harper’s Bazaar. He will express his point of view regarding what is considered art and what is not, what is theater and what is art.
Price: from 150 rubles, registration required
Place: Tverskoy Boulevard, 9, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Collections of the Primorsky State Art Gallery
The project “Golden Map of Russia” is already holding its 39th exhibition. This time, in honor of the anniversary largest museum Far Eastern region, there will be an exchange of canvases between Primorskaya art gallery and the Tretyakov Gallery. 52 works will arrive in Moscow for the “Golden Map of Russia”, and 60 works will go to Vladivostok for the exhibition “City Romance”.
The exhibition at the Tretyakov Gallery will bring together best works paintings of the second half of the 18th – early 20th centuries, the paintings will make a journey of about 6.5 thousand kilometers. Muscovites will be able to see “Portrait of P.S. Runich" by V.L. Borovikovsky, "Portrait of Prince D.M. Golitsyn" by F.S. Rokotova, “View of Sorrento near Naples” Silv.F. Shchedrin, “The Laughing Boy with Gingerbread” by N.S. Krylova and others.
Price: from 700 rubles
Place: Lavrushinsky lane, 12, State Tretyakov Gallery, Engineering Corps
Festivals
ARTMOSSPHERE
Within the framework of the Biennale street art There will be an art market on the -1st floor of Tsvetnoy, the premiere of the film Girl Power and an exhibition at VDNKh. Art Market is an event for true connoisseurs of works by Russian and foreign artists street art, as well as for the fashion crowd: a capsule collection of clothing and accessories will be presented. In general, everything your heart desires - from stickers and decals to trousers and sweatshirts.
Participants: Kirill Kto, Misha Most, Anton Rayons, Anatoly Akue, Vova Nootk, Dmitry Eloom, Dima Gred, Stas Dobry, Nespoon, Wert, Maxim Ima, Rub Kandy, ST, Roman Kreemos, Graffiti Fox.
Price: free entry
Place: Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 15, Tsvetnoy Department Store
Greek Culture Festival Akropolis
Already got bored with the sea and sunny days? Then a trip to the festival Greek culture will definitely invigorate you! The Akropolis festival promises to be not so much a festival as a real trip to Greece for bright emotions and new impressions.
In a programme - sport games(reference to the Olympics - Note “365”), theatrical performances ancient Greek tragedies, sirtaki lessons, and, of course, food and more food. According to the organizers: “You can literally taste Greece.”
Price: free entry
Place: st. Karetny Ryad, Hermitage Garden
Festival "Circle of Light" 2016. Educational program
The Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light” no longer needs any introductions. Mesmerizing animations on architectural structures capital city posted every second one on his Instagram. But here’s what many people don’t know: the festival annually hosts a two-day educational program that provides a platform for experimentation for young professionals, students and audiovisual industry workers.
This year's program is focused on urban lighting, the role of lighting technologies in modern culture, video mapping. Russian and foreign lighting designers will talk about the most advanced technologies, theater directors and producers, and even organizers of large-scale sports shows.
All lectures of the program will be held at the Digital October Center at Red October.
Price: free admission, registration on the website is required
Place: Bersenevskaya embankment, 6/3, Digital October Center
MIXAR 2016
Conference on the latest technologies there is no way it can be classical and the organizers of MIXAR2016 completely agree with this, which is why they call the project a non-classical conference.
MIXAR2016 is an image conference with complete immersion in all kinds of realities. This is a technology exhibition, fascinating talks, open discussions, shopping, and a place for installing digital art. There will be several zones - the exhibition area itself, lecture halls, a food court and an area for children. By the way, if you’re already there, stay for the after-party from 21:30 to 00:00.
Price: free admission, registration on the website is required
Place: st. Eastern, 4, building 1, Cultural Center ZIL
Autumn Veganfest
Aloha, connoisseurs of everything natural and healthy, that is, those who in stores contemptuously bypass the counters with sausage and frankfurters, confidently moving towards the vegetable department. If you have a smoothie in your bag and a salad in the container and the word “McDonald’s” makes you scratch nervously, then you have chosen the right event.
There is a joke circulating on social networks - “a veganfest is not a reason to be a vegetable,” so you won’t be bored, because there will be a lot going on around you. Lectures, markets, physical exercise, and for the very early birds - breathing exercises.
Price: from 100 rubles, registration on the website is required
Place: Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya, 10, Artplay Center
Roots United × Scheme w/ DJ Stingray (US)
Techno festivals are an undoubted trend this year. And again an event for lovers of high-quality techno music: the owners of the ROOTS UNITED label and the series of events of the same name, the founders of the festival Present Perfect they are doing something unreal.
In the program: EL, Hoopa, Slava Lepsheev, Konakov - live, Shutta, Klepalov. A specially invited guest is DJ Stingray, for his own - Sherard Ingram, who today acts as the custodians of retro-futuristic aesthetics and composes ideal mixes ala Detroit or deserted American gas stations.
Price: 500 rubles
Place: Paper passage, 3, KRUGOZOR
Big Autumn Garage Sale “Eskimo-fest”
Garage sale like this scale will pass for the fourth time already. Because there is no better cure for a cold than shopping. We, as doctors of the autumn blues, officially declare this to you.
In addition, in addition to the favorable prices, and there is something to grab here - a Vivienne Westwood T-shirt for 50 rubles, Jimmy Choo shoes for 1500 rubles, a Zara dress for only 300 rubles, and new Ecco sneakers for 400, there will be various goodies - brownies and mulled wine, for example, as well as incendiary master classes of Brazilian and Argentine dances.
Oh yes, the most important thing is the dress code - check and tweed. Like this: to go to a garage sale, you need to find a garage sale somewhere.
Price: free entry
Place: st. Bolshaya Novodmitrovskaya, 36, FLACON design-zavod
Moscow Marathon 2016 / Moscow Marathon 2016
Have you warmed up yet? Do you run the fastest and easily catch up with your minibus? We think it's time to document your speed and find out what you're really worth. The marathon route runs through the center of the capital: along the embankments of the Moskva River past Moscow City, along the Garden Ring, across the Crimean Bridge, the Boulevard Ring and Tverskaya Street, along Teatralny Proezd and under the walls of the Kremlin.
All you need to do is register on the site and lace up your sneakers properly. Good luck!
Price: free entry
Place: st. Luzhniki, 24
Movie
If you want to watch a film in a cinema, we strongly advise you to refer to our weekly guide “.
"Paradise" by Andrei Konchalovsky
Still from the film "Paradise"
Pre-premiere screenings at Pioner of Andrei Konchalovsky's film "Paradise", which received the Silver Lion at the 73rd International Venice Film Festival.
The story intertwines three destinies - the Russian emigrant Olga, a participant in the French Resistance movement, the French collaborator Jules and the German Helmut, a high-ranking SS officer.
It all starts with Olga's arrest for hiding Jewish children from the Nazi raid. Jules, who is leading her case, offers an affair in exchange for a reduced sentence, but Olga ends up in a German concentration camp. In the concentration camp she meets Helmut, who in the past was unrequitedly in love with her. A strange, painful relationship begins between them.
The story is about how the main character’s idea of paradise changes with each new turn of her fate. The main roles in the film were played by Julia Vysotskaya, aspiring German actor Christian Klaus and the famous French actor Philippe Duquesne.
Price: from 300 rubles
Place: Kutuzovsky pr-t, 21, k/t Pioneer
Cineticle Weekend
Cineticle Art-cinema magazine collected best movies year for this weekend.
Three films, three directors, three countries - and the opportunity to see these films for the first time on the big screen!
Still from the film “The Story of Judas”
Story last days Jesus Christ before his coming to Jerusalem and an attempt at a new reading classical history Judas Iscariot. The film mixed French intellectual practice and the Algerian desert, there is something from Borges and even quotes from The Master and Margarita.
Still from the film “Correspondence”
An amazing dialogue between two poets - about the search for freedom and the key to understanding it. The inspiration for the film was drawn from the history of Portuguese poets - Sofia de Mello Breiner and Jorge de Seine, who, due to circumstances, were separated for a long time, until the end of their lives, and were unable to meet again. With their correspondence they tried to somehow fill the years of separation.
Still from the film “Right Now, Not After”
A film director goes to the premiere of his film, but misses the date - he arrives a day early. He meets a young artist, they start a conversation, they go for a walk, eat sushi, drink soju. The next day everything repeats exactly. But is it accurate? Is it possible to step into the same river twice? — The film is just about this.
All films will be shown in the original language with Russian subtitles.
Price: from 400 rubles
Place: st. Pokrovka, 47/24, Cinema "35mm"
Girl Power
Film screening as part of the street art biennale. Girls Power is a documentary about the international female graffiti community from all over the world - from Prague to Moscow, Cape Town, Sydney, Madrid, Berlin, Barcelona, Toulouse - and straight to New York. Girl Power tells the stories of female graffiti artists who have achieved success and recognition despite the idea that graffiti is largely a male-dominated activity.
The narration comes from the perspective of the Czech artist Sany, we get to know her, her everyday life, her environment, her hobbies and her failures.
Price: from 300 rubles, registration on the website is required
Place: st. Rochdelskaya 15, building 12A
Text: Sofya Stolyarova