The annual Arts Night event will take place in Moscow for the fourth time on 4 November. This year, it takes place as part of the Year of Russian Cinema.
The organisers describe Arts Night as having a mission to acquaint people with the city’s best creative studios, share famous cultural figures’ life stories, and inspire Muscovites to find their own creative niche. The event’s slogan this year reflects this mission: Time to Create.
More than 270 cultural establishments in Moscow – museums, libraries, theatres, cultural centres and concert venues – will open their doors at 6 pm on this evening and stay open till late. The programme prepared especially for the event includes concerts, performances, master classes, movie showings, excursions, discussions and readings.
Continuing previous years’ tradition, the Nocturnal Meetings – dialogues on creative professions with prominent cultural and arts figures taking part – will be a central part of the event. Film and theatre actors and directors, museum curators, modern artists, choreographers, circus performers, musicians, screenplay writers, writers and poets will meet to discuss their creative careers, the role arts play in their own lives, and the events and people that inspire them.
Director Nikolai Khomeriki, for example, will relate how he left economics and ended up in the arts instead. Journalist and director Fyokla Tolstaya will speak about modern literature and tradition. Nikita Yefremov, who comes from a family dynasty of actors, will talk about his career’s development.
The arts will spill over into the public space too, especially Moscow’s public transport infrastructure. Railway stations, Moscow metro stations, trains on the Moscow Central Ring line, trolleybuses, buses and trams will all become platforms for Arts Night events.
At Moscow’s railway stations, for example, people will have the chance to listen to an a-cappella performance by children from the Popov Choral Academy, original jazz vocals from Polina Kasyanova, indie-rock from the group Glintshake, and a concert by the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, which will acquaint listeners with the new academic music phenomenon.
Performers in the metro will include actors from Dmitry Brusnikin’s Studio, who will present a theatrical almanac based on Russian history. Souskefal’s members will sing ironic songs about life, accompanied by everyday objects used as musical instruments, and the Moscow Ballet Theatre will put on a one-act performance, Ekvus, at one of the metro’s central stations.
The MCR trains will become performance venues for progressive young musicians performing a range of styles, including funk, jazz and hip-hop. Recent graduates from the Moscow Art Theatre Studio School – the Julyensemble Theatre – will present a musical and poetic show, #chyostikhi, with texts by Linor Goralik, Vladimir Gorokhov, Dmitry Vodennikov, Fyodor Svarovsky and other modern poets. The show is designed as a series of mini-performances that people can start watching from any moment.
Arts Night will also offer master classes in choral singing, acting, calligraphy, dance, architecture, modern art, literature and much more.
The full programme of Arts Night will be available on the site artnight.mos.ru from 27 October.
Source: mos.ru