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Literary festival "The Most Reading" at the RUSSIA EXPO

Literary festival "The Most Reading" at the RUSSIA EXPO
Photo: Vladimir Vyatkin/Fotohost-RIA News agency
03.06.2024

The literary festival "The Most Reading" will be held at the RUSSIA EXPO from March 8 to 10. The idea belongs to director Konstantin Bogomolov and literary critic Dmitry Bak. The program includes poetry readings, performances, book presentations, discussions about literature and cinema, an interactive exposition, children's masterclasses, quests and much more.

"Russia is a literature-centered country, and, of course, it is a cliché but true - the word here is more than a word, and the poet is more than just a poet. Therefore, it seems to me, the RUSSIA EXPO at VDNH could not possibly miss this most important part of the Russian culture, of Russian life. All the more so because publishing in Russia is in its heyday. We are one of the leading countries in the world in publishing. At the festival, leading publishing houses will show their products, there will also be meetings with remarkable Russian writers, our contemporaries, discussions about Russian literature and culture, performances, poetry readings and much more," said Konstantin Bogomolov, director and artistic supervisor of the Moscow Drama Theater on Malaya Bronnaya.

Photo: Kirill Zykov/Fotohost-RIA News agency

"Modern man is under pressure from many external influences: economic, technological, informational. Is it the same Homo Sapiens who read Rousseau's French texts or Ivan Turgenev's Russian ones? Does contemporary art still describe what is central to human nature? Does literature in Russia remain the foundation of national culture? These questions will be answered by the events of the literary festival "The Most Reading", in which the Vladimir Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature participates as one of the organizers", - said Dmitry Bak, literary critic, director of the Vladimir Dahl State Museum of the History of Russian Literature.

The festival "The Most Reading" consists of four thematic parts. The first, "The Printed Word", will open with a book fair, in which key Russian publishers will take part. Among them are: "Alpina. Prose", "Abrikobooks", "AST", which will present books of "Editorial Office of Elena Shubina" and "Planet of Childhood", "CompassGuide", "Nastya and Nikita", "Samokat", "Strekoza", as well as the publishing house GMIRLI named after V. I. Dahl. Within this block of the program there will be book presentations, autograph sessions with writers and literary public talks. These are the discussions "Literary Geography and Geniuses of Place", "Literature and Cinema", "Prose of the Young", "Writing and Teaching", as well as "Leo Tolstoy - Superstar. How Classicists Become Bestselling Heroes."

Photo: Vladimir Vyatkin/Fotohost-RIA News agency

The second part, "The Sounding Word," includes public poetry readings with actors and poets, an immersive performance-exposition on works of contemporary Russian literature, verbatim on the literary and epistolary heritage of classic Russian writers, and much more. Among the events is a poetry performance "The Shop of Revived Poets" directed by Alexander Pronkin, as well as the main event of "The Most Reading" - a marathon of poetry, which will be held on March 9. It will be attended by more than 50 theater students and young artists who will read modern and classic poetry. The director of the project is Marina Brusnikina.

 Immediately after the readings on the main stage of the festival, as part of the literary marathon, the performance "Manifestos" directed by Yuri Kvyatkovsky and composer Nikolai Popov will take place. The production will rethink manifestos of famous cultural figures of different times - Malevich, Kandinsky, Khlebnikov, Mayakovsky, Beliy, Yesenin, Gumilev, Kharms, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Matyushin, Monastyrsky and others, accompanying them with a musical performance in various genres, from gospel to rave. The second day of "The Most Reading" will conclude with a large multimedia concert by the CEAM Artists ensemble.

The third part of the festival, "The Tactile Word", presents children's literature and masterclasses, which will be held on March 10. The program includes interactive and educational games, the play "Masha and Tony's Journey to Barakhlyandia" by Mikhail Plutakhin's "Object Theater", workshops by the Center for Creative Development of Children and Teenagers "Arka Marka" of the V.I. Dahl GMIRLI and presentations of children's books. On March 9 and 10 as part of "The Most Reading", quests "Dr. Aibolit's School" will take place, led by graduates of the Moscow Art Theatre Studio School Polina Povtar and Oleg Sapiro.

A separate block within "The Most Reading" will be a program from the project's partner, the Russian Society "Knowledge", which will hold thirty educational events about literature from March 1 to 15: lectures, interviews with writers, directors, poetry readings, book presentations and others. Admission to the events is free, upon registration on the website.

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