Literary festival "The Most Reading" at the RUSSIA EXPO
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.
"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."
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.
