BIRD’S MEADOW FESTIVAL
A forty-hour rave with camping outside the city.
One more outdoor marathon of electronic music awaits us on the weekend. This year, the organizers of the third open-air «Bird’s Meadow» united with the Moscow Bureau Candy’s Bros, which arranges Blow Up parties. This festival refers more to dancing, and not to experiments. Music, therefore, will be entirely domestic – from Easy Changes OL and Alka Rex Duet to Maiden Obey and Celebrine with DJ set. Again – the picturesque nature as a decoration is provided.
The Bird’s Meadow Festival is held in Novoseltsevo village on August 1-3. The entrance price is 1000 rubles (€20).
«DANCE PLATFORM ZIL. MOSCOW – NEW YORK»
Festival of Modern Choreography from the New York performance artist
Formally, the First International Festival of Contemporary Choreography began yesterday, on Thursday, but the main fun will take place on Friday and Saturday. On August 1 – Jen Rosenblit and Eddies Gonzalez will perform a program «Natural Dance»; they showed it in the legendary New York gallery The Kitchen in May and gained very good reviews from critics.
This is certainly not the classic choreography. Natural Dance is almost absurd show with a subtle but readable story.
The same evening, another New York dancer Arturo Vidic will present his video performance. It shows wrapped in cellophane body of a man, and rats running at the body, moving from one corner of the room to the other. It is a rare chance see the work of modern art and discuss it with its author. A day later, on Saturday, Vidic will perform with dance live. His dances are always dynamic, so it is a great opportunity to see something unbelievable.
The festival will go in ZIL Cultural Center (Vostochnaya St., 4/1) from July 31 to August 5.
LE PICNIC MARKET
One more designer market with nice choice of goods and entertainments.
Fashion for all sorts of markets and bazaars in Moscow is gaining popularity. The only designer market on this tranquil weekend is Le Picnic in the yard of Powerhouse club. The festival, hold for the second time this year promise to be nice. There will be places to relax, different tournaments, board games and kicker, as well as delicious meals from the familiar projects. Among the participants of a food court there are confectionery Injir, corn cups by Unicorn Corn, coffee P’Artisan Coffee Roastery, ice cream, tacos and more. The designer market presents new Russian brands. You can buy here nonobvious home furnishings (like chairs, made from broken skateboards) surfboards, swimwear by Cheeky & Coco – is not very relevant to the Moscow summer, but extremely charming – Cases for iPhone by UFOFO, vinyl records, clothes, jewelry, natural cosmetics and so forth.
The market will take place in the Powerhouse Club on August 2 from 13.00 to 22.00.
THE «NEW INTERNATIONAL» EXHIBITION
A new big project in the Garage Center for Contemporary Art.
The exhibition is prepared by curator Kate Fowl. The New International is the latest exhibition in a series of the «Garage» projects, focused on the 1990s, as a significant turning point in contemporary art. Artists of that period had a common experience. Their formation started at the period of globalization and changes on the political map, social upheavals, the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War. Shirin Neshat, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Santiago Sierra, the Irwin group, Dan Waugh and Johan Grimonprez conceptualize these and other topics in the opening exposition.
The exhibition will last in the Garage Center for Contemporary Art from August 1 to September 21.
EXHIBITION «MOSCOW DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR»
See Moscow of the World War I times.
The centenary of the First World War is celebrated this week (on July 28). The First World War began on August 1, 1914, and had lasted for four years old. During the war, more than 10 million soldiers were and about 12 million civilians were killed, about 55 million people were injured. Since the time of the Napoleonic Wars, no event had such a strong effect on so many people and countries simultaneously. For Russia, the war ended by the revolution, which opened up entirely new historical epoch.
The history of that severe time is told at the exhibition at the Museum of Moscow. Photographs, personal diaries and letters, objects connected with the Moscow wartime daily life – including the Ford van, which collected things during charity events – will be shown in one of the buildings of the museum.
The exhibition will last from August 1 to October 19.
Weekend Guide. August 1-3
BIRD’S MEADOW FESTIVAL
A forty-hour rave with camping outside the city.
One more outdoor marathon of electronic music awaits us on the weekend. This year, the organizers of the third open-air «Bird’s Meadow» united with the Moscow Bureau Candy’s Bros, which arranges Blow Up parties. This festival refers more to dancing, and not to experiments. Music, therefore, will be entirely domestic – from Easy Changes OL and Alka Rex Duet to Maiden Obey and Celebrine with DJ set. Again – the picturesque nature as a decoration is provided.
The Bird’s Meadow Festival is held in Novoseltsevo village on August 1-3. The entrance price is 1000 rubles (€20).
«DANCE PLATFORM ZIL. MOSCOW – NEW YORK»
Festival of Modern Choreography from the New York performance artist
Formally, the First International Festival of Contemporary Choreography began yesterday, on Thursday, but the main fun will take place on Friday and Saturday. On August 1 – Jen Rosenblit and Eddies Gonzalez will perform a program «Natural Dance»; they showed it in the legendary New York gallery The Kitchen in May and gained very good reviews from critics.
This is certainly not the classic choreography. Natural Dance is almost absurd show with a subtle but readable story.
The same evening, another New York dancer Arturo Vidic will present his video performance. It shows wrapped in cellophane body of a man, and rats running at the body, moving from one corner of the room to the other. It is a rare chance see the work of modern art and discuss it with its author. A day later, on Saturday, Vidic will perform with dance live. His dances are always dynamic, so it is a great opportunity to see something unbelievable.
The festival will go in ZIL Cultural Center (Vostochnaya St., 4/1) from July 31 to August 5.
LE PICNIC MARKET
One more designer market with nice choice of goods and entertainments.
Fashion for all sorts of markets and bazaars in Moscow is gaining popularity. The only designer market on this tranquil weekend is Le Picnic in the yard of Powerhouse club. The festival, hold for the second time this year promise to be nice. There will be places to relax, different tournaments, board games and kicker, as well as delicious meals from the familiar projects. Among the participants of a food court there are confectionery Injir, corn cups by Unicorn Corn, coffee P’Artisan Coffee Roastery, ice cream, tacos and more. The designer market presents new Russian brands. You can buy here nonobvious home furnishings (like chairs, made from broken skateboards) surfboards, swimwear by Cheeky & Coco – is not very relevant to the Moscow summer, but extremely charming – Cases for iPhone by UFOFO, vinyl records, clothes, jewelry, natural cosmetics and so forth.
The market will take place in the Powerhouse Club on August 2 from 13.00 to 22.00.
THE «NEW INTERNATIONAL» EXHIBITION
A new big project in the Garage Center for Contemporary Art.
The exhibition is prepared by curator Kate Fowl. The New International is the latest exhibition in a series of the «Garage» projects, focused on the 1990s, as a significant turning point in contemporary art. Artists of that period had a common experience. Their formation started at the period of globalization and changes on the political map, social upheavals, the collapse of communism and the end of the Cold War. Shirin Neshat, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Santiago Sierra, the Irwin group, Dan Waugh and Johan Grimonprez conceptualize these and other topics in the opening exposition.
The exhibition will last in the Garage Center for Contemporary Art from August 1 to September 21.
EXHIBITION «MOSCOW DURING THE FIRST WORLD WAR»
See Moscow of the World War I times.
The centenary of the First World War is celebrated this week (on July 28). The First World War began on August 1, 1914, and had lasted for four years old. During the war, more than 10 million soldiers were and about 12 million civilians were killed, about 55 million people were injured. Since the time of the Napoleonic Wars, no event had such a strong effect on so many people and countries simultaneously. For Russia, the war ended by the revolution, which opened up entirely new historical epoch.
The history of that severe time is told at the exhibition at the Museum of Moscow. Photographs, personal diaries and letters, objects connected with the Moscow wartime daily life – including the Ford van, which collected things during charity events – will be shown in one of the buildings of the museum.
The exhibition will last from August 1 to October 19.