Festival "Island 1991" will be held in Moscow on the anniversary of the victory over the putsch Automatic translate

The new "Island of the 90s" to be: a festival organized by the online edition of the modern culture and society of COLTA. RU, Presidential Center B.N. Yeltsin and the portal “Your History” with the support of the Zimin Foundation will be held in Moscow on August 20 at the MUSEON Art Park on the anniversary of the victory over the August putsch. The festival program will include a reconstruction of the events of August 1991, a lecture marathon with the stars of modern culture, film screenings, a round table on rave culture and the origin of dance electronics in Russia, a solo acoustic concert by Vyacheslav Butusov, concerts of key Moscow bands of the 90s, poetry readings, theater performances, a book fair and much more.

The focus of the festival is a conversation about how it all began, about the origins of the plots and those that are of most interest to us now: from urban studies and Olympic sports to relations between Russia and Turkey.

“August 1991 is the first and undeservedly forgotten holiday of modern Russia, the point of transition from the old to the new, the moment when it became clear that the country would never be the same. Only now it becomes clear that the most pressing stories of today were tied at that time, at a single point of no return and reboot. This is our festival program, many hours of lecture marathon, round tables, discussions, rock concert and rave parties - and, of course, the performance of the Theater. doc resurrecting the events of August 19-21. It’s time to remember and discuss this unique time, its light and dark sides, ”says Maria Stepanova, COLTA editor-in-chief. RU and project curator.

The important events that arose in the 1990s will be presented in the form of a lecture marathon on August 20: Alexei Venediktov - about journalism, Irina Prokhorova - about publishing, Irina Yasina - about business, Evgeny Ass - about urbanism, Anton Dolin - about cinema, Alexander Baunov - about the relations between Russia and Turkey, Stanislav Gridasov - about what happened in the 1990s with the Soviet sports system, Anna Narinskaya - about the new reading. The appearance of raves in Russia will be discussed by Andrey Bukharin (Rolling Stone), Valery Alakhov (New Composers), Yuri Orlov (Nikolai Copernicus) and other rave pioneers. Designers Olga Soldatova, Andrey Bartenev and others will talk about the style and fashion of transitional time.

Especially for the festival Theater. doc will prepare an interactive reconstruction of the events of August 1991 - the many-hour performance-performance “Time of August”. Eyewitness accounts, an excursion into the world of forgotten people and contemporary things, an understanding of what happened, “children of the nineties” - peers of the new country.

The festival program includes speeches by authors who created the language of new poetry in the early 1990s - Sergey Gandlevsky, Dmitry Vodennikov, Timur Kibirov.

Spectators will also expect surprises from street performances to unexpected photo shoots throughout the event.

The final musical event of the festival will be a solo acoustic concert by Vyacheslav Butusov, in front of which on the main stage there will appear cult Moscow bands Alliance, Polite Refusal and Megapolis. They will perform special programs in which their famous songs of the 1990s will sound. The second music scene of the festival will be dedicated to dance electronics and the advent of rave culture in Russia, which also took place in 1991. The pioneers of Russian electronic music - New Composers and Yuri Orlov (Nikolai Copernicus) - and the new Moscow producers of Hyperboloid Records, who will revive the spirit of the rave of the 1990s, will perform on it.

Admission to all festival events is free.

The festival program will be announced on August 8.

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The first festival of Russian culture of the 90s was held in September 2015 in Moscow, in the MUSEON Art Park, more than 20 thousand people attended it. The second festival was held on April 24 in Yekaterinburg, at the Yeltsin Center, presenting a large lecture and music program, poetry, theater, photography, street art and new art - what they were twenty years ago and how they look today.

Organizers of the festival: COLTA.RU and the Presidential Center B.N. Yeltsin

COLTA.RU - the main site in Russia about culture and society. This is a project of the same team that created and made the famous OpenSpace.ru site for five years. COLTA. RU exists according to a revolutionary model for Russian media: it is a public media, an independent publication that exists without state assistance, without owners and investors, solely on grants and donations from readers. The project is supported by professionals in all areas of culture. The Board of Trustees of the site includes Irina Prokhorova, Alexander Rodnyansky, Julia Shakhnovskaya, Demyan Kudryavtsev, Dmitry Borisov and many others.

The Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg is the first presidential center in Russia, the task of which is to preserve, study and comprehend the historical heritage of Boris Yeltsin in the context of political and social events of the 90s. Opened at the end of 2015, it has already become one of the country’s most interesting venues for the implementation of modern humanitarian projects. The core of the center is the Museum of the First President of Russia, a unique multimedia exposition built on the latest technologies. This is not an official memorial, but a modern project, designed for lively discussion with the guests of the center. The best museum specialists worked on the museum, gathered in one team by the Presidential Center of Boris N. Yeltsin and the American Museum Company Ralph Appelbaum (RAA).

The educational portal “Your Story” is an interactive educational project with which you can study history not only from textbooks, but also using modern educational tools: multimedia, interactive components and the possibility of distance learning. The aim of the project is to help teachers of schools and universities, pupils and students in the study, preparation and conduct of lessons, lectures and seminars on the modern history of Russia.

The Zimin Foundation is a non-profit organization created to support education, science and culture both in Russia and abroad.

MUSEON Art Park is a unique open-air sculpture museum and one of the most dynamically developing cultural and educational venues in the city. MUSEON is not only a place to store historical artifacts, but also an unusual exhibition space, a platform for showing rare films, theater productions and original music festivals, a self-education center and a large creative workshop.