8 theses of Sergey Kapkova

Last Friday, the director of the Culture Department of Culture, the Director of the CPPPO named after the new head of the Moscow Culture Department. Gorky Sergey Kapkov . Today he first met with reporters in his new status and told how exactly he plans to change the cultural life of the city. Slon.ru publishes the main theses of Sergei Kapkov’s speech. 1. Now the priority task is to integrate everything that we have. It is even surprising to me how many institutions exist that are considered objects of culture. They work functionally so that neither you, journalists interested in the topic, nor I knew about their existence. In sleeping areas there are cinemas where the cafe works, the disco works, and the cinema does not work - but on the papers this cinema, the cultural institution. 2. The goal is the formation of a new cultural policy of Moscow. There are all questions in the meanings. Through public discussions, we can try to find such meanings: we must understand what we are telling tourists, visitors and Muscovites from different areas. We will be with the “arrow” (the Institute of the Media, Architecture and Design “Strelka” - approx. Ed.) To write the concept of new policy, I think we will lay down in six months to year. 3. Our culture is subsidized. Moscow should and will spend money, but, in fact, all this cannot be called subsidies - this is an investment in a generation, in people; The state should be an investor, but it should not wait for the arrival of dividends. Moscow will look for investors, personnel, people. 4. Here in Gorky Park we made the Internet, spent on additional expenses, but completely different people began to come to us and therefore we reduced the costs of security and safety. That is, some processes, if they approach them correctly, they can be launched and they begin to live on their own. If people, say, from Red October, put in a recreation center from sleeping areas, then there will be a different life. You need to find such curators. 5. New Year is another big story; My task, figuratively speaking, to make sure that not only those who walked before, but also readers of the Magazine "Poster" go outside - as they do in European cities. 6. 5% of Muscovites live in the center, and the rest live in other areas, and culture should also come there. There, the need for it, perhaps, is even much higher than in “little” Moscow. In sleeping areas, it seems to me, there should be an emphasis on children, additional education and various other things related to personal development. 7. The mayor’s position is such - all departments must communicate with each other. Understand, the same meaning. The success in Gorky Park is that all services looked in one direction. 8. In Gorky Park, this problem was: one of the ships that swims along the Moscow River, the sound of karaoke turns off only near the Kremlin. And in the Gorky Park there is no housing, so there they turn on the sound in full, and a person could yell the songs so that they can hear in Luzhniki. This cannot cause emotion either among foreigners or Muscovites. What does this have to do with the Department of Culture? Yes, no. But this must already be solved. This is also a matter of culture.