Enlightener Day in Moscow

On November 20, in Moscow, once again the Dynasty Foundation, established by one of the largest Russian philanthropists Dmitry Borisovich Zimin, will be awarded the Enlightener Award. In the eve of the ceremony on November 15, on Saturday, the day of the enlightener will be held in Moscow. About this event "Daily Journal" was told by the Deputy Executive Director of the Dynasty Foundation, the curator of the Enlightener Award from the Fund Rosa Khatskelevich :

“This festival is associated with the presence in the cultural space of Russia the Enlightener Prize, which was established by Dmitry Borisovich Zimin and the Fund for non -profit programs“ Dynasty ”. This year the prize will be awarded the seventh time. The prize is designed to note the best books of the popular science genre written in Russian and published in Russia, as well as encourage their authors, inspire to write new books. Two years ago, an idea appeared: on the eve of the award ceremony, the award laureates, which is held annually on the third Thursday of November, make a large city holiday, a smart and cheerful festival - the Everse Day. We want this holiday to spread throughout the country and that enlighteners, and they are in every city in the country, go to people and shared their knowledge with them, and that it would not only be interesting in content, but also in form.
The enlighteners of our holiday are mainly prize nominees, finalists and laureates, as well as jury members and our friends. We offer them unusual places for performances, unusual genres for them. Often they themselves offer a place where they would like to speak. If you look at the program, you will see that our beautiful enlighteners go to large and small museums, travel with the public in a trolley, come to libraries and hospitals. For example, Ilya Kolmanovsky will tell the children in the center of Rogachev how laparascopic operations are done.
We would very much like this holiday to become a good tradition, so that both enlighteners and visitors of events await it. We have many plans and interesting ideas in connection with the day of the enlightener.
The program of events can be viewed on the website of the Enlightener Prize. "

In the photo: September 23, a list of 8 finalists of the Prize in the field of popular science literature “Enlightener” was announced in the March 23 . Dmitry Zimin during a press conference.
Photo by Oleg Dmitriev