In St. Petersburg they will announce the program of the poetry laboratory

On November 11, a combined press conference will be held on the new stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater, dedicated to the announcement of the Video Poem Laboratory program-2017, as well as special events and a short-list of the Arkady Dragomoshchenko Prize.

The press conference will be attended by the chairman of the jury of the ATD Award Alexander Skidan, the curator of the ATD Prize Galina Rymbu and the producer of the video poetry laboratory, a participant in the Word Procedure project Konstantin Shavlovsky.

The press conference will be announced by the participants of the video poetry laboratory-2017, the jury of the competitive program of the festival of the fifth leg festival, the program of special events of the Laboratory of Video Poems and the ATD Prize, as well as the award list.

After the press conference on the new stage, the presentation of the new literary magazine “Track” will be held, the first number of which is dedicated to the topic of violence. The presentation will be attended by the authors of the room - Galina Rymbu, Elena Kostyleva, Konstantin Shavlovsky, Denis Larionov, Tatyana Zamirovskaya.

The video poetry laboratory and a bonus cycle will be held in St. Petersburg on December 15-17.

Video Poesia laboratory is an annual event that includes the production of new video poetry, holding the festival of the Fifth Leg video poetry, as well as a series of special events. The theme of the laboratory of this year was the collaboration - a wide range of interaction between authors of video works with authors of poetic texts. The curators of the video poetry laboratory - Andrey Rodionov and Ekaterina Troepolskaya.

The Award Arkady Dragomoshchenko was established in 2014 on the basis of the bookstore and the Cultural site "Order of the Words" . The authors whose age does not exceed 27 years can be nominated for the prize. The prize is designed to identify relevant poetic practices that acutely respond to a challenge of time and contribute to a new understanding of “poetic”. The work of the award, in turn, should contribute to an adequate assessment of new directions and capabilities of writing, the development of discussion around the authors of the young generation.

The size of the main award is 70 thousand rubles. Also, the holder of the main award receives the opportunity to publish a book in the poetic series "New Poems" of the publishing house "Order of Words". The finalists receive two incentive bonuses of 20 thousand rubles.

The winners of the award in the previous seasons were Nikita Safonov , Alexander Tsibul , Ekaterina Zakharkiv and Eduard Lukoyanov .