Taiga Space “Taiga” opened 2 years ago in a stately mansion on Dvortsovaya Embankment and looks like a bohemian squat - but at the same time it is occupied by quite successful enterprises. Architects, designers, Internet developers, musicians and hairdressers who have built their studios here from scratch can be seen in the Taiga courtyard, which in the summer becomes a lively club area.

1.20 A young man and two girls. Besides them, there are two more people in the spacious bar. PsychoDERpic jazz is playing, but there is no one at the turntables. Young man: What are you doing? Girl: Guess. Young man: Well, where to start? Girl: Both. Young man: Yes. Well, Lena... Marketing? Girl: Alas. Young man: Well, what? Girl: Guess! Young man: I'm bad with this. Girl: And you ask for space. Young man: No, I don’t know. Surprise me. Girl: Ballerina. Young man: I don’t believe it.

“Who rides with me? Demi Moore, for example, I delivered her pretty body to the opening of the Cartier boutique on Moika. When Roman Arkadyevich bought New Holland, I took him there. Michael Douglas, Catherine Zita-Jones, from ours - Syutkin, Orbakaite, from the government, various. All people are like people. The rides are always fun and playful. Sometimes they dance. It happens that you go into a cabin, everything is turned upside down, you think - who was here?!

The first festival of the era of the winning mp3: promoter-enthusiast Maxime Silva-Vega gathers young independent bands, thereby proving that they also have a solvent audience. Maxim Silva-Vega, organizer of the Avant festival: “Having visited several festivals in Europe in the early 2000s, I thought - why don’t we make a similar indie festival in Moscow?

Spaceships, aliens, galactic travel - the entire mythology of Juan Atkins' techno seems to have been taken from a textbook not written by Clinton Clinton not only produced their album Freaky Styley, but also lived in the same house with the group for six months while the record was being prepared.

The main place where St. Petersburg residents meet the sea is the Resort district of the city between Sestroretsk and Zelenogorsk, 30 km of sand dunes and pine forests, beach bars and relict sanatoriums, dachas and mansions, yacht clubs and bicycle paths. Afisha has selected several of the best places for seaside walks.

14 vacant lots and squares in the center of Moscow will be turned into public parks. In particular, landscaped areas will appear near Winzavod, on Trubnaya, near the Khudozhestvenny cinema and near Razgulay Square

Triana from Brighton, Adrian Dick from New Zealand and Skymark from Spain. They all performed separately (Aloe played last) - and at the very end they all suddenly jammed together. Without preliminary rehearsals, without any preparation; In general, they all came from different countries and didn’t really know each other. The festival had already formally ended, but they were still playing - and people began to arrive from other stages.

25) Garage Children's Workshops Contemporary art for children and their parents 23) Yacht pier itBoat If you wish, you can also take a ride on a yacht 22) Nintendo Video games on Wii U and 3DS XL consoles 19) Tess Tea Bar 20) Bee Self Bar 16) “M.Video” Digital Spot 21) “Mosigra” Board games for every taste - from Twister to “Game of Thrones” 15) PaiSky dance lessons Dance workshops in hip-hop, dancehall and regreton 7) Bee Info Point Interactive navigation points with a festival map and the full

The concert of the greatest prog-rock band in history was important not only in itself, but also because it became the embodiment of the dream of Alexander Cheparukhin, the most ardent and rhetorically gifted Moscow promoter: he would later bring Kraftwerk and John Zorn to Moscow, and would organize festivals in Perm and Kazan.

Wed 03/07 – Wed 31/07 Red romance When imagining a love story from photographs, you risk becoming a hostage to stereotypes. This is the nature of exhibitions about “famous novels of the 20th century”: from the photographs it turns out that Rivera is fat and old, and Kahlo is young and flexible, in colorful outfits. Although she was an artist in her own right, the photographs hint at a “muse and creator” relationship – fortunately, there is a myth that she began to paint only with his approval.

Scientific character in art In the murky waters of a movement called science art, but in reality it is a set of different works united only by their scientific character, Laboratoria Art & Science Space has always looked like a cute little boat - saved by a good interior and the personal taste of the owner of the establishment, Daria Parkhomenko.

“Ten years ago, a friend suggested to me: “Do you want to go on a yacht?” The first time they just told me: “Hold it, twist it, and now throw it.” I tried to study here at the yacht club, but at some point I realized that I needed to go abroad. Now I have the license of an ocean captain, and I teach myself. Yachtsmen struggle when they go one-on-one with the elements. There's no point in fighting, you're just trying to survive.

A large group performing traditional and absolutely authentic funk, for which the ensemble is praised by the true fathers of the genre like George Clinton: Parliament/Funkadelic keyboardist Danny Bedrosyan will even play with CLONE at the Picnic.

Low-frequency disturbing songs about love (and more often - about its absence) performed by an intelligent woman with a computer and a subtle nature. If Emika’s first album was appropriately classified as post-dubstep, then “Dva” already has more in common with Beth Gibbons than with James Blake: the bass and beat here seem to support a trembling voice - nervousness in this music is inexplicably combined with strength and stature.