The representative of the Russian Orthodox Church was kicked out of the Council on Culture because of the "Kuban" © Glavaregiona.ru Nikolay Tsukanov The Governor of the Kalingrad Region Nikolai Tsukanov asked the representative of the Russian Orthodox Church, who opposed the Kubana music festival, to leave a meeting of the Council on Culture under the governor and never appear there again.

The Mariinka opens the festival "Faces of modern pianism" © Roger Mastroianni / Pierrelauramard.com Pierre-Loran Emar From April 6 to 12, in the concert hall and chamber halls of Mariinsky-2, 16 pianists will present 14 concert programs of the International Piano Festival “Liki of Modern Pianism”.

In Novosibirsk, a rally "For Freedom of Creativity" was held On Sunday, April 5, on the square in front of the Novosibirsk State Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet (Ngatoib), a rally “For Freedom of Creativity” was held. According to various estimates, 2.5-3 thousand people participated in it.

Gogol-Center refuses new productions © Gogol Center Scene from the play "Ordinary History" Today, April 6, the director of Gogol-Center Anastasia Golub and his artistic director Kirill Serebrennikov announced that the theater was not able to conclude contracts for the production of new performances. The leaders of the Gogol Center said that he would show only the production of the current repertoire and abandon the prime minister, reports Gazeta.ru .

The Theater of Generations - the brainchild of the great director and teacher Zinovy ​​Korogodsky - was created in the wake of the studio movement, which covered the St. Petersburg undergrand at the beginning of perestroika.

The newspaper Pionerskaya Pravda recently turned 90 years old. But she is not going to retire yet. Like other Soviet fossils. "Funny pictures" “Funny Pictures” was invented by the cartoonist of the journal Crocodile Ivan Semenov. The first issue was released in 1956, the publication was conceived as a humorous educational journal for young children.

Lynch will not remove the continuation of "Twin Peaks" Director David Lynch left the project of the American cable television channel for the production of the continuation of the cult series Twin Peaks. Last fall, it became known that Lynch will become the author of the script and the director of all nine episodes of the new season “Twin Peaks” . “I left in a year and four months of negotiations,” Lynch wrote on Twitter on Sunday, April 5.

April 7 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Billy Holide. Many young jazz singers are still copying Billy Holide, literally every second. Some manage to make a name on this. But still it is clear that another will not happen. Why was Kholidei secretly recognized as the best, most worthy of imitation, over the eyelids of jazz, who gave many outstanding singers? And God knows.

The new building of the Pushroom will begin to build in 2016 The construction of the Museum Town building of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after Pushkin (Pushroom) according to the project of the Bureau "Megan Project" will begin in 2016. This was announced today, April 6, the director of the PMM Marina Loshak reported, TASS reports.

Garbage will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first album in Russia The Garbage group will complete the tour “20 Years Queer” in Russia, dedicated to the 20th anniversary of its debut album “Garbage”. On November 11, Garbage will perform at Crocus City Hall in Moscow. According to Intermedia , the sale of tickets for the concert begins today, April 6.

Canadians Ezra Dinton and Svetla Tourine - co -founders of the largest non -profit network of distribution of Doc Cinema Politica . Anna Melikova met with them at the Kiev festival of Docudays UA and talked about activist tactics in documentary, a western look at the Maidan and whether art is possible during the war. - Your organization is already 12 years old. Is your idea of ​​activism in general and video activism in particular somehow changed during this time?

The program of the International Memorial for April The international historical, human rights and charitable society "Memorial" announced a program of events for April 2015. Conference hall of the International Memorial (Karetny Ryad, 5/10) April 8 at 19:00 - showing the documentary "Secret Path" of Dr.

The mommy will host a retrospective Vladimir Nemukhin and Lidia Maskova © Collection of A. Lahman / MMMOM Vladimir Nemukhin. Spring in the city. 1958 From April 15 to May 31, the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOMA), together with TSUKANOV Family Foundation and the AVC Charity Foundation, holds the first large-scale retrospective of non-conformist artists Vladimir Nemukhin and Lidia Evlekova.