The last time I saw Alexander Semenov almost a year ago-in September 2016. He came to the concert to the restless Yekaterinburg rock hero Vladimir Burdin to the China Town club and brought the countryman an acoustic guitar, with whom he performed at the “Rabfaka” concerts, since the Urals Burdina once again came into a non-working state.

The “Indies-2017” will perform groups from Russia, Armenia, Belarus and Ukraine © "Kushnir Production" On September 18 and 19, the Moscow Club of 16 Tons will host the final of the Indiesa-2017 independent music festival, in which performers from Russia, Armenia, Belarus and Ukraine will take part.

Kirill Serebrennikov was sent under house arrest © RTVI Today, August 23, the Moscow Basmanny District Court chose a preventive measure in the form of house arrest until 19 OKTbyyr in relation to the artistic director of the Gogol-Center Theater, director Kirill Serebrennikov, accused of fraud for an especially large scale. Thus, the court granted the investigation, reports RBC . The defense asked to let the director go on bail in the amount of damage to him.

Exhibition of the Creative Association "Cupid" will be held in Moscow © Creative Association "Cupid" / Stella Art Foundation On September 13, the Stella Art Foundation Foundation in Moscow will open an exhibition “Gang” of the Cupid Creative Association. “This is an extremely intensive installation, accompanied by an eccentric performance. - the organizers report.

Nikita Mikhalkov left the Board of Trustees of the Film Fund © Besogontv / YouTube Today, August 23, in Skolkovo at a meeting of the College of the Ministry of Culture, director Nikita Mikhalkov announced the withdrawal from the Board of Trustees of the Film Fund, accusing the leadership of the Fund of irresponsibility.

The festival on urban culture will be held in Moscow and St. Petersburg © Documentary Cinema Center From September 6 to 10, the Documentary Cinema Center (CDC) and the Moscow Museum will be held in Moscow and St. Petersburg Center Festival - a festival on urban culture and the life of modern society. The Center Festival sites in Moscow will be the Central House of Media, the Architecture and Design of Strelka, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and the Karo 11 Cinema October, in St.

The final lecture and showing the program “Cinema through the eyes of an engineer” will begin on August 27 at 17:00 in the main temple complex of communism - at VDNH, in the kingdom of the eternal summer and abundance. Before showing the Urbanist Sai-Fay Medvedkin, a lecture on how (and to what extent) this large project was carried out in reality will be held on the Stalinist reconstruction of Moscow. Registration for a lecture and show can be held here .

Synthposium released the compilation of Russian analogue electronics © Synthposium The Synthposium music and technology festival has prepared a record with hits of Russian analog electronic music. The collection is published on the Synthposium label, it has already appeared on iTunes , as well as on Yandex.Music . The records printed by 300 copies at the Riga Vinyl Plant, which belongs to the founder of the Powerhouse club Andrei Algorithmik, will go on sale on Bandcamp .

Vinzavod announces Open Call to participate in "open studios" © TsSI "Vinzavod" Until September 22, applications for participation in the experimental project “Open Studios” of the Center for Contemporary Art “Winzavod” are accepted. The project, which will become a workshop for Russian artists and a residence for foreign, will take the space of the Aidan gallery.

In 2017, photo projects on colta.ru are divided into several blocks. For the fourth of them, we announced Open Call, urging photographers to share with us our works, revealing the topic "Modernity". We graduated from the reception of projects and publish the best of them. This time-“Summer-2018” Mark Zhuravsky. From the author The summer of 2018 in Moscow is not much different from the summer of 2017. You only feel the rapid approach of technological singularity and the heyday of transgumanism.

Theater critic Marina Davydova published on her Facebook an appeal to Russian theaters in connection with the beginning of the season and the detention of Kirill Serebrennikov. The editors of Coolites are in solidarity with this text, it will register it And signed under this appeal. I have a countless letter in my mail. To the question asked to me "What to do now?" I have no answer. I'm afraid that no one has it now. But I know exactly what you can’t do!

Pioneer will show Israeli cinema © "Pioneer" Frame from the movie "Broke" From September 17 to the Moscow cinema Pioneer, the XVI festival of Israeli cinema will be held. “The festival will introduce the audience to modern life and the culture of Israel - a rapidly developing country at the crossroads of progress and sacred traditions, east and west, religiosity and freedom from conventions. - reports the site "Pioneer" .