The film "7" Artyom Firsanov will be shown in the center of Voznesensky © Center for Voznesensky On December 17, in the center of Voznesensky in Moscow, an Artyom Firsanov documentary “7” will be displayed. Start at 20:00, tickets can be purchased online . After the show, a discussion will be held with the participation of the creators of the film-director Artem Firsanov and the author of the script-the playwright and curator of the Gogol Center Valery Pecheykin.

The anarcho-Absurdist film by Jean-Cristofa Meorissa “One of us” (2013) is an harlequinade that drills holes in the world of cause-dependent economic and political slavery, the project of an island state outside the social order. The film, which is first shown in Russia, is completing the NOW / Film Edition festival, organized by Kolta and the German Embassy in Russia.

Cinema "Artistic" will be restored by the end of next year © Moscow 24 / YouTube Today, December 16, the head of the Moscow City Council, Alexei Emelyanov, announced that the restoration of the Artiferous cinema, the oldest cinema of Moscow, will end at the end of 2020. It is reported by Interfax . According to the official, the strengthening of the construction of the building, including historical elements of stucco decoration, is currently being completed, the work is completed by 60%.

Hershon Kingsley died © Milken Family Foundation On December 10, the German-American composer Gershon Kingsley, one of the founders of electronic music, died in New York at the age of 97. It is reported by Billboard . Gershon Kingsley (real name-Göts Gustav Ksinsky) was born in 1922 in Bochum, emigrated from Germany in Palestine in 1938, independently learned to play the piano, performed at jazz clubs, studied at the Jerusalem Conservatory, and he moved to the USA in the mid-1940s.

This statement has been ripening in me for several months, but there was no reason to arrange it in the text. And now there is. Two PDF files recently released in the St. Petersburg publishing house “Order of words” of the books of the poetess Elena Kostyleva and Nastya Denisova fell into my hands. I always acted the same with such files - I asked them from publishers or authors and did not read them. I did not read the purchased or donated paper books.

On December 7, Olga Tokarchuk, the Nobel Laureate of the 2018 Literature Prize, read the Nobel lecture at the Swedish Academy. At the request of COLTA.RU, Elena Rybakova translated the full text of the lecture for us from Polish. The first picture that became my personal experience was a photo of my mother, taken before my birth. The photo, alas, is black and white, you can’t see many details, unless the gray stains are instead of them.

What is the year of the media, as programmed information brigades, under the guise of the main, important news, reports from Syria. We are flickering - where do our taxes go? In an insatiable desert? She surrendered to us with her endless groups and ophthalmologist. How much money is swollen, people are ruined, it would be better if the salaries were raised by teachers, as, by the way, the “May decrees” are doing?

The main part of the NOW / Film Edition festival, organized by Kolta and the German Embassy in Russia, was offline on December 14–15 at the site "Inliberty Dawn" . There were so many of you, thank you for your interest! But the last film of the program we decided to show you online, today from 12:00 to 00:00-“One of us” (2013) Jean-Cristofa Meorissa. You can see it here . This is the real end of the festival (and, by the way, the premiere in Russia).

Anna Karina died © Prisma média On December 14, actress Anna Karina, a star of the French “New Wave” of the 1960s, died in Paris at the age of 79. It is reported by Le Monde . Hannah Karin Black Bayer was born in 1940 in Copenhagen, still a schoolgirl began to sing in a cabaret and perform on the radio, at the age of 14 she starred in a short film, which received the prize of the Cannes festival.

GMIA will open the season with an exhibition of European graphics © State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin Vincent Van Gogh. Portrait of a young girl. 1888 Today, December 16, the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin (Physician) announced plans for 2020. The first in the new season will open an exhibition “From Dürer to Matisse. Five centuries of the European drawing from the meeting of the Plane named after A.S. Pushkin ".

Theater "Practice" will present the premiere of the opera Alexei Syumak © Alexander Kurov On December 24 and 25, the Moscow Theater “Practice” will host the premiere performances of the opera Alexei Syumak “Frost, Red Nose” in the production of Marina Brusnikina. “Opera, written by Alexei Syumak specifically for“ Practice, ”is an exclusive performance that reveals the complex and rich musical nature of the text of Nekrasov.