Kolta continues a series of publications about the protests in America by the text of the poet Irina Masha, who emigrated to the United States in 1991. A friend of my friend, an educated and wealthy Muscovite, who came from Russia, a graduate of the Mehmat Moscow State University, and now a businessman, told me at the first meeting that he did not really like New York . “There are too many genetic garbage ,” he explained, smiling, as equal. He was completely sure that I would share his gaze.

The Great Cartoon Festival has announced the program © Big Festival of Cartoons Prize "Animasha" Today, June 23, the organizers of the XIII large cartoon festival (BFM) presented his program. The festival will be held from July 3 to 12, this year it is first held in its history in the online format.

Colta.ru talked with Professor of the RGISI, editor-in-chief of the Petersburg Theater Journal, art director of the All-Russian theater festival named after A. Volodina Marina Dmitrevskaya and found out what happened to the “PTS” recently and how you can and to help here. 1. What happened to you since the beginning of March?

COLTA.RU begins the publication of the "Berlin Diary" of Roman Dolzhansky. This cycle was written by the famous theater critic and curator, deputy artistic director of the Theater of Nations last February-during the rehearsals of the play “Freken Julie” Timofei Kulyabin in the doech theater, on which Dolzhansky worked as a playwright.

Kirill Serebrennikov became a winner of the French critics Prize © Chrsitophe Raynaud de Lage / Festival d'Avignon Scene from the play "Outside" On June 22, laureates of the annual Award of the Union of Theater Critics of France were announced. The best foreign performance of 2019 was recognized by Outside Kirill Serebrennikov, who was presented at the Avignon festival. It is reported by Sceneweb .

Open Call is declared for curators "Zin as an exhibition: postcovid" © Kurator forum State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin (GMIA) and the State Center for Contemporary Art (HCSI) in St. Petersburg as part of the 2nd curatorial forum announced Open Call “Zin as an exhibition: postcovid” for curators working with socially involved art and artistic research, as well as those who use in their practice methods of critical pedagogy. The competition is held from June 22 to July 12 .

Valery Fokin and Evgeny Mironov supported the defendants in the case of the Seventh Studio © Alexandrinsky Theater, Theater of Nations Today, June 23, the artistic director of the Alexandrinsky Theater Valery Fokin and the artistic director of the theater of Nations Evgeny Mironov distributed statements in connection with the process in the case of the Seventh Studio, in which solidarity with its defendants was expressed.

As promised, Kolt continues to provide a platform for various, sometimes polar, positions in connection with protests in the United States. The philosopher Mikhail Yampolsky , the poet Irina Mashinskaya and political scientist and political strategist Vitaly Shklyarov have already performed on our pages. With the text of Shklyarov, a professor of Slavic languages ​​and literature of the Visconsin University in Madison Irina Shevelenko is polemicized here.