The Perm Gate, while they were just being built, managed to nickname the "stool", "Viselitsa" and "sacrificial bonfire". The Sole correspondent on the eve of the opening of the wooden “P” walked around the garden of stones to find out from the dashing Perme: what do they want to do with a new symbol of the city? Most of all, as it turned out, they want to burn it.

After the businessman and gentleman Mikhail Prokhorov headed the “right business”, the experts suggested that the party would have to go to parliament and become the main political force supporting Dmitry Medvedev. Perhaps the current president will even lead her. Whereas Vladimir Putin will finally be able to join United Russia to become her leader. Thus, a consensus one and a half -party system will appear in the country, albeit formally.

Today, within the framework of the White Nights, the festival “blue phantom in Perm” opens. “Blue phantom” is a film club of “parallel cinema”, which turned 25 this year. Then the seven executions of the Egyptian fell upon late Soviet cinema: restructuring, publicity, competition, self -sufficiency, the fight against alcoholism and the like. But it turned out that, without lagging behind, a racing with him was rushing with him, also domestic, but parallel cinema.

Russians spend about 10.3 hours a week on social networks, this is the second indicator in the world. Such data on Wednesday, June 8, cites Gazeta.ru with reference to the study of Comscore Media Metrix. At the same time, the Russian indicator is slightly inferior to the leader of the rating of Israel, where users spend on average 10.7 hours a month on social networks.

More than 40 events, 234 artists, tobacco factory, VKIU, greenhouse, photo projects, installations, sculpture, Perm Council. Mikhail Surkov , curator of the art: - The third festival is the triumph of individualism. Each artist is given a place where he can speak. The largest exhibition at the VKIU will be the largest. We will take three floors there: we will give the third to photo projects, the fourth - under installations and sculptural forms, and the fifth for individual projects of artists.

Kirov became the third city, which joined the “ cultural alliance ”, which was formed a year ago by St. Petersburg and Perm. On June 7, at the White Nights festival, Perm Culture Minister Nikolai Novichkov and the Kirov delegation entered into an agreement on cultural cooperation for the next two years. Within a month, seven more cities will sign a similar document - Yekaterinburg , Kazan , Samara , Togliatti , Ulyanovsk , Ufa . And already today - Tver .

The Kinotavr contest this year is so colorful that so far we can talk more about the assortment than about trends. The trends are associated with a specific request - market, social, state or even festival. Here is Bakur Bakuradze with his “hunter”, responding to ordering the European festival community - answers clearly as a five -man. The film "Loof" Konstantin Buslov, about which there will also be a separate conversation - an attempt to turn to a "wide viewer", most likely, successful.

46 performances, special program for children, workshops, performers, owners of the Golden Mask, Billy's Band, acting song. Evgenia Borinsky and Yaroslav Kolchanov, curators of theatrical direction: -The theatrical direction of “Living Perm” is 46 performances, “ Drama-Cross ”, the special program “Children-Children” (children's groups traveling to orphanages), master classes on dramaturgy and acting and other projects.

New regions connected to the “Cultural Alliance Perm -Petersburg”. The agreement on cooperation in the field of culture with Perm on Wednesday, June 8, signed Tver, reports the Perm Regional Server . Cooperation in the cultural sphere will pass through the exchange of experience, the expansion of interregional cultural relations, the formation of a single information and cultural space, promoting the development of creative potential and ensuring the promotion of creative initiatives.

22 projects, 1,400 participants, the world champion in the Bitbox and the world in the world in Break Dance, Street-flesh, “Battle of three capitals”, dancing and ditties. Mikhail Ogra, curator of an informal direction: - Informat is something that does not fit into the framework of other directions. This is not music, not literature, not cinema and not painting. This is a kind of mixture or something absolute new.

“For fans of contemporary art, Perm has become a place where Marat Gelman, tired of Moscow, arranges exhibitions.” Photo: Alexey Gushchin / Sol Perm is changing. It is reported, for example, a poster at the entrance to the city, which has already become, perhaps, famous, at least on the Internet - a pissing little man with a crossed stream and a slogan “Perm changes, change and you”. In general, we, unfortunately, will return to the topic of urine. So, Perm is really changing.

The guide to the festival of contemporary art " Living Perm ": what is there to see Permyaks and non-permans. Tatyana Sannikova , program director of the Living Perm festival: - “Living Perm” not only gives a report on the state of Perm art, but creates it, contributes to the emergence of new creative unions. Each festival is the interaction of participants, authors of projects, experts, curators.

Modern poetry, slams, meetings with writers, book market. Alexey Evstratov , curator of the literary direction: - Over the past year in the literary life of Perm, more large -scale, interesting events have occurred than in the previous few years. Perm has not seen such saturation and the quality of measures that we are observing now since the mid-1990s.