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Moscow Digest MARINE RUSSIA Classical photos p. 20
JOHANN SEBASTIEN BACH The bible of music p. 24
REAL FOOD The farm is coming to you p. 06 EQUINOX The day as long as the night p. 22 THE IRISH Film festival p. 10
TOP5 BEST IRISH PUBS AND RESTAURANTS IN MOSCOW
Dear Friends, We are back with the weekly Moscow Digest! Find the best events of the equinox weekend and enjoy Moscow with us! Our main themes are: Festivals and fairs with our TOP5 Best Irish places in Moscow, Expos and Music. The Festival section this week will be mostly about the Irish, the fun begins from March 11th. Find an Irish Movies festival, A English speaking Stand-Mic festival and our addition to the Irish spirit “A la russe” is the TOP5 Best places to taste real Irish food and beer. The exhibitions section will present interesting many-sided projects from street art exhibition to classics multimedia street exhibitions. Classical photos, Amazing paintings, a huge art world to discover. In the music section we stay strong with classical and jazz music. Find the “Bible” of music and a full of energy jazz concert. Remember to enjoy the day that is as long as the night with the equinox on March 21st!
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Contents: Festivals & Fairs in Moscow 06 u Fair “Real Food” 08 u English-speaking Festival “Stand-MIC Fest” 10 u The Irish Film Festival 12 u TOP5 Best Irish Pubs and Restaurants in Moscow Expos in Moscow 14 u Street Art exhibition at VDNKH “Project 64” 16 u The exhibition “History and culture of Russia” 18 u Multimedia street exhibition 20 u The exhibition “Marine Russia” 22 u The Equinox Day Music in Moscow 24 u Concert “Bach: the Bible of Music” 26 u Concert “Vadim Eilenkrig (trumpet, jazz)”
Cover: Street Art exhibition at VDNKH “Project 64” (see p. 14)
Moscow Weather source: gismeteo.ru
March, 21st -1 -7 Cloudy
March, 22nd -5 ±0 Cloudy/Snow
Festivals & Fairs in Moscow This weekend you will have plenty of choice amongst amazing Festivals and Fairs. Find some fresh Farmer food on the “Real Food Festival�. Feel the Ireland of the last days of the Irish week in Moscow with an English speaking event and movie fest.
Real Food Fair
For the “Real Food Fair” the inspiration for the organizers was a cosy farm where products are shortest path from production to the buyer, with all the vitamins and all the pallet of taste. The whole point of the project is reflected in its slogan: “If you can’t go to the farm, the farm comes to you.” You are invited to visit the authentic farm and buy the best products in the heart of the capital. About forty farmers and small producers will present their products. In the modern metropolis it’s so difficult to find quality products - supermarkets offer mostly industrial production, the use of which is sometimes unhealthy. What to do for city dwellers?
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That’s right, buy products from farmers - and only the freshest ones that are made with love and care. You will say: “With Moscow and Regions traffic it’s to spend six or seven hours on the road ... Not too pleasant prospect?” But, there is a way – this weekend the farm is coming to you! “Real Food” - a project inspired by the cosy European Markets with friendly spirit and good quality products. On March 21st Open time: 10am - 8pm Entrance Fee: free Shopping gallery “Moscow” 2, Okhoty Ryad Str. m. Okhotny Ryad
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Englishspeaking Festival “Stand-MIC Fest” In Moscow, will be held an English-speaking festival – the Stand- MIC Fest. In concert: humourists, ordinary guys from Ireland, will share their life stories with the audience. Between the sexy accents and the talent the Irish have for story telling, this will be an event to remember! A star of Irish humour that will visit Moscow in the festival MIC Fest, will be Tommy Tiernan. Career of this comedian is already firmly established on the stages of the country. Tommy will be performing at the Central House of Actors on March 21st. On March 21st Start: 8pm Entrance fee: 400 – 2000 RUB Central House of the actor by the name of AA Yablochkina 35, Arbat Str. m. Smolenskaya www.irishweek.ru
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The first ever concert in Russia of the uniquely wild and eccentric Irishman, Tommy Tiernan. In 2009, Tommy Tiernan set the Guinness World Record for the longest stand-up comedy show by an individual achieving 36 hours and 15 in Galway, Ireland. Thankfully he recovered from the ordeal and is now continuing a record-breaking rout across the world, performing in the UK, USA, Canada, and two performances at The Sydney Opera House. The irrepressible stand-up comic is finally making his Russian debut as part of his European tour. One of the funniest and most incisive stand-up comedians in Europe today, Tommy is celebrated for his wild vocal style, the boundless energy of his stand-up routine and his satirical insights of the human condition. He has an elaborate take on topics that most comedians would dare not touch. Thanks to his unique storytelling gift and excellent acting abilities this has the canny effect of both shocking his audiences and sending them into paroxysms of laughter.
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"Bright, original and refreshingly funny." - The New York Times
"Tiernan confirms how good traditional standup can be." - The Guardian
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The Irish Film Festival
Film: Standby Director: Rob Burke, Ronan Burke Running time: 88 min. Age Rating: 16+
A cornerstone of IRISH WEEK is the 8th IRISH FILM FESTIVAL, which takes place in Formula Kino Gorizont featuring 27 screenings of 9 award winning Irish films Until march 22nd. Films will include the film GOLD with stars from “Game of Thrones,” “The Hobbit”, “Calvary” and the European premiere of Oscar Nominated animation SONG OF THE SEA. All films will be screened in English, with Russian subtitles.
“Dazzling! A marvel to behold!” – Variety “A Timeless Delight for All Ages” – Twitch Best Animated Feature Film Nominee at the Oscars 2015 7 nominations at the Annie Awards.
The weekend: March 21st Song of the Sea - 4pm Good Vibrations - 7pm From the Dark - 9pm March 22nd Love Eternal - 7pm Gold - 5pm Standby - 9pm Formula Kino Gorizont 22/10, Komsomolskii prospect, 21/10 M. Frunzenskaya irishweek.ru/film/
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Film: Song of the sea Director: Tomm Moore Running Time: 93 min. Age Rating: 6+
Saoirse is a child who is the last of the selkies, women in Irish and Scottish legends who transform from seals into people. She escapes from her grandmother’s home to sail away to sea and free fairy creatures trapped in the modern world.
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Twenty-something Alan (Gleeson) is down on his luck. Stood up at the altar and recently fired from his banking job, he finds himself working with his mother as a part-time tourist advisor at Dublin Airport. It’s there he comes face to face with first love Alice (Paré), stuck on standby for a flight home to New York. Their summer romance ended eight years previously with Alan promising to return to the US one day. He never did, and they haven’t spoken since. Seizing his chance, Alan convinces a reluctant Alice to stay one more night in Dublin. Over the course of an unforgettable evening, they may just realise that they are more compatible than ever. But time is running out on this brief encounter. When does an unexpected second chance, become the one you’ve always been looking for? “The best Irish film this year. Witty, romantic and very funny” (Entertainment.ie) “A sweet, smart, and funny love story wonderfully told through a love-letter to Dublin.” (Today FM) “Loved it! Incredibly charming.” (Her.ie)
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Film: Gold Age Rating: 16+ Director: Niall Heery Running time: 88 min
Film: Good Vibrations Directors: Lisa Barros D’Sa, Glenn Leyburn Running time: 103 min. In 1970s Belfast, Terri Hooley is an idealistic rocker who finds himself caught in the middle of Northern Ireland’s bitter Troubles. Seeing a parallel in the chaos with Jamaica, Hooley opens a record shop, Good Vibrations, to help bring reggae music to his city to help encourage some harmony. However, Hooley soon discovers a new music genre, punk rock, and is inspired by its youthful vitality to become an important record producer and promoter of the local scene. In doing so, Hooley would struggle both with the industry’s realities and his chaotic personal life that threaten to consume him. However, he would also be instrumental in creating an alternative Irish community that would bridge his land’s religious and social rivalries with an art no one expected. “A Totally Brilliant Piece of Work About A Brilliant Moment In Time.” (Louder than War) “Outstanding. A Feel Great Film.” (The Hollywood News) “An Absolute Humdinger with Real Heart And Soul.” (Mark Kermode)
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Independent comedy with stars from “Game of Thrones,” “The Hobbit,” and “Calvary”
Film: Love Eternal Director: Brendan Muldowney Running time: 94 minutes Age Rating: 16+ Ian (de Hoog) is a ginger-haired loner who finds himself alone in the world at 26. As a child, he watched his father die and found a female classmate who’d hanged herself. He subsequently and indefinitely locks himself up in his room, describes himself as a “defective human being,” and starts frequenting suicide forums online. When his mother also gives up the ghost a decade later, he’s ready to follow up all that death in his life with his own.
“Rewriting the rules of quirky indie Irish comedy” The Guardian Twelve years ago, Ray left town after his childhood sweetheart, Alice, dumped him, taking their daughter away from him. Now he must return home at the request of his ailing father, who wishes to see his granddaughter before it’s too late. But things take a turn for the absurd when Ray realises his daughter and her mother have built a new life with his former P.E. teacher, a controlling and regimented figure who is the direct opposite of Ray. Set in an affluent suburb in south County Dublin, this offbeat comedy and unconventional love story delights in the hilarity of everyday life.
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TOP5 Best Irish Pubs and Restaurants in Moscow Inspired by the Irish week we choose the best place in Moscow to catch that special spirit. Find the place to taste real Irish stew, bacon and cabbage, boxty, coddle, colcannon and Irish Ale.
Pub: Blacksmith Irish Pub 15/30, Rotchdelskaya Str. m. Ulitsa 1905 Goda Cuisine: Irish Average Check: 1000-1500 RUB blackpub.ru GastroPub: Greene King 7, Mytnaya Str., bld.1 m. Dobryninskaya, m. Oktyabrskaya Cuisine: European, English, Irish, Scottish Average Check: 1500 – 2000 RUB www.facebook.com/gkpub. ru Pub: Tap & Barrel Pub 13, B. Dmitrovka Str. m. Okhotniy Ryad, Pushkinskaya Cuisine: Irish Average Check: 1000 – 1500 RUB tbpub.ru Restaurant: Shotlanskaya Kletka (Scottish cage) 27/29, Sretenka Str. m. Chistie Prudy, m. Sretenka Cuisine: Auteur, Scottish, Irish Average Check: 2000 – 3000 RUB Restaurant: Sally O’Brians 1/3, B. Polyanka, m. Polyanka, m. Tretyakovskaya Cuisine: European, Mixte, Irish Average Check: 1000 – 1500 RUB www.sallyobriens.ru
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Expo in Moscow This weekend we we have a new kind of exhibitions that we urge you to visit. Find modern exhibition of Street Art , classic exhibition about the Culture and History of Russia. A plunge in the North sea with “Marine Russia� or an interesting multimedia project of the building of the Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val.
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One of the distinctive features of humanity is the desire to understand the laws of the world and also the desire to express its internal state through various forms of creativity. The artist’s vision is easily reflected in paintings, and we are used to this state of affairs. But the real creativity has no boundaries; so the streets are increasingly appear different objects of art.
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Now at VDNKH is held the street art expo “Project 64”. It is organized by the creative association “Atmosphere”, which will bring together the best exhibition of street arts of Russian and foreign artists. Here you will find art installations, sculptures, graffities, and a number of unusual objects of creative art.
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Among the authors of the work involved in the exhibition, will be Moscow artist Pasha 183, Vyacheslav Koleychuk and studio Stain, whose works are well known to the public in Russia.
Park Exhibition Center Hall #64 111, Prospect Mira, m. VDNKH Open time: 11am – 8 pm Entrance fee: up to 250 RUB www.vdnh.ru
In addition to direct exhibition of street art, it is planned a number of additional events. Every weekend in the space of the exhibition will be held master classes, lectures and film screenings on the theme of art and contemporary art.
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The exhibition “History and culture of Russia�
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In the museum and exhibition complex Watercolours Andriaka School will host an exhibition, specially prepared by Studio Artists. The Objective of the exhibition - to acquaint the audience with the events that served as a starting point for creating a Russian police and show its development within the framework of the country’s history. In work on the paintings by the artist carefully studied the historical material, referring to the era of documentary evidence and artefacts. In the works reproduced the atmosphere of everyday life past eras, showing significantly furnishings, costumes, utensils. Plots were the events in the history department. As part of the historic project studio exhibition presents works that reflect the main stages of the history of internal affairs; interesting example is the picture of “Tsar Ivan the Terrible surrounded by bodyguards.”
“Consecration of the monument to the 1000th anniversary of Russia in Novgorod” and memorable triptych “Terrorism - a threat to the world”, which tells about the fight against terrorism in Russia XIX century. A separate unit of work is dedicated to the Great Patriotic War. The exhibition features 150 paintings, drawings and decorative arts. The material presented is unique and unique in its characteristics. The exhibition is aimed at both the adult audience, and the students, school-age children. Watercolor school of the name of Andriaka 17, Gorokhovsky Pereulok m. Kurskaya Open time: 11:00 - 06:00 Entrance fee: 50 – 120 RUB www.andriaka.ru
Paintings shown at the exhibition, it is interesting to trace the history of the police forms, starting with the Petrine era and up to the twenty-first century. The viewer’s attention will undoubtedly attract by paintings on the history of Moscow, St. Petersburg and Russian provincial cities. Spectacular large format graphic works “Opening of the monument to Alexander II in the Kremlin”,
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Multimedia street expo
Everyone seems to know the big white Soviet-built building on the Krymskaya Quay in front of the Gorky Park , but not many know that it is a department of the Tretyakov Gallery. And in fact the exhibits occupy almost half of the building. Ministry of Culture, lately decided to popularize the Tretyakov Gallery on the Krymskaya Quay. Now on the facade you will see a giant projection of the paintings stored in the gallery, you may enjoy art without even entering the building. Find there: permanent exhibition of works by artists of the post-revolutionary take time and is called the “Art of the twentieth century”. It’s 22 paintings selected in total for the next diffusions, including works by Kazimir Malevich, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall and other artists. Limiting the number of demonstrated pictures is due to the fact that the multimedia exhibition on the walls of the facade of the gallery primarily is organized to attract visitors to the permanent exhibition; by the way the Tretyakov Gallery is a “must see” if you are in Moscow. But the set of pictures on the screen will change. Tretyakov Gallery on Krymskaya Quay 10, Krymsky Val Str., m. Oktyabrskaya Entrance fee: free www.tretyakovgallery.ru
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“Marine Russia” Photo exhibition festival consists of twenty chapters devoted to significant marine topics. Viewers can see the eight special projects, attend conferences and workshops, book launches, videos on the sea and marine installations. It’s a big exhibition with works by professional photographers, find there the possibility to admire the seascape sailboats and regatta raging sea, inhospitable coast of the northern seas. Unusual photos make feel the marine atmosphere. Each of the guests will feel it’s own sea romance; will see people in the struggle against the water, ocean - frenetic and lyrical, independent and affectionate. Everyone will see how difficult is the confrontation of man and the sea and how beautiful is the aesthetic reword or the nature. The classic photo gallery 23, Savvinskaya Quay., Bld. 1 m. Sportivnaya Entrance fee: 150 – 300RUB www.classicgallery.ru/en
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The Equinox Day
An equinox occurs twice a year, around 20 March and 22 September. The word itself has several related definitions. The oldest meaning is the day when daytime and night are of approximately equal duration. The word equinox comes from this definition, derived from the Latin aequus (equal) and nox (night). This year the Equinox will take place on March 21st. An important milestone of the seasons is the vernal equinox - March 21, astronomical beginning of spring. The onset of spring, our ancestors considered a holiday, eagerly awaiting his arrival (as we do now!)
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Slavs celebrated the end of winter and the arrival of spring on March 22, the day was called Larks (in honour of the return of migratory birds). On this day, baked dough Bleater and small birds, which welcomes spring. It was after the holiday began The Maslenitsa, which is now celebrated by the Orthodox calendar and that every year falls on different dates. According to the most ancient Slavic legends, the Equinox Day revealed the heavenly realm of the gods, Svarga, and descended to the earth of the goddess “Zhiva-Vesna” (“Spring alive”- in English)
And equally magnificently celebrated it in different parts of Europe and Asia.
By the other slav legend Vernal equinox - this is the happiest day for all the people and at the same time the worst. Happy he is due to the fact that the day has finally caught up with the night after a long winter.
Pagan celebration of the arrival of spring were filled with important sacred meaning victory of light over darkness, awakening all life and start a new life.
A terrible that day because it is one of the four days of the year, when the “bad spirits” has almost complete authority on earth, and enjoys it.
The ancient spring festival took place with joy and rituals calling fertility of the land and the well-being of people.
In some places in Russia today the “Larks celebration” is still held, people bake bread looking like Larks, construct special home for the real birds that come back from winter migration and give them food.
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Music in Moscow This week we present an amazing concert of compositions by the god of classical music Johann Sebastian Bach and an amazing concert of jazz music by famous Russian artist.
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Concert “Bach: the Bible of Music”
Artists: People’s Artist of Russia Alexander Knyazev (organ), Olesya Tertychnaya (flute), Claudio Borges (cello). The program includes: Johann Sebastian Bach’s compositions. One of the most charismatic musicians of his generation, Alexander Knyazev successfully performs two roles - a cellist and organist. The musician has won international recognition for Olympus cello art, becoming the winner of the prestigious performing competitions, including the Tchaikovsky in Moscow, Unisa in South Africa and named after Kassado in Florence. Musician regularly conducts master classes in France, Germany, Spain, South Korea and the Philippines.
As an organist Alexander Knyazev and many successfully performed both in Russia and abroad, performing solo programs and works for organ and orchestra. In his organ repertoire significant role plays the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. “Bach talked with eternity with the cosmos ... Bach was some connection directly. The number of works that Bach wrote for his life, unbelievable. The number of these opuses is over a thousand. Although he lived only 65 years. Therefore, here, of course, lies some mystery, and this is reflected in the music. A sense of eternity, an incredible sense of timelessness, which is, especially in Bach, it changes absolutely stunning ...” - says Alexander Knyazev. On March 22th Start: 7pm Tickets: 900 – 1000RUB Museum of Musical Culture by the name of Glinka 4, Fadeeva str. m. Mayakovskaya www.glinka.museum
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Concert “Vadim Eilenkrig (trumpet, jazz)”
Vadim Eilenkrig - prominent Russian trumpeter, musician, educator and broadcaster. About 10 years Vadim Eilenkrig is a soloist in the main jazz orchestra of the country - Big Band by Igor Butman. In 2009 he released his first solo album The Shadow of your smile. Musician soloist at Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Chicago and Boston Philharmonic. 2013th year was a new role for Vadim. The TV channel “Culture” has launched a spectacular show “Big Jazz” with his participation. Of the many contenders for the role of leading the choice fell on Vadim Eilenkrig. And it turned out to be a one hundred percent hit. The project was a resounding success. And Vadim debut in his new capacity was awarded rave reviews from both fans and critics. Once upon a time “Kommersant” newspaper called it “Russian Chris Botti”. But from concert to concert, from the plate to the plate Vadim develops his own, distinctive style, unique sound and individual supply. On March 21st Jazz Club “Academichesky” 1, Donskaya str. m. Oktyabrskaya Start: 8.30pm Tickets: 500 – 1200 RUB
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