The design of the festival is dedicated to the preservation of inter-Orthodox unity and acquaintance of guests with Ukrainian Orthodox Church- Hierarchs, clergy, monastics and laity of Ukraine. Sketches of Kyiv photographers from procession in Kyiv, which took place during the celebration of the 1030 Baptism of Rus' and gathered about 250 thousand pilgrims.
Concerts, photo exhibitions, film screenings, and creative workshops will be held throughout the festival. Traditionally for the Artos festival, a large fair will be held, which will be attended by about 200 exhibitors from monasteries, temples, various craft workshops, manufacturers of church products, farms and family farms.
In addition, in the conference hall of pavilion No. 2 of the Sokolniki Convention and Exhibition Center, a photo exhibition in defense of unborn children "Motherhood as a miracle" will be opened. It will be co-organized by the Women for Life Foundation.
As part of the Artos festival, several social events will take place. Throughout the week, anyone will be able to participate in the initiatives of the Boutique of Kindness project, a cashless store for pregnant women, large families and parents of children with disabilities. Guests will be asked to collect a "package for mom" with necessary things for her and the child, and also to leave a personal message asking to keep the child and not to have an abortion.
There will also be a solemn transfer of books about St. John of Shanghai for the Alekseevskaya Hospital in Moscow.
On October 24, as part of the event, the business and educational week “NGO week. Social projects: from idea to implementation.
“In our work, we are constantly faced with a huge demand from people for active participation in charitable and social life society. Especially many ideas and projects for systematic assistance to those who need it are born, first of all, in the youth environment. Unfortunately, many of them, due to lack of experience and knowledge, remain unclaimed,” said Aleksey Tokarev, chairman of the organizing committee of the Artos Orthodox festival, talking about the upcoming October festival.
He also informed that together with the co-organizers of the business and educational week, the Internet portal "Prihody" and the fund for supporting humanitarian and educational initiatives "Cooperation", a large educational program will be organized free of charge for everyone. We will show you how to create non-commercial project, find funding for it and attract grants, how to promote it, find partners, form a team. Everyone can take part, regardless of their place of work, position and age,” Alexey Tokarev added.
According to Yevgenia Zhukovskaya, editor-in-chief of the Parishes Internet portal, “Today being illiterate is like social death.” “This is especially true for those who are engaged in community service, helps people and does everything to make our world more joyful and prosperous. Much can be realized by knowing certain technologies and applying successful practices. We will teach you not only to generate ideas, but also to implement them productively,” emphasized the curator of business and educational program“NGO week. Social projects: from idea to implementation»
Moscow, 24 February. From February 26 to March 3, the Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Center, pavilion 2, will host the ARTOS Orthodox Festival. Orthodox culture is rich in talents in all spheres of society: art, handicraft, journalism, publishing, production. Each of the representatives of a particular activity can declare themselves within the framework of thematic highly specialized events. For the first time, the ARTOS Orthodox Festival provides an opportunity for all talents to gather on one platform and show all the diversity, richness and beauty of the Orthodox faith.
Within the framework of the Festival, many events will be held, divided into several thematic segments.
Film production will be presented in the format of a film lecture creative laboratory"Visible and Secret" at the Union of Cinematographers of Russia. The directors will show the public their documentary and feature works, after which the audience will have the opportunity to communicate directly with the creators of the films.
The theatrical performance is organized by the Moscow Theater of Russian Drama under the direction of Shchepenko M.G. Bright, cheerful, costumed " Maslenitsa festivities» performed by theater actors will be of interest to children and their parents. Also at the ARTOS festival, the laureates of the famous Candlemas Theater Festival will show their creativity to the audience.
The concert program of the event will be especially wide. Famous Orthodox musicians will perform on the stage of the Festival: Archpriest Alexander Starostenko, Stanislav Bartenev, Vyacheslav Kaporin, Yulia Slavyanskaya, as well as not yet very famous, but no less talented vocal ensemble "Fadeless Color" and string trio "Galante".
The festival will not do without serious spiritual and educational talks. Famous clergymen will meet with believers: Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev and Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov. Also about pressing issues. modern society writers Valery Khatyushin, Yuri Vorobyevsky and famous philosopher, theologian, professor Trostnikov Viktor Nikolaevich.
The art gallery of the exhibition this time is provided not to eminent masters, but to children from the Donbass, who, being in a difficult situation, came with their works to ask for help from all the not indifferent residents of Russia. The paintings depict the war through the eyes of children. In their support will be charity concerts Vyacheslav Kaporin and Stanislav Bartenev.
Orthodox culture is rich not only creative professions, but also a wide abundance of artisans, icon painters, jewelers, publishing houses, monasteries and farms. You can get acquainted with the products of manufacturers at the exposition of the Orthodox exhibition-fair "SOROK FORTY", which will be held as part of the Festival. The special pride of the fair is the wide abundance of natural eco-products of monasteries and farms, which cannot be found in ordinary stores.
Detailed program of events:
12:00 Opening. Prayer. Choir of the Valaam Monastery.
18:00 Film lecture hall. Documentary film "Your Brother Cain", directed by Irina Vasilyeva. Documentary film "Dad, hello ..." directed by Natalia Kononenko. Discussion with creators.
12:30 Theatrical children's performance"Shrovetide festivities". Moscow Theater of Russian Drama under the direction of Mikhail Shchepin
14:00 Film lecture hall. Documentary film "Four Soldiers' Medals", directed by Alexei Denisov. Discussion with creators.
17:00 Film lecture hall. Short films art films"Diptych" and "Brotherhood", directed by Anastasia Galkina. Documentary film "Atlantis of the Russian Server", directed by Sofia Gorlenko. Discussion with creators.
12:00-15:00 theater festival"Candlemas".
15:30 Meeting with artistic director Moscow Theater of Russian Drama Shchepenko Mikhail Grigorievich
17:00 Archpriest Alexander Starostenko. Concert of the author's song.
13:00 Writer. Vorobievsky Yuri. Conversation on the topic "Caucasian elders"
15:00 Galante trio. Concert of chamber classical music.
16:00 Vocal ensemble "Fadeless Color", quartet.
18:00 Archpriest Oleg Stenyaev Conversation on the topic “The Mystery of Death, Trials and Resurrection”.
December 12, 2016 in Moscow, in the park of culture and recreation "Sokolniki" will open the Orthodox festival "Artos".
The main theme of the festival will be family christmas, and its central platforms will present to the attention of guests a lot of stands with original, handmade goods, creative master classes for children and adults, as well as a wide variety of gifts: books, icons, jewelry and much more. The exhibition will present big choice Orthodox literature, including gift children's editions for Christmas.
As part of the festival, a series of conversations with priests will take place, where you can talk about fasting and preparation for the Nativity of Christ, as well as ask questions about spiritual life. Artos will be visited by such famous preachers as Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov, Archpriest Andrei Tkachev and Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov. A meeting with Archpriest Andrei Dudorev will be devoted to Russian culture and literature, and with the author popular compilations recipes Hegumen Germogen (Ananyev) will be able to talk about Lenten cuisine.
In the main part exhibition exposition guests will be presented with a unique photo project "What the ruins are silent about", telling about the fate outstanding monuments church architecture of the Ryazan land. The Orthodox film lecture hall also remains traditional for the festival. This time there will be a retrospective of the masterpieces of world cinema, dedicated to Christmas. Special Program screenings prepared with the participation Central Museum cinema and will help to take a fresh look at traditional Christmas stories.
Orthodox exhibition-fair “Forty Forties”
The festival in the best traditions of Christmas will open in the Sokolniki center in mid-December. Sacred music concerts, Christmas carols, a handicraft fair and creative workshops are just a few reasons to visit the holiday with the whole family.
From December 12 to 18, the next Artos festival will begin its work in the second pavilion of the Sokolniki Center. This time the festival invites guests to the anniversary: Artos will be held in the capital for the tenth time.
The heart of the festival will be Orthodox program for the whole family and a fair of goods made by skilled craftsmen. Here you can also choose and purchase books, including gift books for children, icons, jewelry and other products. For those who want to make Christmas gifts with their own hands, master classes will be held.
IN evening time the festival will feature music performed by choral performers, spiritual chants, romances and folk Christmas songs. And during each day the organizers prepared interesting book presentations, meetings with priests and even a Christmas movie marathon.
Program of events of the Orthodox festival “Artos”
12 December
13:00
Grand opening, prayer service. Opening of the photo exhibition “Artos. Happy Memories"
14:00
Performance by the choir of the Donskoy Monastery. Presentation of a new disc published for the 100th anniversary of the Restoration of the Patriarchate
15:00
"Priest's Hour" Meeting with Archpriest Andrey Alekseev: “Family leisure for the benefit of the soul”
December 13th
15:00
Balalaika Sextet Orchestra Concert folk instruments of Russia named after N. P. Osipov
17:00
"Priest's Hour" Meeting with Priest Valery Dukhanin (together with the Resurrection Publishing House)
December 14
13:00
KinoArtos. Educational video project “A few words about the main thing”
15:00
concert of Archpriest Mikhail Khodanov "Attitude of the poet to God and religion: spiritual understanding of the work of Vladimir Vysotsky"
December 15
14:00
KinoArtos. The film "Brotherly Candle". Directed by Irina Volokh. Film Studio of Ioann Voin (Belarus). Winner of the Radonezh International Film Festival in 2013.
16:00
Solo concert Archpriest Alexander Starostenko
December 16
14:00
Puppet show“Wandering Nativity Scene” Christmas performance for the whole family.
15:00
Meeting with children's writer Irina Rogaleva. Presentation of a new book Christmas stories"Wonderful Garden", published by the publishing house "Resurrection"
16:30
Children's concert folklore ensemble"Vesnyanka"
December 17
14:00
KinoArtos. Film Andersen. The Riddle of the Snow Queen” Directed by Nikolai Chuev, “PTK Television Company” commissioned by the “My Joy” TV channel.
15:00
"Priest's Hour" Meeting with Archpriest Andrei Dudarev dedicated to Russian literature. "Mayakovsky and Yesenin - the prophets of the Silver Age".
17:00
KinoArtos. Film Christmas. The author and presenter is Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeev) of Volokolamsk. Directed by Maria Guseva.
Admission to all events is free!
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On December 11-17, 2018, the Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Center in Moscow will host the XV International Orthodox Festival Artos: Mood of Christmas, dedicated to the theme of the upcoming holiday of the Nativity of Christ, family and family values.
The organizers invite parents with children to the festival, for whom a separate program has been prepared. Little guests are welcome puppet show, sand show and master classes in sand animation, decorating Christmas baking, creating original Christmas decorations and postcards.
On opening day the festival will take place presentation of new books. Three books of the series "On the Ways of Faith" about Sergei Mikhalkov, Ilya Glazunov and Vitaly Churkin will be presented, as well as an audio version of the book "Orthodox Catechism" by Metropolitan Filaret (Drozdov) - a joint project Publishing houses and radio "Vera".
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Artos will host an evening of memory with the participation of historian and specialist in Russian emigration Viktor Leonidov and cameraman Vyacheslav Sachkov, a concert and a screening documentaries"On the last reach", "Word".
At the concert of Christmas carols, listeners will appreciate the skill of the singers and learn how Russian and Ukrainian carol songs originated. Among the new participants of the Artos festival is the Tibitet group, which performs in various genres: from art song to jazz and rock, with musical accompaniment on various instruments and "a cappella".
Guests will be able to talk about fasting and preparations for the feast of the Nativity of Christ, ask questions about the spiritual life at meetings with priests. A series of talks will be held by Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov, Archpriest Andrei Tkachev, Archpriest Alexander Tylkevich.
