XV International Orthodox Festival "Artos: the mood of Christmas" will be held in Sokolniki from December 11 to 17. In December, the festival is traditionally 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 by the Publishing House of the Moscow Patriarchy. 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 Philaret (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 a historian and specialist in Russian emigration Viktor Leonidov and cameraman Vyacheslav Sachkov, concert and show 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 festival "Artos" - a group "Tibitet", which masterfully owns all genres from the author's song to jazz and rock, with musical accompaniment on various instruments and "a cappella". The ensemble's repertoire is based on deep musical traditions and intellectual texts.
Guests will be able to talk about fasting and preparation for the Nativity of Christ, ask questions about the spiritual life at meetings with priests. A series of conversations will be held Archpriest Artemy Vladimirov, Archpriest Andrey Tkachev, Archpriest Alexander Tylkevich.
Orthodox festival"ARTOS" Youth Forum Do-it-yourself future
October 25-31, 2016
Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Center Pavilion 2
Our institute takes part in the exhibition. Stand 5.
Youth festival “Artos. Do-it-yourself future” will be held from October 25 to October 31 with the support of Synodal department religious education and catechesis at the Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Center.
Large Orthodox youth movements that unite creative and active young people of the city will gather to participate in it. “These young people are the real backbone of traditional Russian values and cultural heritage countries," the festival's press release notes.
The number of youth projects and programs that are held in the capital is growing every year, but often young people do not have enough experience and knowledge to implement their projects. The festival is designed to become the educational platform that will help believing youth go from a dream to a real embodiment. own projects and ideas.
The center of the festival will be a comprehensive educational program for the preparation of the project. Participants will be told how to work out and present their ideas, how to find funding for their implementation, how to plan work and organize a close-knit team, and make media support effective.
The organizers prepared master classes, lectures, business games, meetings with entrepreneurs, business coaches, representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and media.
The result of the program will be the grant competition "Small Deeds Fund", which will be attended by youth projects prepared during educational program"Artos". Its winners will be able to receive funding from the organizing committee of the festival.
Youth movements to declare themselves at one of the largest Orthodox exhibition sites (it is expected that about 50 thousand people will visit it during the days of the exhibition).
On October 29 and 30, during the weekend, within the framework of the festival, “Family Days” will be held, the main event of which will be a discussion meeting “Motherhood and childhood in modern Russia"problems and solutions".
All guests of the holiday will enjoy a traditional exhibition-fair, food courts and entertainment, as well as a rich The cultural program based on music. The Magellanic Cloud and Ladoni groups and the singer Yulia Slavyanskaya will perform in front of the audience. On October 25, on the opening day of the festival, there will be a meeting with the founder of the "Black Coffee" group, held jointly with the Orthodox radio "Vera".
For connoisseurs of spiritual cinema, Artos prepared a meeting with the president of the international Sretensky Orthodox Film Festival "Meeting" and a special screening of the film "Atlantis of the Russian North", dedicated to the history of the restoration of wooden monuments of Russian architecture.
All sites of the festival-forum "Artos" will traditionally be free to visit and free of charge.
WITH detailed program festival can be found on the pages of the project in in social networks:
"Vkontakte" - vk.com/artosfest
Facebook - facebook.com/artosfest
Additional questions about the festival - at [email protected]
The festival is held with the support of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Youth Department of the Moscow City Diocese and the Synodal Department for Religious Education and Catechism.
Artos festival program
the 25th of October
14.00 Opening of the festival. Presentation of the festival "Artos".
15.00 Sergey Turkin, business coach. Head of the company "Social Investments". Master class "How beneficial it is to be kind"
18.00 " bright evening» offline. Founder and vocalist of the Black Coffee group Dmitry Varshavsky. Held in conjunction with the Orthodox radio "Vera"
October 26
14.00 Andrey Sorokin. Master class "Project presentations - how to do it right"
15.00 Sergey Turko, Chief Editor Publishing house "Alpina". Master class "What a leader should know and be able to do"
17.00 President of the international Sretensky Orthodox film festival "Meeting" nun Sofia (Ishchenko). Film screening
27th October
12.00 Presentation of the book by the writer Yuri Vorobyevsky "King Snake Fighter"
14.00 Presentation of the projects of the organization "Common Cause"
15.00 Film "Atlantis of the Russian North"
17.00 Concert. Archpriest Alexander Starostenko
28 of October
14.00 Workshop on creative thinking. Andrey Sorokin, business coach, consultant
15.00 Round table "Working with the media: the main mistakes"
16.00 "How to talk about your activities in social networks." Social Communication Specialist of the Youth Department of the Moscow City Diocese Maxim Sokolov
18.00 Concert. Group "Palms"
29th of October
13.00 Origami workshop for children and adults
15.00 Conference "Motherhood and childhood in modern Russia" problems and solutions"
17:00 Concert. Singer Julia Slavyanskaya
October 30
13.00 Children's program with the participation of the Barbariki group
14.00 Summing up the results of the competition "Fund of small deeds"
18.00 Magellanic cloud group
The design of the festival is dedicated to the preservation of inter-Orthodox unity and acquaintance of guests with the 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 put them into practice productively,” emphasized the curator of the business and educational program “NGO week. Social projects: from idea to implementation»
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, handicraft fair and creative master classes- here are just a few reasons to look at 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
Concert of the children's 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!
You can follow all the latest news of the Artos festival program in social groups project.
International Orthodox Festival "Artos" will be held in capital park"Sokolniki" from 22 to 28 August 2016.
Its central theme - "Russia-Hellas" is dedicated to the cross-year of cooperation Russian Federation and the Hellenic Republic. And for all Orthodox, this year is marked by the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the presence of Russian monasticism on Mount Athos.
At lectures, meetings with priests and representatives of the Greek diaspora, listeners will get acquainted with the history of Orthodoxy, with the spiritual features and culture of the Hellenes. Art lovers are welcome art exhibitions, where Russian artists will present their vision of the famous shrines of the Greek land. The Artos will also exhibit the winning works of the all-Russian photo contest “Greece. My moments of happiness.
For children and their parents, Artos will host master classes that introduce the culture of Hellas in a fun way. Here, even the smallest guests of the holiday will be able to learn about the Greek costume, try their hand at painting an amphora, create a unique art alphabet or dance with folklore ensemble"Spindle".
For adults, the organizing committee of the festival has also prepared a lot of interesting things: for example, guests of Artos will be able to visit short course of the Modern Greek language from ethnic Hellenes, who will talk about its main features and role in Russian culture. creative personalities waiting for master classes in Greek dance and photography, as well as a seminar on oratory And acting skills. And housewives will be taught how to cook traditional Byzantine bread and choose the highest quality olive oil.
Another highlight of the festival will be the traditional film lectures, organized jointly with creative laboratory"Visible and Secret" under the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation. On August 27, as part of the festival, guests will be able to see full cycle documentary films about St. Paisius the Svyatogorets, as well as to meet with its creator, Alexander Kuprin.
As part of the lecture hall, there will also be a meeting with a participant in the short program of the Cannes Film Festival, young director Yanis Politov: he will present the audience with the author's vision of his film "Philosophy".
Artos will be attended not only by guests from Greece, but also by representatives of a dozen regions of Russia, and the exhibition part of the festival is represented by more than 170 exhibitors. Here you can buy a lot of useful goods: works of icon painters and jewelers, craftsmen, candles and church utensils, national souvenirs and a variety of book products, as well as natural products from Greece and Russian farms, monastery honey and healing fees.
In the food court area, visitors will find areas of national Greek cuisine, where they can not only buy ethnic products, but also attend various presentations and get acquainted with the flavor of the Mediterranean cuisine. Guests can also learn about pilgrimage destinations in Greece by visiting the stands of travel companies.
“The whole program of the festival is designed so that it becomes a place for meeting friends and spiritual dialogue. Here everyone can find something that will be close to his heart: whether it is a performance of the Byzantine singing choir, concerts of spiritual and ethnic music, dance programs where you can get acquainted with the history Greek dance and Russian folk dance traditions,” the organizers of the festival say.
The festival is held with the support of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Moscow and the Ministry Agriculture, Greek cultural center in Moscow and the Moscow Society of Greeks.
All sites and master classes of the festival are free to visit and free of charge. Opening hours - from 11:00 to 19:00 (from 22 to 28 August).
Address: Sokolniki Exhibition and Convention Center, Pavilion No. 2 (a free minibus runs from the Sokolniki metro station).
