The National Unity Day Festival Will Be Held At 30 Venues Throughout Moscow

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

From 2 to 4 November in the capital, for the third time, the festival "National Unity Day" will be held. The festive program awaits guests at 30 venues throughout the city: these are 9 festival venues for the Moscow Seasons cycle of urban street events (Revolution Square, Manezhnaya Square, Slava Square, Profsoyuznaya, Shkolnaya, Pererva and Matveevskaya Streets, Orekhovy Boulevard and Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard) and 21 venues in the capital's parks (the full list of addresses of the festival can be found below)

At the festival, Muscovites and tourists will be able to get better acquainted with the culture and traditions of the peoples of all eight federal districts of our country: watch the performances of creative teams, play old outdoor games, master the basics of various crafts, try (and learn how to cook!) Traditional dishes, purchase folk products crafts. The program of each festival site will include a variety of entertainment, performances and treats from all federal districts! Participation in all festival events is free!

Immersive performance and folk fun

Every day, on Manezhnaya Square, the guests of the festival will be shown screenings of an immersive performance directed by Sergei Kotyukh! Adults and children will be able not only to watch a fascinating performance, but also to join a big trip throughout Russia! And they will be accompanied by artists of theatrical and folklore groups "Russian Tradition", "Poverie", "Theater of Mikhail Buryachik", "Workshop of the holiday" and others.

According to the director's idea, the three main characters set off on their way - the merchant and his sons Ivan and Yaroslav - and, of course, all the guests of the festival who wish! They will visit all eight federal districts of our country: North Caucasian, South, Volga, Ural, Siberian, Far East, North-West and Central. And everywhere they will be greeted by artists dressed in bright costumes, who will present national songs and dances, and offer to play games popular in every region. For example, guests can play rounders and burners, try to protect a chicken, catch a fish, or try their luck in a comic "battle" on sticks.

“Our format is a big journey: moving around different locations of the festive venue, spectators get to know something new and interesting, and get involved in the performance itself. During our work, we made sure that visitors enjoy playing games, sometimes singing and dancing with the artists,”said Sergei Kotyukh.

Cooking classes

Perhaps the most enjoyable way to get acquainted with the culture of the region is through the favorite dishes of its inhabitants! At the festival "National Unity Day" the main gastronomic hits of various parts of our country will be possible not only to taste, but also to learn how to cook. Over three days, eight culinary schools (they will be located at all city festival venues, except Manezhnaya Square) will host more than 50 master classes on cooking the most delicious dishes!

So, on

Revolution Square and Orekhovy Boulevard, we will bake an open Siberian pie with berries and cook the "old Moscow" hodgepodge. In addition, on the first site, we will make traditional Tyumen dumplings with cherries, and on the second, we will cook cod in batter according to a recipe from Murmansk.

On the

Pererva street, in addition to the dishes listed above, we will prepare a "well-fed crush" (salmon and lingonberry salad according to the Kamchatka recipe).

On the

Profsoyuznaya street We will cook Altai soup kocho (this is a rich meat soup) and Siberian sbiten with honey, spices and berries.

On the

Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard, Matveevskaya Street and Glory Square culinary classes will focus on the topic of baking. The schedule of master classes includes Lipetsk pancakes, Ossetian pies, pies near Moscow with green onions and rice, baked goods (cheesecake with vegetable filling, according to the recipe of the Republic of Udmurtia), dumplings (pie with meat and oatmeal filling, according to the recipe from the Republic of Mari El) and much more!

Well, and on

School street, in addition to baking, guests will be offered to cook Tatar manti!

Crafts and arts

From 2 to 4 November, more than 300 creative master classes will be held at the Moscow Seasons venues!

So, on Revolution Square the Architectural Studio will open, where young visitors will learn everything about urban planning and get acquainted with the sights of major Russian cities - such as Moscow, St. Petersburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Volgograd, Sochi and Vladivostok. They will also make their own art objects in the form of buildings that will decorate the exhibition stand.

On the

School street, in the "House of Painting" - we will learn about the origin of ornaments and patterns typical for various regions of our country, get acquainted with the Sheksna and Mezen paintings, write pictures with acrylics and gouache!

In the Craft Workshop at

Profsoyuznaya street - we will get acquainted with Rostov enamel and paint pendants and caskets using the technique of miniature painting; we will create a traditional Filimonov toy, study the sculptural techniques popular in the Republic of Sakha.

On the

Glory Square everyone will be offered to take lessons in pottery and glass painting (we will draw a panorama of the Russky Island), and also learn how to make pillows with Caucasian patterns from woven fabrics, traditional for the Republic of Tatarstan.

On the

Dmitry Donskoy Boulevard and Matveevskaya Street - we will learn how to sculpt clay toys typical for the Tula region, we will master the Khabarovsk and Kabardino-Balkarian techniques of painting clay products and paint wooden figurines in the form of symbols of Russian regions.

In the Craft Workshop at

Orekhovy Boulevard - we will create pictures on tree cuts using the technique of spot painting, typical for the Irkutsk region of the Siberian Federal District, we will study the history of gold embroidery, we will get acquainted with the Kholmogory bone carving

In addition, Carpentry Workshops will operate on Orekhovy Boulevard and Pererva Street, where visitors will be offered to make interior items and traditional toys: a tray painted in Gzhel, a moving Bogorodsk toy "Chickens" and a nesting doll

A detailed schedule of master classes, performances and other events of the festival "National Unity Day" see very soon on the website

moscowseasons.com/festival/unitydayfest-2019/

List of sites of the festival "National Unity Day"

Festival venues:

1. Manezhnaya Square

2. Revolution Square

3. st. School, ow. 11-53

4. st. Profsoyuznaya, ow. 41

5. Boulevard Dmitry Donskoy, property 11

6. Nut? br, ow. 24, bldg. 1

7. Glory Square

8. st. Pererva, ow. 52

9. st, Matveevskaya, ow. 2

Parks

1. MGS "Hermitage"

2. Park "Zaryadye"

3. TsPKiO them. M. Gorky

4. PKiO "Fili"

5. PKiO "Sokolniki"

6. PKiO "Lianozovsky"

7. Goncharovsky Park

8. Park on Angarskaya street

9. PKiO "Kuzminki"

10. PKiO "Perovskiy"

11. Estate "Vorontsovo"

12. Lilac garden

13. Izmai? PKiO

14. MPK "Severnoye Tushino"

15. Poklonnaya Hill

16. Garden of KiO named after N. E. Bauman

17. Khodynskoe field

18. Children's Park. Pryamikova

19. PKiO "Babushkinskiy?"

20. PKiO "Krasnaya Presnya"

21. Krasnogvardeyskie ponds

Organizing committee of the cycle of city street events

"Moscow seasons"

Pavel Gusev

+7 (916) 758-20-42

Ekaterina Kuznetsova

+7 (967) 035-62-46

For reference:

The National Unity Day festival was first held in Moscow in 2017.

The 2018 festival (which took place from 3 to 5 November) was attended by almost 1.9 million Muscovites and tourists. They watched 150 performances by art groups and participated in hundreds of craft and culinary activities. And also - they bought more than 15 tons of cheeses, fish and meat delicacies and almost 3 thousand original gifts for themselves or their loved ones.

More information about the festival can be found at