Summer is coming to an end, and I want to spend its last month with benefit. You still have the opportunity to visit the best exhibitions and museums of the capital of Russia, listen to the most interesting lectures in Moscow.
With the support of the Japanese Consulate, on August 11, 2012, Japan Day will be held in Moscow. On the main stage of Action Park you can see the Manga Festival, performances of music bands, an exhibition of Japanese photographers. Lectures on this country will begin at 12.00, a cinema will be open, master classes in origami, calligraphy, and the manufacture of paper lanterns will be held for those who wish.
An entertaining cycle of lectures was prepared by the founders of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis Slava ižek and Mladen Dolar. This is a kind of round table, a "short course" of criticism and diagnostics of ideology, with an excursion into philosophy. You can listen and talk with the most influential and cited philosophers of the modern world at the State Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow, Zoologicheskaya St., 13/2) on August 20 or at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow, Volkhonka St., 14) August 21.
Together with children, you can visit the museums of the Moscow Kremlin, where an interactive tour dedicated to the exhibition "The Iconostasis of the Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery" will take place. From an interesting lecture you will learn about the work of architects and painters, the history of the ancient monastery. In addition, games on the corresponding topic on the computer are provided for children, for a victory you can get museum souvenirs and certificates. The excursion will take place on August 11, 15, 22, 25, preliminary registration is required by phone: (495) 690-30-94.
Here adults and children are invited to a lecture on the Order of Malta. You will learn a lot of interesting things from the history of the order, get acquainted with the monuments of medieval architecture preserved in Malta and Rhodes. After the lecture, a visit to the "Treasures of the Order of Malta" exhibition is planned. The cultural and educational program is held in the museums of the Moscow Kremlin on August 11, 18, 25, as well as on September 4 and 8.
In the cultural center of Russia, undoubtedly, many different lectures, seminars and exhibitions are held. You can familiarize yourself with their schedule and brief content on the websites dedicated to the events in Moscow.
