Tsaritsyno will become the venue for the Circle of Light festival. Tickets for “Circle of Light” are only for our own Maly Theater. display of works by participants in the art vision competition in the “modern” category

Yesterday the Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light” started in Moscow. The event is already becoming business card city, which will soon become the same as the Brazilian carnival in Rio.

Try to hit it

All events that take place during the festival are free, and almost all have free access. But you probably already know that there are venues that have very comfortable stands. This year it is the Rowing Canal. But the podium is practically a closed party. Now we will tell you how you can get the coveted ticket.

Influential and not so influential

The first and simplest thing is to look for friends, acquaintances, relatives who work in organizing companies or sponsoring companies of the festival. We are looking for such people in the Moscow Government, in Rostec, in Aeroflot. Everything is simple here, open the festival page, look at the partners and call your friends and acquaintances.

The magic word PRESS

The next option is that you are a media representative or blogger. With the media, everything is much simpler; they have received accreditation and go ahead to do their job - to see and cover. With bloggers it’s a little more difficult. Anybody who likes to write on the Internet will not be given accreditation. You must have a well-promoted resource with at least 100,000 subscribers. And if you represent an online publication, then at least 1,000,000 views per month. We assessed our resource, looked at the statistics and went ahead for accreditation.

Almost sports lotto

Let's try our luck. In the “Circle of Light” festival group, the one on VKontakte, there are ticket draws. Join and try to participate, maybe you will get lucky. You can win tickets for the weekday performance on the Grebny Canal, but unfortunately not for the closing one. But more on that a little later.

If you don't go yourself, sell it to someone else

The last option is almost unrealistic. Try buying tickets. Of course, they are not available for free sale. But there are those who have tickets, but cannot go or simply profit from them. On Avito, offers for tickets vary from 800 rubles. up to 10,000 rub. But for 10,000 you will buy tickets for the closing of the festival.

Closing - they promise to bang

And now about the closure. The event promises to be grandiose. The declared fireworks with a dome diameter of a kilometer are already impressive in their numbers. And you can only guess what it will look like in reality until you see it in person. There are so many people wanting to attend that not all media representatives received accreditation, and there are also no tickets in the drawing. But you can find 10,000 per ticket in private advertisements.

Not everything that comes with tickets is good.

But you shouldn’t rush to the stands and spend money. Just believe me, next to the stands you can see everything no worse, you will be in a more advantageous position, especially since the canopy of the stands greatly cuts off the picture in the sky. Yes, there are inconveniences, standing for a long time, something may drip from above, but the declared show is worth the patience.

A few days before the start of the Circle of Light festival, information about the sale of tickets to Krylatskoye appeared on completely different Internet sites. The sellers assured that the ticket gave the owner the right to attend the show as a VIP. Ticket prices started at 1.5 thousand rubles and reached, at some venues, up to 8 thousand. The festival organizers emphasize that admission to all events will be free, and ticket sellers are nothing more than scammers. However, there is one caveat.

According to the organizers, all five open areas are available to everyone, without any restrictions. In other words, no tickets, invitations, etc. Not needed. Anyone can come and watch the show. The only site that differs from the rest is the Rowing Canal in Krylatskoye. And the point is not that this is where the most colorful action of unprecedented proportions will take place, but that the stands will initially be located on this site. In order not to create unnecessary excitement and somehow control the large mass of people, it was decided to close them off and provide access to the stands only with special invitation cards.

“Entrance to all sites of the Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light” is free to visit. In 2018, the grandstand is only at the Rowing Canal site in Krylatskoye. Invitation tickets can be won by participating in competitions held in the official communities of the Circle of Light festival. Tickets will also be raffled off from the festival’s media partners: for example, Avtoradio in morning broadcast, « Children's radio", "Humor FM" and other radio stations. Traditionally, Muscovites can become ticket holders by participating in a special event of the “Active Citizen” project. Other tickets are distributed through government agencies, charity organisations and social institutions,” the press service of the Moscow international festival “Circle of Light” told the Krylatskoe.ru portal.

They also explained that all such invitations indicate that “tickets are not for sale.”

“Everyone who tries to sell tickets to the Circle of Light festival events is committing fraud,” the organizers emphasized.

Apparently, tickets to the stands of the Grebnoy Canal are sold by those who received them by participating in various kinds of events and projects. At the same time, purchasing such tickets “not for sale” carries a rather high risk. The fact is that among the sellers there may be real scammers who sell non-existent tickets, for example, those printed on a color printer, or electronic ones. Since tickets were not on sale in principle, buying them in person could lead to problems. Controllers will check them and not allow into the stands those people who have “counterfeits” on their hands. At the same time, it is impossible to prove that you purchased them legally, since, as already emphasized above, they were not put on sale.

Moscow international festival“Circle of Light” will take place in Moscow from September 21 to 25. A total of five open areas will be used: Tsaritsyno, Kolomenskoye, theatre square, "Museum of Victory on Poklonnaya Hill"and the Rowing Canal in Krylatskoye. At the same time, two main events, opening and closing, will take place this year in Krylatskoye.

According to the organizers, last year, 2017, the show was attended by a total of about four million people. This time the number of viewers may reach five million. At the same time, it is possible that the site in Krylatskoye will be visited by the largest number of light show lovers - about half a million people.

The Circle of Light festival will take place in Moscow for the 7th time and promises to become one of the most spectacular events of the fall. All performances, as well as training seminars by lighting design masters, will be held at city venues in a publicly accessible free format.

This year the Circle of Light will take place at six venues. The opening ceremony of the festival will take place on September 23 in Ostankino. The country's main television tower celebrates its 50th anniversary this year. Using 3D projection technology, viewers will see it transformed into the seven tallest buildings in the world. The famous skyscrapers and television towers of France, the UAE, Canada, the USA, China, Japan and Australia will appear against the backdrop of the natural attractions of these countries.

Fountains, burners, and lighting devices will be installed on the territory of the Ostankino pond. Guests will see a pyrotechnic and multimedia show, as well as ice show, for which an ice rink is installed.

Theater Square uses the facades of the Bolshoi and Maly theaters. Here, viewers will be shown two thematic light shows: “Celestial Mechanics” - about loneliness and love, and “Timeless” - plots based on the works of outstanding Russian playwrights. Also, the works of the finalists will be shown on the facades of leading theaters in Russia. international competition ArtVision, held as part of the festival.

In Tsaritsyno Park every day from 19:30 to 23:00, visitors will see the impressive audiovisual performance “Palace of Feelings” on the Bolshoi building Catherine Palace and a mesmerizing light and sound show of fountains on Tsaritsynsky Pond. Will perform here on September 24 art group SOPRANO Mikhail Turetsky. On the remaining days of the festival, unique vocals women's team will be recorded and accompanied by video projections on the façade of the palace. On September 25, People's Artist Dmitry Malikov will give solo concert. During the festival, the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve will be decorated with installations from the world's leading lighting designers.

The events will also take place at two indoor venues. On September 24, the “Art Vision VJing” competition will take place in the “Mir” theater and concert hall, where teams from different countries will compete in the skill of creating light images to music. And on September 23 and 24 in the center Digital October lighting designers and creators of laser installations will give free educational lectures.

The Circle of Light festival will be concluded by the first Japanese pyrotechnics show in Russia, which will be held in the Stroginskaya floodplain on September 27. The charges of Japanese fireworks are much larger than usual, each shot is fired manually, and the design is unique.

See the festival program on the website.

From September 23 to 27, the VII Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light” will take place in Moscow. Impressive light and sound performances will be presented free of charge at seven venues.

Architectural video mapping - the projection of three-dimensional images onto city buildings and structures - can be seen on the Ostankino Tower, which celebrates its half-century anniversary this year. In addition to the Ostankino TV Tower, the Circle of Light festival program will include four more open areas: Theater Square, Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Patriarch's Ponds and Stroginskaya Floodplain.

Ostankino tower

One of the main venues of the Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light” will be the Ostankino Tower. On September 23 from 20:00 to 21:15 the opening ceremony of the festival will take place here.

An amazing musical and multimedia show using video projection, choreography of fountains, synergy of light, lasers and fire will unfold on the Ostankino Tower and the surface of the Ostankino Pond.

With the help of modern water and pyrotechnic technologies, as well as the magic of light and music, viewers will be transported to the fabulous Lavender Fields, to the foot of Niagara Falls, to the heart of Yellow Stone Park and Bamboo Flute Cave, to experience the heat of the Sahara Desert or the refreshing breeze of the Great Barrier Reef, witnesses of the mesmerizing power of the Fuji volcano, the immense depth of Lake Baikal, the endless beauties Ural mountains and the captivating charm of Sakhalin Island.

The opening ceremony will end with a 15-minute grandiose pyrotechnic show involving the Ostankino Tower.

As part of the festival, the Ostankino TV tower, 540 meters high, will alternately turn into the Eiffel Tower (300 meters), the Dubai skyscraper Burj Khalifa (828 meters) and the New York Empire State Building (443 meters), as well as the Toronto TV tower (553 meters ), Shanghai (486 meters), Tokyo (332 meters) and Sydney (309 meters). Source -, the best events in Moscow.

theatre square

This year, Theater Square united two buildings at once - the Bolshoi and Maly Theaters. A unique light show, where the interaction of two facades will become part of one love story.

In addition, the site will host a screening of works from the beloved ARTVISION competition. Participants from all over the world will demonstrate new works of light art to the audience at Bolshoi Theater in the “Classic” category and at the Maly Theater in the “Modern” category.

On the facades of the Bolshoi and Maly theaters from September 23 to 27, from 19:30 to 23:00, a light show based on several works performed on their stages will be shown. Viewers will see fragments of plays by classics of Russian literature - Alexander Ostrovsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov and others.

Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno"

From September 23 to 27, Tsaritsyno Park will appear for visitors in a new fairy light. Spectators can expect an audiovisual show at the Grand Catherine Palace, live show art groups Soprano Turkish to the accompaniment of light and music, a mesmerizing show of fountains on Tsaritsynsky Pond and amazing light installations.

In Tsaritsyno you can admire the show on all festival days dancing fountains. Water jets will be illuminated using special installations. Musical background The performances will include works from the repertoire of Mikhail Glinka, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev and other Russian composers.

Also on September 24, the art group Soprano will perform for guests of Tsaritsyno Park. Participants in the unique project of Mikhail Turetsky will accompany with their vocals spectacular video projections on the building of one of the palaces. And from September 25 to 27, Soprano will be performed in recording.

Additional colorful touches will be given to Tsaritsyno Park by the best light installations by famous designers from around the world.

Patriarch's Ponds

At the Patriarch's Ponds on September 25 from 20:30 to 21:30 Dmitry Malikov will perform own works on the piano. Romantic music and elegant video images on the facade of the yellow pavilion on the pond will create a harmonious light and music composition.

Strogino

On September 27, in the waters of the Stroginsky backwater, at the end of the Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light”, for the first time in Russia, spectators will be treated to a large-scale 30-minute pyrotechnic show from Japanese manufacturers.

Spectators can expect a bright and unforgettable 30-minute Japanese pyrotechnic show, which has no analogues in Russia. Hundreds of pyrotechnic charges will be launched from four barges installed in the waters of the Stroginsky backwater, the largest of which, 600 mm caliber, has never been presented in Russia before.

Japanese fireworks are unique in their properties and have no analogues in the world. They are superior in color and brightness to other fireworks, and the hand-made process, passed down from time immemorial, makes each projectile a true work art.

Digital October

From year to year, the Digital October platform remains a constant meeting place for famous professionals in the field visual arts and aspiring light artists.

Educational program consisting of lectures, seminars and practical classes helps beginners master the basics and reveals many secrets and subtleties in working with light.

On September 23 and 24, the center will host educational lectures by lighting designers and creators of laser installations. Admission is free subject to pre-registration on the festival website.

Concert Hall "MIR"

On September 24, the “Art Vision VJ” competition will take place at the “Mir” theater and concert hall on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. Teams from different countries will compete in the skill of creating light images to music.

Spectators will witness a competitive competition of the best light and music artists in the direction of VJing. Participants will demonstrate 10-minute VJ sets, where in real time under performed music will create completely new works using unexpected visual images and video clips.

Admission is free subject to pre-registration on the festival website.

The Moscow International Festival "Circle of Light" will be held this year for the seventh time, it will take place from September 23 to 27. The organizers promise to make it the most spectacular event of the fall. The city will once again turn into a center of light attraction for several days: entire video performances will unfold on its most beautiful buildings, and fabulous installations will illuminate the streets. Many surprises await Muscovites and guests of the capital at all six venues, and this year the festival will also include new addresses.

The Ostankino Ponds area, Tsaritsyno Park, Theater Square, Stroginskaya Poima, as well as the Mir theater and concert hall and the Digital October center will become the main auditoriums festival RG correspondents found out all the details.

A show will open in Ostankino, in honor half-century anniversary towers. The hero of the day will “try on” different images famous skyscrapers. Every minute the tower will turn into the Parisian Eiffel Tower, the New York 103-story Empire State Building, or the Japanese Landmark Tower... Viewers will also be able to see the skyscrapers of Canada, the UAE, China, and Australia ... The image will cover the entire diameter of the tower, so that the show will be visible from afar.

Those who happen to be nearby will be able to see an extraordinary multimedia light show right on Ostankino Pond. Viewers will be transported to the fabulous Lavender Fields, to the foot of Niagara Falls, to the heart of Yellowstone Park and Bamboo Flute Cave, to experience the heat of the Sahara Desert or the refreshing breeze of the Great Barrier Reef. Guests of the festival will witness the mesmerizing power of the Fuji volcano, the immense depth of Lake Baikal, the endless beauty of the Ural Mountains and the captivating charm of Sakhalin Island. A breathtaking spectacle here will be the choreography of fountains and fire, as well as a pyrotechnic performance.

They will also install a special platform on the pond for ice show, which the skaters will show.

With Circle of Light's growing popularity, new venues have joined the festival this year. The debutant of the festival will be the Maly Theater, the facade of which will be united by the plot with the Bolshoi Theater. “One story will smoothly move from one building to another,” says Vladimir Demekhin, creative director of the LBL Communication Group. Two light shows will be shown here: “Celestial Mechanics” - about loneliness and love, and “Timeless” - stories based on the works of Russian playwrights. Demekhin reminds that the Maly Theater carefully preserves the traditions of Russian theatrical arts, therefore, from its facade, Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky himself, as the symbol and soul of the theater, will invite viewers on a journey through time. “On two facades there will be unique decorations created according to historical sketches, scenes from cult performances will unfold, and their authors will not miss the opportunity to present their work, talk to each other and even joke,” continues Demekhin.

The finale of the festival will be a grandiose fireworks display - the first 30-minute show of Japanese pyrotechnics in Russia. Photo: RIA News

In addition, the theaters will traditionally be able to see the works of the finalists of the international competition ART VISION Classic. Participants from all over the world will demonstrate new works of light art to the audience at the Bolshoi Theater in the Classic category and at the Maly Theater in the Modern category.

This palace and park ensemble in the south of Moscow will turn into a light stage during the festival. The audiovisual performance “Palace of Senses” will be shown on the building of the Grand Catherine Palace, and a mesmerizing light and music fountain show will take place on Tsaritsynsky Pond. Dozens of fountains will come to life to the music of works by Russian composers, making spectators part of a large water orchestra. During all days of the festival, the park will be decorated with amazing installations from the world's leading lighting designers, and performances will also take place famous musicians. In particular, on September 24, the art group SOPRANO by Mikhail Turetsky will perform; on the remaining days, the unique vocals of the female group will be heard in recording, accompanied by video projections on the facade of the palace. There will be a concert in the park on September 25 National artist Russia Dmitry Malikov.

Theater and Concert Hall "Mir" and Digital October Center

Festival events will also take place at two indoor venues. On September 24 at 20.00 in the theater and concert hall "Mir" the audience will witness a competitive battle of the best light and music artists in the direction of vijing: teams from different countries will compete in the skill of creating light images to music. And those who are interested in exactly how this is done will be able to listen to free lectures by lighting designers and creators of laser installations on September 23 and 24 from 12.00 to 18.00 at the Digital October center.

One of the surprises awaits Muscovites and guests at the end of the festival. For the first time in Russia, a 30-minute Japanese fireworks display, which almost never travels around the world, will be presented. To do this, on September 27, barges with pyrotechnic installations will be installed on the water in the Stroginskaya floodplain. Japanese charges differ from ordinary ones in size - they are much larger, and each shot is made manually by specialists, due to which the pattern is individual. Will open up light paintings at an altitude of 500 meters, and the diameter of the light domes will be 240 meters.

Specifically

The international festival "Circle of Light" has been taking place in Moscow since 2011, and every year more and more guests come to see it: if in 2011 there were 200 thousand people, then in 2016 - already 6 million. There are also more and more performances, and their level is ever higher: last year on the facade of the main building of Moscow State University. M. Lomonosov, in particular, two new shows were presented, which had no analogues in the world in terms of scale and technical complexity. The Moscow International Festival "Circle of Light" has set records and is already included in the Guinness Book of Records in two categories: "Largest video projection" (50,458 sq. m) and "Largest luminous flux power when projecting an image" (4,264,346 lumens).

By the way

As always, you can come and enjoy the performances for free - admission to all festival sites is free. Details can be found on the website lightfest.ru.