Classical music festival
- September 3-5, see the timeline here
- Vyborg Castle, Vyborg
- Free entrance
Summer is over, yet it’s still warm enough to plan a quick fall trip and recharge in the beautiful city of Vyborg. This weekend, Vyborg Castle will host the fifth annual festival for all lovers of classical music, great and small. The city will become a perfect place to fall in love not only with the city’s charming architecture but also timeless music.
Street film festival
- August 30 - September 5, films will be shown between 1.30 and 9.30 pm
- Nikolsky Market
- Free entrance (registration is required)
If you feel confident in your Russian and want to learn more about contemporary Russian cinema, get involved! This weekend, you have the chance to do both at the Street Film Festival, plus visit a new public space in St. Petersburg. From August 30 onwards, the festival brings the best of the world of short films – new names, movies, and perspectives – to our beloved city and not only. The festival’s winner will receive a grant, and you get to decide who will win by simply waving your phone’s flashlight.
Art exhibition
- August 28 - September 9, 9 am - 9 pm daily
- Loft Project Etagi
- Free entrance
Today, it might be hard to imagine our life without desktops, smartphones, and tablets. But once, technologies were a bit different. This exhibition opens a door into the hidden world of emotional memories and warm nostalgia for the Soviet Union. From Tamagotchis and pagers to landlines and cars, the artist Yana Riznyk managed to breathe new life into familiar-to-all objects and concepts – either experienced on photos or in real life – in a simple yet concise manner. Don’t miss out on the opportunity to delve into technology’s past and the Russian psyche, as well.
Photo exhibition
- August 28 - September 11, Tue-Sat 1-8 pm
- ZERNO gallery
- Free entrance
The newly-opened exhibition at ZERNO gallery is another way to travel to the past – this time through pictures. The exhibition brings together a diversity of photos by the Russian multidisciplinary artists Anastasia Shubina and Timofey Glinin. The photographers turned to the unique pinhole technique to create extraordinary images that bring the sensation of being in a different dimension, a magical one. Although captured fairly recently, the images don’t fail to depict the world through the lens of the past and reveal what is often out of the public eye.
