It offers educational lectures, poetry readings, contests, interactive display of art objects.

In 2015, the Foundation “Live Classics” with the support of MMC “Norilsk Nickel” in Monchegorsk within the framework of the All-Russian contest of ideas of literary landmarks “Literary trail” has been established art object “Poetic stool.” The new monument becomes a place of creative meetings. Since August 28, at the art object “Stool” will be self-titled festival – “stool.”

Poetry Festival “Stool” will unfold in several stages: the concert – about the monument, master classes and lectures – in tents in the park. Also it offers surprises, competitions, literary buffet.

In Monchegorsk come poets and artists from Sweden, Norway, Finland, as well as St. Petersburg, Moscow, Murmansk region.

The festival will show interactive installation “Mirotochenie” Helen Demi-Annual and Oleg Makarov.

It is also preparing for the festival historically important project – the embodiment of poetic generator Boris Katz. In 1978, in the journal “Automation and Remote Control” Academy of Sciences published an article “On the program, write poetry,” in which an algorithm that creates poetry rhyming dictionary OEMandelshtama (collection “Stone”) was considered. During the festival, audiences will be able to see the incarnation of the text of the machine.
Mediapoet Natalia Fedorova hold a master class for students and youth “Exercises for Language Arts.” The boys try themselves in the genre of visual poetry (the connection of art and literature), and learn about the history of this area, leading the readout from the second century BC

In conjunction with media artist Anna Tolkacheva the festival saamiyazychnye authors from Russia and the Nordic countries will create an interactive installation “nomadic poetry.”
The program also planned award ceremony for winners of the poetry competition on the theme of cities Monchegorsk, Polar, Nickel and Kola MMC production, which started on the Day of Metallurgist.

Program I International poetry festival “stool”

Art Object “Poetic stool”

12:00 – 12:10 – Welcome address, opening.

12:10 – 13:30 – Presentation of Russian and foreign poets.

14:30 – 15:00 – “Wandering”. Poetry readings.

15:00 – 15:20 – Performance “Man and Machine”.

15:20 – 15:40 – “In Memory” – competition in the reading of the classics from memory.

15:40 – 16:00 – Presentation of the competition for young readers “Live Classics”.

16:00 – 17:00 – Presentation of theater and cinema actor Michael Politseymako with chtetskoy program.

Tent number 1

12:10 – 14:10 -. Lecture for students’ writing techniques on complex surfaces ” “Exercises for Language Arts” Master Class for students. Conducted by Natalia Fedorova, PhD in Philology, St. Petersburg State University, founder of the Laboratory of experimental poetry.

15.30 – 16.00 – rewarding the winners of poems “Poems, cast in metal.”

16:00 – 17:00 – video lecture “Giant subjects in the arts.”

17:00 – 18:00 – autograph session Mikhail Politseymako.

Tent №2

12.00 – 18.00 – Work poetry generator “How do poems.” Presentation at 15.00.

The tent number 3

13.30 – opening mediainstallyatsii “nomadic poetry” Anna Tolkacheva. Mediainstallyatsiya open from 12.00 to 18.00.

park Avenue

12.00 – 18.00 – the work of an interactive installation “Magic Stones” (Oleg Makarov,

Elena Demi-Dowa). Presentation at 14.00.

12.00 – 16.00 – Work MGODYUB mobile library.

During the day in the park for the guests of the festival will run poetic buffet, shopping arcades and rides.

More from the press attache of the festival Olga Lee: tel .: +7 (981) 150 15 24, olyalee @ liveclassics.ru.