5 московский международный открытый
книжный фестиваль

The fifth Moscow International Open Book Festival will take place in Moscow, Russia on June 11-14. This is a multicultural event that takes place every summer since 20The main idea of the Open Book Festival is communication through culture and art, establishing a deeper connection between the reading society and the rest of the cultural world. In its past years the Festival numbered up to 200 events, welcomed over 400 participants and nearly thirty thousand visitors. The Festival received a vast coverage in the media and has become a favourite with the Moscow reading public. It has gained the reputation of a significant national event and over the last four years has proved to be the most positive, open-minded and inspiring Moscow cultural happening. During the four days of the Festival representatives of active national art institutions together with the Moscow cultural elite and general public alike find themselves in the inner-yard of the Central House of Artists on the bank of the Moscow-river in the center of Moscow. Readings, music concerts, interactive happenings, art exhibitions, book presentations, special children programs, and numerous talks and panel discussions fully engage visitors of the Festival from morning till night. We see the Festival as an intellectual forum where writers, artists, academicians and others spread their ideas and communicate with each other and visitors. There is a wide range of forms in which a thought can be materialized: fiction and non-fiction, science and poetry, too. And the Text itself can be not only written one – it can turn to be also a film, a music, a show. The Festival includes all these forms and every year expererience a new one.

This year we do not promote only one theme to discuss, we rather see a semantic field of the Festival as a jigsaw puzzle of people and their thoughts.

Official Disclosure:

The Festival is organized by the Central House of Artists, Art Moscow Foundation, International Confederation of Artists' Unions under patronage of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, the Government of Moscow, Moscow City Duma, Moscow City Committee for Telecommunications and Media.

Our traditional partners are Russian publishing houses and Moscow-based international cultural institutions and embassies.

Director of the Festival -- Vasily Bychkov (the Central House of Artists)

Program director -- Boris Kuprijanov

The Book Program curator -- Grigorij Okhotin

Children’s program curator -- Tatiana Rjabuhina

Poetry curator -- Nikolaj Okhotin

Cinema curator - Naum Kleyman, Maxim Pavlov

Music curator - Artemy Troitsky

Art curator - Andrey Erofeev