Please notice that the events at the Lecture Hall and the Mayak School require advanced registration. For more details see the events' pages.
May 1, 12:00 pm – 8:00 pm
May 5–9, 12:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Ecoteca: Marathon of Children’s Workshops from the P.T.H. Creative Manufacture
May 6–8, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
One-Minute Cinema workshop at the Mayak School
May 6–8, 11:00 am – 6:00 pm
A Portrait that Tells a Story workshop at the Mayak School
May 10, 7:30 pm
Lectures in the Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg: Senior Research Fellow Oksana Zaporozhets, So Similar and yet so Different: Metropolitans of Moscow and Saint Petersburg in Everyday City Life
May 11, 7:30 pm
Hidden, Film Club: Film critic Vasily Koretsky presents the film Oro, Plata, Mata (dir. Peque Gallaga, Philippines, 1982)
May 13, 12:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Lectures on Urban Gardening from Dacha in the City: Pushkin Leningrad State University professor Irina Iorescu leads Urban Flowers, a workshop on gardening in courtyards*
*Requires advance registration
May 13 and 14, 3:00 pm
Origins. St. Petersburg Children’s workshop from the P.T.H. Creative Manufacture at the Mayak School
May 16, 7:30 pm
Hidden, Film Club: British film critic Neil Young presents the film Artemis 81 (dir. Alistair Reid, United Kingdom, 1981)
May 17, 7:30 pm
Lectures in the Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg: Social anthropologist Alexandra Kasatkina, What can you say in Six Hundred Square Meters? Or, Everyday Life in Russia, as seen through the Mirror of Dacha Culture
May 18, 7:00 pm
Advertising Day at the Mayak School
May 19, 5:30 pm – 10:00 pm
Poetry Readings on New Holland Island
May 20, 3:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Poetry Readings on New Holland Island
May 20, 3:00 pm
How to Create a Logo? Children’s Workshop with Mikhail Shishkin at the Mayak School
May 22, 7:30 pm
Lectures on Urban Gardening from Dacha in the City: Landscape designer and experienced urban gardener Olga Kazakina, How to Plan, Coordinate and Plant a Garden in Your Own Courtyard
May 23, 7:30 pm
Architecture Lectures from Project Baltia: Architecture professor from the Tallin University of Applied Sciences, Vilen Künnapu, New Architecture for the New Human
May 24, 7:30 pm
Lectures in the Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg: Anthropology PhD scholar from Stanford University, Nikolai Ssorin-Chaikov, The Anthropology of Memory: Post-Soviet Narratives about the Soviet Past
May 25, 7:00 pm
How to Shoot a Documentary Film? Children’s Workshop at the Mayak School
May 25, 7:30 pm
Hidden, Film Club: Film critic Alexey Artamonov presents the film Behindert (dir. Stephan Dwoskin, Germany, 1974)
May 27, 1:00 pm
Day of Career Guidance for Parents at the Mayak School
May 28, 12:00 pm
Open House, featuring presentations of the programs Computer Game Design, 2D and 3D Animation, and Blogging at the Mayak School
May 28, 4:00 pm
On the Borders of Art, Lectures on Contemporary Art: Art critic Gleb Napreenko, Art as Encounter, the Image as a Struggle
May 29, 7:30 pm
Lectures on Urban Gardening from Dacha in the City: Director of the laboratory Zimnyi Sad (“Winter Garden”), at the Pushkin Leningrad State University, Elena Voropaeva, The Urban Winter Garden
May 30, 7:30 pm
Literary Club: St Petersburg poet, writer and translator Alexander Skidan, discusses the book Putovoditel’ po N (“Guidebook for N”)
May 31, 7:30 pm
Lectures in the Social Sciences, in collaboration with the Higher School of Economics in St Petersburg: Director of the Center for Youth Studies and professor at the Higher School of Economics Elena Omelshenko, Where to find the young generation? The anti-cafes, courtyards, and secret hangouts of Makhachkala, Ulyanovsk, Kazan and St Petersburg
