Admission to all festival events is free. Registration for the master classes will open on September 23.
SEPTEMBER 26
19.00 / Center of Art and Music of Mayakovsky Library / Nevsky Prospect, 20
Opening of the exhibition “Personal. Autobiographical comics”
20.00 / Fish Fabrique club / Ligovsky Prospect, 53, entrance from the yard
Concert of Victor Melamed’s band “Melamed and Yeti”
SEPTEMBER 27
12.00 / Dostoevsky Museum / Kuznechny Pereulok, 5/2
Guided tour of Olga Lavrentieva at the exhibition “Survilo”
15.00 / Mayakovsky Library / Fontanka emb., 46, entrance from the yard
Workshop of Victor Melamed “Gesture”
Workshop of Victoria Lomasko “Portrait in a documentary comic book”
Workshop of Zakhar Yashchin “Your own font for comic book”
20.00 / Mayakovsky Library / Fontanka emb., 46, entrance from the yard
Opening of the exhibitions “Library 2019” — the best works”, “VOLUMES — an exhibition of self-publishing book from the collection of the Swiss Independent Art Publishing Fair”
SEPTEMBER 28
12.00 – 20.00 / Mayakovsky Library / Fontanka emb., 46, entrance from the yard
LECTURES
12.00 / Victor Melamed / Portrait
13.30 / Olga Posukh / Sit on two chairs and not fall
14.30 / Zakhar Yashchin / How to make a comic book for 10 years and not to quit it
15.30 / Olga Lavrentieva / How to write a comic book about repression and blockade
16.30 / Olga Kovaleva, Nikita Lavretsky (Republic of Belarus) / Comic book about growing up: inside and outside the genre canons
17.30 / Victoria Lomasko / Draw stories in different formats: from reportage to fresco and beyond
18.30 / Hanneriina Moisseinen (Finland) / Presentation of the graphic novel “Kannas”
WORKSHOPS
13.00 / Varvara Pomidor / Turn the picture into a comic
15.00 / Julia Nikitina / Poetic comics
17.00 / Vitaly Terletsky / Thematic comic book anthology for an hour and a half
SEPTEMBER 29
12.00 – 19.00 / Mayakovsky Library / Fontanka emb., 46, entrance from the yard
LECTURES
12.00 / David Schilter, Oskars Pavlovskis (kuš!, Latvia) / How to work with comics in Latvia
13.30 / Victoria Belokrylova (Space Cow) / Comics as a social practice
14.30 / Christopher Rainbow, Kamilla Mammedova (Sputnikat Press) / How Moscow underground fanzines enter the world stage
15.30 / Anne-Laure Franchette (Volumes, Switzerland) / Zurich Independent Art Publishing Fair VOLUMES
16.30 / Anja Wicki, Luca Bartulovic, Andreas Kiener (Ampel, Switzerland) / Presentation of a new fanzine
17.30 / Vitaly Terletsky (Terletsky Comics) / Self-publishing or publishing house? From fanzines to omnibuses
WORKSHOPS
13.00 / Olga Posukh / Just about complicated
15.00 / Olga Lavrentieva / A story in three frames