Traditional international festival Circle of Light 2017 will be held this year in Moscow for the seventh time from September 23 to 27.

The Circle of Light Festival will be the most striking visual and sound spectacle this fall in Moscow.

Six sites have been selected to exhibit all the events of the Circle of Light festival, where residents of the capital and guests of Moscow will be able to see it all.

Circle of light. Ostankino 2017. September 23-24, 20.00 – 21.15

The opening of the festival will take place in Ostankino and coincide with the 50th anniversary of the Ostankino Tower. Every minute the TV tower will take on images of the most famous skyscrapers in the world. This is the Eiffel Tower and the Empire State Building in New York. All the world's high-rise buildings from the USA, France, Canada, UAE, China and Australia.

Ostankino Pond will also become the arena for a multimedia light show. Viewers will see Lavender Fields, Niagara Falls, Yellowstone Park and Bamboo Flute Caves, and visit the Sahara and the Great Barrier Reef.

The multimedia show will complement the real one ice show with the skaters.

Circle of Light. Bolshoi and Maly theaters, September 23-27, 19.30-23.00

The debutant of the festival will be the Maly Theater, which will be united with the facade of the Bolshoi Theater. Two light shows will be shown: “Celestial Mechanics” - about loneliness and love, and “Timeless”.

Circle of light. Park “Tsaritsyno”, September 23-27, 19.30-23.00

The audiovisual performance “Palace of Feelings” will be shown on the building of the Grand Catherine Palace.

Tsaritsynsky Pond will become the site of a light and sound fountain show. .

Circle of light. Theater and Concert Hall “Mir” and Digital October Center September 23 – 24

September 24 at 20.00 in the theater concert hall“World” viewers will witness a competitive battle of the best light and music artists.

On September 24 from 12.00 to 18.00 in the Digital October center they will be able to listen free lectures lighting designers and creators of laser installations.

Circle of Light 2017. Stroginskaya floodplain, September 27, 21.30-22.00

On September 27, a 30-minute Japanese fireworks display will be presented on the water in the Stroginskaya floodplain. For this purpose, barges with pyrotechnic installations will be installed. Light paintings will come to life at an altitude of 500 meters, and the diameter of the light domes will be 240 meters.

Tomorrow, September 24, the Circle of Light festival will continue its work. Tomorrow Muscovites and guests will enjoy another exciting event

Light show "Circle of Light". Rehearsal

Eiffel Tower on Academician Korolev, Tatyana Navka on Ostankino Pond. Final run-through of the light show before the Circle of Light festival.

You will see everything that will happen on September 24 (only without fireworks and traffic jams).
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Festival "Circle of Light 2017": schedule, venues

Event date:

23 Sep 2017, Sat, 20:00 - 27 Sep 2017, Wed, 23:00
Region: Moscow, Russia
Venue: Ostankino, theatre square, Tsaritsyno, Patriarch's Ponds, Strogino, Digital October, KZ Mir
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Ticket prices: Free admission
Event press release:

From September 23 to 27, 2017, the VII Moscow International Festival "Circle of Light" will be held in the capital Moscow.

The Circle of Light festival is held annually. For five days Moscow will once again turn into a city of light - lighting designers and audio specialists visual arts from all over the world will transform the architectural appearance of the capital. Its most famous buildings will feature colorful large-scale video projections, the streets will be illuminated with fabulous installations, and fantastic multimedia shows using light, fire, lasers and fireworks will give an unforgettable experience and vivid emotions.

Admission to the opening ceremony of the Circle of Light, as well as to other performances of the festival, is free. However, you can watch the opening ceremony up close - from specially organized stands. To do this you need to get an invitation card.

ATTENTION! Tickets for the stands are distributed through social services and departments of the Moscow government. Tickets are also raffled off in competitions in in social networks festival

Venues and schedule of the festival "Circle of Light 2017"

The festival will take place at the following venues in Moscow: Ostankino, Teatralnaya Square, Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Patriarch's Ponds, Strogino, Digital October and the Mir Concert Hall.

Ostankino

This is one of the main venues of the Moscow International Festival "Circle of Light 2017". The opening ceremony will take place here on September 23. On Ostankino Tower and the water surface of the Ostankino pond, a musical and multimedia show will unfold using video projection, choreography of fountains, synergy of light, lasers and fire and will end with a grandiose pyrotechnic show.
SEPTEMBER 23: OPENING CEREMONY OF THE VII MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL "CIRCLE OF LIGHT", 20:00-21:15
Multimedia show-travel through different countries of the world and their geographical natural beauties. The opening ceremony will end with a 15-minute grandiose pyrotechnic show involving the Ostankino Tower
SEPTEMBER 24: MULTIMEDIA TRAVEL SHOW, 20:00-21:00
A multimedia show traveling through different countries of the world and their geographical natural beauties. The program will end with a 7-minute grandiose pyrotechnic show.

theatre square

The main buildings on this site are the Bolshoi and Maly theaters. The light show on their facades will tell a love story. In addition, the site will host a screening of works from the ARTVISION competition. Participants from all over the world will demonstrate new works of light art to the audience at Bolshoi Theater in the "Classic" nomination and at the Maly Theater in the "Modern" nomination.
SEPTEMBER 23-27, 19:30-23:00

BIG AND SMALL THEATER. LIGHT SHOW "SKY MECHANICS"
Viewers can expect a story about love and loneliness. About the impossibility of accepting one person by another, but at the same time the impossibility of existing alone.
BIG AND SMALL THEATER. LIGHT SHOW "TIMELESS"
The light history of the Maly Theater will be told to the audience.
BIG THEATER. SHOWING THE WORKS OF ARTVISION COMPETITION PARTICIPANTS IN THE "CLASSIC" NOMINATION

On the façade of the Bolshoi Theater, viewers can expect new works in the genre of classic architectural video mapping. Participants will demonstrate the art of interaction of 2D-3D light-color projections on physical object urban environment, taking into account its geometry and location in space.
SMALL THEATER. SHOWING THE WORKS OF ARTVISION COMPETITION PARTICIPANTS IN THE "MODERN" NOMINATION
The facade of the Maly Theater will become a canvas for the works of participants in the ART VISION competition in the “Modern” category. This nomination differs from classic architectural video mapping constant search and the use by the authors of new technologies, tools, knowledge in the field of modern artistic trends.

Museum-Reserve "Tsaritsyno"

At this site, viewers can expect an audiovisual show at the Grand Catherine Palace, live show art groups Soprano Turkish to the accompaniment of light and music, a fountain show on Tsaritsynsky Pond and amazing light installations.
SEPTEMBER 23-27, 19:30-23:00

GRAND CATHERINE PALACE
AUDIOVISUAL MAPPING "PALACE OF SENSES"
With the help of light and music, the authors of the story will enliven the façade of the building and tell the audience about its feelings.
PHONOGRAPHIC PERFORMANCE BY THE ART GROUP SOPRANO TURETSKY, ACCOMPANIED BY A VIDEO PROJECTION ON THE FACADE OF THE PALACE
Viewers will witness a unique combination of lighting technologies with recordings of songs by one of the best women's groups Russia, which represents voices from the highest ( coloratura soprano) to the lowest (mezzo).

TSARITSYNSKY POND
FOUNTAIN SHOW
Dozens of fountains will come to life with music classical works Russian composers, making the audience participants in a large water orchestra.

PARK TSARITSYNO
LIGHT INSTALLATIONS
Throughout the evening, amazing light installations from leading lighting designers from all over the world will be running in Tsaritsyno Park. 4 light installations will be installed:
Your own space;
Mushroom glade;
Raindrops;
Vinyl Mapping.
ON SEPTEMBER 24, from 20:00 to 21:00, there will also be a PERFORMANCE BY THE TURKISH SOPRANO ART GROUP, ACCOMPANIED BY A VIDEO PROJECTION ON THE FACADE OF THE PALACE.
Patriarch's Ponds

SEPTEMBER 25, 20:30-21:30
LIVE PERFORMANCE BY DMITRY MALIKOV ACCOMPANIED BY LIVE VIDEO PROJECTIONS
The program will feature a number of classical works performed by Dmitry Malikov, which will be translated into the language of visual metaphors and images by the VJ team, winner of the ART VISION competition.

Strogino

SEPTEMBER 27, 21:30-22:00
CLOSING CEREMONY OF THE FESTIVAL - PYROTECHNIC SHOW
Viewers can expect a vibrant 30-minute Japanese pyrotechnic show, which has no analogues in Russia. Hundreds of pyrotechnic charges will be launched from four barges installed in the waters of the Stroginsky backwater, the largest of which, 600 mm caliber, has never been presented in Russia before. Japanese fireworks are unique in their properties and have no analogues in the world. They are superior in color and brightness to other fireworks, and the process handmade, passed down from time immemorial, makes every projectile a true work art.

Digital October

From year to year, the site remains a constant meeting place for famous professionals in the field of visual art and aspiring light artists. An educational program consisting of lectures, seminars and practical exercises helps beginners master the basics and reveals many secrets and subtleties in working with light.
Address: Bersenevskaya embankment, 6, building 3. Registration: from September 9
Schedule of educational events at Digital October

The program includes workshops, panel discussions and public presentations.
To attend the events, you must register on the official festival website using the link.
September 23, Saturday

Conference hall

12:00 - 12:50 Discussion: When will robots replace designers?
Participants: Andrey Sebrant (Yandex), Andrey Kalinin (MailRU Group), Doctor of Biological Sciences Alexander Kaplan, artist Alexandra Gavrilova (Stain).
Moderator – Olga Vad (curator of the Polytechnic Museum)
13:20 - 14:00 Lecture: What “shines” for us. Gaston Zahr OGE Creative Group (Israel)
14:30 - 15:10 Lecture: Fulldome revolution. Pedro Zaz (Portugal)
15:20 - 16:20 Evolution of 3D mapping. Alexander Meltsev (Panasonic Russia)
17:00 - 18:00 Discussion: Rays of Light – educational sprint
Participants: Tanya Samarakovskaya, Vadim Mirgorodsky (co-founder of the Truce media design studio), Vadim Goncharov (front-end developer), Sergey Batyshev (media designer), moderator - Dmitry Karpov
Small Hall
12:30 - 13:10 Presentation: Using Blacktrax technology in multimedia performances. Dreamlaser
13:20 - 14:00 Presentation: Flaretic: An environment for creating real-time graphics. Julien Vulliet (France)
14:30 - 15:10 Presentation: Bolshoi Ostrovsky.
Technologies for creating dramatic mapping shows at the Bolshoi and Maly theaters from the Dobro studio.
15:20 - 16:20 Presentation: Unity of technology and art in collaboration with brands. Radugadesign
Workshops and seminars
Audience 1*
MadMapper 3.0 - DMX lighting control system. François Wunshel
Auditorium 2*
TouchDesigner: Elementary mathematics. Ilya Derzaev
Auditorium 3*
Unreal Visual Orchestra / Unreal Visual Orchestra. Kuflex
Auditorium 4*
Laser projectors Outdoor Lasers in lighting design. Outdoor Lasers
Hall:
11:00 - 18:00 - Demonstration of a collection of videos with bright multimedia projects from around the world in 2016-2017.
September 24, Sunday
Conference hall
12:00 - 12:50 Discussion. Profession lighting designer: creating an incubator for geniuses.
Participants: Natalya Markevich (lighting designer, curator of the Lighting Design course at the MARSH school), Artem Voronov (co-founder of the MPEI Light Lab lighting design school), Natalya Bystryantseva ( graduate School lighting design at ITMO University) and Sergey Sizy (member of the international union of lighting designers IALD, founder and director of the LiDS lighting design school and studio).
Moderator - Vladimir Pavlovich Budak (Department of Lighting Engineering MPEI)
13:20 - 14:00 Lecture: All art was modern. Marzia Lodi, European Institute of Design (IED, Italy)
14:30 - 15:10 Lecture: From phantasmagoria to sensory reality? Olga Mink (Netherlands)
15:20 - 16:20 Lecture: 1024 architecture – From the physical to the intangible. Panorama of studio projects 1024"
17:00 - 18:00 Discussion: Light orchestra - original lighting solutions for musical performances and events.
Participants: Roman Vakulyuk (Global Show Trade), Alexander Fuks, Marina Larikova, Oleg Tysyachny and Pavel Gusev (True Light Crew), moderator – Alexey Shcherbina
Small Hall
12:30 - 13:10 Video mapping. Entertainment and efficiency. Ivan Gorokhov, Meshsplash
13:20 - 14:00 Opening ceremony of Expo 2017 in Astana. Anton Sakara (Raketamedia)
14:30 - 15:10 Space Ku. Kuflex
15:20 - 16:20 Personality beyond new media. Natalya Bystryantseva (Higher School of Lighting Design, ITMO University, Russia)
Workshops and seminars
Audience 1*
Mapping on complex objects. Dreamlaser
Auditorium 2*
Design and control of lighting installations using VDMX and Unity. Mikhail Grigoriev, Ilya Ryzhkov (Luna Park)
www.lunapark.space
Auditorium 3*
Visual effects and compositing in vvvv. Julien Vullier (Mr. Vux, France), Ekaterina Danilova (Idwyr)
* - Pre-registration is required, the number of places is limited
Hall
11:00 - 18:00 - Demonstration of a collection of videos with bright multimedia projects from around the world 2016-2017
KZ "Mir"

SEPTEMBER 24, 20:00-23:00
On September 24 at 20:00 the competition of the best light and music teams will take place in the “VJing” category of the ART VISION competition. Each VJ only has 10 minutes to present their best video projections accompanied by a live DJ set. Who will do it better and more creatively? The audience's reaction also affects the judges' scores! Musical accompaniment competition - DJ Artem Splash.
https://allfest.ru/fest/krug-sveta-2017
Official website of the festival

From September 21 to 25, 2018, the international festival “Circle of Light” will be held in Moscow.

The Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light” is an annual event in which lighting designers and specialists in the field of audiovisual art from around the world will transform the architectural appearance of the capital.

For several days in September, Moscow will once again turn into a center of attraction for light, colorful large-scale video projections will unfold on its iconic buildings, fabulous installations will illuminate the streets, and fantastic multimedia shows using light, fire, lasers and fireworks will give unforgettable impressions and vivid emotions.

The festival, which began in 2011 with three small venues, becomes more vibrant and impressive every year. The number of platforms, the skill of visual effects, and the number of viewers who never tire of sharing their photos, videos and real emotions on social networks are growing. Among the visual effects of the festival are streams of light, video projections, laser shows, light shows and pyrotechnic displays. Water and fire special effects are also used. The scale of the performances is also striking - in 2017 there was a show on the main building of Moscow State University named after. Lomonosov exceeded 40,000 square meters. This year, light shows will be shown at seven venues. They will demonstrate their skills the best masters video mapping.

You can come and enjoy the performances for free - admission to all festival sites is free.

Program of the festival “Circle of Light 2018”»

The venues for the Light Festival 2018 in Moscow will be Grebnoy Canal, Teatralnaya Square, Tsaritsyno, Victory Museum, Digital October Center and MIR Concert Hall.

Grebnoy Canal (opening)

September 21 The opening of the festival will be the multimedia show “Carnival of Light”, which will combine the amazing capabilities of light and laser projections, choreography of fountains and fire, and grandiose pyrotechnic effects.

This time, a structure of 12-meter cubes will be erected along the spit of the Rowing Canal for video projections, over 250 straight and 35 rotating fountains will be placed on the water, and more than 170 fire burners of various modifications will be installed on the pontoons.

September 22, 23 The Moscow public will be able to see re-runs of the Carnival of Light.

Schedule

• September 21, 20:30-21:30 OPENING OF THE MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL “CIRCLE OF LIGHT” - MULTIMEDIA SHOW “CARNIVAL OF LIGHT”
• September 22, 20:30-21:30 MULTIMEDIA SHOW “CARNIVAL OF LIGHT”
• September 23, 20:30-21:30 MULTIMEDIA SHOW “CARNIVAL OF LIGHT”

How to get there

theatre square

This year Theater Square will use the facades of three theaters for light shows: Bolshoi, Maly and RAMT. The three buildings will allow for a panoramic 270-degree video projection.

During the festival, an allegorical light novel about Spartacus, the story of his struggle for personal freedom and spiritual liberation will be shown here. You will also be able to see two light shows from last year’s festival – “Celestial Mechanics” and “Timeless”, works by finalists of the international Art Vision competition in the “Classic” category.

Schedule

• September 21, 19:30–23:30 CYCLIC SCREENINGS OF VIDEO MAPPING ON THE FACADES OF: THE BOLSH THEATER, THE MARY THEATER AND THE RUSSIAN ACADEMIC YOUTH THEATER
• September 22, 19:30–23:30 CYCLIC SCREENINGS OF VIDEO MAPPING ON THE FACADES OF: THE BOLSH THEATER, THE MARY THEATER AND THE RUSSIAN ACADEMIC YOUTH THEATER
• September 23, 19:30–23:30 CYCLIC SCREENINGS OF VIDEO MAPPING ON THE FACADES OF: THE BIG THEATER, THE MARY THEATER AND THE RUSSIAN ACADEMIC YOUTH THEATER
• September 24, 19:30–23:30 CYCLIC SCREENINGS OF VIDEO MAPPING ON THE FACADES OF: THE BIG THEATER, THE MARY THEATER AND THE RUSSIAN ACADEMIC YOUTH THEATER
• September 25, 19:30–23:30 CYCLIC SCREENINGS OF VIDEO MAPPING ON THE FACADES OF: THE BOLSH THEATER, THE MARY THEATER AND THE RUSSIAN ACADEMIC YOUTH THEATER

How to get there: pl. Teatralnaya, Okhotny Ryad metro stations, Revolution Square, Teatralnaya

Tsaritsyno

This year in Tsaritsino the public will be treated to two new works that will be shown on the façade of the Great Tsaritsyno Palace: the story of the Phoenix bird “Palace of Wanderings” and an audiovisual performance about the world of the future.

Thanks to augmented reality technology, they can be easily read using cameras mobile devices, on the screen of which animals will appear - possible inhabitants of the ecosystems of the future.

On September 24, a concert will take place on the stage in front of the Great Tsaritsyn Palace People's Artist Russia by Dmitry Malikov. The maestro's performance will be accompanied by video projections on the facade of the palace.

This year, the festival site in Tsaritsyno will become part of the program of the international Art Vision competition. The finalists of the competition in the “Modern” category will present their works on the façade of the palace.

Schedule

• September 21, 19:30–23:30
  
• September 22, 19:30–23:30
  CYCLIC DISPLAYS OF VIDEO MAPPING ON THE FACADE OF THE GREAT TSARITSYN PALACE, LIGHT INSTALLATIONS USING AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGY
• September 23, 19:30–23:30
  CYCLIC DISPLAYS OF VIDEO MAPPING ON THE FACADE OF THE GREAT TSARITSYN PALACE, LIGHT INSTALLATIONS USING AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGY
• September 24, 19:30–23:30
  CYCLIC DISPLAYS OF VIDEO MAPPING ON THE FACADE OF THE GREAT TSARITSYN PALACE, LIGHT INSTALLATIONS USING AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGY
• September 24, 20:00–21:00
  PERFORMANCE BY DMITRY MALIKOV WITH VIDEO MAPPING AT THE GREAT TSARITSYN PALACE
• September 25, 19:30–23:30
  CYCLIC DISPLAYS OF VIDEO MAPPING ON THE FACADE OF THE GREAT TSARITSYN PALACE, LIGHT INSTALLATIONS USING AUGMENTED REALITY TECHNOLOGY

How to get there: st. Dolskaya, 1, metro station “Tsaritsyno”, “Orekhovo”.

Victory Museum

For the first time in the history of the Circle of Light, the festival site will be Victory Museum on Poklonnaya Hill . On the facade of the building, light novels will be shown dedicated to Russia’s military past, the city of Moscow, as well as fifteen-minute VJing to music and songs of the war years.

One of the video mapping works, “Designers of Victory,” is dedicated to the designers who glorified Russia. Their inventions became an achievement of world technical thought, and their participation in solving problems of creating defense equipment brought the victory of the Russian people closer in the Great Patriotic War. The light show consists of three parts dedicated to the navy, air force, armored vehicles and automobiles.

Second light show about Moscow – the heart of Russia. It will tell you how the lands and territories around the capital grew and united over the centuries. Viewers will take a journey over our vast homeland, see the nature of the Urals, Siberia and the Far East, admire the breadth of our rivers and the landscapes of Crimea.

Schedule

Daily from September 21 to 25: 19:30–23:30 CYCLIC VIDEO MAPPING SHOWINGS ON THE FAÇADE OF THE VICTORY MUSEUM

How to get there: from the metro station “Park Pobedy” on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line to the museum, walk about 13 minutes. From the Kutuzovskaya metro station of the Filyovskaya line you can get to the museum by passing 3 stops by buses No. 91, No. 840, No. 818, No. 205 or minibuses No. 506m, No. 10m, No. 474m (to the stop " Poklonnaya Gora"), and then walk through the park for 5 minutes.

Concert Hall "Mir"

IN Saturday evening In the Mir concert hall, fans of club music will be treated to an international light and music party - a competition between VJs from different parts of the world - competitors in the third nomination of the Art Vision competition - “VJing”.

Schedule

How to get there: Tsvetnoy Boulevard, 11, building 2, Trubnaya metro station, Tsvetnoy Boulevard

Digital October

As part of the educational program at the Digital October Center, leading lighting design and video projection experts from around the world will share their experience in implementing large-scale projects, talk about the pitfalls of the organizational process, and discuss technical innovations and current trends.

The program includes workshops, panel discussions and lectures.

Schedule

How to get there: emb. Bersenevskaya, 6, building 3, metro stations Kropotkinskaya, Polyanka

Rowing Canal (closure)

The closing of the festival will be dedicated to the cross year of Japan and Russia. Spectators of the final performance will be surprised by a 40-minute show of Japanese pyrotechnics, known throughout the world for its unique beauty and scale. It will involve large-caliber charges, and the opening diameter of the largest of them will reach almost 1 kilometer in the sky!

Schedule

21:30-22:15 CLOSING OF THE MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL “CIRCLE OF LIGHT” - MUSIC AND PYROTECHNIC SHOW ACCOMPANIED BY COLORFUL VIDEO MAPPING

How to get there: From the Molodezhnaya metro station take bus No. 229 to the “Grebnoy Canal” stop or bus No. 691 to the “Krylatsky Most” stop. From the Krylatskoye metro station, take bus No. 829 to the “Grebnoy Kanal” stop or trolleybus No. 19 to the “Krylatsky Most” stop.

Official website of the festival - https://lightfest.ru

2017 20 Sep

VII Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light 2017”

From September 23 to 27, 2017, the capital will host the VII Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light”.

The Circle of Light festival is held annually. For five days, Moscow will once again turn into a city of light - lighting designers and specialists in the field of audiovisual art from all over the world will transform the architectural appearance of the capital. Colorful large-scale video projections will be deployed on the most famous buildings, the streets will be illuminated with fabulous installations, and fantastic multimedia shows using light, fire, lasers and fireworks will give an unforgettable experience and vivid emotions.

Admission to the opening ceremony of the Circle of Light, as well as to other performances of the festival, is free. However, you can watch the opening ceremony up close - from specially organized stands. To do this you need to get an invitation card. Invitation cards for the opening ceremony of the festival, you can, in particular, win by participating in a competition held at official page festival "VKontakte".

Attention! Tickets for the stands are distributed through social services, departments of the Moscow government, and are also raffled off in competitions on the festival’s social networks.

The organizer of the Circle of Light festival is the Moscow Department of Sports and Tourism.

During the event educational program. It includes lectures and master classes from world-class lighting designers. All educational events are open to the public but require pre-registration.

Under the auspices of the “Circle of Light” festival will take place international competition video mapping and VJing art vision. applications are accepted in three categories:

• "Classic";
• "Modern";
• "VJing."

The Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light” will be held this year for the seventh time, it will take place from September 23 to 27. The organizers promise to make it the most spectacular event of the fall. The city will once again turn into a center of light attraction for several days: entire video performances will unfold on its most beautiful buildings, and fabulous installations will illuminate the streets.

Many surprises await Muscovites and guests of the capital at all six venues, and this year the festival will also include new addresses.

The Ostankino Ponds area, Tsaritsyno Park, Teatralnaya Square, Stroginskaya Poima, as well as the Mir theater and concert hall and the Digital October center will become the main auditoriums of the festival.

Architectural video mapping - projection volumetric images on city buildings and structures - can be seen on the Ostankino Tower, which this year celebrates its half-century anniversary.

Ostankino tower

One of the main venues of the Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light” will be the Ostankino Tower. On September 23, from 20:00 to 21:15, the opening ceremony of the festival took place here.

A stunning musical and multimedia show took place on the Ostankino Tower and the surface of the Ostankino Pond using video projection, fountain choreography, and the synergy of light, lasers and fire.

Opening of the festival 09.23.2017

With the help of modern water and pyrotechnic technologies, as well as the magic of light and music, viewers will be transported to the fabulous Lavender fields, to the foot of Niagara Falls, in the heart of Yellow Stone Park and the Bamboo Flute Cave, will experience the heat of the Sahara Desert or the refreshing breeze of the Great Barrier Reef, will witness the mesmerizing power of Mount Fuji, the immense depth of Lake Baikal, the endless beauty of the Ural Mountains and the captivating charm of Sakhalin Island.

As part of the festival, the Ostankino TV tower, 540 meters high, will alternately turn into the Eiffel Tower (300 meters), the Dubai skyscraper Burj Khalifa (828 meters) and the New York Empire State Building (443 meters), as well as the Toronto TV tower (553 meters ), Shanghai (486 meters), Tokyo (332 meters) and Sydney (309 meters).

theatre square

This year, Theater Square united two buildings at once - the Bolshoi and Maly Theaters. A unique light show was developed especially for this, where the interaction of two facades will become part of one love story.

In addition, the site will host a screening of works from the beloved ARTVISION competition. Participants from all over the world will demonstrate new works of light art to the audience at the Bolshoi Theater in the Classic category and at the Maly Theater in the Modern category.

On the facades of the Bolshoi and Maly theaters from September 23 to 27, from 19:30 to 23:00, a light show based on several works performed on their stages will be shown. Viewers will see fragments of plays by classics of Russian literature - Alexander Ostrovsky, Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekhov and others.

Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve

From September 23 to 27, Tsaritsyno Park will appear for visitors in a new fabulous light. Spectators can expect an audiovisual show at the Grand Catherine Palace, a live performance by Turetsky's Soprano art group to the accompaniment of light and music, a mesmerizing show of fountains on Tsaritsynsky Pond and amazing light installations.

In “Tsaritsyno” you can admire the show on all festival days dancing fountains. Water jets will be illuminated using special installations. The musical background of the performance will be works from the repertoire of Mikhail Glinka, Pyotr Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev and other Russian composers.

Also on September 24, the art group Soprano will perform for guests of Tsaritsyno Park. Participants unique project Mikhail Turetsky will be accompanied with his vocals by spectacular video projections on the building of one of the palaces. And from September 25 to 27, Soprano will be performed in recording.

The best light installations will add additional colorful touches to Tsaritsyno Park famous designers from all over the world.

Patriarch's Ponds

On Patriarch's Ponds On September 25 from 20:30 to 21:30 Dmitry Malikov will perform his own works on the piano. Romantic music and elegant video images on the facade of the yellow pavilion on the pond will create a harmonious light and music composition.

Strogino

On September 27, in the waters of the Stroginsky backwater, at the end of the Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light”, for the first time in Russia, spectators will be treated to a large-scale 30-minute pyrotechnic show from Japanese manufacturers.

Spectators can expect a bright and unforgettable 30-minute Japanese pyrotechnic show, which has no analogues in Russia. Hundreds of pyrotechnic charges will be launched from four barges installed in the waters of the Stroginsky backwater, the largest of which, 600 mm caliber, has never been presented in Russia before.

Japanese fireworks are unique in their properties and have no analogues in the world. They surpass other fireworks in their color and brightness, and the manual production process, passed down from time immemorial, makes each projectile a true work of art.

Digital October

From year to year, the Digital October platform remains a constant meeting place for famous professionals in the field of visual art and aspiring light artists.

An educational program consisting of lectures, seminars and practical exercises helps beginners master the basics and reveals many secrets and subtleties in working with light.

On September 23 and 24, the center will host educational lectures by lighting designers and creators of laser installations. Admission is free subject to pre-registration on the festival website.

Concert Hall "MIR"

On September 24, the “Art Vision VJ” competition will take place at the “Mir” theater and concert hall on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. Teams from different countries compete in the skill of creating light images to music.

Spectators will witness a competitive competition of the best light and music artists in the direction of VJing. Participants will demonstrate 10-minute VJ sets, where in real time performed music will create completely new works using unexpected visual images and video clips.

The international festival “Circle of Light” has been taking place in Moscow since 2011, and every year more and more guests come to see it: if in 2011 there were 200 thousand people, then in 2016 there were already 6 million. There are also more and more performances, and their level is ever higher: last year on the facade of the main building of Moscow State University. M. Lomonosov, in particular, two new shows were presented, which had no analogues in the world in terms of scale and technical complexity. The Moscow International Festival “Circle of Light” has set records and is already included in the Guinness Book of Records in two categories: “Largest video projection” (50,458 sq. m) and “Largest luminous flux power when projecting an image” (4,264,346 lumens).

As always, you can come and enjoy the performances for free - admission to all festival sites is free/

The finale of this year's Circle of Light festival will be a grand fireworks display. On this occasion in the Stroginskaya floodplain the first one will pass Japanese pyrotechnics show in Russia. The festival will end on September 27.