The program of the Interregional Book Festival "Amphibrachius" in Ulyanovsk, which will be held on September 6, has been announced. Like all mass events during the pandemic, it will be moved online, but some meetings will be held in person with restrictions. Thus, famous authors will become guests of the festival: poet, essayist Dmitry Vodennikov, writer Andrey Gelasimov and writer, screenwriter Anna Kozlova. Another surprise will be the performance of singer Zhenya Lyubich.

The festival will be held in one of the parks of Ulyanovsk. Participation in the full-time program is possible only with prior registration and with the availability of personal protective equipment. A handmade fair will unfold on the site, literary art objects will appear. Guests will also enjoy autograph sessions, a performance by the Enfant Terrible Theatre, musical performances, and more.

Music groups and famous Ulyanovsk poets will perform on the central stage of the festival: Vyacheslav Savin, Sergey Gogin, Pavel Soldatov, Igor Ulitin and Danila Nozdryakov.

Thus, Danila Nozdryakov will present a collection of poems "The Volga Children's Republic" recently published by the Voymega publishing house. Danila Nozdryakov was born in 1986 in Ulyanovsk, graduated from Ulyanovsk State University. He worked as a teacher of philosophy and history, now a journalist. He was on the long list of the literary award "Lyceum" named after A. S. Pushkin (2018). Winner of the international literary competition "Verlibre" (2018) in the nominations "Poetry" and "Prose". Diploma winner of the international Voloshin competition (2019). Participant of the international forum of young writers (2019, Ulyanovsk) and the seminar of the Union of Writers of Moscow (2019, Zvenigorod), as a result of which the debut book "Volga Children's Republic" was published.

The poet Pavel Soldatov will also perform at the festival, presenting a series of poems called Twilight of a Little Man.

Another participant will be the poet and translator Sergei Gogin. Sergei Gogin was born in 1964 in Uralsk. In 1981 he graduated from secondary school No. 1 in Ulyanovsk, in 1986 - from the Ulyanovsk Polytechnic Institute. He worked at the regional radio and television, in the city newspaper "Simbirsky Courier", hosted the author's program at the TRC "Europroject", worked in the journal "Journalism and Media Market" (Union of Journalists of Russia, Moscow). In 1996 he graduated from American University in Washington DC with a degree in journalism and mass communications. Since September 2014, he has been the head of the Eight literary studio, and since February 2016, he has been leading the Crossroads English conversation club.

In addition, Vyacheslav Savin will read his poems. Born in 1989. His poems were published in the magazines "Simbirsk", "Volga", "Znamya" and "October". In 2018, Vyacheslav became a scholarship holder of the Lipki International Forum of Young Writers. The author's poems can be found in the Magazine Room.

Poet Igor Ulitin will combine texts and music in his performance titled "Tales of Grandfather Paiho" to the accompaniment of a tambourine and a jew's harp. Igor Ulitin was born in 1986 in the village of Cherny Klyuch, Bazarnosyzgansky district, since 2003 he has been living in Ulyanovsk. Graduated from UlGPU. Education teacher of geography and biology. Since 2008 he has been working as a journalist, of which five years in the "Narodnaya Gazeta". Author of the samizdat collection "Unwilling". Laureate of the competitions "First Dew", "Simbirlit", "Flight of Fantasy". He was on the long list of the Filatov Festival. One of the founders of the creative association "Gang of Ilyich". In prose, she prefers short format, in poetry - civil lyrics and satire.

The organizers emphasize that the festival will be unique: it is a complex project that consists of educational, educational, research components and a block for the development of the urban environment. In the festival, the organizers plan to use forms of intersection and interaction of several types of art: literature and cinema, literature and music, literature and fine arts, literature and architecture/design.

The organizer of the event is ANO "Ulyanovsk Civic Education Club", partners are the Directorate of the program "Ulyanovsk - UNESCO City of Literature" and "Centralized Library System of Ulyanovsk".

As for face-to-face meetings, registration is open for participation in a creative meeting with Dmitry Vodennikov, a Russian poet, prose writer and essayist, author and presenter of literature programs on Radio Russia and Radio Kultura.

Registration is also open for participation in a creative meeting with Anna Kozlova (Russian writer and screenwriter, winner of the National Bestseller Literary Prize).

In addition, you can register for a meeting with the popular writer Andrey Gelasimov, winner of the National Bestseller award, associate professor of the Literary Institute, author of the Total Dictation 2020.

Online broadcast of the festival events will be held in the official group of ANO "Ulyanovsk Civic Education Club" in VK.

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The festival was made possible thanks to the financial support of the Russian Cultural Foundation. The project to organize a book festival was among 139 winners of the competition among NGOs, which took place within the framework of the federal project "Creative People" of the national project "Culture".