Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair

V Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair 
2 - 6 November 2011
Krasnoyarsk, Sibir MVDTs

The Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation in conjunction with the administration of Krasnoyarsk Krai and the administration of the City of Krasnoyarsk, and in partnership with the Sibir International Exhibition and Business Centre and » Krasnoyarsk Yarmarka Exhibition Company» are holding the fourth annual book fair in Krasnoyarsk. This is a long-term project positioning Krasnoyarsk as a centre of book culture and is aimed at uniting publishers and book distributors fr om Russia’s central regions with the towns and cities of Siberia and the Far East.

Fair objectives:
to promote books and reading as cultural entertainment;
to present the best Russian publishing houses and to stimulate a system of distributing intellectual books in Siberia;
to integrate the fragmented cultural community of the Siberian and Far East Regions;
to expand readership and raise the status of the written word.

The Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair offers an innovatory approach to the advocacy of reading: presenting the existence of books in the modern multimedia cultural field, analysing the evolution and transformation of books in its competitive struggle with new forms in the arts and data carriers.

Format: The Book Culture Fair = exhibition and sale + a book festival
Krasnoyarsk Book Culture Fair includes a rich cultural programme, the special nature of which is an innovative approach to advocacy of reading through presenting the value of books in the modern multimedia cultural field, and to transforming books in their competitive struggle against new types of arts and information media.
The fair’s programme is based on the three main functions of books in society:
I. Books as products (a series of events for the professional book community): seminars and master classes for librarians; round tables on the problems of book distribution, on copyright, and on audio and e-books; seminars on new printing technology, etc.
II. Books as art: exhibitions, installations, performances, music and video programmes; seminars and master classes on book design, discussions and lectures on book illustration; discussions and presentations on the evolution of books (the revival of exclusive books, books in manuscript, genre albums) etc.
III. Books as a social institution: discussions and round tables on the condition of contemporary literature, about literary prizes, on genre innovations in literature; theatre tours (performances about themes in books); presentations by contemporary writers and poets, etc.

Further information:

in Moscow: Olga Vad, + 7 (495) 229 9591, mob. + 7 985 145 4470, vad@prokhorovfund.ru

in Krasnoyarsk: Anastasia Scherbakova, + 7 (391) 211 6148, scherbakova@prokhorovfund.ru

culture programme: Evgeniya Shermeneva, mob. + 7 925 772 9148, artprogram@prokhorovfund.ru