Today, the sixth “Book-Fest” will take place in the Lyadskoy Garden of Kazan

The festival program includes exhibitions, speeches of famous writers, “free microphone”, contests, games, and plays.

(KZN.RU, June 6). Today, on the birthday of Alexander Pushkin, the sixth book festival “Book-Fest” will take place in Kazan in the Lyadskoy Garden. The program of the festival includes exhibitions, speeches of famous writers, reading original texts at the “free microphone”, contests, games, plays, and much more. The book festival will be completed with an open-air film screening in Aksenov Square.

On the day of the festival, an exhibition “Tolstoy without a beard,” based on unique materials from the collection of the Leo Tolstoy State Museum, will open on the central alley of Lyadskoy Garden. The exhibition will present citizens with another, secular side of the writer's life. Visitors to the park will learn about the Kazan period of the life of Leo Tolstoy and the works devoted to this time.

The main event of the festival will begin at 11 am. At this time, the eminent participants of the “Book-Fest” will perform on the main stage. For example, Arina Obukh, the winner of international prose-art contests, and Roman Liberov, a scriptwriter and literary columnist, are among them.

All the festival sites of the park this year will be dedicated to the Year of the Theater. Thus, art objects, book exhibitions and installations from theatrical Kazan will be presented on the alleys of the park. And actors of Kazan theaters will perform miniatures. Guests of the festival will see performances of the poetic duet “Kazanskie Knizhnitsy”, and will take part in theatrical master classes.

An alley “Children's Theater” with literary-theatrical performances based on children's books, a puppet-finger theater, reading children's plays, intellectual games, and other entertainment will be organized for the youngest participants of the festival.

Everyone will be able to read their original texts at the “Free Microphone”. And those who wish will also check their spelling knowledge and write a literary dictation on the works of Alexander Pushkin.

Master classes in various techniques of applications will be on the avenue of artistic creativity. Everyone can create a bookmark, a theatrical mask, or a postcard there.

In addition, the park will feature a thematic book exhibition on the history of the creation of the RT on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the formation of the TASSR.

At 8.30 pm, the festival will continue in Aksenov Square with a show of Roman Liberov’s original film “Save My Speech Forever”, dedicated to the memory of Osip Mandelstam.