Национальная библиотека Республики Карелия

On the 19th of April 2013 the Biblionight was held in Petrozavodsk. This event was held for the second year in a row.

The night was full of events. The guests of the National library saw a music stave, which was flowing down the library main staircase. It was filled with voluminous notes and live music performed by students of the Musical college named after K. Rautio.

In the library there was an exhibition Russian Avant-Garde. The exhibition was composed of video installations, books and posters by famous Russian artists of the beginning of the last century: A. Rodtchenko, K. Malevich, V. Mayakovski, A. Naumov and M. Dlugach.

Visitors saw art objects by Julia Shumilova and Alexandra Sukhanova. Advertising columns are an important part of the urban environment. It is a kind of lighthouse which leads people to different events and news. The purpose of these art objects was to indicate the right direction.

 

Librarians, actors, artists and musicians prepared a program named The Big Literary Journey.

At the beginning of the evening guests of the National Library saw and heard project The Living Word by the honored artist of the Republic of Karelia Valery Baulin. Valery Baulin has performed the story Kolesa (Wheels) written by Zakhar Prilepin.

 

Then at the same stage a poetry competition has started. The team consisted of readers, who were in the club restaurant Begemot, and the team of writers, who gathered together in the National Library, took part in this contest. Both teams consisted of 10 persons, who read through Skype the first lines of famous poems by Akhmatova, Esenin, Mayakovski, Pushkin, Tsvetaeva and Brodski. The opposing team must continue this poem. As a result the team of readers in the restaurant Begemot won this intense struggle. Each member of this team got a club card of the bookshop Bukvoed. The main prize of the contest – an electronic book - was won by a participant of the readers' team.

 

 

The guests of the Biblionight travelled to the New and the Old World with a book. The New World was presented by performance composed of jazz improvisations by Svetlana Semenova and Alexandr Soloviev and texts of O. Henry's stories read by Natalia Antipina, Elena Sapegina and Vlad Timonin.

 

 

The ensemble of brass instruments Karelia Brass played jazz compositions. And near midnight the ensemble of medieval European music Drolls played a composition Carmina Burana.

Admirers of English detectives plunged into the atmosphere of the Old World in a cozy café At Mrs. Hudson's. Guests should uncover all mysteries with help of kind and insightful Mrs. Hudson. Video installations, 3d-movies and even the secret of a keyhole made our guests feel like characters of stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle.

 

A researcher of the Institute of Language, literature and history of the KSC of RAS Konstantin Loginov conducted workshops “Fortune-telling books”.