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V-ROX EXPO 2019: four weeks to go

May 21, 13:41
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Not only musicians from different countries are taking part in V-ROX EXPO – the program features street art, athletic events, an art show, talks, special gastronomic evenings, a bartending show, 3-D mapping and much more. Mumiy Troll Bar at 6, Pogranichnaya St. will become the main music venue of the V-ROX EXPO. Official press-conference for the festival will take place at the Far Eastern Federal University on June 14 within the Far Eastern Media Summit.

Titled after the legendary album by Mumiy Troll band, a group art show Morskaya will open on June 22 at Zarya Center for Contemporary Art and will feature artworks across collage, graphics, paintings, photo series, and interactive installations – united by the theme “Morskaya” (Russian for “nautical”). The art show will comprise of works selected by the V-ROX EXPO art curator, artist Dmitri Aske, whose mural will find its place on one of the walls of Zarya CAA over the course of the festival. There will be a SUP-parade on the waters of Amursky Bay on the same day. To participate, please apply here.

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Winter surfing, Alexandra Epstein (Vladivostok)

Participants and guests of the festival are artists and creatives from all over the world – most of them traveling to Russia for the first time, Vladivostok being the first city to welcome them. S7 Airlines, a long-term partner of V-ROX, is making it possible to bring the trendiest and the most relevant musicians from all over the place to the Far East of Russia. This year it is much-talked about Shortparis, a Moscow based female quartet Lucidvox, an instrumental trio Fogh Depot, as well as musicians from Yakutia and China. Also coming for the first time from Japan – Beat Bahnhof, known as ‘samurai ska. They will be in the company of young British musicians Declan Welsh & The Decadent West, and Leva Levitz, representing Vladivostok.

This year, the festival has its own capsule collection of accessories – T-shirts, sneakers, tote bags, and bracelets – all bearing a V-ROX EXPO logo. Pre-order was available until May 15 at www.planeta.ru, but special prices will be offered during the festival as well.

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As part of V-ROX EXPO French, Dutch, Indian and Russian artists will outfit Vladivostok streets with some fresh murals. Sketches are kept a secret, but it is known that environment and preservation of cultural heritage of different nations will be their subject.

V-ROX will also hold a ping-pong tournament and a musical ‘subbotnik’ (Russian term for a collective clean-up of a public area). V-ROX EXPO’19 will hit its final note with a 3D-mapping on the Dalrybvtuz building at 9:30 PM on June 23 – best enjoyed from the city’s main square.