Inclusive Festival. Understanding Museum

17 Сен - 23 Сен 2018

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From 17 to 23 September the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts with support of the Charity Foundation «Absolut-Help» will host the International Inclusive Festival, dedicated to questions of overcoming physical and communication barriers in a contemporary museum.

Programme of the Festival consists of events, aimed in the same time for people with special needs and regular visitors: sound and plastic artistic performances, plays, tactile workshops, film screenings and multi-sensory works by contemporary artists. During the Festival there will be a performance «Japanese Motifs (Butoh Dance)», created by the theatre company of the Center for Realisation of Creative Projects «Inclusion» of the Foundation supporting deaf-blind people «Connection». The opening will feature the play «Masterpieces of Japanese poetry in the Russian sign language», performed by hearing impaired actors of the theatre company «Nedoslov». The Festival will include presentations of the projects «Time Machine» (co-sponsored by the company «Lanit»), and of the educational programme «Specialist in guided tours for visitors with special health needs at arts museums», created together with the Institute «Reakomp».

The scientific conference, a part of the Festival, contains: a lecture by Hsiu -Ling Huang from the National Palace Museum (Taipei), a master-class lead by Barry Ginley, Curator of Inclusive Programs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), a multi-sensory workshop lead by Rebecca McGinnis, the Head Officer of Inclusive and Educational Projects at the Met Museum (New-York), and a guided tour by Molly Bretton, Access Manager at the Royal Academy of Arts (London).

This year the Inclusive Festival at the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts is dedicated to the theme «Understanding Museum». The special focus of the events this year is drawn to the issue of engagement with the visitors with mental disabilities. The question of comprehending art by people with development particularities is still broadly discussed. Programme of the Inclusive Festival will consist of lectures and public discussions, addressing the the worldview, understanding art and creative abilities of people with special needs.

Curator of the Festival – Evgeniya Kiseleva, Head of the Department of Access and Inclusion of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. Coordinators: Albina Djumaeva, Mark Molochnikov, Senior Specialists of the Department of Access and Inclusion.

Among the speakers of the Festival: Director of the Pushkin Museum Marina Loshak, artist Leonid Tishkov, adviser to the President of the Russian Federation Alexandra Levitskaya, art-therapist Mariya Dreznina, Executive Director of the Charity Foundation «Absolut-Help» Polina Filippova, Head of the Museion Educational Centre Olga Morozova, Vice-President for social issues of the Group of companies «Lanit» Elena Gens, neurobiologist Alexander Sorokin, staff members of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and other museums.

The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts expresses gratitude to the investment group «Absolut» and personally to Alexander Svetakov, to the film company «STV» and personally to Sergey Selyanov.

All events of the Festival are free to attend with prior registration on TimePad. Administration has exclusive rights of altering the programme of events.

You can find more information on the Inclusive festival on the website of the Pushkin Museum in the section «Accessible Museum».

- - 15:30 — 17:00
    Dance performance «The Movement Concert»
    Lead by Andrew Greenwood, dancer, choreographer, founder and author of programmes of the International Foundation «Dance for Health»
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Room 29
  - 16:00 — 17:00
    Leonid Tishkov. Tactile performances «Woven balls of memories» and «Dream creatures»
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Italian Courtyard (Room 15)
  - 17:00 — 18:30
    Public discussion «Development of accessible environment in culture and society. Role of the Museum»
    What is the role of a cultural space in the process of creating an inclusive society? Difficulties in developing an accessible environment in a museum. Why is it important to support museum’s activity in this direction?
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Italian Courtyard.
    Registration
  - Participants:
    Alexandra Levitskaya, Adviser to the President of the Russian Federation Polina Filippova, Director of the Charity Foundation «Absolut-Help»
    Alexander Sorokin, neurobiologist
    Viktoria Berlisova, Head of the association “Children of Deaf Adults” in Russia
    Leonid Tishkov, Artist
  - Moderator - Evgeniya Kiseleva, Head of the Department of Access and Inclusion of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
  - 18:30 — 19:00
    Play «Masterpieces of Japanese poetry in the Russian sign language»
    Performed by actors of the theatre company «Nedoslov»
    Works by: Matsuo Bashō, Li Bai, Sei Shōnagon, Murasaki Shikibu, Sadafun Monogatari, Ihara Saikaku
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Italian Courtyard (Room 15)
    Length: 35 minutes
    Registration
  - 19:00 — 20:00
    Guided tours of the exhibition «Masterpieces of drawing and block printing of the Edo period»
- - 10:00 – 11:00
    Review guided tour of the permanent exhibition of the Gallery of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries for visitors with development particularities
    Lead by Varvara Zamahaeva, Research Fellow at the Department of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries
    Location: the Gallery of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries
  - 11:00 – 12:30
    Ceramics workshop for children with development particularities
    Lead by Marina Kovalenko, Head of ceramics and sculpture studio at Museion Educational Centre
    Location: Museion Educational Centre, Room 118
  - 13:00 — 14:30
    Dance performance «The Movement Concert»
    Lead by Andrew Greenwood, dancer, choreographer, founder and author of programmes of the International Foundation «Dance for Health»
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Room 29
    Registration
  - 18:00 — 20:10
    Film Screening «Anton is here»
    Screening of the film with English subtitles and audio description
    Length: 110 minutes (film), 20 minutes (introduction)
    Location: Museion Educational Centre, Big Hall
    Registration
- - 10:00 – 11:00
    Walk-in guided tour of the exhibition «Masterpieces of drawing and block printing of the Edo period» for the visitors with development particularities
    Lead by Olga Nelyubina, lecturer, art historian at the Department of Popular Science of the Pushkin Museum
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum
  - 10:00 – 11:00
    Review guided tour of the permanent exhibition of the Gallery of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries for visitors with development particularities
    Lead by Nataliya Kortunova, Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries
    Location: Location: the Gallery of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries
  - 13:00 – 14:00
    Tactile workshop «Ceramic reliefs in art by Fernand Léger»
    Lead by Varvara Zamahaeva, Research Fellow at the Department of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries
    Like many greatest artists of the 20th century, Fernand Léger worked in several kinds of fine arts. Léger’s wish to work with ceramics may be explained by his determination to change art as a whole. He wanted to make his work accessible for everyone. By continuing the artist’s idea and using tactile models for blind and visually impaired based on the decorative motifs, we invite to get to know the artworks of the French Modernist.
    Location: the Gallery of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries, Room 23
  - 16:00 - 18:00
    Art project «Family Nest» for foster families with children with special needs
    Lead by Mariya Dreznina, art-therapist, Senior Research Fellow at the Pushkin Museum
    Location: Museion Educational Centre, Room 114
  - 18:00 — 19:30
    Public discussion «Preparation for a visit to a museum as a factor of successful visitor experience». Presentation of the video course «Time Machine»
    Location: Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Italian Courtyard (Room 15)
    Registration
  - Participants:
    Marina Loshak, Director of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
    Elena Gens, Vice-President for social issues of the Group of companies «Lanit»
    Olga Morozova, Head of the Museion Educational Centre
    Mariya Dreznina, artist, art-therapist, staff member of the Museion Educational Centre
    Nadezhda Shalashilina, HR Director of the Group of companies «Lanit»
  - Moderator: Evgeniya Kiseleva, Head of the Department of Access and Inclusion of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
- - 10:00 - 11:00
    Review guided tour of permanent exhibition of the Main Building for children with development particularities
    Lead by Olga Nelyubina, lecturer, art historian at the Department of Popular Science of the Pushkin Museum
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum
  - 11:30 - 12:30
    Review guided tour of permanent exhibition of the Main Building for children with development particularities
    Lead by Olga Nelyubina, lecturer, art historian at the Department of Popular Science of the Pushkin Museum
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum
  - 12:00 – 13:30
    Guided tour of the exhibition «From Tiepolo to Canaletto and Guardi» for blind and visually impaired visitors
    Lead by Oksana Kitashova, Junior Research Fellow at the Museion Educational Centre of the Pushkin Museum
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Rooms 17-18, Italian Courtyard (Room 15)
  - 12:00 – 13:00
    Workshop «Four Treasures of the Study» for blind and visually impaired visitors
    Lead by Svetlana Kochetkova, Head of block printing studio at the Museion Educational Centre
    «Four treasures of the study room» is the name for essential attributes of a learned man, artist and calligrapher in China: a brush, ink and an inkstand. During with workshop you will learn about history of invention and different types of paper, will find out that there exist five shades of black ink and the brush has its own mystery.
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Italian Courtyard (Room 15)
  - 13:00 — 15:00
    Workshop «Methodology for the art-therapy classes in an arts museum for children in difficult life situations» for professionals
    Lead by Mariya Dreznina, art-therapist, Senior Research Fellow at the Pushkin Museum
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Rooms 1-6, the Museion Educational Centre, Room 114
  - 15:00 — 15:30
    Performance «Japanese Motifs (Butoh Dance)»
    Performed by: the Center for Realisation of Creative Projects «Inclusion» of the Foundation supporting deaf-blind people «Connection»
    Butoh is an experimental avangarde Japanese dance, which was founded by Hijikata Tatsumi in 1960s and its creation was regarded by him as a result of «meeting with that, which wonders inside the body». Butoh practice is one of the areas of work of the Moscow school «Inclusion» with a group of deaf-blind and deaf-visually impaired people. Performance harmoniously unites several vectors of the group’s creative development: Butoh dance, Japanese poetry and music.
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Room 29
    Length: 30 minutes
    Registration
  - 16:00 — 17:30
    Public discussion «Borders of Inclusivity. Pro et сontra of special groups»
    What do the words «equal opportunities for different categories of visitors» mean in regards to the exhibition and collection of an arts museum? Is there a contradiction in such desire to combine inclusivity and special attitude to the visitors with mental disability? Experience of art-therapeutic studio at the Museion Educational Centre, experience of the school of the Foundation «Absolut-Help».
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Room 29
    Registration
  - Participants:
    Olga Morozova, Head of «Museion» Children's Educational Center of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
    Mariya Dreznina, artist, art therapist, Senior Research Fellow at the Pushkin Museum
    Polina Filippova, Executive Director of the Charity Foundation «Absolut-Help»
    Anna Sherbakova, disability specialist, MSUPE
    Alexander Sorokin, neuroscientist, FRC
  - Moderator - Evgeniya Kiseleva, Head of the Department of Access and Inclusion of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
- - 12:30 – 14:00
    Guided tour of the exhibition «From Tiepolo to Canaletto and Guardi» for blind and visually impaired visitors
    Lead by Oksana Kitashova, Junior Research Fellow at the Museion Educational Centre of the Pushkin Museum
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Rooms 17-18, Italian Courtyard (Room 15)
  - 12:00 — 13:15
    Multi-sensory master class «Object World of Japan of the Edo period»
    Lead by Evgeniya Kiseleva, Head of the Department of Access and Inclusion of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
    World of objects in Japan is full of symbols, meanings and hierarchies. A screen, a scroll and a fan as forms of artworks occupy special place at the exhibition in the Pushkin Museum. This multi-sensory workshop «Object World of Japan of the Edo period» invites for a non-visual acquaintance with attributes of everyday and festive culture of Japan. The master-class is made for people with limited abilities of sight, development particularities and everyone interested.
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum, Italian Courtyard (Room 15)
    Registration
  - 14:00-16:00
    Workshop of block printing for visitors with development particularities
    Lead by Svetlana Kochetkova, Head of block printing studio at the Museion Educational Centre
    Location: the Museion Educational Centre, Room 2017
  - 15:00 – 16:00
    Review guided tour of the permanent exhibition of the Gallery of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries for visitors with development particularities
    Lead by Nataliya Kortunova, Head Fellow at the Department of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries
    Location: the Gallery of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries
- - 10:00 – 11:00
    Guided tour of the exhibition «Masterpieces of drawing and block printing of the Edo period» for the visitors with development particularities
    Lead by Olga Nelyubina, lecturer, art historian at the Department of Popular Science of the Pushkin Museum
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum
  - 11:00 – 12:00
    Guided tour of the exhibition «Masterpieces of drawing and block printing of the Edo period» for the visitors with development particularities
    Lead by Olga Nelyubina, lecturer, art historian at the Department of Popular Science of the Pushkin Museum
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum
  - 11:00 - 18:00
    Thematic guided tours by students of the Club of Young Art Historians in the permanent exhibition of the Main Building and the Gallery of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries
  - 11:00 – 12:00
    Quest-tour «Every animal needs a friend»
    Lead by Alexandra Bakun, student of the Club of Young Art Historians of the Pushkin Museum
    In museum, in sculptures and painting, there are different animals: birds, fish, animals, sometimes even magical. During our walk around the museum, children will learn about its collection, will find out how the animals were depicted in various time periods and will collect their own «Noah's ark», that they can take away with them.
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum
  - 12:00 – 13:30
    Workshop «Smell from a painting»
    Lead by Liza Filimonova, student of the Club of Young Art Historians of the Pushkin Museum
    Sense of smell is one of the strongest human senses. Thanks to it, we return to old memories, everything around us becomes brighter. We invite you to feel yourself not in front of the painting, but right in it, among flowers and fruits.
    Location: the Gallery of Art from the Countries of Europe and America of the 19th and 20th centuries, Room 14
  - 15:00-16:00
    Poetic guided tour «Middle Ages and Renaissance»
    Lead and performed by Mark Omelchuk, 13 years old
    1. Guilhem de Cabestany (end of the 12the century) "To beautiful Donna" (1 minutes 30 seconds)
    2. William Shakespeare. Sonet 130 "My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun" (1 minute 30 seconds)
    3. William Shakespeare. Final monologue by Fra Lorenzo "I shall be brief..." (1 minute 45 seconds)
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum
  - 17:00-18:00
    Guided tour of the exhibition «Masterpieces of drawing and block printing of the Edo period»
    Lead by Marta Orlova, philologist of Japanese, volunteer of the Inclusive Department of the Pushkin Museum
    Ведет Марта Орлова, филолог японист, волонтер инклюзивного направления ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum
- - 17:00 — 18:50
    Film Screening «Anton is here»
    With English subtitles
    Length: 110 minutes
    Location: Museion Educational Centre, Big Hall
    Registration
  - Workshops and guided tours:
- - 11:00 — 13:00
    Panel discussion «Inclusivity in Museum. Development of accessible and welcoming environment in a classical museum space»
    Location: Museion Educational Centre
    Each paper is 15 minutes long
    Q&A: 30 minutes
  - Participants:
    Rebecca McGinnis, the Met Museum (New-York)
    Hsiu-Ling Huang, the National Palace Museum (Taipei)
    Olga Morozova, the Pushkin Museum (Moscow)
    Barry Ginley, the Victoria and Albert Museum (London)
    Ekaterina Sinitsina, the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
  - Moderator - Evgeniya Kiseleva, Head of the Department of Access and Inclusion of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
  - 13:00 — 14:00 — break
  - 14.00 – 18.00
    Public workshops
    Location: Main Building of the Pushkin Museum
    14:00 — 15:00 — Rebecca McGinnis, the Met Museum – multi-sensory master-class
    Registration
  - 15:30 — 17:30 — Barry Ginley, the Victoria and Albert Museum, master-class for visually impaired visitors of the museum
    Registration
- - 11:00 — 13:00
    Public discussion «Inclusive Programmes and Activities in a museum»
    
    Location: Museion Educational Centre
    Each paper is 15 minutes long
    Q&A: 30 minutes
  - Royal Academy of Arts (London), the Pushkin Museum (Moscow), Garage (Moscow), IRRA (Moscow), Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
  - Moderator - Evgeniya Kiseleva, Head of the Department of Access and Inclusion of the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts
  - 14.00 – 17.00
    Public workshops
    14.00 – 15.00 Molly Breton (Royal Academy of Arts), a class for people with dementia
    Registration
  - 15.00 – 17.00 Alexander Sorokin, a class for people with ASD
    Location: Permanent exhibition of the Main Building
    Registration
  - Participation is free with prior registration.
    To take part in a practical part of the conference, you will need a separate registration. There is a limited amount of space.
    Public discussions will be simultaneously translated from/into English-Russian,and into the Russian sign language.

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