The festival of steampunk "Alexandria plein air"
13 August 2016 in Alexandria Park will be the traditional summer festival "Alexandria plein air", dedicated to the steampunk world of the future through the eyes of the people of the past, the world of fantasy in the style of retro-futurism.
Alexandria Park is the embodiment of romantic ideas of the nineteenth century, the place where aesthetics of the past and the technical innovations have always gone hand in hand. It is in this Park for the second time will host the festival of Steampunk.
On this day everyone will be able to afford a little more than in real life to put on extravagant outfits to the session with a milliner of the nineteenth century, ride on the vintage bike, to see the experiments mad scientists and visit the Victorian dance floor, to touch such technical innovations as the ambrotype, a gramophone and a cinematograph, to meet with the actors of the first Russian steampunk movie "Corset" and enjoy the culinary delights of the nineteenth century on the Pudding party.
At the festival in the exhibition pavilion the visitors will appear as kinetic toys and fancy of the artist Viktor Grigoriev, participant and winner of numerous competitions, festivals and exhibitions, staged over 40 plays and several films in Russia and abroad. Since 2008, main artist Musical-drama theatre "the Blue bird" in Saint Petersburg, is the author showcases a Large puppet theater in St. Petersburg.
The festival program will begin at 12:00 on Novopecherski meadow in Alexandria. At 12:30 will become so beloved by the "Imperial race" from the Gothic station New Peterhof, the Gothic chapel in the Park "Alexandria". We invite everyone to take part in the bike ride and don't forget to decorate yourself and your iron horse in the aesthetics of steampunk!
http://zovem.ru/event/festival-stimpanka-aleksandriyskiy-plener-2016-67868Alexandria Park, named after its first owner – the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas I. the Sun, the flowers, shady groves of old oaks, "music of water" of the stream, vast meadows under merging with the Bay bottomless sky – all this is Alexandria – family home of four generations of the Romanov dynasty.
