The largest wildlife festival “GOLDEN TURTLE” will be held for the 12th time on November 4-18, 2018 in Moscow at the Central House of Artists and from November 30 to January 13, 2019 in St. Petersburg in the “Etazhi” space.
"GOLDEN TURTLE" is an international interactive wildlife festival that brings together the best creative works world-class photographers, artists and designers about the beauty and harmony of the surrounding world.
The key event of the festival will be a large interactive exhibition of the works of finalists and laureates of the international photo competition The Golden Turtle 2018. This year the competition attracted a record number of participants: more than 1,800 authors from 110 countries sent their works. Over 12 years, more than 11,000 authors from 120 countries took part in it, sending more than 100,000 works to the competition. The Golden Turtle photo competition is one of the three most prestigious in the world.
“GOLDEN TURTLE” is not only a unique cultural event, but also has a serious social component and is a landmark environmental event. The festival is an official event of the United Nations Decade for Biodiversity. As part of the festival 2018 years will pass Eco-lecture hall, premiere film screenings documentaries famous photographers, travelers, and festival ambassadors will speak about wildlife and ecology.
This year, the special guest of the festival program will be a famous photographer from the Netherlands, a member of the competition jury Jan Vermeer. At the festival he will present an exhibition of his works.
At the festival, I was interested in the exhibition of the winners of the Golden Turtle 2017 photo competition. There are noticeably fewer photographs at the exhibition than, for example, at the “Primordial Russia” festival, but their level, in my opinion, is much higher, although I visit “Primordial Russia” with pleasure everyone year.
Two things can become obstacles on your way to obtaining aesthetic pleasure:
- Lack of clear instructions on how to get to the exhibition both on the official website of the festival and on the Expocenter website;
- Lack of parking for private cars on the exhibition complex grounds.
I hope the information provided in this article will help you prepare for your hike in advance so that you do not encounter these obstacles.
How to get to the exhibition
By car
The nearest city paid parking lots are located on Presnenskaya Embankment, 1st Krasnogvardeysky Proezd and st. Antonova-Ovseenko. On all these streets, parking costs 200 ₽/hour, free on Sundays and holidays.
Information about parking for the Afimall City shopping mall.
If you want to take a walk (walk 1 km), you can also use the parking lot of the World Trade Center (Krasnopresnenskaya embankment, 12). On Sundays and holidays The cost of parking there is 100 ₽/hour, on other days: the first two hours are 200 ₽, then 100 ₽/hour.
By metro
The nearest metro station is Vystavochnaya Filevskaya line (blue). After exiting the metro, you can enter the Expo Center from Vystavochny Lane.
If you are coming from the center along Krasnopresnenskaya embankment, you can use the entrances through checkpoint 21 and checkpoint 1A. The location of the checkpoint and buildings on the territory of the complex is also on the diagram posted on the official website of the Expocenter.
Having entered the territory, you go around on the left the building of the temple of St. Seraphim of Sarov. Opposite the entrance to the church is the entrance to the 7th pavilion, where the festival takes place. Below on the map I have marked where the entrance is and how to get there; green mark - World Trade Center parking lot:
To the right of the entrance to Pavilion 7 there is a ticket office where you can purchase a ticket if you have not done so online in advance.
Purchasing tickets online
Tickets can be purchased either from a desktop computer or from a smartphone/tablet, for which the official festival app is also available (Golden Turtle Fest on Appstore and Google Play).
The application is buggy. For example, I could not log in through my VKontakte account and used my Facebook account.
Inside there is basic information about the festival, a program of events, and a map of the halls.
By clicking on the “Buy ticket” button in the main menu of the application, you will receive promotional code, giving a 10% discount. The promotional code can be used when purchasing tickets both from a smartphone (the link will open in the browser; the program does not have its own functionality for making payments) or from a desktop computer. You must enter it before or after selecting the number of tickets, but before you click the “Next” button (in the mobile version) or the green “Buy ticket” button (in the desktop browser).
Choose your ticket carefully because in some cases you can save money. For example, there are single tickets for families with children, which are cheaper than buying separately for adults and children. By indicating the right ticket, you will receive a “surprise” from the organizers in the form of a service fee, which, albeit slightly, will increase the cost of tickets. Unpleasant, but true.
Everything else is standard. Click “Next” or “Buy a ticket”, indicate your bank card details, email address and phone number, “Next” or “Buy a ticket” again, and receive it at the specified email a letter from the Tickets Cloud booking system with an attached pdf file of the ticket. The following phrase may confuse you in the letter: “The attached file contains an electronic ticket. Print it out and show it at the entrance". But, fortunately, it turned out that you can do without this archaism (what kind of electronic ticket is linked to a printer?): the ticket has a QR code, which inspectors scan from the screen of your smartphone with a special portable terminal. For comparison, in January of this year, in order to get to the “Primordial Russia” exhibition at the Central House of Artists, I had to print a ticket on the administrator’s work computer, since the turnstiles at the entrance did not scan the code from the smartphone screen.
QR code on the electronic ticket If you like the photos, before you leave you can purchase an album with them (the print quality is excellent), as well as postcards, large framed photos and magnets. The album costs 900 ₽, magnet 100 ₽, postcard 15x20 cm 50 ₽, framed photo 600 ₽.
The XI International Wildlife Festival “The Golden Turtle”, which will be held in Moscow from October 14 to November 5 at the Expocenter on Krasnaya Presnya, will become a record number of participating countries. This year, the exposition of the finalists has turned into a large-scale interactive project with a photo quest, VR film screenings, and creative meetings with the stars of world photography. A special highlight of the 2017 Golden Turtle was the incredible exhibition of the legendary photographer Michel Roggo, a world-recognized specialist in photographing fresh water bodies and their inhabitants.
Rogge created his works as part of the large-scale artistic and environmental campaign “Freshwater Project” ( The Freshwater Project), which began in 2001 and lasted more than 7 years. This time the photographer's exhibition consists of 20 pairs of photographs from different regions of the world, reflecting the uniqueness of the underwater environment and the features of the terrestrial landscape of Lake Baikal, national parks Brazil, the rivers of Quebec, nature reserves in China, the coasts of Australia and the rivers of Botswana.
According to the curator creative competitions Julia Noll festival, the work of a photographer like Roggo often involves risk to life, because filming takes place in ice-covered lakes, raging high-mountain rivers, and wild jungles.
For such work, the photographer uses snorkeling and diving equipment, all kinds of instruments and even radio-controlled equipment.
Well, the central place of the “Golden Turtle” 2017 was taken by the works of the finalists of the competition - the most amazing photographs of wildlife taken this year and selected from almost 10,000 works sent by participants from 92 countries.
According to festival president Andrei Sukhinin, part of the exposition will become an exciting quest, the participants of which will be able to compete for special prizes. According to the terms of the quest, you need to listen to all audio descriptions of photographs containing tips, complete the necessary tasks and receive “keys” in order to use them to get to the prizes.
It is noted that Tutta Larsen, Maria Sittel and even Mikhail Shirvindt took part in the recording of the audio guide.
Additional interactivity of the festival is provided by a VR cinema with a 360-degree view. This time he will take everyone to “Reserved Russia”, which will turn from a film into a real reality for the audience!
In addition to the exposition, interactive zones, and audio quest, you will be able to take part in creative meetings with famous photographers: Michel Roggo, Sergei Gorshkov, director of the Moscow House of Photography Olga Sviblova, TV presenter Maria Sittel and author of the blog “Everything is like animals” Evgenia Timonova.
From November 10 to 19, the Golden Turtle festival will continue to operate in the St. Petersburg Art Cluster ArtPlay.
From October 14 to November 5, the XI International Wildlife Festival “Golden Turtle” will be held at the Expo Center on Krasnaya Presnya. The world's first interactive wildlife festival will include largest exhibition natural photography, documentary film screenings, a series of lectures and master classes for children and adults, as well as an interactive audio quest.
The Golden Turtle Festival is the largest international environmental education project, the official event of the Year of Ecology in Russia and the only Russian event held within the framework of the decade of biodiversity conservation declared by the United Nations.
One of the most important components of the Golden Turtle is the International Competition The Golden Turtle - one of the world's most prestigious creative competitions honoring the beauty of wild nature. Every year, as part of the Festival, an exhibition of the competition laureates is held. In 2017, selected works from the exhibition will come to life and become part of the interactive audio quest #openyoureyes - a fascinating journey through the world of wildlife.
All visitors will be able to download the Festival mobile application for free and listen to a fascinating audio guide - stories about places and animals depicted on the most beautiful photos wildlife. Mikhail Shirvindt, Tutta Larsen, Maria Sittel and Evgenia Timonova took part in the recording of the audio guide. The audio guide contains clues and tips. After passing all stations and completing tasks, participants will have the chance to win family accommodation in hotels in Greece - Aldemar Royal Mare and Aldemar Royal Olympian.
The Festival site will feature various interactive zones. In the VR cinema from the general partner of the Festival, Volkswagen Caravelle, visitors will be able to see a unique protected places Russia. In the “Game Room” of the Festival, the educational and entertainment project Virry VR will invite everyone to go on a virtual safari around Kenya with Nikolai Drozdov.
A series of documentary films from the Discovery Channel and Animal Planet will be shown on the main festival stage. The headliners of the program will be the host of the Vesti program on the Rossiya TV channel Maria Sittel, naturalist, popularizer of science, author and presenter of the program “Everything is like animals” Evgenia Timonova, Russian wildlife photographer Sergei Gorshkov and winner of many prestigious photo competitions, nature photographer from Switzerland Michelle Roggo. As part of the Festival, a series of meetings will be held with participants of unique expeditions - they will tell stories about the overcoming and survival of man in the world of wild nature.
A special block of the program is dedicated to the art of photography, which will include lectures by Fujifilm ambassadors - the official partner of the Festival: one of the best teachers photographs by Alexander Medvedev, street photographer Vivian del Rio, travel photographer Alexander Cheban. Author's sessions on the features of travel photography were prepared by the masters of RUSS PRESS PHOTO, and Russian photographer, naturalist and candidate of biological sciences Anton Lange will give an author's lecture.
A special pride of the Festival is the exhibition of works by Michel Roggo - the large-scale project The Freshwater Project (“freshwater project”). For more than seven years, the photographer traveled around the world, creating an “underwater map” of the world. Festival visitors will have a unique opportunity to see the result of his work - a series of photographs demonstrating the underwater atmosphere of each place, and images of objects on the surface.
As part of the Golden Turtle Festival, there will be entertainment educational program for children. Culinary master classes will be held for kids from the Anderson cafe, board games about science and environmental games. The partner of the Festival this year was the leading Russian animation holding GC “Riki” - the creator and copyright holder of the brands “Smeshariki”, “Malyshariki”, “PINCODE”. For guests of the Festival, the Riki Group of Companies will present photo zones with “Smeshariki” and “Baby”, in which they can take photographs as souvenirs. Throughout the festival, you will be able to watch the best series of the projects “Smeshariki” and “Baby”, and on the weekends life-size puppets of your favorite characters from the animated film will appear at the Festival site. For older children, the popular science magazine “Schrödinger’s Cat” will present educational lectures at the “Days of Science” Festival. “Science Days” are held with the support of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation.
Program XI International festival wildlife "Golden Turtle" is aimed at developing interest in the surrounding world among society in general and children in particular, at popularizing the idea of caring for nature through art and education. From November 10 to 19, the Golden Turtle Festival will be held in St. Petersburg in the ArtPlay space.
Please note that accreditation for the opening ceremony of the Festival can be obtained until 19:00 on October 12. The ceremony will take place on October 13 at the Expo Center on Krasnaya Presnya (pavilion 7). The ceremony starts at 19.00, gathering of guests starts at 18.00.
Within the framework of the Festival there will be a creative meeting with the winner of prestigious international competitions, member of the International League of Conservation Photographers (iLCP) Michel Roggo. On October 14 from 15.00 to 17.00 Michel Roggo will present an exhibition of his best works, made as part of The Freshwater Project (“freshwater project”) - a large-scale artistic and environmental campaign that began in 2001 and lasted more than 7 years.
Some pictures of Michel Roggo:
Reference
Arts Festival "Golden Turtle"
The festival combines various directions creative activity dedicated to the protection surrounding nature and the conservation of rare and endangered animal species. “Golden Turtle” is the only official event in Russia held within the framework of the decade for biodiversity conservation declared by the United Nations. More than 130 participating countries, more than 10,000 authors, more than 100,000 works and more than 5,000,000 visitors around the world - such is the scale of the Golden Turtle. Over the 10 years of its existence, the festival has become the largest in the world in terms of the number of participating countries and one of the most visited exhibitions in Russia.
The Golden Turtle Festival 2017 is the official event of the Year of Ecology in Russia.
General information partners The “Golden Turtle” festival in 2017 included Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Geo, Sostav.ru, Izvestia MIC. Information support for the Festival is also provided by the radio station “Moscow Speaks”, GEOlenok, Agency social information, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Around the World, Public Television of Russia, Sobesednik, Kudago, RosPhoto, Clubphoto, Photographer.
The official partners of the Golden Turtle Festival are: Volkswagen Caravelle, a chain of children's goods stores " Children's world", FujiFilm, hotel chain Aldemar, Greenfield, MTS, ProLab photo laboratory, Aeroexpress, Anderson family cafe chain, Resource Saving Center, Smeshariki.
My Equator Foundation
Charitable Foundation Social support“My Equator” is the owner of the rights to organize and conduct the “Golden Turtle” Festival. The funds collected by the foundation are used to carry out operations on children from one to 18 years of age suffering from serious illnesses, including congenital heart defects. varying degrees complexity.
The name of the foundation is not accidental: for many children, a life-saving operation is the “equator” between illness and health, between the world of restrictions and a full life. Main goal The Foundation's job is to help its wards cross it safely.
The foundation has several successful charitable events aimed not only at raising funds, but also at educating children, popularizing creative activities, and disseminating information about wildlife and its inhabitants.
More detailed information you can find on the Golden Turtle Wildlife Festival website.
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