Press Release, 11.04.2025

From April 16 to 30, on Wednesdays and Fridays, Yabloko will host a special programme by the Creative Association Gnesdo (Nest), dedicated to the 15th anniversary of the independent art community. The programme includes screenings of four video performances by Gnezdo created by the association since February 24, 2022.

The programme includes the following performances: “Dumbed Down. 1938 – 1941” (2022) based on fragments of the secret diaries of the anti-fascist Friedrich Kellner, “The Corral” (2022) based on the texts of Russian classics of 18-20 centuries – Nikolay Leskov, Alexander Radishchev and Venedikt Yerofeyev, “Asylum Seekers” (2023), the first production in Russia of the classical tragedy of Aeschylus.

The series of performances will be completed on 25 April and 30 April with the premiere of a new work by Gnezdo — a video performance based on one of the best novels of world literature of the 20th century, the title of which is still being kept secret at Gnezdo.

Freedom versus tyranny, the dignity of the individual versus enslavement and humiliation, humanity and compassion versus cruelty and violence, the desire for peace versus aggression and militarism, indifference and civic responsibility versus conformism and servility, and the hope of changing the country and the world for the better versus blind national complacency — this is what Gnezdo is discussion in its works.

All screenings will take place in the Yabloko office in Moscow at the address: Pyatnitskaya 31, Building 2. Admission is free, but advance registration is required for each of the video performances selected for viewing.

More about the registration for the events and the dates of performances: https://www.yabloko.ru/regnews/Moscow/2025/04/11