From October 13 to 18, the III All-Russian Festival of Contemporary Church Art "To See and Hear" was held in Moscow. The program brought together exhibitions, choral concerts, professional discussions, creative meetings and workshops.
The central exhibition event was the First International Biennale of Church Architecture. The Askeri Gallery presented more than 100 architectural projects, layouts and artistic solutions from Russia and 13 foreign countries. The exhibition included realized and projected temples, iconostases, mosaics, frescoes and stained glass windows.
The International Literary Prize "Seeing and Hearing" was awarded for the first time as part of the festival. The competition received more than 350 applications from 42 regions of Russia and eight foreign countries. The winners were Ekaterina Mayevskaya, Roman Bogoslovsky, Yaroslav Leontiev, Dmitry Shevarov, Vladimir Legoyda and priest Viktor Nikishov. Olesya Nikolaeva and Metropolitan Clement of Kaluga and Borovsk received special awards.
The participants of the professional program discussed modern temple architecture, church singing, iconography and the use of new technologies in architecture. Educational meetings and classes on stained glass art and architectural modeling were held for teachers, parents and representatives of Sunday schools.
The festival program will be continued by the final exhibition at the Russian Academy of Arts on October 20-24 and the conference "Temple Performance as a Synthesis of Arts" scheduled for October 23.