EXPOFORUM WILL DEVELOP INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE MARINE INDUSTRY

On Oct 10, ExpoForum JSC was announced the winner of an auction held by the Nevsky-Ladozhsky water management company to have the right to make an agreement for usage of the area along the Galerny fairway.

ExpoForum plans to use the area to organise marine trade shows such as ‘Neva’, ‘Baltic Marine Festival’, ‘International Maritime Defence Show’ as well as to create a modern infrastructure for yachting and to develop sailing for youth and children. Sailing has been designated one of the priority sports for the Vasilievsky Island.

``After the opening of ExpoForum's new convention and exhibition center in 2013, we plan to develop the territory of the Lenexpo centre,'' said Anatoly Erkulov, ExpoForum general director. ``This new water usage agreement will allow us to realize plans for complex development along the Lenexpo's territory, as well as along the shore of the Gulf of Finland. Besides, getting the right for usage this water area we’ll have a legal foundation to organise marine trade shows there''.

INWETEX – CIS TRAVEL MARKET 2011 will be opened tomorrow

INWETEX – CIS TRAVEL MARKET 2011
12-14 October 2011
Lenexpo Exhibition Center, St. Petersburg, Russia

INWETEX-CIS Travel Market is the only largest B2B event in the North-West of Russia that annually attracts more than 463 companies from 33 countries and more than 9000 professionals of tourism industry. 

INWETEX CIS Travel Market deservedly took its commendable place in the top five most popular events in the Russian tourism industry and became the grand finale in the exhibition series of the year. 

Exhibitor profile – National Tourist Boards and Associations, regional Travel and City Administrations, tour operators, tourist agencies, airlines, health spas and resorts, cruise and ferry companies, Hotels and Accommodation Providers, reservation systems, trade press and mass media.

Visitor profile – Business travel agents, conference organisers, group travel organisers, hotel accommodation providers, incentive travel organisers, retail travel agents, sporting holiday specialists, tour operators, travel agencies.

Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present will go on show at Moscow’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture

A major retrospective tracing the prolific career of performance artist Marina Abramović will go on show at Moscow’s Garage Center for Contemporary Culture from 8 October to 4 December 2011. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, the exhibition features approximately 50 works spanning more than four decades of her early interventions, sound pieces, video works, installations, photographs, solo performances and collaborative performances.

Internationally recognized as a pioneer of performance art, Abramović has been testing the boundaries of performance for over 30 years, presenting work that physically and mentally challenges the performer and the viewer. Since the beginning of Abramović’s career in Belgrade during the early 1970s, the body has been both her subject and medium.  In addition, Abramović will present a new performance installation entitled Measuring the Magic of Mutual Gaze, which has been created as the result of a close collaboration between the artist and a team of American and Russian scientists. Garage visitors are invited to participate in an experiment that measures brain activity when seated opposite one another – an exercise that privileges emotional, over physical, interaction. The viewing public can observe this activity, to see which areas of the brain are physically stimulated when participants are engaged with each other in thought. The work is reminiscent of Abramović's The Artist is Present, performed at MoMA New York, as different visitors sat opposite the artist over a number of months.