From June 6 to August 26, the ZIL Cultural Center will host a Summer Creative Laboratory for teenagers aged 11–17 years, the program of which is built on the principle of combining advanced educational and entertainment practices. Thematic sessions of the laboratory will be devoted to dance, theater, design, photography, animation, and cinema.

Creative city camp ZIL: something new!

The ZIL summer creative laboratory for teenagers is a space for experimental creativity that allows teenagers to gain new skills and knowledge, become active citizens, and learn to express their position freely, in the process of dialogue with peers and curators, as well as experts in various fields.

The laboratory is aimed at shaping the personality of a teenager and developing his creative potential. Six lab shifts match interests modern teenager And current trends urban culture.

Shift duration is two weeks. The guys will be in the laboratory on weekdays from 10 o’clock. Children can be taken home from 18:00. In addition, the laboratory will provide three meals a day.

The day in the laboratory begins with modern dance, yoga or fitness classes. Then the teenagers explore the topic of the shift, participate in specialized games and master classes, perform creative tasks, take part in quests, watch and discuss films, go on excursions, play sports (play ping-pong, frisbee or ride a skateboard or bicycle). At the same time, teenagers will always be in direct communication with curators and shift leaders. The result of the shift will be an individual or group creative project.

Camp changes: details about each

June 6 – June 17. Change "Dance". Dance Change is an extensive entertainment and educational program, curated by Andrey a.k.a. Banzay Kovalenko, Russian dancer and teacher-choreographer in the styles of hip-hop and house dance, finalist of the “Dance Floor Star-2” project (2005), creator of the creative association “FarFor”, which is known in Russia and Europe for its conceptual and experimental performances. Shift teachers will focus on working with space and the body. The result of the shift will be a dance that will be built from details - movements and images - like a Lego constructor. The collective dance work will be shown at the ZIL Cultural Center.

June 20 – July 1. Shift "Theater". Teenagers can take part in classes in acting, directing, and master classes for make-up artists and production designers. In addition, the guys will visit the backstage of one of the Moscow theaters and watch several productions. The result of the shift will be a performance, the premiere of which will take place on the small stage of the ZIL Cultural Center. Curator: Pavel Polushkin - actor, director, artistic director of the Drama Theater named after S.L. Stein. Laureate of the All-Russian Theater Festival “Voices of History” for the best male role, laureate of the A. Semenov Award for the best male role, winner of the Grand Prix International Festival"Blue Bird" for the play "Wonderland".

July 4 – July 15. Shift “Design. Urbanism". Study of urban space, architecture and landscape design. Teenagers will create graffiti, sketches from life, do layout work, take photographs, come up with navigation and urban sculptures. Invited lecturers will tell the children about the history of urbanism and the specifics of designing the urban environment. By the end of the shift, schoolchildren will develop and present a collective project to design the park and the territory of the ZIL Cultural Center. The curator of the session will be Vera Laponkina, an illustrator, author of artistic photo projects, participant in Russian and foreign exhibitions, teacher of the Artistic Design Workshops in ZIL. Since 2011 he has been teaching an “Intensive Photography Course for Teenagers” at the Rodchenko School.

July 18 – July 29. Shift "Photography". The children will get acquainted with the nature of photography and compositional techniques, and try themselves in different genres of photography. Teenagers will work with professional studio lighting, engage in manual development and printing (cyanotype), and make pin-halls (a matchbox camera). There will also be outdoor events: excursions to the Polytechnic funds and photo exhibitions, plein airs, meetings with photographers and artists. At the end of the shift, the guys will create a collective project dedicated to the ZIL Cultural Center, its architecture, people (employees and visitors), historical and cultural heritage. An exhibition of photographs of teenagers will take place in August. Curator: Alla Afonina - artist, photographer. Coordinator and curator of regional projects of Vladimir Kupriyanov in Udmurtia, Bashkiria and Samara in 2009-2010. Participant in contemporary art exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Since 2012, teacher at the Rodchenko School.

August 1 – August 12. Shift "Animation". The session will be dedicated to modern and classical animation in all its forms. Teenagers will learn the main milestones in the history of world animation, watch and discuss cartoons (from recognized masterpieces to interesting new products), study various animation techniques and techniques in practice, come up with scripts and develop characters. In addition, lectures and master classes by directors and animators will be held for schoolchildren. Each teenager will make a short cartoon during the shift using their chosen technique. The curator of the session will be Evgeniy Ippolitov, teacher and author of courses on animation for children and teenagers, head of the animation studio and school 7BiOZ.

August 15 – August 26. Change of "Cinema". Shift from the McGuffin Film School. For two weeks, teenagers will study the history of cinema, the basics of drama, directing and cinematography, shoot and edit short films under the guidance of professionals. The movie will end with a premiere on the big screen. The curator of the shift will be Daria Gladysheva, artistic director of the film school named after. McGuffin, editor of the feature films “Metro”, “On the Hook”, “Hunter”, second director of the film “Brothel Lights”, producer of the film “Hate”. Script writer, reporter and editor of reports for the portal infox.ru. Conducts master classes on the theory and practice of feature film editing.

Shift cost 22,000 rubles*

* When purchasing a voucher to the laboratory a month in advance, you receive a 10% discount.

From June 4 to August 24, the ZIL Cultural Center will host a Summer Creative Laboratory for teenagers aged 11–17 years. Thematic sessions of the laboratory are devoted to cinema and video blogs, dance, theater, urban studies, photography, animation and art.

Shift duration is two weeks. The guys will be in the laboratory on weekdays from 10 o’clock. You can take your children home from 18:00.
Three meals a day will be provided in the laboratory.

Teenagers will explore the theme of the shift, participate in specialized games, master classes, perform creative tasks, watch and discuss films, go on excursions, do yoga and TRX together with trainers " Sport section. Club". At the same time, teenagers will always be in direct communication with curators and shift leaders. The result of the shift will be an individual or group creative project.

Will be held twice a week thematic classes with teachers in English from Language Link School.

Camp changes

Shift participants will get acquainted with current and best works modern dance, will begin to study the basics of hip-hop and contemporary dance freestyle. Together with video artist Peter Laden, teenagers will learn the basics of video art theory and immerse themselves in practice, the results of which will be included in the final show.Curator: Daria Plokhova - choreographer, dancer and teacher of contemporary dance. Master of Choreographic Art, graduate of the Academy of Russian Ballet. A. Ya. Vaganova. She has been teaching contemporary dance techniques since 2008.

Teenagers will become part of the troupe of the Drama Theater. S.L. Stein, one of the most famous and titled groups cultural center. During the shift, the guys will prepare to stage a repertoire performance based on the works of Agnia Barto and Daniil Kharms “Apartment 44”.Curator: Pavel Polushkin - actor, director, artistic director of the Drama Theater named after S.L. Stein. Winner of the All-Russian Theater Festival "Voices of History" for the best male role, laureate of the A. Semenov Award for the best male role, winner of the Grand Prix of the International Blue Bird Festival for the play "Wonderland".

Participants will have a unique opportunity to try themselves as urban researchers, visit many unusual places in Moscow, listen to lectures on new urban professions and try to apply new knowledge in their own projects to improve the city.Curator: Olga Slinko - co-founder of the ProGorod School, urbanist, territorial development practitioner, whose projects can be found from Moscow to Yekaterinburg and abroad. Partner of the design bureau NLTR Praktika. From 2014 to 2016, mentor of the training course “New Leaders of Territorial Development” at the Moscow Architectural School MARSH and RANEPA.

The shift from the McGuffin Film School will include three areas: video blogging, film and editing.Teenagers will learn the basics of drama, directing and cinematography, will shoot and edit short films or video blogs under the guidance of professionals, and also create and promote their own YouTube channel.Curator: Daria Gladysheva - artistic director of the Film School named after. McGuffin, editor of the feature films “Dovlatov”, “Metro”, “On the Hook”, “Hunter”, producer of the film “Hate”.

The session will be devoted to two areas of visual arts: stop motion animation and video art. Each participant will learn to formulate ideas, look for ways to implement these ideas using video and animation, create scenarios, look for suitable spaces, objects and materials, work with chromakey, animate, synchronize video with animation, select music or sound accompaniment. Curator: Evgeny Ippolitov - animator, head of the 7BiOZ Animation School.

The guys will get to know modern types visual arts, famous artists working in various genres and techniques. By studying their working methods, children will learn to create paintings, sculptures, and work on individual and group projects. Invited guests of the session will talk about new types of art: performance and installation, and field trips will help to better understand the structure of the museum and exhibitions.Curators: Vera Laponkina - artist, photographer, participant in Russian and foreign photography exhibitions. Tatyana Laponkina is an illustrator, member of the Moscow Union of Artists.

new ones first

At one time I was looking for reviews on the ZIL Summer Creative Laboratory, I didn’t find anything, I enrolled my son at my own peril and risk. Now I will write a review because I have experience and hope that it will be useful to others.

My son attended Kino's shift in the second half of August. I’ll say right away that this is not a city camp in the usual sense, there is no division by age, no making friends of children, no analysis of the day - summing up, candles, master classes, creativity, no physical activity, even physical education, minutes of warm-up, even walks, going outside (to the park), just a trip to a cafe for breakfast/lunch and an hour-long break when the children were left to their own devices (as a rule, everyone was stuck on the phone).

The first week - continuous lectures, three hours continuously, then lunch, more lectures - and home. In the second week, the children were divided in half (about 15 people), each half had to shoot and edit a film.

Now about what was promised to me and what in fact did not turn out to be.
The range of children's ages was very large, from 10 years to 17, there was no division by age, this brought its own certain negativity (why didn’t anyone work with this?). 3 hours of lectures without a break is a lot not only for children, but also for adults, there was no change in the type of activity, collective exercises, or all the training techniques, the children slept during the lectures and did not listen throughout the first week. The curator cursed and asked homework; whoever didn’t complete it, she promised to kick me out. Homework Then I didn’t ask (why did I ask?).

I was promised that the children would be divided into groups of 5-6 people to shoot the video, but in reality they were divided into 2 groups of 15 people (of different ages), more than half of the children in the group were not involved. The curators accompanied the process very little, so one group barely met the deadline, the second did not meet the deadline at all, for some reason the children did it first, then it turned out that everything was done incorrectly (where were the adults?), they remade it, etc. 10-year-old children got tired earlier, walked around and interfered with work, the older ones got angry because they didn’t have time and didn’t want to explain. Children at 10 years old and at 17 years old require completely different support and levels of involvement, such a mixture reduces the effectiveness and satisfaction from work, it is unclear why this was not obvious to the organizers (were there not enough curators in order to save money? The curators did not know how to work with different age groups at all?).

The children introduced themselves in the standard way at the beginning, there was no closer acquaintance or unity, no one became friends. This is the first program after which my son had no friends or acquaintances left, everyone came, sat, left and just left on the last day, no farewell events.

Those who have been involved in photography and filmmaking for a long time and those who have never held a camera in their hands were enrolled in the program.
MacGuffin curator Daria also did not bring any particular passion for the topic of the shift; it was boring and uninteresting. The child planned to continue studying at MacGuffin, watched their classes and summer trips, and now doesn’t even remember it.

I was incredibly sorry not only for the money, but also for the lost time, wasted effort (since I did not choose another option), because before the change we communicated several times with various organizers of the summer laboratory; I, being an experienced parent of an amateur camp, I spoke all these moments, the child was waiting for this shift, new impressions, new friends, but nevertheless... I don’t know what it is - hackwork, saving, just a tick - pastime, whatever.

In general, if you live next to ZIL, at this very moment you have nowhere to put your child, you don’t mind paying 22 thousand, then at least he will be fed and looked after, no complaints here.