As a spokesman for the city committee of culture said, the festival concept rests on the ideas of Sergei Kurekhin's Pop Mechanics project of combining different genres of modern art in concerts and in music records. Therefore, apart from music turns, the festival concerts will include master classes and theatre performances.
The Skif-9 will start from showing the best works of the international festival of audio-visual art Impakt which is annually held in the Netherlands. Three programs will be shown, at the beginning of each of them a lecture will be delivered.
Apart from that, the Dutch cultural organization, Worm, will show its program which will include performances of music companies and DJs, video installations and a practical seminar on experimental cinematography.
This year, about 100 musicians and music groups from Russia, the CIS countries, Poland, Denmark, Great Britain, Switzerland, Finland, the Netherlands, the USA and Australia will take part in the festival.
The first two festivals in memory of Sergei Kurekhin took place in New York in 1997 and 1998. The first festival in Russia, Skif-3, was organized in October 1998.
Since this year, the Skif will be annually held in Petersburg. Some musicians will also give concerts in Moscow clubs. About 10,000 people annually visit the Skif festivals.
