The winners of the St. Petersburg Highest Theater Award ”Golden Sofit - 2020” will be determined by secret ballot on the eve of the awards ceremony, which will be held on October 26, 2020 at the Bryantsev Theater of Young Spectators. Special prize of the nomination council “For the most vivid impression of the past season” will be awarded to the play “Our Class” (director - Daria Shamina, director of the production - Veniamin Filshtinsky). Prizes of the nomination council will be awarded to Boris Eifman - for the creation of a unique educational complex ”Boris Eifman Dance Academy and the Children's Dance Theater”; to the creative team of the Tovstonogov Bolshoy Drama Theater - for the successful implementation of projects in the virtual space "BDT digital" and Kovaleva Lyudmila Valentinovna, professor, teacher-tutor of the Vaganova Russian Ballet Academy - for her invaluable contribution to the development of ballet art.

Form is carried out in order to facilitate the implementation of the national project "Culture" and federal projects "Cultural Environment". The main mission of the project is to summarize and disseminate innovative experience in the field of culture and art, to help improve the work of Russian cultural institutions. Cultural workers, researchers, scientists, art historians, teachers and students of creative universities, specialists in the field of culture and art are invited to participate in the forum.

On the festival week, groups of children and young people from all over the country will come to the Northern capital of Russia to get updated on dancing at master classes to be given by both Russian and foreign teachers. Each group will get a dance piece staged for them as a gift.

A unique international forum integrates concert and educational activities by showcasing achievements of high music schools from across the globe. After two decades, the festival has become an integral part of the cultural life of St. Petersburg. The anniversary International Conservatory Week will present an excellent gamut of concerts, including programs dedicated to the 250th anniversary of the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven and the 180th anniversary of the birth of Pyotr Tchaikovsky.

This year, the festival will present children's favorite plays online. For two days, young Petersburg rezidents will be able to see the performances “Snow Queen“,“Odyssey of the Odyssey“,“Tale of the Tsar Saltan Tale“,“Ha-Ha-Kharms“ and others. Within the framework of the festival, an online meeting will take place with the actors of the "Museum + Theater" project Maria Batrasova, Mikhail Grishin and Ivan Solntsev.

In 2020, the festival of contemporary American cinema is more local than usual - only in Moscow and St. Petersburg. But the forced limitation of geography and the number of films did not affect the variety of the program. "Amfest" offers an exciting film journey through the legendary country: New York, Texas, Vermont, Utah, Massachusetts. Petersburg viewers will see films "Blackbird", "The World to Come", "Nine Days" and others.

The festival will last for a month and will delight music lovers in St. Petersburg with magnificent music programs. Under the arches of the Petrikirche Cathedral, masterpieces by I.S. Bach, works by composers from Italy, France and Brazil. The organ will be presented not only as a solo instrument, but also in an ensemble with vocalists, clarinet and saxophone performers.

Festival dedicated to the great impresario of the 20th century Sergei Diaghilev, traditionally presents the most iconic and innovative productions performed by outstanding masters of contemporary ballet. The 2020 season will be opened by the MODANSE program of the Bolshoi Theater prima ballerina, People's Artist of the Russian Federation Svetlana Zakharova. On the stage of the Alexandrinsky Theater will be presented two one-act ballets - "Like Breath" and "Gabrielle Chanel". The main event of the festival will be a large-scale international exhibition of portraits “In Diaghilev's Circle. Intersection of Fates ”dedicated to the creative path of Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev and his contribution to the development of world ballet. The festival program will be complemented by a round table "Sergei Diaghilev and the Artistic World of Europe", which will be attended by journalists, researchers, writers from Russia and Europe.

Young piano players and vocalists from different regions of Russia and neighboring countries take part in the competition. The aim of the competition is to acquaint the young generation with the origins of the Russian performing school and introduce them to the miniature genre in the work of Russian composers of the 19th – 21st centuries.

The city competition for aspiring playwrights and amateur authors opens a new project "Recorder" dedicated to contemporary art. It is the interaction of literature, theater and radio, as well as diverse cultural trends and communication platforms, creating a unique environment in which art gets its voice. Authors from St. Petersburg at least 16 years old, writing in Russian, can take part in the competition for aspiring playwrights. Better, the work will become the basis for a radio performance, which will be presented on the air of Radio Russia - St. Petersburg, as well as in the form of a printed art book with author's illustrations by young artists.

Exhibition is devoted to the 250th birthday Ivan (Adam Johann von) Krusenstern who was of the leader of the first Russian circumnavigation of the globe. He also was a creator of the program of Russian circumnavigations, author of the fundamental “Atlas of the Southern Sea”, curator of the Naval museum’s library, director of the Russian naval school. Krusenstern did a lot for the progress of Russian science and raised a pleiad of eminent circumnavigators who made Russia a real maritime state.

The festival introduces Russian audiences to the best achievements of modern dance art. The main mission of the project is the development of Russian contemporary choreography and its integration into the world context. Within the framework of the festival in St. Petersburg, for the first time, two one-act ballets by the choreographer, winner of the Golden Mask award, Alexei Miroshnichenko, staged at the Perm Opera and Ballet Theater will be shown: "The Jester" based on the fairy tales of the Perm province in recreated scenery and costumes based on sketches by the artist Mikhail Larionov and "Scheherazade" - a ballet to the music of N. Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic suite. Diana Vishneva will perform the main part in the ballet Scheherazade. The festival will open with an Evening of Young Russian Choreographers, which will feature the works of the five finalists of the competition and the work of the 2019 winner.