Free Culture, association

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FREE CULTURE is an association that was founded in 1990 as the Leningrad Branch of the All-Union Humanitarian Pushkin Fund. In 1992 it became The St. Petersburg Humanitarian Fund of "Free Culture" and in 1997 it was reorganized into the Partnership of Free Culture. Free Culture unites about 250 members - artists, writers, musicians, actors and publishers with Sergey Kovalsky as President (since 1994). Free Culture develops the traditions of the nonconformist unions of 1970-80s. Its main activity is to establish and develop the Pushkinskaya-10 Cultural Center (10 Pushkinskaya Street / 53 Ligovsky Avenue) which was organized in the so called squat - an empty building occupied by artists and musicians without authority in 1989 (it has had official status since 1991). Besides artistic studios of the Free Culture members the Centre includes the following: the Museum of Nonconformist Art (approximately 700 items representing independent art of Leningrad since 1950s); The Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts; St. Petersburg Archives and the Library of Independent Arts; galleries Navicula Artis, Fotoimage, Gallery 103 / Pushkin Observatory; author's gallery of V.S. Voinov "The Bridge Across Styx"; the Office of the John Lennon's Temple of Love, Piece and Music; the Russian Engineering Theatre "АХЕ"; the publishing companies Petropol and DEAN; and experimental exhibition and musical areas. The partnership holds exhibitions, concerts, film screenings, seminars and conferences on modern art problems, and publishes albums and booklets. Free Culture organizes city and international artistic projects.

O. L. Leikind, D.Y. Severyukhin. Kovalsky Sergey Viktorovich
Lennon John
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
Voinov Vadim Serafimovich
Ligovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 53
Pushkinskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 10
Фонд «Свободная культура». Пушкинская-10. СПб., 1998. Free Culture, association