⚡️Where to begin planning your cultural leisure for the first half of the year?

⚡️Where to begin planning your cultural leisure for the first half of the year? With the regular fixtures, of course. In April, from the 23rd to the 26th, Nizhny Novgorod will once again host the Intervals Festival, the international media art festival: the first of its kind in Russia, running since 2017, and the largest specialist event devoted to media art and to research into the architecture of the urban environment.

🎯What should you pay attention to? Entry to the festival's events is free, but two and a half months is a good time to choose your tickets and to scout out and book hotels in Nizhny Novgorod. Last year the festival was attended by 450 thousand people, and given the number of simultaneous events in Nizhny, this tells on the availability of accommodation.

⏱️What can you expect? The theme of Intervals 2026 is already known: “Sign / Symbol”. The organiser is, as before, the company dreamlaser, which means that the whole city will, as before, become an exhibition of gigantic canvases and media projects by contemporary artists from all over the world, including large-scale light installations. This season Nizhny will be presented as a network of signs and symbols, through different media of contemporary art, on historic and new sites, in a combination of extraordinary formats and solutions.

📝Which details should you not miss? The festival lasts four days and includes a multimedia city exhibition, musical performances, AV performances and educational activities

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