/ 'Your Water' Festival
'Your Water' Festival took place in St. Petersburg on July 29
th, 2017. The festival aims to reconsider the attitude to water and coastal areas as well as to introduce people to water communities of St. Petersburg:
https://vk.com/yourwaterfest,
https://www.facebook.com/events/1540451686026707 The initiators of the Festival and the invited participants have suggested to treat water as an underused urban resource that demands careful and thoughtful attitude from the citizens.
The project
Stadt im Dialog-2: Dialog at Water took part in the organization of informal public lectures at the festival. The participants of the
Dialog at Water shared their ideas about P2P and their impressions from the journey to Germany. They also told about their own activities related to water issues and the development of waterfront in Russian cities. The lectures were given by Oleg Pachenkov, Daniiar Iusupov, Victoria Chufarova, Olga Polyakova, Olga Pridorogina, Alexandra Katasonova (Ufa), Vladislav Dreko (Arkhangelsk), Polina Karakulina, Yulia Faizrakhmanova.
Other participants of the project: Petrovsky rowing marathon, the educational project
Trava, the active leisure tour operator
AhtiLahti', the SUP school
Beaversand the surf station SUPSPOT, the compact boats project
Walkraft, the wakesurf club
Funkywake, the
FlyJet flyboard station , the ARTS4CITY project, the initiative project
The Right to Water, the
Shtandartcaptain's gigs , the
60ºN Sailing Expeditions Club, St. Petersburg International Yacht School, the artist Vladimir Abykh and others.
As estimated by the organizers, the audience of the festival amounted to 1,000 people.