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Announcing V-ROX ‘V’ Festival Partner!
V-ROX: an international music festival which will be celebrating its fifth year anniversary in the city of Vladivostok is proud to announce its partner:
Vladivostok city administration
Currently the main aim of the city administration is to form the infrastructure in Vladivostok in order to increase the city’s role as the center of international business and cultural cooperation of the Asia-Pacific region.
Vladivostok authorities pay much attention to the rich cultural life. Festivals, large sport events, forums, exhibitions, concerts are held in the city by sea throughout summer and autumn. International music festival V-ROX, supported by Vladivostok’s administration, became one of the brightest and loudest events.
This has a huge significance, meaning our mission of supporting emerging artists and culture in Russia can continue. By looking at the open world and cherishing new experience S7 Airlines supports cultural projects with pride.
Thanks to a wide range of flight destinations, S7 gives an opportunity to connect all forces and potential talented people across Russia and people of countries from abroad. By developing new flight paths in the far east of Russia and opening new domestic and international flights, S7 Airlines strives to bring people closer by giving them an opportunity to pick the shortest route, flight time and moreover give their customers an experience of a lifetime.
Come and fly with S7 to Vladivostok, the most vibrant city of the far east of Russia, where like minded people meet and share innovative ideas.
«Ocean» is the biggest movie center of the Far East, it is situated in the favourite resting place of Vladivostok – at the shore of Sport Harbor. The architects G.K. Machulsky and B.I. Levshin designed the unique architectural construction in Moscow, it started its work in January, 1969.
Today «Ocean IMAX» cinema is a multifunctional movie center with four halls (880 seats) including the first and the only in the Far East ultramodern hall IMAX. The cinema is the main movie venue of the city. Various film festivals and the International Film Festival of the Asian-Pacific region «Pacific Meridian» as well, many meet-the-artist sessions, conferences, graduation parties are held here.
«Ocean IMAX» cinema provides not only an escalator, but also an elevating platform and ramps for people with limited mobility. The cinema has its own parking lot, which is supplied with modern automated equipment for parking cards usage.
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V-ROX delegation in UK!
In May thousands of music industry representatives and artists will embark on a journey to the United Kingdom to attend some of the best showcase festivals in the world. Our international team headed by Igor Lagutenko will be attending those events as a delegate speaker.
Catch V-ROX at the following festivals:
11-13 May — FOCUS Wales, Wrexham
Panel: Meet the Buyers. A chance to meet and hear from the bookers of renowned venues and festivals from the UK and abroad. Panel will run between 11.30 – 12:30 on Thursday 11 May 2017.
18-20 May — The Great Escape, Brighton
International Networking Meetings. Hosted in partnership with The Department of International Trade, UK delegates are invited to meet with a number of international buyers looking to meet and do business with export ready UK artists and businesses. Sessions will run between 11.00 – 13.00 and 14.00 – 16.00 on Friday 19th May.
25-28 May — Liverpool Soundcity, Liverpool
Panel: Welcome to Asia the time for collaboration is now. With the music and creative industries being the fastest growing sector of all the UK economies and the huge interest in UK music from China, Korea and Indonesia which are at the forefront as the fastest growing markets in the world, we invite some of their most exciting companies working on major festivals, social media platforms, promotions and tech to discuss the opportunities for collaboration and world domination! “ Panel talk will run between 11:15 – 12:00 on Friday 26th May.
This is not all, the respected festivals will also be welcoming two of the past V-ROX Festival headliners:
Echotape (UK) — FOCUS Wales, The Great Escape and Liverpool Soundcity; Joel Sarakula (AUS) – Liverpool Soundcity.
Mumiy Troll: MORSKAYA.20 merchandise to go on sale in Vladivostok!
MORE Gifts*Vladivostok will be an exclusive partner with Mumiy Troll band (curators of V-ROX Festival) selling their official merchandise designed especially by the band for the 20th Anniversary of their first cult album Morskaya. The collection will go on sale on the 29th of April at 10.00am (+9GMT). Those who are able to purchase within the first hour should expect a small gift — an exclusive photograph signed by the band.
MORSKAYA.20 collection will involve no only the traditional band sailor tops but expect new creative design ranging from flat caps to shirts and to socks – all that can be worn not only to the live shows but also while being out and about; whether its a date night, going to work or the occasional party.
The truly special flat caps have an embroidered Vladivostok 2000 logo, a brand that has been created by the band and linked very much to one of their first hits and their city. Socks are developed in conjunction with St.Friday Socks expect a cool and bright colours that will liven up your mood. New shirts will sway towards a much sporty theme in different colours along with another black t-shirt with a special secret which you can only find out if you wear it.
Start preparing for the homecoming show at V-ROX Festival now. Mumiy Troll MORSKAYA.20 collection will be waiting from the 29th of April 2017 at MORE Gifts*Vladivostok store located on Fokina Street, 10a.
PREMIER: Official V-ROX 2016 Movie will be shown on MTV Russia on 22nd of April 2017
In 2016 more that 150 guests from 11 countries embarked on a journey to the capital of the ‘Primoriye’ in the far east of Russia. For that year the festival theme was ‘People’, ‘Culture’ and ‘Space’. First days was dedicated to Space headlined by the legendary soviet synth/space/pop band Zodiac (Latvia). Second day was all about culture and was headlined a mixture of artists: Burn The Ballroom (USA), Nisvanis (Mongolia) and Joel Sarakula (Australia). Audience gave a particular warm welcome also to other guests such Shtuby (Israel), Dream Spirit (China), IX (Netherlands), Residence A (China) and many other artists who were in the lineup. The third day was a special day and the festival presented the best talent from the local region as well as two young aspiring project from the Junior V-ROX competition.
The official festival movie narrated by Anton Voronin was worked on by some of the brightest young talents such as Peter Starostin (sadwoodpecker.com), Natalia Rodina, and Alexander Bukareev.
Lets remember 2016 together and plan journey to Vladivostok this summer and celebrate our 5th Anniversary together.
V-ROX V: the main festival of the free port of Vladivostok will take place 4-6 August 2017. Follow our social media for more updates and news.
Korean takeover — A’Z Bus is coming back to Vladivostok for 3 shows
A’Z Bus from South Korean who took centre stage at V-ROX festival in 2015 is coming back to play shows in Mumiy Troll Bar, Contrabanda Bar and Rocks Bar between 20-22 April. With strong rocking vocals from the lead female singer Wuju, it could easily be compared to Courtney Love. The audience are guaranteed a great night of rock’n’roll and It will be a show not to be missed.
A’Z bus rose to fame South Korea in 2013 after their first release and have received a number of key emerging awards such as the K-Rookie, Pentaport Super Rookie and EBS Hello Rookie awards.
Let`s remember the emotions of 2015 together! WE V-ROX YOU!
Artists submissions for V-ROX V are now closed! The festival has seen a record of application from 20+ countries!
V-ROX Festival artist submissions are now officially closed and we would like the thank all for taking time to apply. This year the festival has seen record number of submissions from over 20 countries. The festival committee is now going through all the applications and will be in touch with successful artists in due course.
The festival will give an opportunity to perform on one or multiple stages in the city of Vladivostok, take part free of charge in all festival events such as the conference, shows, art exhibitions, sport and other activates. The team will be happy to guide you in a visa process (if necessary), ground logistics and offer discounts on accommodation via festival partners.
V-ROX is the main international festival of the freeport of Vladivostok. A three-day music city festival, that has helped establish Vladivostok as an international beacon for the arts in the Asia-Pacific region. A combined music festival and international conference for the music industry. The festival gives unique opportunity for aspiring artists and producers to gain exposure — both to new audiences and to leading international music industry professionals and open a doorway into Asia. Curated by Ilya Lagutenko (Mumiy Troll band frontman), widely considered to be one of the most influential musicians on the Russian music scene over the last two decades and his dream is to make Vladivostok one of the major stops on the music and cultural map.
V-ROX festival will be celebrating its 5th year anniversary and looking forward to welcoming those who are ready to explore new horizons, create new opportunities and make an influence on others. Selected artists would receive an invitation letter with details on an individual basis. Please note due to high volumes of applications, only those artists selected would get a response.
Sign up to V-ROX newsletter via our website and follow our social media sites to keep up to date with the news. V-ROX festival will take place in the city of Vladivostok on the 4-6 August 2017. Let`s celebrate together our first anniversary. WE V-ROX YOU!
V-ROX festival curator Ilya Lagutenko held a meeting with the Russian minister of Culture, Vladimir Medinskiy
“Mr Medinsky was very interested to hear about our initiatives of organising an international music and conference festival in Vladivostok, which this year will celebrates its 5th year anniversary. We have discussed ways how we can develop the festival in the future and its integration not only in the free port of Vladivostok but also developing giving young Russian artists opportunities to play abroad in countries such as Japan, China and other east Asian cities.” said Ilya Lagutenko.
V-ROX Festival is the main event of the summer in the capitol of the far eastern Russia. A place where people can meet and share their creative ideas.
