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Photo: Sofar Sounds concert at Yellow Door

Late Night Arts @ The Yellow Door ✶ Moscow

After dark
this room is A STAGE

Квартирники - an intimate Russian home-concert tradition - plus exhibitions, theatre, dance, workshops, readings and maker markets. Close, alive, and without a barrier between the people creating and the people who came to feel it.

What’s on? Propose a night Get invitations

on the other side of the door: another Moscow ✶

Не только нули и единицы ✶ Творчество и душа ✶ More than zeros and ones ✶ Creativity & soul ✶ Квартирники ✶ Вернисажи ✶ Театр ✶ Танец ✶ Чтения ✶ Ярмарки ✶ Не только нули и единицы ✶ Творчество и душа ✶ More than zeros and ones ✶ Creativity & soul ✶ Квартирники ✶ Вернисажи ✶ Театр ✶ Танец ✶ Чтения ✶ Ярмарки ✶

Tonight

The next night arrives by letter.

The calendar is quiet right now. When a night is announced, the date, time, format, price and directions arrive in one short letter - no fake countdowns.

Leave an address - we’ll call you in.

Invitations only. No marketing by default.

Choose your night

the room changes every night

01 ✶ 20:00-00:00

Квартирники

intimate music, a breath away

02 ✶ opening

Exhibitions & openings

paintings against old brick

03 ✶ stage

Theatre & performance

one room, no backstage

04 ✶ movement

Dance & movement

engineers can dance too

05 ✶ the word

Poetry & readings

silence counts as applause

06 ✶ hands-on

Workshops & classes

yoga, clay, lenses, dough

07 ✶ market

Maker markets

craft, hand to hand

08 ✶ screen & ears

Film & listening

lights down, sound up close

09 ✶ taste

Coffee, food & wine

tastings, brewings, seminars

10 ✶ ?

Beautiful experiments

dream it up - we’ll try

A stage tonight. A gallery tomorrow. A workshop on Sunday.

one room, twelve lives

One room, rebuilt every night - by people, not furniture. Below: the same basement across twelve different nights.

A painter working on a blue canvas during the opening — Live painting
a canvas painted live at the opening

Julia Smiles singing at the microphone — Квартирник
Julia Smiles - a voice half a metre away

A couple dancing in the room among bean bags — Dancing
September 13th, 2015 - dancing among the bean bags

Film screening projected on the wall — Film night
lights down, the wall becomes the screen

Exhibition drawings along the brick corridor — Gallery
Art at the Yellow Door · June 2018

Participants drawing together on a long paper roll — Workshop
four hands, one roll of paper

A painter at her easel — Painting
painting night · August 2017

Guitarist playing against the brick wall — Acoustic
one guitar, one brick wall

A guest reading on a red bean bag by candlelight — Readings
a red bean bag, candles, a long silence

A guest with a glass among the hung works — Wine & talk
a glass in hand - a mandatory part of any opening

Audience on benches and bean bags facing the screen — The room
benches, bean bags, a screen - the room assembles itself

A sound engineer at the desk beside the speakers — Sound
a desk, two speakers, cables - and the night has sound

We were here

a living archive, not nostalgia

Poster: Julia Smiles - Acoustic Session, Late Night Arts @ Yellow Door — Julia Smiles - Acoustic Session

Poster. August 15th, Strastnoi Blvd 12.

Archive · year being verified

The FINE coffee - Jazz Fridays poster, photographed on a wall — FINE coffee - Jazz Fridays

Twice a month on Fridays, 20:00. A kindred culture of intimate concerts.

Archive

A guest looks up at hung watercolour portraits — Art at the Yellow Door

Opening: watercolour portraits on paper, brick, candles. June 5th, 2018.

Archive · artist names being verified

Artist holds up a finished bullfight canvas — Painting night

Easels between the columns, finished canvases in three hours. August 2017.

Archive

Opening-night guests with glasses by the drawings — Opening night

Glasses, arguments, a pointing finger - as any opening should be.

Archive · 2018

A guest under the arched window, dance night 2015 — Dances in the basement

A pause between dances: a red cushion, brick, one lamp. September 13th, 2015.

Archive · 2015

A dense hang of portraits on the brick wall — Wall of portraits

Hung edge to edge - the brick barely shows. As it should be.

Archive · 2018

Julia Smiles with a ukulele, Moscow — Julia Smiles

Artist portrait with a ukulele, Moscow. Context, not a listing.

Archive

A Doors projection beside the hung drawings — Screen & paper

Film on the wall, drawings on the brick - the same night.

Archive · 2018

Were you there? Add a memory.

Memories are moderated; photo rights are confirmed before publishing. What we keep

Three ways in

Attend

Browse the programme, join a waitlist, get invitations. Price, language, age guidance and access facts are always stated plainly.

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Create

A concert, exhibition, class, reading, market - or a format that doesn’t exist yet. Humans read every proposal. No fees, no pay-to-play.

Musicians: official Sofar shows go through the Sofar Sounds application; the Moscow chapter’s status is being confirmed. What we keep

Make it possible

A venue, light and sound, photography, translation, accessibility, volunteering or patronage - every night is built by many hands.

Venue addresses and partner logos are never published before approval. What we keep

Manifesto

Startups are more than zeros and ones. People building the future still need to be human. We need music, movement, beauty, disagreement, silence, strangeness, and joy.

- Late Night Arts