The Sails of Кronstadt festival. Gastronomic, musical, children’s, and art programmes of the festival
The coast will serve as a common stage for numerous groups and performers, and the audience will become central figures. Performers and DJs will set the mood for the festival’s guests and participants, delighting them with their musical selections and providing them with a charge of positive energy that lasts all day long.
An extensive children’s programme has been prepared for the festival’s youngest guests. They will be able to take part in yachting master classes, immerse themselves in the history of sailing, watch water shows, attend creative master classes, visit museum exhibitions, or take in an animation programme.
The historical sailing ships Nadezhda, Lucullus, and Lady L will be among the centrepieces of the festival. The oldest of them, the schooner Nadezhda, was built in Holland in 1912. In 1937–1939, the schooner, which was then called Seeteufel (Sea Devil), sailed around the world. After the war, the schooner was given to the Nakhimov Naval School and young cadets underwent practical training there. Now the schooner Nadezhda has been restored by the Yacht Club of St. Petersburg and is used as a training ship to take students at St. Petersburg universities out to sea.
The festival’s gastronomic component includes cuisines from the Baltic, Caspian, Black, and North Seas, as well as the Pacific Ocean. A proper sea market with regional specialties will be set up onshore at a makeshift port. Guests
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will have the opportunity to not only sample different foods, but to also attend master classes on how to prepare seafood.
There will also be thematic master classes for guests, such as tying sailor’s knots, making bracelets, and weaving delicate wreaths. Festival participants can try their hand at musical crafts, create souvenirs for themselves, and come away with a true work of art.
The music programme will culminate with an evening performance by a headliner with the picturesque backdrop of the sun setting over the bay. What could be better?
The event will comply with all COVID-19 safety measures.
