As they say the organizers, will be coming writers, scientists, educators, scientists dealing with predicting the future , culture - more than 60 people from Russia, Germany, Poland, France, Denmark and other countries. On the square in front of the stadium deployed 68 fairground tents where their books will introduce more than 120 Russian and foreign publishing houses. Immediately have four large lecture tent, where meetings with writers, publishers, literary critics, lectures, workshops and discussion. Among the guests of the festival - media theorist, Professor of computer science, the Creator of the book "Theory of soft culture" Lev manovich (new York), writer, Creator of the series " Metro 2033 ", the novels " Twilight ", "Future" and "Text" Dmitry Glukhov (Moscow), writer and teacher, laureate of the prize "national bestseller" Andrew Gelasimov, writer, winner of the "Big book" and "Yasnaya Polyana" Guzel Yakhina, historian Yevgeny Anisimov, and Pavel Basinsky, Narine Abgaryan and most others. Besides the program, the expected closed-professional seminar for social scientists, correspondents, media theorists, scientists, writers. On it participants of the festival will be able to discuss the contours of the culture of the future, to generalize the obtained data, to find out main tendencies of development of culture and education that meets the challenges of modernity. The results of the final discussion will be collected into a book, which is expected to publish a limited edition. The festival is organized by the Association "interregional Federation of reading" with the assistance of Oleg Deripaska's Fund "Volnoe Delo" in partnership with the En Group. The main theme of the festival in 2018 will be the discussion of the principles of culture to come. The organizers called them "Rules of the upcoming" availability, openness, variability, renewability, conservation, responsibility, regionalism, personality. For reviews of organizers IMCF, literature now deals with what is file circuits, properties and Rules of the culture of the following decades. To formulate these Rules - challenge 2-th Irkutsk international book festival. The organizers of IMCF sure: creating a new culture, people of the future will form a new urban environment for life and creativity.

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