The Afisha Picnic Festival was held in Moscow

The Afisha picnic at the Kolomenskoye Museum-Reserve in Moscow was attended by more than 30 thousand people on June 20, 2026. The event turned into a real festival city in the atmosphere of a bright luna park.

One of the key events of the musical program was the triumphant return to the big stage of the Bravo group together with Valery Syutkin – the main dudes of the country performed "Moscow Beat", "Vasya", "Love Girls" and other cult hits, playing a full concert for the first time in many years.

Another important event for fans of nostalgia was the reunions: the legendary pop duo Malback & Suzanna presented a new chapter of her work, and the band of Petar Martic and Lisa Gromova OZERA brought back the spirit of the 2010s.

Large-scale shows from Zoloto and LSP thundered on the main stage, Feduk, as well as OG Buda and Mayot, accompanied by a live band, and others performed on the Sound music service site.

There were a lot of fresh names at the festival. At the Zarya showcase, the Afisha Daily team revealed to the public the performers they see as the future of Russian music, from hip-hop to Sabbatical and jazz to Illo.The pre-pop avant-garde trio "Two Sawn-offs". On the stage of the Sound showcase music service FRWRD Music and Carnival Records / Forward Music and Carnival Records presented the main lyricist of Russian rap Markul and the main musician of the genre Saluki, as well as rap geek KUOK, neo-pop singer Sabu, bright freshman Arustamov and many others.

The Afisha picnic presented the guests with a large-scale event program. For example, for those who wanted to get creative, the KUST School of Art opened a workshop for creating puppets. And at the Your Band venue, everyone could master the basic chords and perform rock karaoke with live musicians, feeling like a full-fledged participant in a big event.

There was a beauty quarter at the festival where it was possible to create a special "picnic" image: Soda, MA AND MI studios, Birdie hairdresser and BRITVA barbershop braided braids, did express styling and applied sparkles with rhinestones.

The cultural partner of the festival, the Potanin Foundation– has opened the Field of Impressions zone: the curated Museum Carousel by Daria Tishkova, where attractions give way to unexpected encounters with art. For example, the State Tretyakov Gallery, as part of the Good Museum joint project, showed the inclusive exhibition Museum within a Museum. The Museum of Moscow immersed the guests in the life of the turn of the century. Retro tournaments were booming in the Soviet slot machine zone. The Cryptography Museum surprised with a large-scale digital GPS art. And in the pavilion of the Museum of Architecture, the guests designed an art object based on their memories.

The Nika Charitable Foundation presented the Pet for a Day project: visitors were invited to choose a card from a real foster home, go through 5 game stations with it, learn all about proper animal care and decide how you want to help – make a one-time donation, subscribe to monthly assistance or take a friend home.

The main entertainment outside the stages was a huge amusement park with a 16-meter Ferris wheel from the titular partner of the T2 festival, shooting galleries and automatic grabbing machines.

There were separate entertainments waiting for the young guests in the children's area: the Soyuzmultfilm anniversary carousel, the Children's Radio castle, the inflatable sofa of the AIR fleet, an obstacle course with prizes from World Class and aquagrim. Creative workshops were organized by the HSE Children's School of Design (art objects and costumes) and Brick Labs (luna park made of cubes). A children's club with sitters from "Your Nanny" and BertToys worked for kids from the age of 3, and the Smeshariki street cinema through the Universes took them into new worlds. A whole children's play with real artists was unfolding on the fifth theater stage, which was closely watched by the little visitors of the festival. The whole family could have a snack in the VkusVilla gastrozone, and the Levrana mother and child room provided comfort even for the youngest. The picture was rounded off by the Megamarket for Children fair with dozens of local brands, from clothing and cosmetics to books and toys.

For the first time, the gastrozone was presented on a large scale at the Picnic: 5 themed food courts were launched at once – from the central gastro hub to the VIP zone and the Freak Show by Underdog. More than 70 restaurants have been deployed on them. The interactive map from Afisha Restaurants helped to navigate and navigate in such a large number.

Not far from the gastrozone, there are two media locations at once. The Afisha photo booth, where instead of a lens there was an artist's look, instead of a photo there was a portrait in a moment of happiness. The illustrator drew the guests in minutes, and everyone took with them not just a picture, but a personal memory of the most musical day of the summer. And the mirrored corridor is from Lenta.<url>" clearly showed the way from the distortions of the media space to the accuracy of information without filters and noise.

Dozens of participants were represented at the festival market this year – the best brands of jewelry, accessories, books, perfumes, care and decorative cosmetics, clothes for children and adults, as well as pop-ups in the shopping area.

In the chamber area of the Poison Drop brand, instant wedding ceremonies with veils and commemorative certificates were arranged for the guests, during which more than 80 couples were "married". They led to the altar creatively – with rings and a video recording of an important moment.

The unique visual code of the festival-city was developed by the technical director of the festival, Evgeny Spector, who created five conceptual metaphor scenes. The main playground appeared as a shining roller coaster, the Sound music service stage was inspired by the art of Nizhny Novgorod artist Maxim Trunov, and the electronic playground turned into a dynamic carousel.

Ilya Koyushev, an artist and designer, and Elena Spektor, the chief decorator of the Afisha Picnic, were responsible for the conceptual zoning of the space. They created four themed entrance arches.

On August 8, Afisha's Picnic will arrive in the northern capital on Yelagin Island together with rap and pop flagship Feduk, experimenter Slava Marlow, Ural rock legend Sergey Bobunets, alternative band Cupsize, pop singer Minaeva and many others.