The events in Odessa at 29 October 2021

Return of names 2021

29 October 2021, 10:00
category: online
place: Location (look in the description)

Dear friends and colleagues! For the second year now, due to epidemiological circumstances, we have not been able to organize the Return of Names campaign at the Solovetsky Stone in Moscow and other cities in a traditional format with the participation of a large number of people. However, it seems to us very important to continue the action not only online, but also in the smallest possible public format. Therefore, we invite everyone to choose a historical or symbolic place that is convenient for you, to gather in small groups from 2 to 10-or-how many-you-get-people, read the names of the people who died, record these readings on video and send them to us. By symbolic or historical places in this context, we mean personal or collective monuments to victims of repression, places of mass graves, places associated with the imposition or execution of sentences, signs Last address, etc. We will certainly put the received videos on the general broadcast of the Return of names on October 29 https: //october29.ru! WHERE TO READ?Addresses related to the topography of terror in Moscow can be found at https://topos.memo.ru/; addresses of monuments and memorial plaques in Moscow can be found on the website https://oskolki.memo.ru in the “where” section; the addresses of the “Last address” plates can be found here https://www.poslednyadres.ru/; the addresses of most of the monuments to victims of repression in the post-Soviet space can be found at https://www.sakharov-center.ru/asfcd/pam; burial places of victims of repression can be found at https://www.mapofmemory.org. There may, of course, be other places around which it would be appropriate to conduct a small Name Return. If you are far from the scene of the Soviet crimes, you can find another symbolic place - for example, in Paris they are thinking about reading near the Bastille. WHERE TO TAKE NAMES FOR READING? You can choose any names that you would like to read - these can be the names of relatives, people who died who are important to you, or any names from https://ru.openlist.wiki or https://base.memo.ru. The names of those executed in Moscow prepared for reading can be obtained here https://october29.ru/names2021. HOW TO PREPARE NAMES FOR YOURSELF READING? If you yourself will prepare cards with names for reading, then we recommend that you include the person's name, patronymic and surname in them (it is better to write the last name at the end, it sounds less formal), the person's age at the time of the repression; if you managed to find out more, then name what the person did (where and for whom he studied, by whom he worked); indicate the date or year of the execution. HOW TO MAKE A READING?The action requires participants, names to read, a suitable place, a camera for filming. Flowers and candles can be brought. HOW TO REMOVE READERS? Be sure to horizontally! Preferably on a tripod. And good sound is very important so that your names are heard in the general air. When shooting with a smartphone, it is better to have an external microphone. Try to include in the shooting both frames with reading people, and frames with a place of memory near which you are reading, and separately close-up some elements: an inscription on a monument, a burning candle, leaves in the wind. More detailed recommendations are here or write to october29@memo.ru if you have any questions. WHERE AND WHEN TO SEND VIDEO? Please send the video to october29@memo.ru, preferably before October 22, otherwise it will be more difficult for us to have time to prepare the video for our broadcast. Be sure to indicate in which city and near which object you filmed! WHAT IF WE ARE READY TO GO LIVE? Great, write to us as soon as possible at october29@memo.ru, we will agree on how we will capture your signal on the 29th! We look forward to your videos, see you on the air on October 29, Your Memorial

The poster of the event — Return of names 2021 in Location