The night of November 4 will keep art lovers awake in Moscow and other cities of Russia. How can you sleep when galleries, museums, theaters, libraries and other cultural venues invite for about 300 free creative events on the Night of Arts?! These will include night concerts, performances, excursions, presentations, meet-the-artist events and master classes.
The Night of Arts is a large-scale festival, which embraces all genres of creativity: painting, arts and crafts, sculpture, music, poetry, choreography, cinema, animation and many other things. Its main task is to unite the creator and the viewer, and give everyone chances for awakening creative potential.
This time the Night of Arts will be dedicated to the Year of Russian Cinema and will run under the motto "Art Unites!".
About 270 cultural institutions will participate in night events, each of them with providing a special program to visitors. Night meetings with famous actors and artists, as well as young writers' recitals within the project Under the Starlit Sky  will become a highlight of this festival.
The Tretyakov Gallery will traditionally take part in the Night of Arts: jointly with The Ballet of Moscow it has prepared a stage performance dedicated to Ivan Aivazovsky, seascapes and marine subject in general. The facade of the Darwin Museum will become a screen for demonstration of the best videoart from the Now & Then Festival. The Moscow State University will discuss the work of modern museums, and in the ZIL Cultural Center will host a concert from the cycle "Shostakovich: 21st Century".
The Night of Arts will also provide interactive events involving the festival guests into creative processes. All comers will have an opportunity to try their wings as stage directors, musicians or dancers, learn various types of needlework, woodcarving, making pictures and installations from the most unexpected materials, and participate in interactive performances.
The Night of Arts will extend to the transport infrastructure of Moscow as well. Thus, metro stations and junctions of the Moscow central ring will turn into creative locations.
Metro passengers will meet see performances by Dmitry Brusnikin Studio, dancers of the Ballet of Moscow and the SauseKefal music band.
Those who travel along the Moscow central ring will listen to musicians playing funk, jazz and hip-hop and watch a music and poetic performance by the JulyEnsemble Theatre, the actors of which are graduates of the Moscow Art Theatre Studio.
Railroad passengers will get some pleasant surprises too. Train stations of Moscow will become a stage for the Choral Art Academy, the jazz singer Polina Kasyanova, and the Glintshake band, well-known among fans of indie rock. The modern music band will play its compositions in the academic style.
The festival will take place from 6 pm of November 4 till 6 am of November 5. 
The complete list of events will be published on October 27.