Jubilee Concert with Willy Tokarev

Jubilee Concert with Willy Tokarev

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May 11, 2014 @ 5:00 PM, Symphony Space Theater

In celebration of “Victory Day” as a part of Russian – American History Month!

Symphony Space Theater
2537 Broadway (at 94th St)
New York, NY 10025

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Victory Day in Russia commemorates the millions of people who lost their lives in the Second World War and honors the bravery of Soviet soldiers, the Allied forces, and Russian people on the whole whose heroism saved Europe from Nazi invaders.

In remembrance and appreciation of WWII veterans and Holocaust victims, the Diana Bagrationi Foundation and VK Studios are honored to present a very special event – a solo performance of the legendary Russian-American composer and singer Villi Tokarev, who is turning 80 years old this year.

This charity event is generously supported by The Consulates Generals of Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan; the leading Russian-language television network, RTVi, RACH-C (the Russian American Cultural Heritage Center) and the Bagrationi Foundation’s patrons.

The Diana Bagrationi Foundation is a not-for-profit charitable organization established for the purpose of providing humanitarian assistance to those in need, particularly children and elderly individuals with life-threatening illnesses or other life crises. All proceeds from events organized by the Foundation go to the hospitals, providing treatment for pediatric cancer patients in the US and abroad, as well as community educational and cultural initiatives to support extraordinarily gifted children and their families.

Learn about Russian Orthodox Easter!

Learn about Russian Orthodox Easter!

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April 24th, 2014 @ 7 PM, St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral

Father Alexander Golubov, a Russian Orthodox cleric and lecturer will be speaking about how Easter is celebrated in the Russian Orthodox tradition, describing specific traditions and the meanings behind them.

The lecture will take place at St. Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral
97th street (btwn. 5th Ave and Madison Ave New York, NY)

(The lecture will be in English.)
Admission is free — all are welcome!

This event has been organized by the Department on the Work With Youth of Patriarchal Parishes in the US which functions as a youth fellowship and charitable organization that carries on many social/ educational activities and provides volunteers to charitable and educational organizations in the Russian American community.

Contact Mr. Igor Kochan at (201) 774-0105. orthodoxyouthusa@gmail.com

Learn Russian Language at Queens Library!

Learn Russian Language at Queens Library!

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March 23 – May 11 (Every Thursday at 6:30pm)

Learn Russian Language at Queens Library! Say more than just “hello!” Learn how to make a good impression and use survival language, so that if you find yourself anywhere along the Trans-Siberian Railway, you’ll be just fine!

Classes start on Thursday, March 23 – May 11, every Thursday at 6:30pm at Queens Public Library Central, 89-11 Merrick Blvd.,Jamaica NY 11432 (F train to 169th Street).

Please call to register: 718-990-0778.

Info Link: http://www.queenslibrary.org/event/learn-russian-language-at-queens-library

Lecture by Dr. Jane Costlow and Reception

Lecture by Dr. Jane Costlow and Reception

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April 20, 4:30 – 6:30pm

Dr. Jane Costlow is the Clark A. Griffith Professor of Environmental Studies at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, explores the subject of nature imaginaries in Soviet literature and visual culture.

Professor Costlow is fascinated by how writers, artists, and filmmakers use their talents in representing place – whether to protest environmental injustice or reveal the amazing beauties of the natural world. She has published a major study of the forest in 19th-century Russian culture; co-edited a volume of essays on non-human animals in Russian culture and history; and written about Russian women writers. Together with colleagues in Finland, she is completing two edited volumes on the cultural meanings of water, both in Russia and across cultures. Professor Costlow teaches courses that focus on meanings of nature and senses of place in a diverse array of cultures and historical periods, as well as a course that explores disaster narratives – from Katrina and Chernobyl, to the “slow catastrophe” of climate change.

This program is free and open to the public.

Address: Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University
71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901.

Listen to Silence and Speak: Leningrad Underground and Joseph Brodsky

Listen to Silence and Speak: Leningrad Underground and Joseph Brodsky

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March 26 – May 10, 2019

Curated by Natasha Sharymova

Photo exhibit “Listen to Silence and Speak: Leningrad Underground and Joseph Brodsky” presents a look into the unofficial culture of the Soviet Union from 1950s and into the 1990s.

Where: Columbia University, Harriman Institute

Address: 420 W 118th St, 12 Fl., New York, NY 10027

Phone: (212) 854-4623

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The exhibit displays photographs by Nina Alovert, Nataliya Dyakovskaya, Leonid Lubjanitsky, Mark Serman, Natasha Sharymova, as well as photographs from archives of Andrey Ar’ev, Kirill Kozyrev, Nina, and Lev Loseff.

“At the end of the 1950s, I met and befriended a group of young artists and poets. I devoted all my time to photography then and became a unique chronicler of the life of these nonconformists.

Those who made up this stratum of the city were heterogeneous beyond definition and small in number, but extremely fruitful in the artistic sense. It was in this environment that Joseph Brodsky and Sergei Dovlatov developed as artists, their creative aspirations coinciding with those of other Leningrad writers of the same generation.

The poets united in friendship, bound by their common interests and mutual fondness. Later these informal groupings were referred to by philologists as “Akhmatova’s Orphans,” “The Philological School,” “The Circle of Khvostenko-Volokhonsky,” “Poets of Malaya Sadovaya,” and
“Khelenuki.”