RCS Haven E-Bulletin - February 2013

Greetings, and welcome to our bulletin full of information on exciting Russian events.
RCS Haven is welcoming anyone who is interested in studying Russian language, literature and culture. We have English and Russian language lessons. There are a library, Art studio for children and Web-design Studio.
Also, the Centre provides consultations in law, finance and other aspects of work and business in Russia and Britain.
 
NEWS
 
 
«Piece of Cake», our Russian Club launched by The SRF and RCS Haven last May, continues on its creative journey with new and exciting projects.  A recent event saw the beginnings of a TeleBridge linkup between Glasgow and the City of Perm in Russia and Qingdao in China. Organised by teachers from the city of Perm, Russia, this tele-bridge will initially give students from Glasgow and Russia real time contact with each other. A first step towards communication between schools from Russia, Scotland and even China and, needless to say, a great opportunity for students to establish cultural connections with their peers across continents. The Club is working on the next tele-bridge project which will bring a flavour of Glasgow to the Russian students.
We always welcome new members, so if you would like to join our team, please just come along! Russian Club for secondary school students runs every Wednesday at 3 pm in Shawlands Academy and for primary school children – every Tuesday at 3pm in Dalmarnock Primary.
 
CONTENTS

Vacancies
February Events Calendar
    Regular events in Scotland
    Events in Glasgow
    Events in Edinburgh
    Events in the rest of Scotland
    Events in the rest of the UK
Contact us 

VACANCIES
 
RCS Haven is looking for qualified IT staff, Art and Russian teachers
Salary is negotiable based on experience held
If interested, please email your CV to [email protected]
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Also, we are looking for volunteers: content manager for our website.
 
The job search facility on the RCS Haven website collects vacancies from British and Russian employers. It can be accessed by clicking here, 
 
 
FEBRUARY EVENTS CALENDAR
 
Regular events in Scotland
 
 
Orthodox Church Services:
The following Scottish churches hold regular/semi-regular Orthodox services (all welcome):
Glasgow: The Parish of St. Kentigern (Russian Orthodox). Services held in Govan Old Church, 866 Govan Road, Glasgow, G51 3UU.
Edinburgh: Orthodox Community of St. Andrew (a mixture of Orthodox faiths. Services held in the Chapel of St. Andrew, 2 Meadow Lane, Edinburgh, EH8 9NR.
 
Art studio for Children
Art lessons for children are undergoing in RCS Haven.
Under supervision of experienced teachers, a professional artist and a specialist in early development, children study the basics of drawing and painting, language development and drama. All children are welcome on Wednesdays from 5pm till 7pm. 
RCS Haven, 11 Duke Street, Glasgow, G4 0UL, Т. 0141 5522144
 
Live Music on Sunday nights at Russian Café-Gallery Cossachok
Live folk, jazz and world music played by outstanding musicians.
Restaurant opens: 6pm. All concerts from 9pm - Tickets £6.00
Café-Gallery Cossachok, 10 King Street, Glasgow, G1 5QP. t: 0141 553 0733
 
Russian and English language courses for adults 
Classes for those who want to study Russian and English language.
Russian lessons on Mondays 5:30pm. English lessons on Saturdays 1pm.
Russian Centre Haven, 11 Duke Street, Glasgow, G4 0UL, [email protected]
 
Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre
Sharmanka are a unique and award-winning theatre group.
Their beautifully carved figures perform an incredible dance to haunting music and light, telling the funny and tragic stories of the human life and spirit.
Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, 103 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HD, Bookings: 0141 552 7080
 
Cinema Club 
Films in Russian with English subtitles. No booking required.
Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA
T. 0131 668 3635
 
Events in Glasgow
 
 
Sun 3 Feb
Virtuoso Master of violin Lev Atlas presents a programme of Russian, Gypsy ad Klezmer music, all with a frosty sparkle especially to brighten up a dark winter night.
Russian Café-Gallery Cossachok, 10 King Street, Glasgow, G1 5QP
 
Tue 12 Feb 12:45pm       
After escaping Lebanon, fourteen-year-old Ali and his family end up in Berlin’s Kreuzberg area. Seeking acceptance from a local gang, Ali agrees to break into the apartment of an elderly Russian Jew and watches while the place is vandalised by his friends. When Ali is caught, his family is anxious that they may be deported. He is forced to help repair the damage, instigating a tense relationship with his neighbour that evolves from mutual distrust to co-dependence. Based on actual events, this is a tragicomic story about understanding cultural and generational differences, told in naturalistic tones.
Glasgow Film Theatre, 12 Rose Street, Glasgow, G3 6RB
 
Tue 26 Feb - Sat 2 Mar
The story of Lily Litvak, a Russian fighter pilot during WWII and one of the thousand women who volunteered for the Red Air Force. Peter Arnott's tale of patriotism, warfare, and love, with Litvak, the 'White Rose of Stalingrad', at its heart.
Tron Theatre, 63 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HB
 
Events in Edinburgh
 
 
Sat 17 Nov 2012 - Sat 16 Feb 2013
This exhibition offers a concise reconsideration of the career of Russian artist and writer Serge Charchoune (1888-1975). While involved with Dada, Cubism, Purism and informal abstraction, Charchoune operated quite autonomously within and beyond those movements. His painting can anticipate, in very personal ways, aspects of Abstract Expressionism, minimalism and 'pattern painting', and his writing looks forward to 'language poetry' and autofiction.
Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, South Bridge, Edinburgh, EH8 9YL
 
Mondays from 4 February
Would you like to sing in an Edinburgh-based Russian Choir?  Experienced singers are welcome to join the group, currently rehearsing on Monday evenings from 4 February at the Scotland-Russia Institute.
Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA
 
Thu 7 Feb 5.15pm
Based on a recently published book, this lecture will trace how the Russian Empire conquered foreign territories and domesticated its own heartlands, thereby colonizing many peoples, Russians included. This vision of colonization as simultaneously internal and external, colonizing one’s own people as well as others, is crucial for scholars of empire, colonialism and globalization. Transcending the boundaries between history and literature, Etkind will focus this lecture on Russia' Ministry of Internal Affairs, which in the mid-19th century was staffed by first-class authors of fiction and non-fiction.
Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, 14 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh
 
Fri 8 February 7pm
A game based on logic, intuition and quick wittedness rather than general knowledge,  “Что? Где? Когда?” has been popular in Russian circles in London for some time and has now been brought to Edinburgh by the University Russian Society's Mikhail Kriuk. There are two Edinburgh teams, which train at the Scotland-Russia Institute.
Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA
 
Sun 10 Feb 3pm
Don Quixote, a nobleman obsessed with chivalry and romance, decides to go on a quest to accomplish great feats which will bring glory to his name.
In Barcelona, Lorenzo, the innkeeper, chases away the penniless Basilio, who is flirting with his daughter Kitri. He has already promised her hand to the rich Gamache. When Don Quixote appears, he mistakes the inn for a castle, Lorenzo for its lord, and Kitri for Dulcinea, a princess.
Cameo Cinema, 38 Home St, Edinburgh EH3 9LZ
 
Thu 21 Feb 5.15pm
One of the most striking features of Soviet culture during WWII (and especially of the first phase of it) was a clear departure from ideological and visual sterility of pre-war culture in which any depiction of violence, suffering, death or victimization was practically tabooed. The disastrous beginning of the war for the Soviet Union and German atrocities brought about major changes to Soviet ideology. The focus of this lecture will be the retuning of Soviet art according to this new ideological doctrine. This "translation" of ideology into literature (first of all, poetry and journalism) and music was followed by visual arts such as poster, painting and film, completely changing their narrative, style and tune.
Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, 14 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh
 
Fri 22 Feb 1pm
Lecture by Valentina Feklyunina, Newcastle University
A Joint Seminar from Edinburgh University Transatlantic Series and Dashkova Centre
Seminar Room 1, Chrystal Macmillan Building, 15a George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD
 
Events in the rest of Scotland
 
 
Sun 10 Feb – Sun 17 Mar
An exhibition of work by Russian photographer Philip Solovjov. 
The exhibition will open on Sunday 10 February.  The artist will talk about his work at 2pm on Sunday 10 and 17 February.  All welcome.
The Moffat Gallery, 21 Well Road, Moffat, DG10 9AR
 
Sat 23 Feb 7pm
Russian poetry reading.
Slava Zaitsev has been living in St. Andrews since 2000, when he came to work in the Biomolecular Science Building at the University.   Born in the Soviet Union, he became a scientist there, and, when the borders became more open he moved to London, and then to the Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory in Cheshire, and eventually to Scotland.
He retired in 2009, and since then has been pursuing a long-standing interest in poetry.  He writes in Russian, but for the past year some of his work has been translated by David Anderson, also living in North East Fife, who learned Russian during national service in the Navy (partly on Crail aerodrome).   The poems explore Slava’s memories of Russia, his impressions of Scotland, his thoughts on Russian and Scottish identity, and many wilder themes.
Byre Theatre Conference Room, Abbey St, St Andrews, Fife
 
Events in the rest of the UK
 
 
15 Nov 2012–30 Mar 2013
Michael Boyd's final production as Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company is Adrian Mitchell's adaptation of the historical drama by Alexander Pushkin about the new Russian Tsar, who ascends the throne amidst scurrilous rumours that he murdered the rightful heir. Lloyd Hutchinson stars in the title role.
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Southern Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, CV37 6BB
 
Wed 6 Feb 7pm
One of the most tragic episodes in the history of Russian poetry is the tragic fate of the legendary Marina Tsvetaeva, who returned to the USSR shortly before the start of World War II, then committed suicide in 1941. The fate of her sister, Anastasia - also a poet - is lesser known, despite the fact that she, too, had a life as interesting and nearly as tragic. This video-portrait of Anastasia Tsvetaeva, shot when she was over 90, is a fascinating glimpse into the life of a woman who saw history unfolding. Despite her advanced years, she maintains a bright wit, a charm, and a joie de vivre, evident as she recounts her memories.
Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2TA
 
Thu 7 Feb 7.30pm
Lecture by Dr Nicholas Gendle (Oxford University).
This illustrated lecture will present the palaces built in St Petersburg and its environs during the 18th and early 19th century for successive Russian sovereigns – Catherine I, Elizabeth, Catherine II and Paul I. These palaces illustrate on a magnificent scale the introduction and development in Russia of the great international styles of Baroque and Neoclassicism, both in their architecture and interior decoration.
The lecture will last about an hour followed by questions and a discussion.
Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2TA
 
Sat 9 Feb 2pm
A children's puppet show set to the orchestral music of Sergei Prokofiev, featuring young Peter and his Grandfather, the Cat, the Duck, the Redbird, Ivan and Boris the hunters, and the ravenous Wolf.
Cranleigh Arts Centre
1 High Street, Cranleigh, Surrey, GU6 8AS
 
Fri 15 Feb 8pm
The Actors Touring Company presents a drama by the leading Russian playwright Ivan Viripaev, which explores whether love is always based on fiction. Translated by Cazimir Liske and directed by Ramin Gray.
The North Wall Arts Centre, South Parade, Summertow, Oxford, OX2 7NN
 
Tue 19, Wed 20 Feb  7.30pm plus Wed 2.30pm
Ask most people to name a ballet, and Swan Lake will doubtless be near the top of the list. There's a reason it has endured-as well as boasting a score by Tchaikovsky, it also tells the timeless tale of Prince Siegfried, who falls in love with the beautiful Swan Queen, Odette. The fable's soaring climax, which sees the power of true love conquer the forces of evil, has been enchanting audiences for over a century. Now, the Moscow City Ballet is bringing Britain its take on the classic. They certainly have the credentials to tackle it. The company was formed in 1988 by distinguished Russian choreographer Victor Smirnov-Golovanov. Once a highly acclaimed ex soloist of the Bolshoi Ballet, he's now on a mission to bring his heritage of classical ballet in the Moscow style to audiences including young ballet-goers. With suitably opulent costumes and sets, this production should be a welcome reminder of why Sawn Lake captured our imaginations in the first place.
Hawth Avenue, Crawley, West Sussex, RH10 6YZ
 
Wed 20 Feb  6:30pm
RBCC London's next 'Just Networking' event will take place at Sphinx Fine Art on the evening of Wednesday 20 February.
As ever, the event is free to attend for two representatives of each RBCC member company, additional colleagues may attend for a fee of £10 + VAT per person.
Non-members are also welcome to attend for a fee of £30 + VAT per place.
These events are incredibly popular and so registration is essential - there will be no admittance on the evening without prior registration.
Sphinx Fine Art, 125 Kensington Church Street, London W8 7LP
 
Sat 23 Feb 1.00pm & 5.45pm
The threesome performs a capella incorporating Bulgarian, Macedonian and Russian traditional song plus Orthodox chants.
Djanogly Concert Pitch, Royal National Theatre Foyer, South Bank London, SE1 9PX
 
Tue 26 Feb 7.30pm
Marina Frolova-Walker is currently working on her Leverhulme-funded research project “The Stalin Prize: Fostering Music for the People”, and her talk will present her most recent discoveries made in Moscow archives.
Her interest in the historiography of Russian music and the nationalist/exoticist myths perpetuated in it resulted in her book Russian Music and Nationalism from Glinka to Stalin. (Yale University Press, 2007). Her present research interests are primarily in 20th-century cultural history, particularly in the area of Soviet music and musical life. Her most recent book (co-authored with Jonathan Walker) is Music and Soviet Power, 1917-32 (Boydell and Brewer, 2012)
Pushkin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London, WC1A 2TA
 
Wed 27 Feb 7:30pm
James MacMillan conducts the ensemble in a performance of Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Overture, Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 4, Wagner's Parsifal Good Friday Music and MacMillan's The World's Ransoming.
Lighthouse, Poole's Centre For The Arts, 21 Kingland Road, Poole, Dorset, BH15 1UG
 
 
 
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