Greetings, and welcome to our bulletin full of information on exciting Russian events!
This issue contains a round-up of Russian or connected to Russia events in Scotland and throughout the rest of the UK in the month of October, as well as the latest job vacancies and announcements.
Contents:
Jobs
Jobs in Scotland
Russian-speaking jobs
October 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
Jobs
Jobs in Scotland
Salary: £30k - £35k pa + Excellent Benefits. Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll & Bute, Clackmanshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Dumbarton, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde. Job Type: Permanent.
Salary: £30k - £40k pa + benefits. Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll & Bute, Clackmanshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Dumbarton, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde. Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £45k - £55k pa. Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll & Bute, Clackmanshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Dumbarton, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde. Job Type: Permanent. A need has arisen for an Operational Change Manager which is required to manage service improvement and cost reduction initiatives throughout the Siemens contract.
Salary: £35k - £40k pa + Full Benefit Package. Location: Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll & Bute, Clackmanshire, Dumfries & Galloway, Dundee, East Ayrshire, East Dumbarton, East Lothian, East Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, Highland, Inverclyde. Job Type: Permanent. Recognised distributors of bespoke and retrofitted sheet materials are now looking for an area sales manager to cover the Scotland.
Salary: £20K (OTE £25K) + Car. Location: Scotland, Clackmannanshire, East Lothian, Fife, Angus, Kinross-Shire, Lanarkshire, Midlothian, Peeblesshire, Perthshire, Renfrewshire, Stirlingshire, West Lothian, Edinburgh, Glasgow. Job Type: Permanent. My client is a leading manufacturer of innovative weighing systems, trusted by their customers to provide 'best in class' weighing solutions.
Russian-speaking jobs
Salary: £14000. Location: Swindon. Job Type: Permanent. We are looking for a two Business Development Executives who can converse fluently in either Russian and also whose second language is English.... writing & speaking Russian. * Educated to GSCE level or equivalent (5 GCSE passes required at D or above) * Good Literacy and numeracy skills * PC Literate * Able to communicate confidently.
Salary: £18k - £21k pa + Bens. Location: Hastings. Job Type: Permanent.
FRENCH SELECTION UK French, Russianor German speaking Export Account Manager Customer Service, Sales, Coordination, Business Development, French, Russian, German, Export Sales, Account Managemenr Salary:... Business Development, French, Russian, German, Export Sales. Fluent in French, Russian or German (Written... Spanish, Italian and Russian speaking professionals and executives throughout the United Kingdom.
Salary: Neg. Location: Germany. Job Type: Contract/Interim. SAP FI Consultant (Russian Speaking) My client is undergoing an extension to their SAP system androlling out to their Russian plant and search for the... out to their Russian plant and search... a RU organization Russian language is essential for this assignment as frequent travels to Russia is expected. starting date is October for an inititial period of 3-6 months.
Salary: OTE. Location: Reading, London, Richmond, Woking, Bristol, Brighton, Exeter, Birmingham, Manchester, Bournemouth, Taunton, Southampton, Swindon, Windsor. Job Type:
Part-Time. Our client, a world renowned health and nutrition company, is looking for independent self-motivated people to work from home on a part-time or full-time basis.... Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Taiwanese, Thai, Turkish, Twi, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yoruba. To a large extent your background isn't important, although experience in the Internet and Microsoft products (Word, Outlook, Excel).
October 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.
Live Music on Sunday nights at Café Cossachok
Cafe Cossachok, 10 King Street, Glasgow, G1 5QP
- Restaurant opens: 6.00pm. Concert begins: 9.00pm
- Tickets: £6.00 per person.
- Bookings: 0141 553 0733
Free family weekends at Trongate 103
The third week of each month is a special weekend at Trongate 103 with some fantastic free activities. To be kept up-to-date with the latest family events, please call 0141 553 0733 or email [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. Booking essential.
- Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre, 103 Trongate, Glasgow, G1 5HD
- Bookings: 0141 552 7080
Events in Glasgow:
Wednesday 5 October: GRAMNet Collaborative Masters Dissertation Pilot Project Degree Show
We would like to invite you to the Degree Show of the GRAMNET Collaborative Masters Dissertation Pilot Project!
The 2011 collaborative dissertation projects were developed at the University of Glasgow by the Glasgow Refugee Asylum Migration Network (GRAMNet) and Central and East European Studies based on the research needs and proposals from a range of public and third sector organisations. These topics were then matched with six masters students studying on the MSc in Russian and on the MSc in Equalities and Human Rights, both of which were administered through the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Glasgow.
The 2011 projects:
• Russian Language Teaching in Scottish Schools - Scotland Russia Forum
• Social and Economic Integration of Russian-speaking women - Bridges Programmes
• Education of Bilingual Children in Russian-speaking Communities - RCS Haven
• Public Perception of A8 Migrants - BEMIS
• Migration and Settlement in Glasgow - Glasgow City Council
• An early intervention Rights-Based approach to the protection and support of people entering the asylum system in Glasgow - Unity Centre
Light refreshments will be served.
To attend please RSVP to Paul Jordan [email protected]
- Senate Room, Main Building, University of Glasgow
- 15.00 - 17.00pm
Friday 7 October: Jim Gillie's book "To Chernobyl with Love" is being launched at Waterstones (Glasgow)
Jim is a 70 year old retired electrical engineer from Cumbernauld who was so moved by the tragedy of Chernobyl on the 26th of April 1986 that he has held a vigil from 8.00 a.m. to 8.00.p.m. every year since in George Square. He has also visited the children's hospital in Malin on the outskirts of the Chernobyl region every year at his own expense, having collected clothes, medical items and money for the hospital. Over the years his selfless commitment has raised in the region of £30,000 for the hospital. As Malin is on the outer region of Chernobyl the Ukrainian government gives little support but Jim's efforts have improved the situation to some extent but there will always be a shortage of everything which we take for granted in our hospitals.
All the proceeds from the sale of the book will go towards helping the hospital as Jim will pay his own expenses, saving money by going overland to Ukraine by bus which also allows him to take more goods than flying. He is going back to Malin again in November and Glasgow photographer Robert Burns will accompany him to photograph the journey, the children's hospital at Malin and to stay at Friends House in Piski north west of Kiev, a home for rescued Kiev street children.
- More information from Robert Burns [email protected]
Monday 31 October: ESRC Festival of Social Science School Event 2011. Understandings of place, place-making and home
A 1-day event for secondary school children to be held at the University of Glasgow. Glasgow is home to a significant number of migrants originating from the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). This event will focus on understandings of place, place-making and home amongst school children, with a specific focus on those school children with links to CEE.
- University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ
- 10.00-14.30
- Telephone: 0141 330 5585
- Email: [email protected]
Events in Edinburgh:
Saturday 1 October – Friday 28October: Exhibition, “Poyekhali! Yuri Gagarin and the Dawn of Space Exploration”.
Yuri Gagarin was a pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human being to journey in outer space. After his famous ‘Poekhali!’ (‘Here we go!’), his Vostok spacecraft left the planet and completed the orbit of the Earth on the 12th of April 1961. Three months after the Vostok 1 mission Gagarin visited the UK. Drawing on the archives of RIA Novosti, Russia's leading news agency, the exhibition tells the whole story of the most famous man in the world including Gagarin's early life, his historic flight and the fame that followed him until his untimely death in 1968. The exhibition is held at the Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA. Openning hours 11-4 Tuesday to Friday, 1.30-4 Saturday. Free entry.
Wednesday 5 October: Music at the Court of Catherine the Great: the Composer Ekaterina Dashkova by Henri Lebedinsky. Henry Lebedinsky is a unique interpreter of Russian eighteenth century music. A historical keyboardist, he is an active performer on harpsichord, clavichord, and orga, both as a soloist and with The Charlotte Symphony, The Seicento String Band
The Seicento String Band, The Wild Rose Ensemble, and San Francisco's Ensemble Vermillian. With Grammy® award-winning countertenor Ian Howell, he founded the innovative early music ensemble Tableau, and has also performed with Seraphic Fire, Saltarello, Revels, the Portland Early Music Consort, the Harvard Baroque Orchestra, Concertino Ensemble of Rostock, Germany, and Holland’s Ensemble New Amsterdam among others. In addition to performing, Mr. Lebedinsky has led workshops on historical keyboards and performance practice at Davidson College, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, The New England Conservatory, and Boston University. He is also Artistic Director of the successful Music at St. Alban's concert series and interim Artistic Director of Charlotte Chamber Music. 1:05 P.M.
Conference Room, 14 Buccleuch Place. Free entry. No booking essential.
Saturday 1 October - Friday 28 October: Exhibition, “Kozmos”. The exhibition is held at the Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA. Openning hours 11-4 Tuesday to Friday, 1.30-4 Saturday. Free entry.
Friday 16th of September - Friday, 28th of October (on demand): daily screening of documentary film maker Chris Riley's innovative film "First Orbit" which captures the sights and sounds of Gagarin’s flight as he would have experienced them. 1p.m. at the Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA. Openning hours 11-4 Tuesday to Friday, 1.30-4 Saturday. Free entry.
Saturday 1 October – Friday 28 October (by appointment): Schools are invited to bring groups of pupils to the exhibition and to arrange a taster Russian class at the same time. Contact info@scotlandrussiaforum or tel. 0131 668 3635 for more information.
Friday 7 October: The Flight of Yuri Gagarin and the early Soviet space programme. A talk by Ken MacTaggart. Ken is a writer on spaceflight for The Scotsman, The Herald, The Independent and various other publications. He has interviewed many Russian and former USSR cosmonauts. He is also co-editor of NASA’s Apollo 11 Flight Journal. This talk accompanies our exhibition about Gagarin, “Poyekhali”. 1pm, Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA. Donations £2 (SRF members), £5 (non-members), payable at the door. Booking essential.
Friday 14 October: Mikhail Lermontov. A Russian Poet with a Secret Side to his Soul. A talk on the famous Russian poet’s fate, talent and Scottish connection by Màiri Òg Koroleva, a member of the large Learmonth-Lermontov family, senior lecturer at Moscow State University, and a member of the Heritage of Learmonths and Lermontovs Association and the Historic-Genealogical Society in Moscow. 6.30pm, Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA. Donations £2 (SRF members), £5 (non-members), payable at the door. Booking essential.
Thursday 20 October: Чай н Чат.All welcome to join us for sparkling conversation in Russian and English and delicious cakes. No charge but contributions of cakes and help with washing up appreciated. 11am, Scotland-Russia Institute, 9 South College St, Edinburgh EH8 9AA. Tel. 0131 668 3635.
The Rest of Scotland:
Friday 30 September – Saturday 29 October: Exhibition of New Work by Olga Geghegan.New work by a brilliant Russian artist who has twice exhibited at the Scotland-Russia Institute, Private view 6.30-9pm, Friday 30 September. Claremont Studio, 60 Clarmont St, Aberdeen AB10 60Y. Tel. 01224 596999.
The Rest of the UK:
Monday 3 October: Russian Prison Theatre - A talk by director Alex Dower.This remarkable theatre project in Perm’s Prison Colony 29 marked a watershed in the development of rehabilitative and artistic programmes in Russian prisons. To complement our exhibition of photographs of the project, Alex Dower, the head of this project, will give an in depth view of the two-week training and rehearsal process for the play he directed with the prisoners, accompanied by video clips of the performance. He uses techniques developed by the brilliant Russian director/teacher Sam Kogan at his London drama school The Academy of the Science of Acting and Directing (ASAD). 7.30 pm. Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770. Free entry.
Tuesday 4 October: Exhibition Past, Present and Future of Russian Space.Exhibition is open to public between 4 and 6 October 2011, between 11.00am to 5.00pm. This exhibition is dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the first flight into space, celebrated all over the world this year. To mark this historic event the Esenin Moscow State Museum has prepared a travelling exhibition “Past, Present and Future of Russian Space”. Free entry. Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Tuesday 4 October – 7.30pm: Talk White Fever: A Journey to the Frozen Heart of Siberia.Translator Antonia Lloyd-Jones presents a new publication by Polish reporter Jacek Hugo-Bader, based on the journey he made across Russia from Moscow to Vladivostok by car in the winter of 2007. £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs). Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770. Free entry.
Wednesday 5 October – 7.15pm. Lecture-Screening. Andrei Rublev. Introduction by Ludmila Gromova and Vitaly Yerenkov. RUSSIAN HISTORY IN FILM SERIES. USSR | 1966 | 185 mins | Black & White | Andrei Rublev is set against the background of 15th century Russia. Tarkovsky created a film that shows the artist as “a world-historic figure” and “Christianity as an axiom of Russia’s historical identity” during a turbulent period of Russian history. £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs). Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Thursday 6 October – 7.00pm. Talk Technology and Trade in the Cold Warby Professor Malcolm Hill. This discussion will focus on technology transfer during the Cold War, and export control policies introduced by NATO governments to regulate that activity. Tickets: £5. Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Thursday 6 October – 7.30pm. Talk Maria Chamberlain “ОÑколки” (“Fragments”)presentation and reading by the author. Maria Mihaylovskaya-Chamberlain is well known as a journalist in London and Moscow. Her début as a poet was a surprise for the public in both cities. Her first book gained her entry into the Society of Russian Writers; it was highly acclaimed by critics and audiences in Moscow. Free entry. Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Friday 7 October – 6.00pm. Discussion Chess Endgame Study Circle. The main October topic will be the above chess diagram, which represents a study carrying the stipulation ‘White to Move and Win’. The study was awarded the first prize in a recent tourney. Free entry. Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Wednesday 12 October – 4.00pm Exhibition of works by Alexander Vorobyev.Exhibition is open to the public between Wed 12 Oct and Thu 27 Oct 2011, Monday to Friday, 16.00 to 19.00. Alexander Vorobyev: “I think in terms of the construction of a dream, or of worshipping paper. A painter’s thinking needs to be cosmic. Because of the intense inwardness of my vision, and the purity and power of my reactions to the world around me, I aspire to break through in the way that Dali, Kandinskiy and Klee managed to break through in the twentieth century”. Free entry. Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Wednesday 12 October – 7.00pm. Talk Trans-Siberian Railroad - Epic Journey.In association with Go Russia. It is the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway which holds the vast territory of Siberia together. The actual length of the Trans-Siberian Railroad, or simply TransSib, from Moscow to Vladivostok, is over 9,288 kilometres, covering nearly all Eurasia. Free entry. Booking essential. . Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Wednesday 12 October – 7.00pm. Concert Sergey Sobolev - M.C.S. Young Artist’s Fund Concert. Sergey Sobolev – piano. The programme includes works by Haydn, Schubert, Chopin and Liszt. Organised by Marylebone Arts Association. Tickets: £20, conc. £15 (Friends and Members of MCS, Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs) inclusive of pre concert and intermission reception. Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Friday 14 October – 7.30pm. Screening. A Bitter Taste of Freedom. Marina Goldovskaya’s film about Anna Politkovskaya, investigative journalist murdered on 7th October 2006. Tickets: £7 (screening at Pushkin House), conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs). Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Tuesday 18 October – 7.30pm. Discussion Fourth Translators' Eveningwith Sasha Dugdale and James Womack. Pushkin Club is continuing with its “Translators’ Evenings”, where translators of Russian poetry and prose read and discuss their work. Translators, academics, students and anybody interested in Russian literature are invited to discuss the relation between the original and the translation, see how the art of translation helps literature to cross over boundaries between languages and cultures. Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs). Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Thursday 20 October – 7.30pm. Lecture Contemporary Art at the Russian Museumby Alexander Borovsky, lecturer of the Russian Museum. TEN CENTURIES OF RUSSIAN ART: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY LECTURE SERIES. This lecture is dedicated to the work of the Russian Museum in the field of Contemporary Art in the last 20 years. The basis of the Museum’s representation is the Ludwig collection, which includes great objects of pop-art, photorealism and conceptualism. Free entry. Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Sunday 23 October – 6.30pm. Maxim Rysanov ConcertTHE WORLD'S GREAT SOLOISTS AT PUSHKIN HOUSE. Young violist Maxim Rysanov explores the riches of this marvelous instrument. The programme includes works by J.S.Bach, Robert Schumann and Cesar Franck.
Tickets: £20, conc. £15 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs). Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Tuesday 25 October – 11.00am. Royal Albert Hall Guided Tour. 10.45am for 11.00am. The Magnificent Royal Albert Hall, one of the most famous venues of the world, is Grade I Listed building. It has been in continuous use since it was opened in March 1871. It was built to fulfil the vision of Prince Albert of a ‘Central Hall’ to promote the Arts and Sciences. Tickets: £8.50 including tea/coffee (to be paid in advance). Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Tuesday 25 October – 7.00pm. Talk The Light at the End of the Tunnel? The Image of the World Beyond in Russian Near-death Experiences by Professor Faith Wigzell. Russia has a long tradition of visions of the other world glimpsed in a coma, which has survived to the present day, though mainly in the countryside. Tickets: £5. Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Tuesday 25 October – 7.30pm. Lecture Icons and the Sacred Art of Russiaby Andrew Spira. TEN CENTURIES OF RUSSIAN ART: IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY LECTURE SERIES. Despite the fact that Russian icons are widely appreciated for their beauty, they are still little understood. This talk will address the nature of icon painting, exploring how it emerged from the glory of the Byzantine world and became an distinctive expression of the Orthodox spirituality of Russia.
Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs). Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Wednesday 26 October – 7.15pm. Lecture-Screening. Ivan the Terrible (parts 1 and 2). Introduction by Ludmila Gromova and Vitaly Yerenkov USSR | 1944 / 1946 | 99 min / 88 min | b/w | director Sergei Eisenstein. A biography of the first tsar of Russia was the final movie project of the great Sergei Eisenstein’s life. It would be his undoing, as Stalin was not pleased with part II of this epic. But Ivan the Terrible, Part I still stands as a magnificent, rich, and strange achievement. Tickets: £7, conc. £5 (Friends of Pushkin House, students and OAPs). Puskin House, 5a Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2 TA. 0207269 9770.
Thank you for reading this bulletin; we hope you have found it interesting, useful and enjoyable. If you have any news or events that you would like us to highlight in future editions, please contact us at the addresses below.
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Events listings compiled by: Elena Moore
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