RCS Haven E-Bulletin - August 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 
 
We have received our first systems visit from the SQA since our initial approval on 11th July. 
Quality Enhancement Manager Sarah McRoberts met with the SQA Co-ordinator/Assessor  Victoria Ziervogel and the Head of Centre/ Internal Verifier Dr Nina Ivashinenko.
The evidence seen on these visit shows that Centre continues to comply with SQA’s quality criteria and recommendations have been made to enhance our quality systems.
From the start of the new academic session the Centre intends to employ a further two assessors and will create a new system of partnership with Scottish schools which will allow common preparation for childrentaking examinations in Russian. 
 
Ms K. Frimberger is looking for actors to volunteer in a series of short films about intercultural experiences of medical practice in Glasgow. 
No acting experience is required and she is looking for a wide variety of people of all backgrounds, between the ages of 20-70 with a particular interest in hearing from people who are fluent in another language or bilingual, as well as those who are native English speakers. More...
 A library of the Russian centre “Haven” would like to express its gratitude to Dr Michael Rogers for the donated rare books of the Russian classical literature.
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Vacancies
August Events Calendar
  Regular events in Scotland 
VACANCIES
RCS Haven is looking for qualified IT staff, Art, Mathematics 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, 
AUGUST 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
Events in Glasgow
 
Sun 25 Aug, 9pm
Master of the violin, Lev Atlas, plays a selection of Russian and Klezmer folk music with some all time favourites from Sviridov’s Romance to Monti’s Chardash.
Russian Café-Gallery Cossachok, 10 King Street, Glasgow, G1 5QP 
Events in Edinburgh
 
1 Aug – 29 Aug, 6 – 7pm
Improve your Russian conversation in a small group with an experienced tutor.
Henderson's Vegetarian Restaurant
94 Hanover Street, Edinburgh, EH2 1DR T.: 07826 555 134
 
1 Aug – 17 Aug, 9.50 - 11.05pm
International Theater Ensemble (Taiwan and USA). Poetic expression of Nikolai Gogol's classic in the era of internet technology. Multimedia cross-border performance. Original combination of Chinese theatrical traditions and music with modern European theatre.
Chambers Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1HR T.: 0131 226 0000 
 
1-31 Aug
All ten of the artist's remakes of the film Man with a Movie Camera (made in 1929 by Russian director Dziga Vertov and edited by his wife Yelizaveta Svilova) are shown simultaneously alongside the original version. A selection of the filmmaker, photographer and composer's still photographs are also on display.
 
1-26 Aug, 3.30 – 4.25pm
Sunny and ironic the actors create a dream-like whimsy on.
 
1-25 Aug, 1pm
Olga Kosterina.
Open your eyes! You will see our common fate.… Winner of Best Choreography at Rome Theatre Festival 2012. Dilemma combines dance, mime and acrobatics to reveal a person lost in a maze of their own fears. With elegance, precision and grace, Kosterina personifies the eternal struggle between good and evil, the dominance of black or white and the conscious choice of direction that each of us decides to follow. For Olga, the Dilemma is resolved in favour of harmony with the world.
 
2-25 Aug, 8.30 – 9.30pm
Life and strange death of one of the famous Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
 
2-10 Aug, 2.05 – 2.55pm
An absurd tale with traditional Russian folk music, masks and puppetry. Major Kovalyov awakes one morning to discover his nose has vanished. An adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's The Nose.
  
19-20 Aug, 7.30 – 9.15pm
Russian pianist Nikolai Lugansky, widely acclaimed for his performances of Rachmaninov’s piano music, brings the passionate, fiery Second and Third Concerto to the Russian National Orchestra’s Festival concert. 
Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH1 2EA T.: 0131 473 2000
20 Aug, 7.30 – 9.15pm
Opera Bohemia returns with the world's favourite Russian opera. Scottish favourites Douglas Nairne and Catriona Clark lead a star cast of young professional singers.
5 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH1 2EP T.: 0131 226 0000
29 Aug,  2pm
‘Iron Felix’ Dzerzhinsky - the infamous creator of the Soviet secret police, Lenin’s fearsome enforcer and the man who represented the last powerful impediment to Stalin’s seizure of power. Was his death really the striking pattern of coincidence that it seemed or was a hidden predatory artist spinning the web?
Meadows Lecture Theatre, Doorway 4, Old Medical School, Teviot Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AG. 
Events in the rest of Scotland
 
1 - 5 August, 3pm, 7.45pm
The internationally-acclaimed Russian circus troupe returns with ever more impressive acrobatics, clowning and aerial feats.
Aberdeen Beach, Aberdeen, AB24 5EN
Events in the rest of the UK
 
1 Aug – 29 Sep
 One of the most eagerly anticipated events this summer for the UK art world will be the return of around 60 masterpieces from the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg to their former home, Houghton Hall in Norfolk. Most of these paintings have never left Russia since their acquisition by Catherine the Great in 1779 from the private collection of former prime minister Robert Walpole, and their brief visit to England provides a rare opportunity to see these masterpieces in UK. Artists featured include Murillo, Poussin, Rembrandt, Rubens and Van Dyck.
Houghton Hall, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE31 6UE 
 
1-3 Aug, 7.45pm
Written by: Nikolai Erdman (book)
A Russian Farce from the 1920s about a man who is so fed up with being unemployed, he announces he will commit suicide. Very soon he is a hero among all the local men as they each insist he must die for their particular cause, while the local women have suddenly discovered that he is much more attractive than they had noticed before.
 
1 Aug - 5 Sep, 4 - 7pm
Photographs of Russian architecture including Shabolovka Radio Tower and Melnikov House.
Pushkin House, 5A Bloomsbury Square, City of London, WC1A 2TA
T.: 020 7269 9770
 
2 Aug - 31 Aug, 11am - 7pm
An exhibition of propaganda from the 1920s and 1930s, exploring the influence of the advertising organisation Intourist, which was responsible for foreign tourism to the Soviet Union, The show also incorporates a reconstructed model by Henry Milner
GRAD: Gallery For Russian Arts And Design, London W1W T.: 020 7637 7274
 
31 Aug – 1 Sep, 6pm
A series of events dedicated to the writer Chingiz Aitmatov, featuring screenings of movies based on his works
37 Kensington High Street, London W8 5ED
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