Dear All
Received from Scotland Russia Forum
Best wishes
Ute
The SRF committee would like to wish all members and associates a Happy New Year / S Novym Godom!
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SRF PROGRAMME JANUARY – APRIL 2006
A wide variety of talks are on offer in the new year – religion, linguistic history, history of ideas, and art – and an equally wide range of collaborating organisations. NB this means venues and times are also variable so please check details carefully. As usual the entrance to all talks is £2 SRF members, £4 non-members (inc. email only subscribers) and includes light refreshments and the chance to meet speakers and each other informally.
Thursday 26 January
Xenia Dennen – “Religious Life in Russia Today: Keston Institute's ground-breaking new survey”
A joint Scotland-Russia Forum / University of Edinburgh Divinity School event.
Xenia Dennen is Chairman of the Keston Institute. During the Soviet period Keston College, as it was then known, studied the religious situation in Russia, and as a result were able to establish a world-renowned archive of information some of which was published in their journal Religion in Communist Lands. Xenia Dennen was the Editor of this Journal.
In the early 1990s she brought back to Keston Institute from Moscow reports on religion in Russia from which grew a major project – an encyclopaedia about all religions in contemporary Russia. Keston's Russian research team have carried out thousands of interviews, in addition to studying published sources, press articles and secular and confessional reports, and have travelled to every corner of the Russian Federation.
Xenia will talk about expeditions into the Russian provinces with the Keston research team – which she describes as some of the most interesting experiences of her life.
7.30pm, The Martin Hall, New College, Mound Place, Edinburgh, EH1 2LX
Feb-April: dates for your diary. Full details of these events to follow (and in members' newsletter – out shortly)
Wednesday 22 February
Prof. Ian Press – “For Ever Russian: History in Russian, Russian in History”
Thursday 16 March
Lesley Chamberlain – “Lenin and the Exile of the Philosophers”
Thursday 27 April
Averil King – “The Russian Landscape Painter Isaak Levitan”
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SHARMANKA + DEREVO IN EDINBURGH AND ON TOUR (Reminder) – NB Derevo performances 28-30 Dec ONLY
Exhibition – "Movement and Shadows – The Magic of Sharmanka Theatre"
at the Royal Museum, Chambers Street, Edinburgh
2 December 2005 – 15 January 2006
Kinetic sculptures: Self Portrait, Crusader, Time of Rats, Titanic, Rag-n-Bone Man, Master and Margarita, Orient Express, Noah's Ark
Performances every 30 min from 10.15 am to 4.15 pm
Tickets £4/conc. £3/children 5+ £2
http://www.nms.ac.uk/royal/whatson/exhibitiondetail.asp?m=3&s=1&id=1&event=34
New sculpture " Tree of Life" will be exhibited in the main hall and work every hour.
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THE DRUID CLOCK
at the Main Hall of the Royal Museum
28-30 December 2005
at 2.30 pm
DEREVO Theatre + "Tree of Life" + "The Millennium Clock".
The project is funded by Eduard Bersudsky’s Creative Scotland Award.
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SHARMANKA Kinetic Circus on tour
An Lanntair, Stornoway, 9 December 2005 – 28 January 2006
Callendar House, Falkirk, February – May 2006
Swanson Gallery,Thurso – 2 June – 2 July ,
Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness -14 July – 6 August
The Iona Gallery, Kingussie, 18 August – 11 September
The exhibition will feature set of middle-size kinetic sculptures built by Eduard Bersudsky in 2003-2005.
Supported by the Scottish Arts Council National Lottery grant
We still have to raise 25% of funds for this exhibition – please let us know about any potential businesses or fund who can support it!
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New version of Sharmanka video on DVD which include kinemats built in the last few years will be available from 1 December 2005.
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Due to the major redevelopment of North Block King Street Building SHARMANKA temporary moves to the South Block of the same building (facing King Street parking)
Our new address from 1 April 2006 – 1st floor 64 Osborne Street, Glasgow G1 5QH
Tatyana Jakovskaya
Friends of Sharmanka
109 Trongate
Glasgow G1 5HD
Scotland, UK
+44(0)1415527080
www.sharmanka.com
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NEWS ITEMS
1) A group of Perm schoolchildren visited Edinburgh and Muir of Ord recently – on the trail of 19C Scots geologist Roderick Murchison, the discoverer of the Permian Period. SRF committee member Neville Long was tour guide and interpreter on their journey north, and the whole trip was enthusiastically and energetically organized by Perm’s ambassador in Scotland, Ewan McVicar, and the Edinburgh based British Geological Survey.
Some of you may have spotted the BBC Scotland report. Newspaper report in the Scotsman:
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=2377342005
2) 5000 Russians in Edinburgh!?!? This was the (more than) somewhat exaggerated claim in the Daily Mail and other papers reporting the brilliant party (no exaggeration there) run by Russian Edinburgh for the children and families associated with their Saturday school. None of the papers went to the party so it is left to us to report on wonderful singing and dancing from the children, excellent traditional Ded Moroz, and spine chilling appearance of Baba Yaga… I've been very good ever since.
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=2417612005
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=2417612005
+ Daily Mail 17 Dec, p15