DEAR FRIENDS!

 

We at RACC would like to wish you a joyful Holiday Season and Wonderful 2010!

 

We thank you for all your support during 2009 – an exciting year of three striking exhibitions and dozens of significant events, creative collaborations and meetings with phenomenal artists, writers and guest actors. RACC was able to accomplish one of the most productive and successful years ever, regardless decreasing grants and tough economic times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We hope that you will be inspired and moved to support our work with a tax-deductible contribution to RACC - the only Russian American Cultural Center that nourishes cultural life in New York! Your gift will make a difference to our community and us!

 

We are also pleased to announce that the 72 pages well documented catalog Homage to Diaghilev’s Enduring Legacy. Rediscovered Gems of the 20th Century, which publication was supported by the Russian Mir Foundation, could be obtained through the RACC.

You can also order prints from this unique exhibition – a wonderful gift to the upcoming holidays. Click here to view the exhibition and choose your images!

 

 

After the sensational success of the RACC’s 20th century stage design exhibition HOMAGE TO DIAGHILEV’s ENDURING LEGACY and 2009 Annual GALA & Performance at the Ana Tzarev Gallery, RACC’s board members undertook an initiative to extent RACC programming to serve the ever-growing Russian American community in Miami.

 

The Miami event - RACC’s introduction by RACC Board member Lana Ratner and talk by Regina Khidekel, the RACC founding director, on December 8, 2009 coincided with the Art Basel Miami Beach week. This international art festival which transforms Miami in one of the world art centers, energizes and encourages curiosity and attention to arts by its multicultural population including our community’s fast learners.  It was noticed that the fair was lacking works of the Russian American artists and questions were raised.

 

We hope very much that the exhibitions, literary and performing events that are conceptualized and realized by RACC in New York, could be soon enjoyed and appreciated by the Russian American community of Miami.

 

RACC’s mission is stronger than ever, and with your support we hope to make this our most successful year yet!  We appreciate all of our supporters over the last eleven years and look forward to seeing both old and new faces at our events!

                                                Thank you!

                                                                                                                        Regina Khidekel

 

We have an exciting program and we are thrilled to see you at our events!

           

This Holidays Season, first we reached out to those who need us more:

 

Friday, December 18, 2009 - 4:00 PM
Rustem Galitch and Sergei Pobedinsky

Golden Age Freehold Day Care
20 1-A Jackson St.
Freeland NJ, 07728

 

Sunday, December 19, 2009 - 5:00 PM

Concert – Salon "Одной любви музыка уступает"

Prize-winning duo Tamara Volskaya and Anatoliy Trofimov -Domra and  Bayan (Russian folk percussion instruments)

Duo DI-LE-MA by Elena and Dmitriy Koltunov

Bard’s songs

Long Island Bard’s Club ZUS

Suggested donation: $25 and $20 for senior citizens and students 

Reservation at: koltunovaz@yahoo.com

 

Friday, December 25, 2009 - 7:00 PM 

Holiday Season Celebration – Traditional Communal Gathering

Guest-actors from Kazan, Tatarstan: raising singer star Gulnara Ismaeva and Alexey Aleksandrov - saxophone,

Valery Zhmut - violin virtuoso,

Ludmila Fisenko – Ukrainian songs,

Sergey Pobedinsky – Gypsy songs and guitar,

Victoria Ulanovskaya (piano),

Boris Glikshtein, Natasha Ojean

Leading by stage legend Rustem Galitch and popular Talk Show Host Renata Rubinova

Karavan - 238 Kings Hwy Brooklyn NY, 11223

Reservation at: 917-921-9799

 

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 – 6:30 PM

Meet the Writer: Vladimir Druk

Reading from a new book Одноразовые Птицы

The Moscow Account  2009 Award.
В сборник Одноразовые Птицы (Москва, НЛО - 2008) вошли избранные стихотворения и поэмы (конец 1970-х – 2008). Книга получила диплом - «Московский Счет 2009» (in Russian)

Russian Bookstore No.21

174-176 Fifth Ave /22/23/Streets, Manhattan

 

 

Guest-artist from Moscow Pavel Pushkin

Moscow bohemian star and Prize Winning Singer and his program Russian Farinelli

 

Sunday, February 7, 2010 - 7:00 PM

Russian Orthodox Church of New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia

8645 18th Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11214

 

Sunday, February 14, 2010 - 7:30 PM

Oceana

1029 Brighton Beach Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11235

 

Monday, February 15, 2010 - 8:00 PM

Elite Palace

69-02 Garfield Avenue, Woodside, NY 11377

 

 Farinelli, a celebrated Italian castrato singer of the 18th century and one of the greatest singers in the history of opera.

“Русский Фаринелли“ Павел Пушкин

Впервые был приглашен в Америку Русско-американским культурным центром и Продюссерским центром Рустема Галича в августе 2009 года. Огромный успех уникального проекта «Русский Фаринелли» в Нью-Йорке послужил началом международных гастролей Павла Пушкина по Европе и  Австралии. В феврале 2010 года, звезда московской богемы, лауреат международных конкурсов Павел Пушкин вновь предстанет перед публикой Нью-Йорка и Майами в образе выдающегося мастера бельканто 18 века. Божественный голос Фаринелли покорил Европу, голос Павла Пушкина покоряет Америку.

Концерты Павла Пушкина также с нетерпением ожидают наши новые друзья в Майами.

 

Tuesday, February 9, 2010 - 6:30 PM

Meet the Writer: Philip Pomper

Lenin’s Brother

Russian Bookstore No.21

174-176 Fifth Ave /22/23/Streets, Manhattan

 

Reading by distinguished historian Philip Pomper from his new fascinating book Lenin’s Brother, which W.W. Norton is releasing in January 2010.

 

In Lenin’s Brother, Philip Pomper traces the life and ultimate death (by hanging) of Alexander Ulyanov, Lenin’s older brother.  In 1887, decades before the October Revolution, Alexander Ulyanov led a group of fellow students at St. Petersburg University in an attempt to assassinate the tsar.  This step towards revolution, terrorism and change powerfully influenced Vladimir Ulyanov and was pivotal in his transformation into the legendary “Lenin.”  In examining the psychology of the Ulyanov household as well as of the St. Petersburg students, Pomper provides a fresh insight into the background history of “the most important revolutionary of the twentieth century.”

 

In addition to being an historian and author, Pomper is a professor at Wesleyan University. Adept at speaking to large crowds, Pomper’s exceptional skill is tying in psychology with history to explain a well-known story in a new light.  

 

Seventh Annual Immigrant Heritage Week April 15 - 21, 2010

 

Tuesday, February 16, 2009 – 6:30 PM     

Meet the Writer: Jonathan Brent

Stalin's Last Crime: The Plot Against the Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953

Russian Bookstore No.21

174-176 Fifth Ave /22/23/Streets, Manhattan

 

"A great study of paranoia inside the Cold War Soviet Union" - Good Book Guide

 

“Complicated, scholarly and fascinating book, the best so far on the doctors' plot’ - Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sunday Times

 

“Thanks to Brent and Naumov, the twists and turns of what was in fact a remarkable 'Stalin Plot' have at last been unearthed in the former Soviet archive. Their detective work has been prodigious... this is a remarkable case study of the dictator at work” - Richard Overy, Literary Review 2003/05/03

 

“The best book ever on the "Doctor's Plot" and one of the best analyses of the Stalinist soul.” - Financial Times magazine 2003/12/20

 

“In this horrifying story the authors unravel one of the dictator's last bizarre enterprises in which he urged on the discovery of a 'conspiracy' among Jewish doctors to assassinate leading Communist officials” - Contemporary Review 2004/08/01

 

“Welcome to the world of smoke and mirrors ... a fascinating account of a dreadful world” - Newsquest (Sussex) 2004/02/28

Jonathan Brent is the director of YIVO Institute and founder of the Yale University Press’s distinguished Annals of Communism series, the author of Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia.

 

TBD March 2010

Demon with English subtitles

Anthroposophy NY Performing Hall

138 West 15th Street, NYC

Demon, the legendary performance that was initiated by Rustem Galitch Co. and RACC in 2007, was so enthusiastically accepted by the NY Russian-speaking audience and in Fall 2009 successfully completed Russia tour, is going to be presented with English subtitles to the multicultural audiences of New York.

 

Thursday, April 15, 2010 - 6:30 PM

Meet the Writer: Susan Gold The Eyes Are the Same

A Holocaust memoir about childhood in Poland and the Ukraine during

the WWII as seen through the child's eyes.

Russian Bookstore No.21

174-176 Fifth Ave /22/23/Streets, Manhattan

   

   

 

                           

           

           TBD

    First presentation of a newly released book by Emil Draitser:

    STALIN’S ROMEO SPY. The Rise and Fall of the KGB’s Most Darling Operative

    Northwestern University Press, 2010

 

    Russian Bookstore No.21

   174-176 Fifth Ave /22/23/Streets, Manhattan

 

 

 

 

 

 

TBD September 2010

Akh, Odessa!

Alexander Babehko and Alexander Lominsky, two Moscow stars, born and grown up in Odessa, will appear in a concert program directed by Rustem Galitch.

 

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RACC’s events are made possible in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the city Council, and COJECO.