2nd Annual “From Russia With Arts & Culture” Festival in Newton, MA
To our friends in Boston and the towns affected by last week’s events, we are relieved that you are able to safely move about your communities again. We are pleased that we will now be able to hold our 2nd Annual From Russia With Arts and Culture Festival in Newton next weekend!
From Friday, April 26,from 5-9pm, through Sunday, April 28, a three day “From Russia With Arts and Culture” Festival, planned by Olesya and Jerry Koenig, From Russia With Art Gallery (www.fromrussiawithart.org) and their committee (www.newtoncommunitypride.org) will take place at the Newton Cultural Center, located at 225 Nevada Street, Newtonville.
The Exhibition which will also be open Saturday and Sunday, features work by leading Boston area and Russian artists as well as a concert by soprano Yelena Dudochkin singing Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov songs and violinist Vera Rubin. Rubin is the President of the Massachusetts Music Teachers Association and founder of the Newton “Roman Totenberg String Competition.” She will be accompanied by pianist Yevenia Semeina. Performing Russian traditional songs, will be Natalia Karaseva from the Berklee School of Music. The evening will concluded with a highlights from Rachmaninoff’s masterpiece “Aleko” performed by Alexander Prokhorov and singers from Commonwealth Lyric Theater.
Screening and discussion of award winning Director Mariya Gershteyn’s film Second Life – Boston will take place on Saturday, 27th, from 5 50- 7pm.
Newton Center restaurants Inna’s Kitchen and Cafe Saint Petersburg will generously donate delicacies for the Friday’s reception.
Featured artiss in the weekend long Exhibition are Anatoly Dverin, Boris Karafelov, Ekaterina Khromin, Georgy Lapchinsky, Misha Lenn, Irina Makoveeva, Stanislav Nikireyev (1932 – 2007), Zachar Shapiro, Yelena Sirota, Alexander Vetrov, Vladimir Volosov, Rimma Zaika-Veksler, Jan Zaremba, Alexander Zavarin and Sergey Danilin.
Saturday, April 27th events, from 10:00am-7:00pm, include a discussion by members of the Russian-American Cultural Center of Boston at Russia Wharf of Louise Catherine Adams (1811-1812), daughter of John Quincy Adams, a presentation by Margaret Dyer Coleman and Olesya Koenig about Dutch Delftware procelain and Russian Gzhel. Jan Zaremba will demostrate sumi-e-painting and Leonid Spivak will sign copies of his “Stories of the City of Boston.”
Sunday, April 28th events, from noon-6:00pm, Larisa Dyan from the Museum of Russian Icons will discuss Matryoshka, Russian Dolls. A fashion show of Boston designer, Rimma Zaia-Veksler’s latest clothes and jewelry designs beginning at 1:30pm and the day ends with a concert by Yelena Dudochkin and Berklee College of Music.
The “From Russia With Arts and Culture” event is sponsored by the Mayor’s Office for Cultural Affairs and Newton Community Pride with their Platinum Sponsor Cambridge Savings Bank and Gold Sponsors First Commons Bank and WholeFoods Market.Admission is free but pleas bring a donation for the Newton Food pantries.
A complete program is avail able at www.newtoncommunitypride.org.
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