2nd Annual “From Russia With Arts & Culture” Festival in Newton, MA

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Vladimir Volosov. Provence. Oil on canvas

Vladimir Volosov. Provence. Oil on canvas

Sunday on the Lake 24 x36. Anatoly Dverin. Oil on CanvasFrom Russia with Arts and Culture

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.

Written by FromRussiaWithArt

Jerry and Olesya Koenig are long time fine art collectors. In 2010, when Jerry retired from his job as General Director of Tenneco Automotive-Volga in Russia, they moved from Moscow, Russia to Cambridge, MA and co-founded From Russia With Art Gallery in Cambridge. The gallery features paintings, etchings, mixed media and sculptures of great quality and detail by Russian-American and Ukrainian artists, such as: Stanislav Nikireyev ( 1932-2007,) People's Artist of Russia; Anatoly Dverin ( b. 1935) Signature Member of OPA and Master of Pastel Society of the United States, Honored Artists of Russia: Alexander Vetrov, Irena Makoveeva and Vladimir Vorobyev, painters George Lapchinsky, Alexander Korman, Jim Kociuba, Maria Bablyak and Misha Lenn, sculptors Masha Volkova and Oleg Kedrya and more. They all represent great Schools of Fine Art, such as St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Art, Surikov and Stroganov Institutes of Fine Art in Moscow, Kiev Academy of Fine Art, Rhode Island School of Design and more. During annual pop-up exhibitions in different towns of Massachusetts and Maine Russian-Ukrainian cultural, educational and music programs being offered to Gallery supporters and visitors. Art and culture has no borders and helps mutual understanding between American and Russian people.

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