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May 2022

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When #Onegin arrives at her family’s country est

When #Onegin arrives at her family’s country estate, #bookish teenager #Tatyana is impressed by his air of #sophistication. Impulsively, she pours her heart out to him in a letter, triggering a #lifechanging series of events. Years later, they meet again in #StPetersburg, and are confronted with a devastating moment of truth. In a #timeless story of innocence and experience, #Tchaikovsky’s #haunting #score captures every shade of #emotion.
Join us on a journey through #literature at the @operahollandpark - click the “latest article” link in our bio to book.
#liveperformance #liveopera #hollandpark #thissummer #hollandparkopera #comingsoon #nowbooking #evgenyonegin #pushkin #classicalliterature #masters #classics #operalive #outdoorperformance

Do not miss the London premiere of Carmen, starrin

Do not miss the London premiere of Carmen, starring international ballet superstars @natalia_osipova_official (@theroyalballet) and @chapulo7.
Created by acclaimed Dutch #choreographer @didyveldman, this show allows the audience to see the characters of #Carmen, #DonJosé and #Escamillo not only on stage, but also #offstage, where dancers foster their own #relationships.
Plan your visit to the @southbankcentre via the “latest article” link in our bio.
#newarticle #contemporarydance #moderndance #osipova #ballet #contemporaryballet #nowbooking #southbank #newprogramme #modernballet #experimentaldance #danceperformance #liveperformance #balletlive

@elenalojevsky’s most recent series of paintings

@elenalojevsky’s most recent series of paintings, 2020, which will be exhibited exclusively at @gallery_different in London from 17 – 19 June 2023, is a very personal response to a life-changing moment in 2020: the sudden death of her husband, Igor, from #Coronavirus at the start of the #pandemic. Read all about her work acting as a tool to process #turmoil via the ‘latest article’ link in our bio.
#contemporaryart #pandemicart #covidart #loss #grief #healing #artashealing #healingart #healingprocess #grieving #meaningfulart #newart #newexhibition

An upcoming evening at @pushkinhouselondon will in

An upcoming evening at @pushkinhouselondon will include #music, #candlelit readings of writers, including Isaac #Babel, Oleg #Sentsov, Serhiy #Zhadan, Lesya #Ukrainka, Nikolai #Gogol and Konstantin #Paustovsky, a sale of artworks – spotlight on the magical city of #Odesa – and unique homemade objects, delicious food, drinks, and other surprises.
Join us there on May 20th! Click the ‘latest article’ link in our bio for details.
#newarticle #livereading #candlight #literature #classicalmusic #liveperformance #pushkinhouse #nextweek #upcomingevent

🎟 Now booking 🎫 Up close in LSO St Luke’

🎟 Now booking 🎫
Up close in LSO St Luke’s, guest conductor Marta Gardolińska @martagardolinska makes the air shake with music by Boulanger, #Dalbavie and #Tchaikovsky – his volcanic #FourthSymphony.
Click the link in our bio to make sure you don’t miss out on an evening of incredible music by @londonsymphonyorchestra at the @barbicancentre on May 18th!
#classicalmusic #orchestra #lso #conductor #symphony #barbican #nextweek #musicnews #musicevent #livemusic #liveperformance #londonsymphony

Join students from six of the UK’s top #dancesch

Join students from six of the UK’s top #danceschools for a special #gala #performance in support of #youngpeople who have been adversely affected by the #war in #Ukraine on 15 May, #thisweekend.
Students from @csbschool, @enbschool, @elmhurstballetschool, @northernballetschool, @rambertschool and @royalballetschool will unite to perform a range of #classical and #contemporary works. Repertoire and casting for the evening will be announced shortly.
@bailante, #Ukrainian #baritone and Principal of the @royal_opera will make a special #guestappearance.
Book @sadlers_wells now via the ‘latest article’ link in our bio.
#artforpeace #musicforpeace #performersforpeace #sadlerswells #liveperformance #opera #ballet #dance #contemporarydance #classicalballet #contemporaryballet #classicalmusic #thisweekend

🎧 #Kusochek 2.0 is back this week! In the late

🎧 #Kusochek 2.0 is back this week! In the latest episode, @lolszowska talks to @saffymirghani, the current #editorinchief of @ucl @uclssees academic journal @slovo.journal.
Saffy covers her #research into the infouence of #Dostoyevski on #AfricanAmericanLiterature and the Blackness of #AlexanderPushkin. She recommends key #literature and discusses the existential themes of #suffering, #salvation and #oppression.
To read more about the #episode and #listenin, click the ‘latest article’ link in our bio, or scroll down to find links to @applepodcasts and @spotify. You can also search ‘kusochek’ on your favourite podcasting platforms 🗣
#newepisode #neweek #literature #blackhistory #blackness #easterneurope #phd #seess #heritage #heritagepreservation #artandculture #inconversation #newpodcast #newseason #soviethistory #sovietliterature

Find new contacts and inspiration! From 19 to 25

Find new contacts and inspiration!
From 19 to 25 May 2022 IV #Eurasian #FilmFestival @eurasianfilmfest (London) will place in #Premiere Cinemas in #Romford, London.
For the past four years, the #ECG Film Festival has been contributing to the #development and promotion of the #culture of the Eurasian countries on the english-speaking space.
Read more via our ‘latest article’ link!
#filmfest #eurasianfilm #eaurasia #connect #networking #contemporaryfilm #newcinema #newfilm #contemporarycinema #eurasiancinema #newarticle #joinus #festival #newfestival

🎻 Looking to experience #classicalmusic with yo

🎻 Looking to experience #classicalmusic with your family while travelling in time?
Tomorrow @londonsymphonyorchestra bring you their family concert at the @barbicancentre. With a #timemachine that’s gone missing, and Doctor #Copernicus nowhere to be found, what will the #Professor do? Fly across multiple #dimensions to the sound of #Shostakovich, #Bach, #Prokofiev and your other favourite composers.
Grab your tickets via the link in our bio!
#timetravel #musicforfamily #theclassics #symphonyorchestra #symphony #classicsforkids

@Klassiki_Online and @ArmenianInstitute present #S

Today marks the opening of “Archipenko and the I

Today marks the opening of “Archipenko and the Italian #AvantGarde” at the @estorickcollection.
This #ambitious exhibition proposes an alternative #history of #modernism by retracing the relationship between Alexander Archipenko and the #masters of the Italian avant garde.
Born in #Kyiv, #Archipenko (1887-1964) was one of the twentieth century’s most influential #sculptors. He spent time in Moscow before settling in Paris in 1909, where he developed an emphatically modern interpretation of #sculpture under the influence of #Cubist imagery. Between 1911 and 1912 he created a number of truly original works in which human figures were broken down into sections that seemed to move in circles and spirals upon themselves.
#newexhibition #exhibitionlaunch #exhibitionopening #inspired #ukarainianart #italianavantgarde #italianmasters #masterpaintings #mastersculptures #estorickcollection #modernart #modernism #cubistart #historyofmodernism #historyofart #newshow

Carmen with Natalia Osipova @natalia_osipova_offic

Carmen with Natalia Osipova @natalia_osipova_official at the @southbankcentre @birdandcarrot presents
27 –⁠ 28 May, 7pm
Queen Elizabeth Hall
Performance & dance
£30 ⁠–⁠ £90. #carmen #ballet #contemporaryballet #nataliaosipova #contemporarydance

Start your week right with a #newepisode of #Talki

Start your week right with a #newepisode of #TalkingMusic with @olgajegunova - available on your favourite platforms @spotifyuk and @applepodcasts. We talk about #War and #Music - what is the dynamic between the two?
Click the links in our bio to download it wherever you listen to your podcasts.
#ukrainecrisis #warandmusic #musicforpeace #psychologyofwar #artandwar #warart #warmusic #newpodcast #podcastepisode #classicalmusic #musichistory #history

This brilliant #cosmistart exhibit curated by Maxi

This brilliant #cosmistart exhibit curated by Maxim Boxer is being #extended at the @rudolf.steiner.house @marylebonetheatre. We are excited to announce that the works are also #forsale. Drop in to view them and send any enquiries to Maxim at mbokser@hotmail.com
Featuring in the show is @gor_chahal among other innovators.
#artforpeace #artforsale #exhibitionextended #rudolfsteinerhouse #rudolfsteiner #cosmism #cosmist #eternalcosmism #liveshow #buyart #collectart #innovative #contemporaryart #artinnovation #phylosophyart #arttheory #arthistory #postsovietart #postsoviet

@gazelliarthouse is pleased to present Aida #Mahmu

@gazelliarthouse is pleased to present Aida #Mahmudova’s @aidasaya new body of work in her #debut #solo show, Liminality, #curated by Alistair Hicks @alistairhicks. Commenting on her rapidly #modernising country’s forgotten and marginal corners, Mahmudova uses art as an outlet to give a feeling of #stability to co-exist in this #unprecedented environment. Art gives no #boundaries and opens to any communicational #variations for the artist. The works on show are shrouded by an #aura of #metaphysical fog — adding a layer of #surrealism and positioning each piece as a memory that is fading within time and space. Visit the show for a limited time - details in our ‘latest article’ link!
#contemporaryart #exhibition #newexhibition #gazelli #newart #installation #sculpture #painting #architectural #limitedtime #viewnow

Do you make #installations? Are you a #soundartist

Do you make #installations? Are you a #soundartist? Creatives all over the world have been responding to the #UkraineCrisis. We have opened a #callout for works around the subject in any #medium!
Apply via the link in our bio ✨
#artistopencall #sendusart #takepart #artistcall #showyourwork #ukraine #ukrainianart

What significance does #hygiene carry in the #post

What significance does #hygiene carry in the #postpandemic world? Is it an #obsession, and is the synonym of #safe now #sterile?
“Hygiene was an important #signifier in #1920s Russia. Cleanliness developed into a #political statement that extended from #domestic maintenance to leisure choices and revealed gender, ethnic, and class #prejudices. Dirt denoted the past and poor politics; health and cleanliness signified mental acuity, political #orthodoxy, and #modernity.” — Tricia Starks, Body Soviet: Propaganda, Hygiene, and the Revolutionary State, 2008
@kasbj13 was recently in conversation with @anya_mokhova_ about her practice, shifts in what is culturally acceptable and much more. Read her article vi the link in our bio ✍️
#newarticle #inconversation #artnews #artistinterview #installationart #photography #postcovid #cleanliness #shapeandform #scultural #contemporaryart #makingart #reflecting #postsoviet #history #historicalart

Are you keeping up with the Venice Biennale @labie

Are you keeping up with the Venice Biennale @labiennale? This week saw the #preview, #pressconference, #award ceremony and #inauguration at the Biennale Arte 2022 in Venice. An installation by the #curators of the #Ukrainian #Pavilion Borys Filonenko @borysfilonenko, Lizaveta German @giza_lerman, Maria Lanko @marielanko is realized in the context of the Biennale Arte 2022 with the collaboration of the Ukrainian Emergency Art Fund (UEAF) @ukrainian_emergency_art_fund and the #VictorPinchuk #Foundation. Read more via the link in our bio 🌉
#ukrainecrisis #ukraineemergency #humanitariancrisis #venicebiennale #biennaleopening #pavillion #venicepavillion #veniceopening #venice2022 #panel #judging #launch #thisweek

What is #cosmism? Find out at the “Eternal Cosmi

What is #cosmism? Find out at the “Eternal Cosmism” exhibition curated by Maxim Boxer at @rudolf.steiner.house @marylebonetheatre - just three days left to view! Drop in #thisweekend.
#cosmist #cosmistart #contemporaryart #postsoviet #postsovietart #exhibition #weekendexhibition #artnews #arthistory #artthisweekend #timeoutlondon #framed #artforsale #marylebonevillage #bakerstreet

Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite @crystal_pite

Canadian choreographer Crystal Pite @crystal_pite has been acclaimed as ‘one of the most talented and intriguing choreographers working today’ (@newyorktimes.5). #FlightPattern, created in 2017 in response to the #refugeecrisis, is her first work for @theroyalballet. This ever-so-relevant work will be available on April 22nd during an evening #livestream by @royaloperahouse. To join us there, grab your #tickets for just £7. Link in bio 🩰
#ballet #royalballet #roh #royaloperahouse #liveballet #choreographer #choreography #moderndance #modernchoreography #contemporarychoreography #liveevent #onlineevent #balletonline #newballet #experimentaldance #culturelive

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