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December 2022

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🎼🎄BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER LIVE: NEW YEAR’S

🎼🎄BERLINER PHILHARMONIKER LIVE: NEW YEAR’S EVE CONCERT LIVE AT THE BARBICAN CINEMA ON 31 DECEMBER
To ring out the old year, the @berlinphil and chief conductor Kirill Petrenko present a thrilling Russian-Italian programme with star tenor Jonas #Kaufmann as special guest. A resonant lower range, radiant high notes, intelligent interpretation – all of that makes him one of the world’s leading #singers. The other works on the programme include famous #Italian #opera overtures, Peter #Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous #Capriccio Italian and the most popular numbers from Sergei #Prokofiev’s ballet #Romeo and #Juliet.
Running time: 120 minutes
This event is a live performance via satellite at the @barbicancentre cinema

🎁THINKING ABOUT CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR PRESENTS

🎁THINKING ABOUT CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR PRESENTS? Why not visit our online Gift Shop - explore a range of books in English and Russian that would make a wonderful #gift
Visit our website - Gift Shop - link in bio
#gift #presents #christmas #christmaspresents #books #art #artlover #booklover #perfectgifts

“IN THE EYE OF THE STORM: MODERNISM IN UKRAINE,

“IN THE EYE OF THE STORM: MODERNISM IN UKRAINE, 1900–1930S” OPENS IN MADRID TODAY
Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza presents a showcase of the ground-breaking art produced in Ukraine in the first decades of the 20th century, showcasing trends that range from figurative art to futurism and constructivism.
@museothyssen @james_butterwick_gallery
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#museumsforukraine #art #avantgarde #bohomazov #bohomazovexhibition #kosarev

🩰THE NUTCRACKER AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL: 28-31

🩰THE NUTCRACKER AT THE ROYAL ALBERT HALL: 28-31 DECEMBER 2022
It’s not Christmas without The Nutcracker! And in 2022 we are overjoyed to announce the return of Birmingham Royal Ballet’s festive favourite to the Royal Albert Hall. This enchanting production, featuring #Tchaikovsky’s glorious score, is a sparkling festive treat for the whole family.
@royalalberthall @birmingham_royal_ballet
Find out more and book - visit our website - see the link in bio
#ballet #christmas #nutcracker #magic #dance #family

🎼CHOPIN & BARTÓK WITH BENJAMIN GROSVENOR - 1 D

NEXT GENERATION SHARE VISIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTU

NEXT GENERATION SHARE VISIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE FUTURE ON ICONIC SCREEN @theartofldn.
A group of environmentally passionate students have created artwork to reimagine London’s West End, showcasing their recommendations to make the area more sustainable. In a series of eye-catching artworks, the students had their visions for the future screened on the Piccadilly Lights to Londoners in a bid to inspire positive change.
A rallying call from young people in London, the new designs show that this generation want a city that’s community-driven, connected, accessible to all and self-sustaining. Developed in partnership with Heart of London Business Alliance’s award-winning cultural initiative Art of London and Westminster City Council’s City Lions programme, which gives young people access to the creative arts, the students pledged their dreams and hopes for their future city.
As a generation conscious of their environmental impact, the students were tasked with overhauling Piccadilly Circus, one of Europe’s busiest areas. Artistic pledges for the future included large green spaces filled with trees, water around the iconic Eros Statue, building-top walkways to reduce transport and pollution through the area, trampolines as an alternative and fun way to move around, beehives on top of the buildings and even the introduction of cows to make the space more agricultural.
Led by multidisciplinary artist Fiona Quadri, whose head-turning art installation formed part of the ‘Brighter Future’ art trail in the West End throughout the summer, the students were encouraged to think about how to use art as a mechanism to raise issues and encourage positive change, with sustainability and environmental changes at the forefront of their ideas.
#artoflondon #westminstercitycouncil #nationalgallery #youngartists #brighterfuture #picadillylights #picadillycircus #nextgenerations #newvision #citylions #artstudents #exhibitionsinlondon #artandculture

“THE BALL AND THE CROSS” (ШАР И КРЕСТ

“THE BALL AND THE CROSS” (ШАР И КРЕСТ) ARTS PROJECT REOPENS ONLINE @theballandthecross
“The Ball and the Cross” is the title of a novel by the brilliant writer, philosopher and humanist Gilbert Chesterton, whose humour and irony have inspired an #art projects named after it. “The Ball and the Cross” #community was created on #Facebook in April 2020, at the very beginning of the COVID quarantine, to help #artists, #art dealers and collectors.
Throughout the #pandemic, “The Ball and The Cross” was the only source of income for many and literally saved hundreds of artists, and for other members of the group it became an important psychological outlet. During its work a real community of like-minded people has developed, dozens of new collections of contemporary art have emerged, many, unexpectedly for themselves, have become artists, and someone even discovered a gallery owner in themselves.
Please support the work of the group, subscribe to one of the plans created on the BOOSTY or PATREON. Your help will allow @theballandthecross to manage and moderate the group, provide information #support for #artists and hope for new #exhibitions, #residences, #catalogues. Many thanks in advance to everyone!
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DORICH HOUSE MUSEUM’S WINTER WEEKEND 2022: 1-3 D

DORICH HOUSE MUSEUM’S WINTER WEEKEND 2022: 1-3 DECEMBER
@dorichhousemuseum #Winter #Weekend 2022 is taking place on 1-3 December. Join the museum team for one of their talks or activities or simply stop by the museum to browse our pop-up shop, have cake and coffee in the Studio Café, and enjoy the #Christmas tree in the Modelling Studio. See the highlights of the weekend and book:
Thursday 1st December 2022, 11:30am | Free: A Talk by Cynthia Coleman Sparke | Russian Revival Enamelling: An Overview of Styles and Techniques with a Focus on Feodor Rückert, Supplier to the House of Fabergé
Friday 2nd December 2022, 11:30am | Free: A Talk by Dr Louise Hardiman | Gilt, Glaze, and Grand Designs: Russian Porcelain at Dorich House
Saturday 3rd December 2022, 11:30am | Free: A Talk and Tour by Alison McGregor | Dorich House Museum’s Russian Collection
Visit our website for details - link in bio
#Christmas #artweekend #familyweekend #family #workshop #talks #creative #handmade

WHY ART HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD Does vi

WHY ART HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE THE WORLD
Does visual art affect us? Is one of the major responsibilities of artists to make people feel the art emotionally and physically? Can art motivate people to turn feeling into doing? To address these questions, we spoke with art curator Yulia Chmelenko.
We examined these questions taking as an example Cristina Balan’s art works, a Moldova-based abstract artist (born in 1977). Her abstract paintings are highly appreciated by the art community and the public. Cristina’s art works are currently featured by galleries from NYC, Tokyo, and Barcelona.
Read the whole article on our website - link in bio
#art #artist #artchangeslives #abstractart

ONLINE 16-20 NOVEMBER: DMITRY KRYMOV, “EVERYONE

ONLINE 16-20 NOVEMBER: DMITRY KRYMOV, “EVERYONE IS HERE” + Q&A WITH THE DIRECTOR
The recording of Everyone is Here will be available from Wednesday 16 November until Sunday 20 November 2022. Join Pushkin House online on Saturday 19 November at 1pm for a Q&A with the author, led by Michael Earley. The recording of the Q&A will be available after the event.
Inspired by a 1975 American touring production of Thornton Wilder’s Our Town that he visited as a young man, Dmitry Krymov’s Everyone is Here is a memory piece, a starting point for a flight of imagination and immersion into his own past.
Find out more - visit our website - see link in bio
#theatre #online #art #drama

BLOCK PRINTING FOR CHRISTMAS WORKSHOP FRIDAY 25

BLOCK PRINTING FOR CHRISTMAS WORKSHOP
FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER 10AM - 1PM
Macbeth Centre, Room 10 Macbeth Street, London W6 9JJ
Join Trisha Krauss for a morning in a Victorian art studio, experiencing the #art of block printing. Prepare yourself for the holidays by designing and printing your own #Christmas cards, #gift paper, and cotton bags.
The workshop will include an introduction to block printing, followed by a morning creating colourful patterns on paper and fabric using #Christmas themed wooden blocks.
Trisha Krauss is an award-winning illustrator originally from New York City. After many years of adorning her illustrations with richly decorated pattern and vibrant colours, she has begun a journey in textile design.
Find out more and book - details in bio.
Places are limited.
#art #christmas #handmade #printing #blockprinting #blockprintingonfabric #blockprintingworkshop #creativity #handson #uniquegifts

READING TOGETHER: “PUSHKIN HILLS” BY SERGEI DO

READING TOGETHER: “PUSHKIN HILLS” BY SERGEI DOVLATOV
On 18 November @pushkinhouselondon invites you to join in this month’s #Online #Reading Group, where you will discuss “Pushkin Hills” by Sergei Dovlatov. Dovlatov is one of the most popular #Soviet writers of the late-20th century, yet is largely unknown outside Russia. This is a chance to read arguably his most personal work, “Pushkin Hills”, published for the first time in English in translation by his daughter, Katherine Dovlatov. The meeting will be facilitated by our bookshop co-curator Sasha Padziarei and community engagement curator Alisa Oleva.
Follow the link in bio to find out more and reserve your place
#reading #literature #soviet #dovlatov #together #readingcommunity #readinggroups

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🎨NEW EXHIBITION “In the Eye of the Storm: Mod

🎨NEW EXHIBITION “In the Eye of the Storm: Modernism in Ukraine, 1900–1930s” opens at @museothyssen in Madrid on 29 November 2022 and will run till 30 April 2023.
Following a strict chronological order, the show presents works by masters of Ukrainian modernism, such as Oleksandr #Bohomazov, Vasyl #Yermilov, Viktor #Palmov, and Anatol #Petrytskyi. Exploring the polyphony of styles and identities, the exhibition includes neo-Byzantine paintings by the followers of Mykhailo #Boichuk and experimental works by members of the Kultur Lige, who sought to promote their vision of contemporary #Ukrainian and #Yiddish art, respectively. It features pieces by Kazymyr #Malevych and El #Lissitzky, quintessential artists of the international #avant-garde who worked in Ukraine and left a significant imprint on the development of the national art scene. The exhibition also showcases #artworks of internationally renowned #artists who were born and started their careers in #Ukraine but became famous abroad, among them Alexandra #Exter, Wladimir Baranoff-Rossiné, and Sonia #Delaunay
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🎶EMERSON STRING QUARTET: SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE A

🎶EMERSON STRING QUARTET: SHOSTAKOVICH CYCLE
A last farewell to London as the legendary quartet completes its landmark @southbankcentre #Shostakovich cycle before retirement. Join them on 9 November at 7.30pm
Dmitry #Shostakovich’s widow claimed that the composer’s string quartets were a personal diary that told ‘the story of his soul’. This is #Shostakovich’s only significant body of work that escaped censorship from the #Soviet authorities.
The composer’s last quartet is perhaps his most intimate of all – an epic, stoic yet deeply melancholic farewell which forms a fitting gesture for the @emersonstringquartet retirement after half a century of performance
#music #shostakovich #live

Join @wigmore_hall #Artist in Residence Beatrice R

Join @wigmore_hall #Artist in Residence Beatrice Rana, #piano, for a programme that includes two mighty sonata challenges on 11 October.
Her 2022 @barbicancentre performance with the #LSO of #Beethoven’s ‘Emperor’ Concerto was described by Bachtrack as ‘regal throughout, revealing the work’s beauties as much as its grandeur’, while of her 2021 #Chopin recital on disc Gramophone suggested that ‘her playing has fire and poetry, imagination and originality, temperament and charm, all on top of fearless technical address’.
Details on our website - follow the link in bio
#music #chopin #beethoven #skryabin #concert #london

Thinking about a #getaway? We are delighted to off

Thinking about a #getaway? We are delighted to offer our readers an exclusive day out at the magnificent Beaulieu estate in New Forest for groups of up to 15 people.
We will show you the Palace House, once the gatehouse of the mediaeval Beaulieu Abbey, that has been the Montagu family home since 1538. You will enjoy an exclusive guided tour of the Beaulieu Abbey Ruins and Gardens.
Following this, you will also visit the National Motor Museum founded by the current owner’s father in 1952. From the earliest motor carriages to classic family saloons, the world-famous National Motor Museum has one of the finest collections of cars, motorcycles and motoring memorabilia in the world.
We organise one-day trips to Beaulieu from London in a comfortable mini van in groups of 15. Upon request, we can also create a tour for your special guests, a corporate event, or a memorable day for your loved ones tailored to your needs. The tours can be in Russian or English.
Please visit the link in bio for details and contact Natasha Butterwick at natasha@russianartandculture.com for further information, prices and availability.
#dayout #guidedtour #experience #heritage #traditions #exclusive #groups

This Saturday, 8 October, at 18:30 The Cambridge R

This Saturday, 8 October, at 18:30 The Cambridge Russian-speaking Society @camrussuk invite you to an evening of poetry readings and music in Cambridge to celebrate the 130th anniversary of the birth of Marina Tsvetaeva, one of the 20th century’s most important Russian poets. ‘No more passionate voice ever sounded in Russian poetry of the 20th century’ said Joseph Brodsky of Tsvetaeva.
Proceeds from this fundraising event will contribute to the CamRuSS for #Ukraine Hardship Fund.
Set against the magical backdrop of @churchillcol Chapel, the evening will start with a selection of music by Chopin, Rachmaninov and Medtner performed by Elena Toponogova on the piano. After the intermission, three actresses from the @xameleontheatre, Maria Blatstein, Elena Knight and Vlada Lemeshevska, will share their personal readings of #Tsvetaeva’s poems with a piano accompaniment by Maria Blatstein: three women, three destinies, three perceptions of freedom and life seen through the prism of Marina #Tsvetaeva’s works from different periods, including excerpts from Insomnia directed by Dmitry Turchaninov.
This will be followed by Alice Ruffle (violin) and Peter Hewitt (piano) performing #Stravinsky’s Suite Italienne and Dmitry Turchaninov’s reading of Rainer Maria #Rilke’s poetry in a translation by Boris #Pasternak and Marina #Tsvetaeva.
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#cambridge #tsvetaeva #poetry #music

Looking for a work experience/#internship #opportu

Looking for a work experience/#internship #opportunity? Is #digital world your second home? Do you love creating unique engaging content? Are you passionate about art and culture?
Apply to #intern with us running our social media - follow the link in bio
#internship #hiring #werehiring #workforus #socialmedia #socialmedia #socialmediaintern #workwithus #socialmediainternship #artintern #artinternship @artjobs #artjobs

What a day we spent with friendly and devoted to m

What a day we spent with friendly and devoted to music and culture guets of #openmusicfoundation at Beaulieu, ancestral home of the Montagu family since 1538.
The house situated in the former grounds of the Abbey on the banks of the Beaulieu River.
We visited the fragrant Victorian Flower Garden, the Wilderness Garden, dating back to the 1770s, the world famous National Motor Museum with over 280 historic vehicles on display.
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#musicandart #artandmusic #culturalheritage #culturaltours #privateconcert #weorganiseevents #weorganisetours #beaulieumotormuseum #palacehouse

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