Currently being updated for 2015!

 

February 20

Масленица!  Our Maslenitsa, or "Blini Bash" (sponsored by the Russian Department) was the best EVER!  It was filled with delicious blini, a witch burning, and dancing!!  

 

Next Georgian Film: Thursday, February 26, 7:00pm

Film: Madgana's Donkey

Room 618 in the Main Library

 

1955 USSR. Directed by Tengiz Abuladze, Rezo Chkeidze.

With Dudukhana Tserodze, L. Moistsrapishvili, Mikho Borashvili

Georgian; English subtitles. 67 min

 

The debut feature of Abuladze and Chkeidze, fresh out of the Institute of Cinematography in Moscow, is a charming folk tale that was hailed as the start of a “new wave” in Soviet cinema and won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

 

Sometime around 1890, in a small Georgian village high above a teeming town, the widow Magdana lives in a shack with her three children; walking to market along dirt roads and rocky hillsides, she ekes out a living selling yogurt. When her children find a donkey lying by the road and nurse it to health, it seems the family's troubles are over.

 

 

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Ukrainian Egg Dying- Early April

Have you ever wanted to learn how to dye Ukrainian Eggs?  Learn with Russian Club!

It's easy and relaxing, and you get to keep your eggs when you're finished.  Date TBA





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Wild Honey:  An Evening of Russian Poetry;

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​The Evening of Russian Poetry will be a casual, coffeehouse style event, and is not limited to poetry.  Anyone is welcome to read, sing, or    play insturments, provided that they speak in Russian, or read/perform something originally written in Russian.  You are more than welcome to bring your own English translations of Russian poetry, and your own works written in Russian!  If you have questions about what to perform or would like a suggestion of what to read, please contact me (Alice Volkov, volko22a@mtholyoke.edu).  Don't feel shy, this will be very relaxed and open!

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TRIP to The Holy Trinity Monastery in Jordanville, NY.  

​This trip is open to people of ANY religious background- you do not need to be religious to attend!  You do, however, need to comply with the customs of the monastery (such as how to dress and behave).  For all interested in coming on this trip, there will be a mandatory meeting in which we will go over these customs (for those who have not previously attended), date TBA.  Cost TBA. There is VERY limited space, so register quickly.   

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​TRIP to the New York City Ballet!

Details TBA

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