Cultural Calendar of Greater Washington
Russia-Related Events, Nov-Dec 2008
As Announced by
Washington Museum of Russian Poetry and Music
www.museum.zislin.com
November 28. Birthday of Alexander Blok. Please come any time to Alley of Russian of Poets and Composers. 3600 Calvert St. NW at Wisconsin Ave.
December 3. Memorial Day of Poet Afanasy Fet. Please Come any time to Alley of Russian of Poets and Composers. 3600 Calvert St. NW at Wisconsin Ave.
December 3. 7 PM. Russian Book Initiative Event. Rockville Library, 21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD. Meeting Room 1. Journalist and Translator Leo Stern: "The Russian Footprint in the History of Tibet"
December 5. Birthday of Poet Afanasy Fet. Please Come any time to Alley of Russian of Poets and Composers. 3600 Calvert St. NW at Wisconsin Ave.
December 5. Birthday of Poet Fedor Tyutchev (born in 1803). Please Come any time to Alley of Russian of Poets and Composers. 3600 Calvert St. NW at Wisconsin Ave.
December 27. Memorial Day of Poet Osip Mandelstam (death 70 years ago). Please Come any time to Alley of Russian of Poets and Composers. 3600 Calvert St. NW at Wisconsin Ave. (Addition info about this date: Washington Museum of Russian Poetry and Music will be going to make special programs on December 2008-January 2009).
November 28. Birthday of Alexander Blok. Please come any time to Alley of Russian of Poets and Composers. 3600 Calvert St. NW at Wisconsin Ave.
December 3. Memorial Day of Poet Afanasy Fet. Please come any time to Alley of Russian of Poets and Composers. 3600 Calvert St. NW at Wisconsin Ave.
December 3. 7 PM. Russian Book Initiative Event. Rockville Library; 21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD. Meeting Room 1; Journalist and Translator Leo Stern; "The Russian Footprint in the History of Tibet"
December 5. Birthday of Poet Afanasy Fet.Please come any time to Alley of Russian of Poets and Composers. 3600 Calvert St. NW at Wisconsin Ave.
December 5. Birthday of Poet Fedor Tyutchev (born in 1803). Please come any time to Alley of Russian of Poets and Composers. 3600 Calvert St. NW at Wisconsin Ave.
December 6. 9 AM - 1 PM Russian book sale. $ 0.5-1 each book. Russian Book Initiative Event. Rockville Library; 21 Maryland Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850
December 7. 5:00 PM JCC, 6125 Montrose Rd., MD 20852, 301/564-0016; Tanya Anisimova (sello) and Lydia Frumkin (piano).
December 9. 12-3 PM. The National Press Club, 14th St., NW; Film on War in Georgia in August 2008. Registration:
202/364 -0200.
December 22. 11:15 AM. Russian writer from NY Alexandr Burakovsky. The Grand Hyatt Washington, DC, Room Independebce G.
December 27. Memorial Day of Poet Osip Mandelstam (death 70 years ago).Please come any time to Alley of Russian of Poets and Composers. 3600 Calvert St. NW at Wisconsin Ave.
December 29. 7:00 PM. Russian Culture Centre. 1825 Phelps Place, NW, Washington, DC 20008. Dupont Circle
metro station. An evening in memory of OSIP MANDELSTAM; "What can I do, as lot as I am in sky?" Uli Zislin (songs), Sofia Goldin (piano), Ìària Andreeva (reading in English).
