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World Cultural Leaders Program Russian Folk Musicians in Residence March 1-15, 2007
REEEC is delighted to host a delegation of Russian musicians through the Open World Program, which is an exchange program in the U.S. Congress. Delegates Sayan Chambal from Kyzyl, Tuva Yuliya Kovyrshina from Petrozavodsk Yevgeniya Ratsen from St. Petersburg Nadezhda Utkina from Izhevsk, Udmurtiya Konstantin Molotilov from Kransnoyarsk (facilitator) more information on the musicians (PDF)
Free Public Concerts "Russian Music from Tuva to the White Sea"
During their residence in Champaign-Urbana, the delegates will take part in a variety of music and REEES classes at Illinois and offer master classes on their respective specialized musical styles. They will also perform at Westview Elementary School in Champaign on Mon, March 5.
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Yevgeniya Ratsen |
Yuliya Kovyrshina |
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Nadezhda Utkina |
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Dickey writer and blogger for the Russian Chronicles
The Russian Chronicles—1995 / 2005
Friday, December 1, 2006 5:00 – 6:20 PM 805 W Mathews, Urbana
In 1995, Lisa Dickey and a photojournalist traveled from Vladivostok to St. Petersburg, documenting the lives of ordinary Russians on the "Russian Chronicles," the first comprehensive, real-time web travelogue of its kind. In 2005, Lisa retraced her steps to track down the people she had interviewed in 1995 and to discover how their lives had changed. The resulting travelogue, "The Russian Chronicles - 10 Years Later," ran for eleven weeks on Washingtonpost.com.
More information on Lisa Dickey
Free and open to the public
Ms. Dickey will meet with interested students at the Illini Union Espress Royale for informal conversation on Dec. 1, 10 am. |
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Author of The Historian
"Journeying East: Literary Travelers in Eastern Europe"
Friday, March 10, 2006 6:00 pm Music Building Auditorium 1114 W. Nevada Street, Urbana
Kostova will talk about the process of writing her NYT best selling
novel, The
Historian, which probes the legends of Vlad the Impaler,
or Dracula. Although Vlad the Impaler was notorious in his own lifetime,
he is still shrouded in mystery on some very important points, including
his ultimate burial place and the fate of his corpse–a mystery
explored deeply in the book. Kostova will also read from the novel,
which has already been translated into twenty-eight languages.
Free and open to the public
Other Events
WILL-AM Focus 580 Interview, 11am, on Friday, March 10. Book reading and signing at Pages for All Ages in Savoy, 2:00 – 3:00 pm, on Saturday, March 11. |
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Russian,
East European, and Eurasian Center • College
of Liberal Arts and Sciences • University
of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign 104 International Studies Building • 910 S Fifth Street • Champaign, IL 61820 Phone: 217-333-1244 • Fax: 217-333-1582 • email: reec@uiuc.edu |