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Tucson Russian Club for Russian-speaking kids ages 2-5 years old (music classes)
Tucson Rusyny Folk Ensemble — alternate Saturdays (2 pm) & Sundays (12 pm)
Russian Bible Study — Every Wednesday, Mesa
Russian Language Christian Discussion Group — 2nd and 4th Thursdays
Zenit Soccer Team — Every Sunday
Russian Children's Center — Sunday (11 -5 pm) — Starts September 10
Volley Masters — Mondays
ASU Russian Conversation Tables — Tuesday (12:50 to 1:30 pm), Friday (9:15 to 10:30 am)
Tucson Spartak soccer team — Wednesday — 7:30 pm

2008 г.

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Oct 10 - 12 – Fri - Sun – Tucson Meet Yourself
FREEE Concerts — City Hall Stage, El Presidio Park, 160 W Alameda St (at Church St., between the Old County Courthouse and City Hall.), Downtown Tucson — Show me a people with more songs. Arizona Balalaika Orchestra & Kalinka Russian Dancers put on quite a show. Along the string of wooden barges, the exuberant songs of the barge haulers are heard over the Volga, from its mouth down to the sea. If repression can be heard to crumble, it is in the brittle peal and cascading play of Russian church bells. More, it is in the sinuous, subtle lines, the rooted, resonant tones and the close, colliding harmonies spun out in majesty by the church choir; in the sturdy syllables of Old Slavonic, a language kept alive by the Russian Orthodox Church.— Food from 22 nations including Polish. — The Rusyny Folk Ensemble songs, dances and costumes reflect the areas of Slovakia and Czech Republics, the Ukraine, Poland and Hungary. — Pysanki Ukrainian Easter Eggs with Martha Czorniak, Ukrainian Wood Carving with Steve Tkachyk and Zenon Korytko, Polish Paper Cutting with Magdalena Nowacka-Jannotta.— Read more — Listen to music at AZBalaika.org, or Richka.com. Watch video at AZBalaika.org, or Richka.com, and MySpace.com/Rusyny

Oct 25 – 1 am to 4 pm – Germans from Russia: Oktoberfest
AZ Sun Chapter at the Leisure World, Recreation Center II Promenade, Pool-side Patio, 908 South Power Road, Mesa — Speaker to be announced — The Chapter will provide brats (sausage), rolls, condiments and beverages, but you bring a salad or dessert to share and your own table service (fork, spoon, plate, napkins). A donation of $5 each will be expected from all. — If you plan to attend, you must contact Herb Babitzke at: 480-641-3711. This is a gated community so the only way you can get in is if you contact Herb and he gives your name to the gate keepers. — Directions from the West side to Leisure World is: Take US 60 east until you reach Power Road. Exit here and turn left (north) over the freeway. Go north 1/2 mile to Southern and turn left (west) past the shopping center. Go for about 1/2 mile to the first traffic light, Leisure World Blvd. Turn right (north) to a security kiosk. Give the security person your name and tell him that you are going to the Germans from Russia Picnic at the promenade behind Rec 2. Drive 1/2 north to Rec 2 parking and walk to the rear of the building around the left side. About this time you should see us in the promenade area. — If you are coming from anywhere else, go to Power Road and head south to Southern Ave. Go west on Southern until you come to the first opening into Leisure World Blvd. In any case you should enter at the south gate on Southern Ave across from the shopping center, then go north 1/2 mile to the swimming pool recreation center area parking lot. — To get the newsletter for the Arizona Sun Chapter of the AHSGR, pay $10 local dues by October 23 to: Ed Bischoff, 6318 E. Portia St, Mesa, AZ 85215, or at the meeting. To join the American Historical Society of Germans From Russia, pay $60 which includes the local membership and newsletter. E-mail: Larry Haas

Nov 1 & 15 – Sat – 6:30 pm – Flagstaff: NAU Russian Dinner & Show
17th annual Russian Dinner and East European Cultural Evening at Rees Hall, Federated Church (Sitgreaves and Aspen) Downtown Flagstaff, across from the main Public Library — Traditional Russian foods and a cultural program (music, dance, play performance, singing, slide show, displays). — Prices: $25/adult, $45/couple; $9/student, $7 children ages 5-12, children under 5 free. Prices at the door: $30/adult, $48/couple, $10/student, $9 children ages 5-12. Tickets may be reserved in advance at the cheaper rate and picked up the day of the dinner.— See pictures, menu, program from 1998 — More information and tickets: Anne Slobodchikoff, office: 928-523-6223, home: 928-774-7812. Click on picture to enlarge.

Nov 15 – Sat – 6:30 pm – Repeat: NAU Russian Dinner & Show

Nov 3-Dec 30 – Daily – Elena's Art Exhibit
The Galleria, 502 E. Monroe St., Building C (corner at 5th Street), ASU Downtown Campus, Phoenix — Elena's Art will be on display for 2 months.

November 4 – Sat – Russian Holiday: День народного единства
Day of People’s Unity, or Day of National Unity – The newest official Russian holiday first celebrated in on Nov. 4, 2005. This "Unity Day" replaces the former "Day of Accord and Reconciliation" (Nov. 7) which had already replaced the Soviet "October Revolution Day". The anniversary of the socialist revolution of October 1917, which established communist power, still survives. The system is gone, but many still cling to the custom. Also translated: "Civil Unity Day:, and "Peace and Harmony Day": Radio Free Europe: New Russian Holiday Has More Behind It Than National Unity

Nov 15 – Sat – 6:30 pm – Flagstaff: NAU Russian Dinner & Show
17th annual Russian Dinner and East European Cultural Evening at Rees Hall, Federated Church (Sitgreaves and Aspen) Downtown Flagstaff, across from the main Public Library — Traditional Russian foods and a cultural program (music, dance, play performance, singing, slide show, displays). – Prices: $25/adult, $45/couple; $9/student, $7 children ages 5-12, children under 5 free. Prices at the door: $30/adult, $48/couple, $10/student, $9 children ages 5-12. Tickets may be reserved in advance at the cheaper rate and picked up the day of the dinner.– See pictures, menu, program from 1998 — More information and tickets: Anne Slobodchikoff, office: 928-523-6223, home: 928-774-7812. Click on picture to enlarge.

December – Sat – Germans from Russia: Chritmas Party
Tentative: East Mesa Christian Church, 706 S Greenfield Road (1 mile north of 60 Freeway), Mesa, AZ — Old Fashioned German-Russian (GR) Potluck: A-K bring salad or vegetable dish; L - Z bring dessert. Coffee and cold beverage provided. — Program to be announced.— All persons interested in learning more about GR's, please call me at 623-583-2040 or e-mail at haasle@juno.com. — Join the Club, get the newsletter.

2009 г.

Feb ? – ? – ? am – Tchaikovsky: Life & Music
TENTATIVE Brunch at Phoenix Art Museum followed by lecture. — Dr. Richard Kogan, a psychiatrist and world class concert pianist who was a roommate of Yo-Yo Ma at Harvard, analyzes the tortured creativity of Tchaikovsky, through letters, diaries, medical data and musical performance. Tchaikovsky suffered from depression and possible suicide. — Dr. Kogan is a graduate of the Juilliard School of Music and of Harvard College and Harvard Medical School. He is a first-prize winner of the Concert Artists Guild Award and the Chopin Competition of the Kosciuszko Foundation, and he was a recipient of the 2005 Artsgenesis Creative Achievement Award. He is a frequent chamber music collaborator with cellist Yo-Yo Ma. — Hosted by "Physicians for The Phoenix Symphony" as a fund raiser for the Symphony. — Call Dr. Drake Duane 602-370-8989 for tickets. — Also see:

Putting Tchaikowsky on the couch. The Gazette (Montreal), June 06, 2007
White nights, black mornings. Montreal Mirror, May 24-May 30, 2007
Sonatas from Syndromes. Harvard Magazine, Sept 2005
Tchaikovsky Turns Demons Into Works of Beauty. Psychiatric News April 19, 2002.
Video of Dr. Kogan playing piano.
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