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Summary:

4-31 March :: Exhibition at Russian Café-Gallery Cossachok (Glasgow)
5 March : filmed version of "The Tailor of Inverness" (Edinburgh)
1-2 April : Russian Language conference (Edinburgh)
1 April - 4 May :: Exhibition at Russian Café-Gallery Cossachok (Glasgow)
9 April : Koshka concert (Perth)
16-17 April : Caucasus conference (St Andrews)
16 April - 8 May : Cherry Orchard (Edinburgh)
23 April : LLAS Lesser Taught Languages Conference (Glasgow)
1 May - 1 June : Georgian Harmony Workshops with Nana Mzhavanadze

4 - 31 March :: Exhibition at Russian Café-Gallery Cossachok

Music and Images: Music and art go hand in hand and this exhibition features Russian, Armenian, Ukrainian, Georgian. American, French and local artists.

10 King Street, Merchant City, Glasgow G1 5QP
0141 553 0733; cossachok@yahoo.com; www.cossachok.com

Fri 5 March :: The Tailor of Inverness

Friends of Ukraine (Scottish Foundation) are delighted to announce that writer and actor Matthew Zajac will introduce a screening of his award winning play 'The Tailor of Inverness' at the Club on Friday 5th March 2010 at 7pm.
The play is about Matthew's father's complex journey from a village, in what is now western Ukraine, during and after the War to eventually end up in Scotland in Inverness. The play has toured the world; from it's award winning debut at the Edinburgh Festival in 2008, it has been around the UK, Sweden, Eastern Europe and Australia where it has received glowing reports and has won numerous awards. It will be touring Ukraine later this year.
Many members of the Ukrainian community have had the pleasure of seeing this play and highly recommend it to all. Matthew will introduce the screening of the play and at the conclusion will take part in a discussion and question/answer session.
Tickets GBP20. This is likely to be sold out, so please contact Stefan Tymkewycz (Friends of Ukraine) for tickets: email stef.tymkewycz@snp.org. All proceeds from this event will be split between Friends of Ukraine charitable work in Ukraine and the plays tour of Ukraine.

1-2 April 2010 :: Conference - The Russian Language Outside the Nation : Speakers and Identities

University of Edinburgh
Programme and full information: http://www.selc.ed.ac.uk/russian/conference/index.html
Registration for the conference is open until 10 December.

1 April - 4 May :: Exhibition at Russian Café-Gallery Cossachok

USSR: "OUR PERSPECTIVES THEN AND NOW"
A photographic exhibition of journeys made through Russia and the former USSR from 1975 until the present day, exploring the people, architecture and culture of this multi-faceted, everchanging region.
10 King Street, Merchant City, Glasgow G1 5QP
0141 553 0733; cossachok@yahoo.com; www.cossachok.com

9 April :: Koshka concert in Perth

7.30pm, Perth Concert Hall - to book, call 01738 621031
£14/£12 concessions, Kids Go Free

Conservatoire trained Russian fiddlers Oleg Pomonarev and Lev Atlas and acoustic guitarist Nigel Clark bring their awesome technical ability to bear on a vast breadth of styles. The music ranges in pace from gentle restraint to a fiery, breakneck onslaught, the violins soaring above the guitar with precision and panache.
"Their playing is dazzling. This is real virtuosity and I silently vow never to use the word again for playing of less than this sheer, jaw-droppingly high calibre" Hi-Arts Review
"Their version of world, gypsy and jazz sends a huge emotional surge that never lets up, twinned with masterly musicianship and an extraordinary range of tones and timbres." The Daily Telegraph
www.koshka.uk.com

16-17 April 2010 :: Conference - The Caucasus: Imagining Freedom, Negotiating Dominion.

Conference at the University Of St Andrews: 16-17th April 2010
Call for papers – deadline 11 January 2010
More information from Claire Whitehead cew12@st-andrews.ac.uk

16 April-8 May 2010 :: Cherry Orchard

Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov in new version by John Byrne.

23 April :: LLAS Lesser Taught Languages Conference

Glasgow University. Details tbc.

1 May - 1 June :: Georgian Harmony Workshops with Nana Mzhavanadze

Tour schedule of workshops in Findhorn, Aberdeen, Edinburgh and several UK towns - download here.

Nana will also be leading a week long singing tour of Georgia in June - more information here.