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1. PETER HARVEY MEMORIAL TALK: We are pleased to announce that author Allan Cameron will be giving the Peter Harvey Memorial talk next spring. Details will be announced in due course. 2. "CHAI AND CHAT" The next Meeting of "Chai and Chat" will be held in Scott's Restaurant, Mercure Hotel, Princes Street, Edinburgh on Thursday OCTOBER 5th at noon. All most welcome. Sincerest thanks are due to Elizabeth White who has has taken over the very successful running of this event. 3. SRF TRUSTEES: We are delighted to welcome Dr Mario Relich as a new SRF Trustee and to announce too that Eric Wishart will continue to provide his excellent support to the Trustees. Sincere thanks are extended to both. 4. INTERNATIONAL RUSSIAN MEET UP GROUP. The next meeting of this Group will be held on Sunday October 29th at 10am. If you would like to find out more, please e-mail the organiser Graham Dane at: graham.dane@yahoo.com. Also you can check: International Russian Meetup Group (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) l Meetup Congratulations again to Graham for this exciting new venture! 5. "THE FORUM": The next edition of the SRF journal "The Forum" is just going through its final proof stages and will be with members very soon... 6. ACTING SRF TREASURER: We are pleased to announce that SRF member Graham Dane will be taking over as Acting SRF Treasurer. Graham also joins the team of SRF Trustees. Sincere thanks are extended to Graham for taking on these duties and also to Eric Wishart for all his help and advice on SRF financial matters. 7. DR JAN CULIK: Jan Culik is an internationally renowned scholar of East European film. Looking ahead to later in the year, Jan Culik will be leading a special film event in the Quaker Rooms in Edinburgh. Watch this space for more details. 8. OSTROVSKY? We are planning an event later in the year to mark the anniversary of the "Father of Russian Theatre", Ostrovsky...If any SRF member recalls any Scottish production of an Ostrovsky play we will be delighted to hear from you... 9. CONGRATULATIONS are once more due to SRF Trustee Sasha Smith on the publication of her latest book - Alexandra Smith and Olga Sobolev (eds) , Film Adaptations of Russian Classics: Dialogism and Authorship. ( Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press), 2023 and for her excellent presentation last week. 10. "WOMEN'S VOICES FROM WAR: A COMPARATIVE FORUM. EASTERN AND CENTRAL EUROPE AND SCOTLAND". On October 28th at 3pm we will be holding a poetry reading event which will have as its focus poetry written by women in times of war. If you would like to contribute to this event, please do join in and read a short poem of your choice written by a woman in Ukrainian, Czech, Russian - in any of the languages of Central and Eastern Europe and/or in Scots, Gaelic or English. This will be an informal event via Zoom. Poems should be short and a brief introduction should be given to the poem itself and to its writer. More information will appear here soon. 11.BOOK CORNER: Members who subscribe to Pushkin House will already know that the Pushkin House Book Prize this year was won by Owen Matthews for Overreach: The Inside Story of Putin's War Against Ukraine (Harper Collins). SRF Trustee Tom Hubbard also notes the following book by Scottish writer Jenny Robertson Ukraine: A Personal Exploration before Putin's Invasion. (Handsel Press). Please do send in details of books you would like to recommend to members! Thank you. |