Press release submitted by the Museum of Russian Icons
January's Russkie Posidelki: Conversation & Conviviality
Thursday, January 4, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Free, no registration required.
The January Posidelki topic will be Maslenitsa (also called Pancake Week), an Eastern Slavic folk holiday that takes place the week before the start of Russian Orthodox Lent. It originally marked the end of winter and advent of spring. And, like Mardi Gras, it involves a whole lot of feasting before the Lenten fast — with blinis, a Russian pancake, as the food of choice. We'll be enjoying our own tea and blinis so please join us!
Posidelki is a monthly opportunity to learn more about Russian culture in a relaxed, social setting.
Contemporary Russian Literature Book Group
Sunday, January 14, 1 to 3 p.m. Free.
This month the book group is reading The Day of the Oprichnik by Vladimir Sorokin, a richly imagined vision of Russia in the future and a razor-sharp diagnosis of a country in crisis.
Call 978.598.5000 x115 or email lsubbotina@museumofrussianicons.org for more information about the group.
Film and Discussion: "Friends from France"
Sunday, January 21, 1:30 p.m.
Members $10, Nonmembers $15, pay at the door
(2013; 101 minutes; in French, Hebrew, English, and Russian, with English subtitles)
Two young French people undertake a clandestine mission to help Jewish refuseniks escape the USSR, and become enmeshed in a brutal, absurd, and dangerous underworld.
Ariana Cohen-Halberstam, Artistic Director of the Boston Jewish Film Festival, will be present to introduce the film and lead a discussion.
This program is co-sponsored by Ballet Russes Arts Initiative and the Boston Jewish Film Festival.
Currently on Exhibit
Migration + Memory: Jewish Artists of the Russian and Soviet Empires
Exhibition ends January 28.