Activities and Events
RUSSIAN CLUB ACTIVITIES and RUSSIAN TEAS
JOIN THE RUSSIAN CLUB!!! Russian food or culture activities start in the fall, organized by the Russian Club with language assistant Tatiana Kaneeva. We will have campus films and Russian teas.
Russian Club Teas
Time and place TBA. Majors or interested students do short presentations on Russian culture, followed by tea and snacks. All members of the Wheaton Community are invited.
Russian Table
Time and place TBA.
A chance to practice your Russian over food and in a congenial, non-pressure situation.
RUSSIAN FOLK COSTUME PROJECT
Sponsored by Russian Club and Russian 101, the Russian Folklore course, fall 1999, but still available on-line. A number of students in the Russian Folklore course made Russian folk costumes, from scratch. We welcomed helping hands, donations of fabric and ribbons, loans of sewing equipment and good company.
Russian Folk Costume Exhibit online: Costumes produced by students in a past Russian Folklore Class are on view here
RUSSIAN POETRY READING and PERFORMANCE at Academic Festival
late spring 2009: plan on coming ...
Translations
into English always available. One of the students' favorite events,
-- please come and cheer them on !!!
APRIL 2007 Russian poetry read by: Evan Bell '08, Meaghan Boyle '07, Stan Ellicott '07, Robik Fuksman '09, Caleb Goodhouse '08, Ken Heisler '09, Tania Valetsky '09.
APRIL 2005 Russian poetry read by: Meaghan Boyle '07, David Carroll '05, Stan Ellicott '07, Christiana Kuipers '06, Julia Kusnezov '07, Duncan McCreery '06, Tim McDonnell '06, Bernadette Reust '05, Diane Stewart '06.
APRIL 2004: S'wanderful. Russian poetry read by: Kate
Bell '04, Mary Harrington '04, Alla Katsnelson '04, Christiana
Kuipers '06, Julia Kusnezov '07, Tim McDonnell '06, Diane Stewart
'06, and Nelly Tsoi.
APRIL 2003: Poetry of Saint Petersburg, performance dedicated
to the 300th birthday of Saint Petersburg. Our readers included:
Kate Bell '04, Alla Katsnelson '04, Jon Lyons '03, Diane Stewart
'05, Chum Tran '03, Pearl Zakroysky '03, and Nelly Tsoi.
SPRING, '02: the brave souls of Russian
111, with some help from our more advanced students, put on a
mixed poetry reading and absurdist performance.
SPRING
'01: Friday April 20, Russian Women Poets
Was
our fifth annual event. The readers that time were: Rima Bent
'01, Heidi Holzfaster '01, Alla Katsnelson '04, Rachel Krajcik
'01, Nanette McGettigan '01, Pearl Zakroysky '03.
RUSSIAN STUDIES DAY, an undergraduate research conference for Harvard-Wellesley-Wheaton students
Students from all three colleges present their research in a Colloquium. The event is usually held at Harvard University, and usually at the end of April.