Current and Upcoming Events

• "Memory, speak!" Meeting with Alla Doubrovskaia
  

  Women's History Month | Alla Dоubrovskaia will share her thoughts on memoirs as a genre of prose, and will also read excerpts from memoirs about Igor Efimov, Lev Danovsky, Masha Vorobieva on Sunday, March 12 via Zoom. In Russian. Video available via YouTube

• Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam. A Bilingual English–Russian Edition
  

  Please join us as the Russian American Cultural Center presents a bilingual reading by Ian Probstein from the newly released book on May 3. This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, provides Anglophone audiences with a powerful selection of Mandelstam's most beloved and haunting poems. Both scholars and general readers will gain a deeper understanding of his poetics, as Probstein situates each poem in its historical and literary context.

• Dukor. A Memoir by Daniel Charney | Translated by Michael Skakun
  

  Michael Skakun, author of the book "On Burning Ground" (Macmillan/St. Martin's Press) will talk about his new work - an English-language translation of "Dukor: A Memoir" by the noted Yiddish writer, Daniel Charney, as well as the once flourishing world of pre-war Belarusian Jewry. Join us on March 15th at the Yorkville Library. Video available via YouTube

• The Russian American Cultural Center would like to thank the New York State Council for the Arts for providing a 2023 grant to support our programs.
  

  NYSCA Chair Katherine Nicholls said, “On behalf of the entire Council, I congratulate Russian-American Cultural Center on this grant award. Their creative work provides the benefits of the arts to both their community and all of New York. Arts organizations are essential, leading our tourism economy and fueling sectors such as hospitality, transit, and Main Streets across our state.“

• The Art of Translation: Dialogues
  

  Program #8. Irina Mashinski - Sasha Dugdale

  Sunday, December 11, 2022

  A series of conversations in the RACC movable studio: the author and host Irina Mashinski in dialogue with masters of the ancient art of translation, as they reflect on their work.

• The Art of Translation: Dialogues
  

  Program #7. Irina Mashinski - Peter France

  Saturday, December 3, 2022

  A series of conversations in the RACC movable studio: the author and host Irina Mashinski in dialogue with masters of the ancient art of translation, as they reflect on their work.

• The Art of Translation: Dialogues
  

  Program #6. Irina Mashinski - Robert Chandler

  Saturday, November 26, 2022

  A series of conversations in the RACC movable studio: the author and host Irina Mashinski in dialogue with masters of the ancient art of translation, as they reflect on their work.

• The Art of Translation: Dialogues
  

  Program #5. Irina Mashinski - Grigory Starikovsky

  Sunday, November 13, 2022

  A series of conversations in the RACC movable studio: the author and host Irina Mashinski in dialogue with masters of the ancient art of translation, as they reflect on their work. (in Russian)