Вечер с Александром Раппапортом обещает быть откровенным, неординарным и… добрым! А вот приглашение Александра Гербертовича, от которого, согласитесь, трудно отказаться!
Category: Dialogue
Don’t miss the presentation of the Fiona Sampson’s new book “Limestone Country”!
On 19 October. Sands Film Studio. 19-30
Prize-winning poet and writer Fiona Sampson asks whether we ignore the influence of ecology and even geology on the ways we chose to live. Do we miss something that is both politically important and intimately concerned with our quality of life? And what do we learn by comparing experiences across cultures?
Here was Rome
Рим золотой,
обитель богов,
меж градами первый
Victor Sonkin, the author of this prize-winning guidebook to Ancient Rome, will talk about the everyday details of ancient Roman life, concentrating on (sometimes deceptively) simple questions of what the ancient Romans ate and drank for supper and how they calculated time. An authority on this culture, with public appearances from education, to television, and ship cruises, he makes the layers and quirks of history amusing, as much as his treatment is informative and in-depth.
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Innocent Saturday – 2011, Mindadze
See the introduction
and Q&A session here.
Screening and talk with the director
We welcome you to a second movie of our guest Alexander Mindadze. This, like the previous one, is based on a true story. As visceral and fragmented as life itself, the story is a dance on the volcano – relentless in style, events and characters.
Set over some 36 hours, the film begins at night, with Valery, an engineer and party official, running desperately to get to Chernobyl, rushing up roads and through undergrowth. The first we hear of events, it seems there have been some containable explosions, but when the camera wanders into a meeting of despairing bigwigs, it emerges that the main reactor has blown – as signaled by an ominous glow in the night sky. Continue reading “Innocent Saturday – 2011, Mindadze”
MY GOOD HANS – 2015, Mindadze
Screening and talk with the director
German with English subtitles. Q&A in Russian, English translation.
It is the spring of 1941. German engineer Hans and his colleagues arrive at a USSR glass manufacturing factory. The Soviet Union is to deliver raw materials to Germany – in exchange for the latest industrial machinery and technologies. It quickly becomes apparent this is not the whole story and both sides have the foreboding of things to come. Yet they meet as people and become friends.
Writing about Revolution
King’s MLC presents
a talk by the author
Alexei Makushinsky
“The revolution and accompanying Civil War was the main event, or the main catastrophe, of the 20th century for Russia. It was a momentous and tragic period.”
Alexei Makushinsky
Interview to
Rossiyskaya Gazeta
In this talk,
Alexei Makushinsky addresses the subjects of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, particularly the psychology of revolution; the mental and ideological premises of the revolutionary action.
New Humanist – autumn launch party
at Waterstones Piccadilly
Join our contributors Owen Hatherley and Dawn Foster in conversation to mark the launch of the Autumn 2016 New Humanist.
The Chernobyl accident of 1986 is one of the greatest catastrophes of the nuclear age, yet its aftermath was followed by a wave of local solidarity and international co-operation. Does it take a disaster to get people to help one another? Should such an event make us think again about the potential of new technology?
HEAVY WATER – Mario Petrucci
On April 26th, 1986, reactor four at Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes, sending an enormous radioactive cloud over Northern Ukraine and neighbouring Belarus. The danger is kept a secret from the rest of the world and the nearby population who go about their business as usual. May Day celebrations begin, children play and the residents of Pripyat marvel at the spectacular fire raging at the reactor. After three days, an area the size of England becomes contaminated with radioactive dust, creating a ‘zone’ of poisoned land.
Feature
On his page ⇒Introduction
On Atomic TV ⇒Trailer
On Youtube ⇒
Україна в серці — Галина & Штыпель
Maria Galina
& Arkady Shtypel
Вечер поэтов и переводчиков Марии Галиной и Аркадия Штыпеля.
Стихи, переводы, разговоры oб Украине, на русском и украинском языках.
Evening dedicated to William Shakespeare
with poet and translator Arkady Shtypel
Поэт и переводчик Аркадий Штыпель представит свой проект перевода полного свода сонетов Шекспира, расскажет о принципах подхода к текстам и о том, почему поэты и переводчики спорят с канонической версией Маршака.