Russian american cultural center

10/24/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1BZ72J2DiI&t=24s

Russian-American Cultural Center presents:Yorkville Library, Meeting Room222 E. 79th Street (btw 2nd and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10075Event Date: Wednesday, Oc...

10/07/2024

Russian-American Cultural Center presents:
Alexander Sirotin-Lakhman, author of the recently published book "Jewish Theater Says Goodbye... But Doesn't Leave.

Yorkville Library, Meeting Room
222 E. 79th Street (btw 2nd and 3rd Ave) New York, NY 10075

Wednesday, Oct 16 2024, 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm

The program will be in Russian.

09/06/2024

https://www.russianamericanculture.com/events/current-upcoming-events/russian-american-cultural-center-proudly-presents-emil-draitser-laughing-all-the-way-to-freedom-americanization-of-a-russian/

Russian-American Cultural Center proudly presents: Emil Draitser - Laughing All the Way to Freedom: Americanization of a Russian Emigre -

07/02/2024

Audrey Flack
(1931–2024)

Very sad - Audrey Flack, our dear friend, artist and sculptor, with whom Mark Khidekel worked on the Baby Yar project in Denver, died yesterday at the age of 93.

Though best known today for her stunning Photorealist paintings, Audrey Flack first came to artistic maturity among the vibrant downtown scene of Abstract Expressionism. Flack was a regular at the 8th Street Club and at the legendary Cedar Tavern, where she was immersed in the cultural and social atmosphere of the period and developed ties with art world luminaries such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Po***ck, and Franz Kline. Through Abstract Expressionism, Flack found her artistic identity and ultimately created highly original work that was ordered yet gestural and captured the core sensibility of the age.

05/06/2024

Safer than the Land, a new documentary by Semyon 2024 RACC Diaspora & Art Film Festival
Premiere
Safer than the Land, a new documentary by Semyon Pinkhasov

Join the viewing and discussion with director Semyon Pinkhasov of his new documentary Safer than the Land.

Documentary, 45 minutes. Language English.
Film director Semyon Pinkhasov, editor P.J. Pozner.

The new documentary Safer than the Land tells the stories of several famous immigrants who left their countries of birth to find themselves in other lands. They discuss the reasons for their success, the difficulties they had to overcome. The film takes viewers to the USA, Canada, Israel and Russia, where they meet Henry Kaufman, economic adviser to Lyndon Johnson, Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, Margaret Thatcher; journalist Vladimir Pozner, distinctive researcher in the field of environmental and biological sciences Ilya Raskin, Georgetown University professor Olga Meerson, television journalist Agota Gabor and others.

Screening with follow by Q&A with filmmakers Semyon Pinkhasov and P.J.Posner

The discussion will go beyond the scope of the new work, since we at RACC have been showing Pinkhsov's documentaries on various topics for about two decades.
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/safer-than-the-land-a-new-documentary-by-semyon-pinkhasov-tickets-882221487217?aff=oddtdtcreator

04/20/2024

A poetry reading by Marina Tëmkina

Russian American Cultural Center

RACC presents: A poetry reading by Marina Tëmkina to celebrate the publication of the artist book Boys Fight with drawings by Michel GérardJoin us on Wednesd...

04/20/2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihQBZ0-jjAc
A poetry reading by Marina Tëmkina

Russian American Cultural Center

RACC presents: A poetry reading by Marina Tëmkina to celebrate the publication of the artist book Boys Fight with drawings by Michel GérardJoin us on Wednesd...

04/18/2024

https://www.russianamericanculture.com/events/current-upcoming-events/safer-than-the-land-a-new-documentary-by-semyon-pinkhasov/

Safer than the Land, a new documentary by Semyon Pinkhasov -

04/13/2024

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-poetry-reading-by-vladimir-efroimson-tickets-882132330547?aff=oddtdtcreator;

https://www.russianamericanculture.com/events/current-upcoming-events/russian-american-cultural-center-presents-a-poetry-reading-by-vladimir-efroimson/

Russian American Cultural Center presents A Poetry Reading by Vladimir Efroimson -

03/27/2024

Join us on Wednesday, April 10th, at the Yorkville Library as the Russian American Cultural Center presents author Marina Temkina

A poetry reading
by Marina Tëmkina
to celebrate the publication of the artist book
Boys Fight with drawings by Michel Gérard
Wednesday, April 10, 5:00-7:00 PM
Yorkville Library, Meeting Room
222 E. 79th Street (btw 2nd and 3rd Ave)
New York, NY 10075

The text for the artist book Boys Fight was written in 2015 when Marina Tëmkina became concerned with the developments of the war in Ukraine and the coming elections in this country. Michel Gérard made drawings using images from the French dictionary Larousse published in 1942, when he was a child and lived in occupied Paris during the World War II. The experience of looking at the dictionary pages of male sportive games, like box, empowered him and provided hope. Boys Fight is the forth artist book co-authored by these artists.
https://www.russianamericanculture.com/events/current-upcoming-events/a-poetry-reading-by-marina-temkina-to-celebrate-the-publication-of-the-artist-book-boys-fight-with-drawings-by-michel-gerard/

03/27/2024

KARAOKE by Moshe Rosenthal
Featuring Sasson Gabay, Rita Shukrun, Lior Ashkenazi
Releases in theaters on March 29 and will soon screen at the RACC Annual Diaspora and Feature Film Festival (dates to be announced)
KARAOKE, Rosenthal’s feature film debut, was nominated for fourteen Ophir Awards including
Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Screenplay, Best
Cinematography, Best Editing, and Best Makeup, winning for Best Actor (Sasson Gabay), Best
Actress (Rita Shukrun), Best Music (Gael Lev and Lior Perla) and Best Sound (Vitali
Grinshpun). It was selected for the competition of the Best International Narrative Feature at the
Tribeca Film Festival and won Best First Film and Audience awards at the Jerusalem
International Film Festival. In addition, the film’s US and French remake rights have been sold.

SYNOPSIS
A long-married couple living in an upscale Tel Aviv highrise becomes obsessed with their new,
charismatic neighbor and his karaoke parties. Stars Sasson Gabay (The Band’s Visit, Shtisel,
Gett), Lior Ashkenazi (Footnote, Golda, Foxtrot) and Rita Shukrun (Orange People).

Meir (Sasson Gabay, The Band's Visit, Shtisel, Gett) and Tova (Rita Shukrun, Orange People)
are a Sephardic, upper-middle-class couple with two grown daughters, seemingly resigned to
their semi-retirement in the banal comforts of an upscale apartment complex in a Tel Aviv
suburb. When Itsik (Lior Ashkenazi, Footnote, Golda, Foxtrot), a charismatic bachelor and
former modeling agent, moves into the building’s penthouse and invites them to one of his
Karaoke parties, their lives are gleefully upended. The couple soon becomes obsessed with the
bachelor, competing for his attention while acting out long-dormant ambitions and desires, as they go on their own humorous but deeply human journeys of self-exploration.