If you’re interested, you may also want to go see the film screening: please contact Prof. Rudova (lrudova@pomona.edu) for more information!

One of the most celebrated canonical texts in Soviet children’s literature, Aleksei Tolstoy’s The Golden Key or The Adventures of Buratino (1935), was based on Carlo Collodi’s tale, Pinocchio or The Adventures of the Wooden Puppet (1908). In 1939, the enormous success of Buratino prompted the Soviet director Alexander Ptushko to make a film based on Tolstoy’s book, and the author himself was invited to write a screenplay based on his text. In 1975 the filmmaker Leonid Nechaev returns to Tolstoy’s Buratino once again and produces a two-part TV musical film that unexpectedly leaves the territory of children’s film and attacks Soviet society under Leonid Brezhnev’s regime. In Nechaev’s interpretation, the world surrounding Buratino is thoroughly corrupt, immoral, and cynical. Professor Balina’s talk examines how Tolstoy’s book becomes a vehicle of a social critique of the Soviet state in different historical contexts. Professor Balina is Isaac Funk Professor of Russian at Illinois Wesleyan University. She is the author of numerous articles and co-editor of books on Soviet literature and culture. She is currently working on a book on Soviet children’s literature.

Co-sponsored by the Office of Public Events; History Department/Thompson Fund; English Department; Department of Religion; ID1 Program; German Department (Scripps) FMI contact Prof. Rudova lrudova@pomona.edu

World City at the Music Center – Barynya/Барыня

Join us for a day of FREE programming for families showcasing Russian Dance and Music!

Saturday, November 14, 2009
11:00 AM & 12:30 PM
W.M. Keck Amphitheatre
Walt Disney Concert Hall
FREE

Be prepared to get up off your seat and dance along with the Barynya ensemble, a unique group of top Russian, Cossack, and Ukrainian dancers and musicians. Immerse yourself in the delightful sounds of traditional Russian instruments such as the balalaika, garmoshka, and Gypsy guitars as you feast your eyes on the breathtaking crimsons and sapphires of each costume. Barynya has performed internationally with the Moiseev Dance Company and the Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company, as well as within the United States at such prominent locations as Lincoln Center in New York City as well as the National Museum of Natural History in Washington D.C.

Performance tickets are FREE and are distributed on a first-come basis Grand Avenue at 2nd Street.
Tickets for 11 a.m. performance distributed beginning at 10:00 a.m.
Tickets for 12:30 p.m. performance distributed beginning at 11:00 a.m.

World City at the Music Center brings to downtown Los Angeles the seventh season of exceptional artists. This FREE programming for families showcases cultures from around the world through dance, music, song, and storytelling.

For more information, please visit musiccenter.org, email education@musiccenter.org <mailto:education@musiccenter.org> , or call 213-972-4396.

NOTE: The W.M. Keck Children’s Amphitheatre is an intimate outdoor performance space.  Sunscreen and appropriate seasonal attire are strongly encouraged.  In the event of rain, event will be moved to a nearby indoor location.

Place: Oldenborg Theater

All tutoring sessions take place in the FRLC 1st-floor Mason: in the evenings, only the East Entrance (fountain side) to Mason will be open.
Sunday…………..8:00pm to 10:00pm……..Nina Vertlib
Tuesday………….8:00pm to 9:00pm………Maria Whittle
Wednesday…….7:00pm to 9:00pm………Becky Lent

(Note: for updated course information, please consult the “courses” page of this website or the Claremont Colleges course catalogue.)

Wednesday, October 28, 4:15, FLRC (1st floor of Mason Hall)

Oldenborg Special Russian Dinner

Sunday, March 7, 2010, Oldenborg Dining Hall

Monday, August 24, 8-9 a.m. Mason 2. (Pomona)

Friday, August 28, 8:30-9:30 a.m. Mason 2 (Pomona)