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| Dmitriy Zavilgelskiy, Aleksandr Markov, Maria Petrenko (interpreter), and Elena Drumova with renowned filmmaker Vittorio de Seta (far left) at the 2006 Flaherty Film Seminar in Poughkeepsie, New York. |
| (On stage from left) Sergey Bosenko, Yulia Tsaplina (interpreter), Ivan Golovnev, Alina Rudnitskaya, and Antonina Udalova answering questions for the audience at the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, November 2005 |
| (From left) Ayan Shirizhik, May-Ool Sedip, Kongar-Ool Ondar, Bady-Dorzhu Ondar, Ayan-Ool Sam and Sean Quirk in Times Square, February 2006. |
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Open World Cultural Leaders Program
2006-2007 Program Cycle
In 2006-2007, CEC ArtsLink continues to offer overall support to the Open World Cultural Leaders Program. In addition to offering administrative support, it is hosting two groups of Russian filmmakers and specialists and two groups of writers.
In September 2006 the first group of writers arrived at Chapel Hill, NC. The group was co-hosted by the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) and spent one week in North Carolina meeting with UNC faculty and students, holding public readings, and participating in panel discussions. The writers spent the second week of the residency in Washington, DC where they read selections of their work at the National Endowment for the Arts and attended the National Book Festival.
The second group of writers will travel to the US in April 2007 and will be co-hosted by the University of Mississippi at Oxford. The participants will take part in the Oxford Conference for the Book where one of the events will be the breakfast with the Russian writers. The group will also visit New York City where the writers will have an opportunity to read from their work at the Bowery Poetry Club.
In June 2006, the first group of filmmakers traveled to the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, where they were co-hosted by International Film Seminars, Inc. The group spent one week at the Film Seminar and one week in New York, where it attended professional meetings, cultural events, and a screening of their own work.
The second group of filmmakers
will be co-hosted by the Athens Center for Film and Video and the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival. Three Russian filmmakers and one curator will first participate in the Athens Film Festival and later visit New York City where screenings of their films will be organized.
2005-2006 Program Cycle
In 2005-2006, CEC ArtsLink hosted a group of Russian writers in partnership with the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at The University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill). Following a two-week residency in Chapel Hill, the writers spent one week in Washington, DC where they held a public reading at the National Endowment for the Arts, attended the National Book Festival and spent a day at the Library of Congress.
In October and November, a group made up of three Russian documentary filmmakers and a film specialist spent a week at the Athens Center for Film and Video (Athens, Ohio) and a week in New York, co-hosted by CEC ArtsLink and the Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival at the American Museum of Natural History (New York City). While in New York, Antonina Udalova, the participating film specialist, gave a presentation at the CEC ArtsLink office on "The Art of New Russian Documentary." The following weekend, the filmmakers screened their documentaries at the Margaret Mead Film Festival.
In February and March of 2006, CEC ArtsLink hosted Alash, a group of Tuvan folk musicians, in partnership with the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) and the Center for the Arts at Wesleyan University (Middletown, Connecticut). The program concluded with a free concert in New York on March 11, 2006.
2003-2005 Program Cycle
Since 2003, more than ten groups of Open World Cultural Leaders have traveled to the United States including jazz musicians, visual artists, writers, museum and theater managers, and music educators from a wide range of Russia's geographic areas. The host communities of North Carolina, California, Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, and Michigan, among others, have introduced the Russian participants to the diverse and rich culture of the United States. In addition, groups have participated in professional meetings and cultural activities in Washington, DC and New York City.
Participants in 2004-2005 included four groups of jazz musicians, three groups of writers, a group of arts managers, and a group of arts educators. The jazz musicians were hosted by the Brubeck Institute at the University of the Pacific (Stockton, California); the Lionel Hampton Center and International Jazz Collections (Moscow, Idaho); the University of Louisville School of Music (Louisville, Kentucky); and the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (Washington, DC). The arts managers and arts educators were hosted by the National Peace Foundation and the Foundation for International Arts and Education.
In October 2004, February 2005, and April 2005, CEC ArtsLink collaborated closely with the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa (Iowa City); the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill); and the Department of English at the University of Mississippi (Oxford) to develop professional residencies for the three groups of Russian writers. Additionally, CEC ArtsLink collaborated with PEN American Center to arrange program activities in New York City for each group. Among the activities included in the three New York programs were: series of meetings with leading representatives of the publishing industry, forums with prominent American writers, activities in conjunction with The New Yorker and PEN World Voices International Literature Festivals, and readings at the Bowery Poetry Club.
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