Regular Events
CURS conversational evening
During Term-Time CURS hold weekly conversational evenings, for everybody willing to speak and practice the Russian language. Our evenings take place in the form of topical discussions and quizzes. This is also an opportunity to find out more about the Russian Tradition, Culture, History and much more. Not to mention, this is a great way to make new friends. So please come and drop by!!!
WHEN: 8PM, Wednesday
WHERE: Grads Cafe, Top Floor, University Centre
Granta Place, Mill Lane,Cambridge, CB2 1RU
UNI CENTRE WEBSITE:
http://www.unicen.cam.ac.uk/
Film Nights!
Cambridge University Russian Society and Trinity College Russian Society are glad to say that we revived our tradition of watching Russian movies together every week! Everyone is welcome!
Film nights this term:
Tuesday 19th January Осенний Марафон (Геогрий Данелия) Autumn
Marathon (Georgie Daneliya) 1979, 90 min, a sad
comedy
Tuesday 26th January Остров (Павел Лунгин) Island (Pavel Lungin)
2006 110 min, drama
Tuesday 2nd February Брат (Алексей Балабанов) Brother (Aleksey
Balabanov) 1997, 95 min, crime
Tuesday 9th February Д’артаньян и Три Мушкетера: серия 1
(Георгий Юнгвальд-Хилькевич) D’Artagnan and
Three Musketeers: part 1 (Georgi Yungyald-
Khilkevick) 1978, 99 min, adventure-historymusical
Tuesday 16th February Мульфильмы: Сказки А. Пушкина (Георгий
Юнгвальд-Хилькевич) Cartoons: Fairytales by
A. Pushkin, 115 min NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Tuesday 23th February Вор (Павел Шухрай) Thief (Pavel Chukhrai)
1997, 110 min, drama
Tuesday 2nd March Возвращение (Андрей Звягенцев) The Return
(Andrey Zvyagintsev) 2003, 105 min, drama
Tuesday 9th March Судьба Человека (Сергей Бондарчук) Destiny
of a man (Sergei Bondarchuk) 1959, 98 min,
drama
WHEN: every Monday in Term time, 8.30 – 9.45 pm
WHERE: Winstanley Lecture Theatre, Trinity College
LANGUAGE: in Russian with English subtitles
PRICES: Trinitarians and CURS members free, ￡1 others
CURS Conversational Evenings, weekly
| …thanks once again for your help with my (and everyone’s) Russian. It has certainly paid off in my case as my Russian has helped me to find a rather exciting IUCN job as Biodiversity Programme Coordinator for the southern Caucasus. | |
| Tobias Garstecki |
| Was the Conversational Evening successful? A quote from Dima Dubovitskij: “The Conversational Evening entertained me, and also energized me for my next business meeting”. As for myself, I learnt several new proverbs during the Evening, and was astonished that I nearly forgot some of the commonly used Russian words. But certainly the most enjoyable part were the jokes that naturally accompanied the narration of Katya and Draga. Those guys who attended the Evening in order to learn and practice the Russian language have quickly realised that CURS is great fun. |
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| (23.10.2008) Siarhei Maslau |
Conversational Evenings have proved very popular among the Society’s members learning Russian. Native Russian-speaking volunteers (often Committee members) help intermediate and advanced level learners to improve their Russian in a friendly and informal atmospere. We aim to provide at least one native speaker for three learners. Conversational Evenings are usually held on a weekly basis during term time, and sometimes – depending on demand and availability of helpers – out of term time. Unfortunately, due to the volunteering nature of the Evenings we are unable to provide any formal training in Russian and refer you to one of the other means for learning Russian in Cambridge.
- WHEN: Wednesdays, 8-9pm
- WHERE: Granta Bar, University Centre (ground floor)
Materials from the conversational evening 15 Oct 2008 are available here. More recent ones are also russian_holidays_events, russian-sayings-and-folk-wisdoms and bards_songs.
CURS Mafia, fortnightly
Ah, you don’t know what Mafia is? Well, it’s an original role game! Under the cover of night, cruel Mafiosi come in a city with the cruel intention to take hold of it. But with the help of a courageous Commisaire, a merciful Doctor and a wild Maniac, the peaceful inhabitants will try to repulse the Mafia!
- WHERE: Granta Bar, University Centre (ground floor)
All are welcome but a fluent knowledge of Russian may come indispensable for uncovering clever Mafiosi;).
CURS Film Night
The Banishment
A big thank you to all who came to our Movie Night this week. We hope that you have enjoyed the film. There was certainly something impressionable left in us afterwards to talk about it.
To continue our programme of Quality Russian Cinema we will be showing you “Izgnaniye (The Banishment)”, directed by Cannes laureate Andrei Zvyagintsev. The director is famous for his first film “Vozvrasheniye (The Return)”.
We are working on the time and venue, and will let you know ASAP.
DISCLAIMER: THIS FILM HAS NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Synopsis: A husband, wife and two children (a boy and a girl) come from an industrial city to the countryside, to the husband’s birthplace, to stay in his father’s old house. In contrast to the old setting (the city that brightens up the relations between the characters, that smooths the rough edges, and even creates some illusion of happiness and love), the new setting is Nature. It is a setting of breathtaking rolling hills, the bottom of a prehistoric sea, and fertile land, all lying in the ruins of dislike. It is sad even though it is proud. It doesn’t let on. It will demand great sacrifice. And no one will hold back the hand the father raises against his son. The voice crying out will not be heard. The son will not be replaced by the lamb. For the one who raises the knife has ears that can not hear, eyes that can not see, and a heart that can not feel. Yet his belief in the “law” of human pride is vehement and inexhaustible, as vehement as his remorse. The seed has been planted and the harvest must follow.
- WHEN: TBC
- WHERE: TBC
- HOW MUCH: FREE FOR CURS MEMBERS, 2 Pounds for Non Members
Slavonic amateur(-ish) football, most weekends
We cordially invite everyone to join a friendly Slavonic company playing football (soccer) on most weekends. The game standard is frankly amateur(-ish), so everyone is welcome (even if you only vaguely remember watching football ten years ago)! Lots of fun guaranteed!
- WHEN: afternoon, Saturday or Sunday
Please e-mail football [@russiancambridge.org] for more details or just subscribe to our list of announcements.