The document discusses the Russian Mosaica Heritage Festival, which celebrates the culture of the Russian immigrant community in Philadelphia. It notes that the festival has taken place annually from 2003-2010, featuring concerts, ethnic food, art, and organizations representing the third largest immigrant group in the city. The goal is to find, support, and pass on the cultural heritage of immigrant artists through educational programs.
Bill Doggett,African American Media,Culutre Historian and Sound Archivist
Russian Mosaica: what, when and why
1.
2. What Does It Mean?
• Find – Amateur and professional immigrant
artists who cherish their cultural heritage
• Create – Develop and support educational
programs aimed to preserve and develop
cultural heritage
• Pass on – Producing, promoting and
presenting
We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people...different hopes, different dreams." ~ Jimmy Carter
3. Why Russian Mosaica Heritage
We have become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic.
Different people...different hopes, different dreams." ~ Jimmy Carter
• Russian – Because all of the people in our
community, regardless of their country of
origin, can speak and understand Russian.
• Mosaica – Because our culture consists of
many colorful and bright ethnic pieces.
• Heritage – Because like the generations of
immigrants before and after us, we will
preserve our unique cultural heritage.
4. • Russian Mosaica™ Heritage Festival (formerly
Russian Mosaic) has been a part of the PECO
Energy Multicultural series on Penn's Landing
from 2003 through 2010; becoming an unofficial
birthday for the third largest immigrant
community in the Greater Philadelphia area.
5. • Russian Mosaica™ Heritage Festival (formerly Russian
Mosaica) has been a part of the PECO Energy Multicultural
series on Penn's Landing from 2003 through 2010;
becoming an unofficial birthday for the third largest
immigrant community in the Greater Philadelphia area.
• Every year we have presented a seven-hour concert,
access to a variety of ethnic foods, traditional art, and
historical installations. Furthermore, numerous business,
religious, and community organizations have joined us in
celebrating the occasion.
6. • Russian Mosaica™ Heritage Festival (formerly Russian
Mosaica) has been a part of the PECO Energy Multicultural
series on Penn's Landing from 2003 through 2010;
becoming an unofficial birthday for the third largest
immigrant community in the Greater Philadelphia area.
• Every year we have presented a seven-hour concert,
access to a variety of ethnic foods, traditional art, and
historical installations. Furthermore, numerous business,
religious, and community organizations have joined us in
celebrating the occasion.
• Over the years, the program has expanded from
showcasing performers from local youth art schools and
hosting less than 20 vendors, to recruiting American Idol
alumni Anthony Fedorov with more than 50 vendors.
World renown violinist Mikhail Simonian opens first Russian Mosaica in 2003
Even torrential rain could not stop viewers enjoying the festival.
We have met wonderful choreographer and ballet master Vladimir Choumeikine and his International Ballet Theater
Our lovely hostesses became most recognizable faces of Multicultural festivals in 2005-2007 and we first met Soviet Army re-enactors.
Russian Mosaic 2006 featured mostly children groups. Also, for the first time we were introduced to Hollywood, promoting and organizing screenings of the movie “Domestic Import"
We have welcomed several performance groups from Russia and Ukraine over the years. Russian rock-group Coliseum graced our stage in 2007.
2008 became the foundation for the future. Festival’s creative team went all out in looking for the most unusual things in the most unexpected combinations.
World champion in checkers, Jewish chess wizards and Rock Musicians, Bashkiria dancer and Ukrainian singer, Russian Izba, Jewish Shtetl and Soviet Army re-enactors in the same place at the same time: only on Mosaica!
Russian Mosaica is the Cultural Season of various events that where we are either producers, promoters, presenters or participants.
Hurricane Sandy could not stop premiere of our original multi genre and multimedia production “There were people in our times” dedicated to the Great Patriotic War of 1812 in 2012.
“Vysotsky and Pushkin” – connection transcending times . Parallels in the works of two most iconic Russian Poets explored through spoken word, singing, music and video in Russian and English.
As a part of Global Philly 2013 festival Mosaica presented “And Paradise have opened for love” by “Rustem Galitch Theater of Poetry and Music”. This original production is based on one of the most famous Russian poems “Demon” by Mikhail Lermontov.
In collaboration with group “Cinematique” and Jewish Movie Festival Mosaica presented two classical soviet movies: “Come and See” and “Life and Death of Gregoriy Rasputin”, new production “My dad is Baryshnikov” and documentary “How to re-establish a vodka empire”
WHYY Newsworks Salon, Voorhees International Day, Friends Across Cultures festival, Global Philadelphia 2013
Performers at ten years anniversary: Anastasia Markel, Alexander Zhukov and Amanda Stoychev from Sity Dance, Julie Gillan and Joe Stephens from International Ballet Theater.
Julian Lowenfeld translates Alexander Pushkin, Vadim Astrakhan and Tatiana Fleishmann sing Vladimir Vysotsky in Russian and English, Poetry family of Maria and Lev Breyman.
“Little Prince”, Diary of the Madman” , Pushkin-Vysotsky, Demon, “Diner with Chekov”
Over the years we have established great partnerships with many talented visual artists: Sergey Lukyanov, Ludmila Makarova, Naum Chayer, Irina Rogers, Rimma Kreymer, Olga Fleshel, Inna Race , Shlomo Molcho, Yurie Lev, and others