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Culinary Walking Tour of Brookline/Brighton
Cost: $40, members: $45, nonmembers.
Registration deadline: Nov. 5. Please call (978) 598-5000 to register.
Where can you find the best Russian borsch, pirozhki, and caviar? What is the Russian way to drink tea and vodka? Discover the answers at our 3-hour culinary adventure while tasting delicious authentic Russian specialties: light fluffy blintzes, delicate Siberian dumplings, imported caviar, mouth-watering desserts, and half-dozen more.
Take a shopping tour at Whole Foods Market; learn how to make traditional Russian dishes and find out the unique Russian ingredients that can spark up your every-day meals. Visit treasured Russian food stores and restaurants and and enjoy interesting personal stories about their owners.
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The Art of Icon Painting:
A Workshop with Marina Forbes
Tuition: $395, members; $415, non-members.
Registration deadline: Nov. 5. Please call (978) 598-5000 to register
This 4-day hands-on studio workshop for students interested in learning how to create traditional Russian icons will feature step-by-step instruction. Students create their own icons using a combination of traditional and contemporary materials. Click Here for more information.
Sandwich Saturdays
In the Russian Tea Room
Every Saturday, the Museum offers sandwiches and Russian goodies for your lunchtime enjoyment!
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Romanian Icons on Glass wIth Mihaela D. Leonida
Tickets: $7, members; $10, nonmembers.
Advance purchase recommended, Call (978) 598-5000.
Romanian icons on glass offer the strange image of a folk art, clearly outlined and unique in its technical quality and sensitivity and derived from traditions hundreds of years old. The talk places the icons in the cultural environment of Central and Eastern Europe making comparative notes and historic connections. Less known information about how the peasant iconographers prepared their own materials and the technical skills they mastered in creating these icons is presented together with many examples of icons on glass from different geographical areas of today’s Romania.
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An Evening of Romantic Opera: Featuring Gluck, Verdi, Mozart, Donizetti, & Tchaikovsky
Tickets: $15, members;
$18, nonmembers. Advance purchase recommended, Call (978) 598-5000.
Donna Roll is a dramatic soprano, stage director and founder of OperaFest, a touring program for diverse and gifted singers. OperaFest performs scenes and arias from opera as well as full productions. Program includes Mozart, Donizetti, and Tchaikovsky. Many singers from OperaFest have gone on to perform at the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, Tanglewood, Lake George Santa Fe, Central City, New Jersey Opera, Connecticut Opera, and many others. Miss Donna Roll developed OperaFest to promote opportunities
for young singers.
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