CEC ArtsLink is an international arts organization. Our programs encourage and support exchange of artists and cultural managers between the United States and
Eastern and Central Europe, Russia, Central Asia and the Caucasus.

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In the US
July 12 – August 3, 2009
VisArt: Central Asian musicians Feruza Ochilova (Uzbekistan), Kambar Kalendarov (Kyrgyzstan) and Kutmanaaly Sultanbekov (Kyrgyzstan) at Bang on a Can’s Summer Music Festival at MASS MoCA.
August 15 – September 30, 2009
ArtsLink Awards: Laura Feldberga (Riga, Latvia) to create land art sculpture for permanent display at Griffis Sculpture Park (Buffalo, NY) and an indoor installation at the Big Orbit Gallery.
In Russia, Central Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
June 1-19, 2009
ArtsLink Awards: Austin Film Society (TX) Education Director Christian Raymond and Romanian filmmaker Sergiu Lupse to conduct on an intensive digital filmmaking workshop with disadvantaged youths and adults at the Veritas Foundation in Sighisoara, Romania.
June 19-29, 2009
VisArt: U.S. artist Michael Rakowitz and curator Mark Coetzee to conduct workshops on contemporary art with young artists from Russia and Finland at a pilot program in collaboration with Smolny Institute (St. Petersburg), Bard College (New York), and KUVA (Finnish Art Academy, Helsinki).
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Featured Artists and Events
Olga Zimina performing.
Watch a video of the
full performance here.
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Russian contemporary dance choreographers Leonid Glukhov, Natalya Podkovyrova, Maria Samsonova, and Olga Zimina are on residency at the American Dance Festival and will perform July 6th in NYC. More... |

A still from Without War, a film by Aleksandr Gabrilyan. |
Russian filmmakers Aleksei Barykin, Aleksandr Gabrilyan and Oleg Vizzhachy, and festival curator Claudia Chupina, are on residency at the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, and will screen their work June 30th in NYC. More...
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Marina Temkina, Russian-American artist and 1998 ArtsLink Projects award recipient, reads from What Do You Want?, her first book in English, on June 5th at the Russian Samovar. More... |
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