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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January – February, 2009
ArtsLink: Musician Artur Avanesov (Armenia) to perform at Purchase College (Purchase, NY).
March 3-12, 2009
Arts Leadership Fellows: Six arts managers from Central Asia and Russia will learn about U.S. arts management practices and contemporary art trends in New York.
March 7-17, 2009
VisArt Global Art Lab: Arts managers and artists from Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan will be in New York and San Francisco to meet with peers, learn about social practice art models in the U.S. and develop partnerships with U.S. artists.
April 2009
ArtsLink: Charming Hostess (San Francisco, CA) to compose an original song cycle, The Bowls Project, with sozanda singer Muna Nissimova (Uzbekistan) and perform at the International Museum of Peace and Solidarity in Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
April 8-22, 2009
Open World: Four emerging Russian writers in residency at Princeton University’s Slavic Languages and Literatures Department, with a special program focusing on the theatrical adaptation of written Russian prose. A public reading in New York City, TBA.
In Russia, Central Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia
March 12-21, 2009
VisArt: Bang on a Can’s bass player Robert Black to perform and conduct master classes in Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Kaliningrad, and St. Petersburg (Russia).
April 2009
VisArt: A U.S. artist to conduct a public art workshop for young artists at the State Center for Contemporary Art in Nizhny Novgorod (Russia).
June 2-13, 2009
VisArt: Curator Kendal Henry and a U.S. artist to conduct a public art workshop at the Krasnoyarsk Museum Center resulting in the creation of art works to be presented as part of City Day on June 12 (Russia).
July 2008 – April 2009
ArtsLink: Anne LeBaron (Valencia, CA) to compose and produce The Silent Steppe Cantata, featuring Timur Bekbosunov, the Koktem Children’s Choir, and Orchestra Otyrar Sazy, which will premiere in Almaty and be performed at the Palace of Peace in Astana, Kazakhstan.
September 2009
Global Art Lab: Four U.S. artists in residence in the local community in one of four cities in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan (Khujand, Dushanbe, Osh, and Bishkek) to conduct a project and participate in public programs.
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Featured Events
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Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of ArtsLink Awards!
An evening-long festival of diaspora and fusion featuring dance, music, collaborative theater, spoken word, and post-genre performance by over 25 innovative artists from the U.S., Russia and nine countries of Eastern and Central Europe. More |
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Alan Cherchesov
Russian-Ossetian Writer
The celebrated author will give a public reading on November 3rd at the Russian Samovar in New York. Mr. Cherchesov's novels Requiem for Living (1994; 2005) and Wreath for the Grave of the Wind (2000) evoke traditional life in Ossetia, the now-contentious region straddling the Russian-Georgian border. Here, Cherchesov talks with CEC about his novels and the Ossetian identity.
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Bakur Bakuradze
Russian Independent Filmmaker
In residency at the Telluride Film Festival this Labor Day weekend, Bakuradze will then travel to New York, where, along with Roman Artemyev, Valeria Ivanovskaya, and Natalia Uglitskikh, he will participate in a series of free public events highlighting New Russian Cinema. Learn more about this Georgian-Russian filmmaker whose work was screened at Cannes.
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