Antipodes association wish happy 99 birth birthday to our dearest Nora Krouk!
Be happy and smile each and every day, dear Nora! We love and will always love you.
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya and Gregory Tsarevsky invite to a launch of Tatiana's new book made in collaboration with Valery Khazin and Tata Tarasova.
Two short novels in this book are written by two authors separated by two oceans. Telegonus Catalogs were created by Valery Khazin in Nizhny Novgorod, and Lullaby for Cassiphone by Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya in Sydney. There are the stories of Odysseus’ wanderings and returns, the stories of his sons, daughters and lovers, the interwoven stories of warriors and seamen, winners and losers to the priestesses of the Moon, the stories of the women and virgins of Crete: Pasiphae, Ariadne, Circe, and Europe told by themselves. United under one cover, mirroring each other, these texts form a single labyrinth, where the end of one story can serve as a starting point for the other. The readers will appreciate the magic of Tata Tarasova's illustrations that give the texts an additional dimension.
The book launch will take place November 11, at 3 pm, in a private house. If you would like to participate, please let us know and we will provide you with the address.
21 May
Katerina Escobar, Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya and Vladimir Shvedov invite you to My Mayakovsky poetic event in the Brett Whiteley Studio.
The reading will include translations, interpretations and performance of Mayakovsky’s work and presentation of contemporary Russian avant-guard poetry.
The reading will take place Sunday, 4 June 2017 2pm – 3:30pm, in the Brett Whiteley Studio (2 Raper Street, Surry Hills).
24 April
Antipodes Association invites you to discussion on the volume of anonimous poetry published in Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2016.
Why have 115 poets participated in this publication? Should a reader know the name of the author of the poem? Can readers tell whose poems they read? We will discuss these and other subjects on our meeting.
The reading will take place 13 MAy, at 4 pm, in a private house. If you want to attend it please send us a message.
17 April
Antipodes Association cordially congratulates Nora Krouk on her 97th birthday! Our best wishes to Nora!
14 March
Happy PI Day (03.14) to you all!
By tradition, we invites you to Number PI symposium named after Alexander Zhukov.
We celebrate approximate PI day, March 18th, Saturday, at 3 pm, in Il Cugino Pizzeria (186 Norton St, Leichhardt).
For booking please call or e-mail us.
If you have art works on the number PI, please bring them with you for the reading, and we will be happy to include them into our Omnipresent number Pi collection.
Limmud FSU Australia, World-wide CLub of Odessites and Antipodes Association invite you to the poetry evening with Igor Irteniev and Alla Bossart. You will listen to the reading of their new poems and ask poets about their literary and social activitis.
The reading will take place 11 September at 4 pm in Waverley Community Centre, NSW (31-33 Spring Street, Bondi Junction).
New poetry books will be sold during the event.
Tickets: $25 ($20 concession).
6 January
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya and Antipodes Association invite you to literary workshop «What do we write?».
The reading will take place 16 January, 3 pm, in a private house.
If you would like to participate, please call or write us a message, and we will provide you with the address.
Audience and critics are welcome!
2015:
27 November
Lena Ostrovskaya and Antipodes Association invite you to literary workshop «What do we write?». Attention! The reading will take place in Canberra, in a private house.
If you would like to participate, please call or write us a message, and we will provide you with the address.
14 October
Antipodes Association invites you to poetry reading on the top of Observatory hill.
The reading will take place 24 October, 7 pm, in the rotunda near Sydney observatory (Watson Road, Observatory Hill, Rocks).
Bring your favorite poems with you!
25 August
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya and Antipodes Association invite you to literary workshop «What do we write?».
The reading will take place 12 September, 3 pm, in a private house.
If you would like to participate, please call or write us a message, and we will provide you with the address.
Audience and critics are welcome!
8 May
Lena Ostrovskaya and Antipodes Association invite you to literary workshop «What do we write?». Attention! The reading will take place in Canberra, in a private house.
If you would like to participate, please call or write us a message, and we will provide you with the address.
Antipodes Association invites you to literary workshop «What do we write?».
The reading starts at 4 pm, Saturday, the 14th of March.
Participants will read poems, short stories or translations for the group discussion.
Critics and audience are also welcome!
The meeting will be held in a private house. If you would like to participate, please call us or send a request for the address.
Nora Krouk and Antipodes Association invite you to literary workshop «What do we write?».
The reading starts at 4 pm, Saturday, the 9th of August. It will be held in a private house, so if you want to join us, please call or write us a message, and we will provide you with the details.
Antipodes Association and Chernovick Almanach present the collection Photoconcept: Nature.
Participants: Alexander Ocheretyansky, Alexander Platonychev, Anton Ageev, Willi Melnikov, Vsevolod Vlaskine, Gali-Dana Singer, Eugene V. Kharitonov, Maria Kassel, Mark Polyakov, Sergey Kovalsky, Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Shavkat Ino.
Please see all works on our site!
18 June
By request of our friends, Cardinal Points literary journal, we would like to inform you that Compass Translation Award - the Petrovykh
competition, has extended the submission period until July 15.
Please see details on the competition web-site:http://www.stosvet.net/compass/MariaPetrovykh/Petrovykh.html
22 April
Nora Krouk and Antipodes Association invite you to literary workshop «What do we write?».
The reading starts at 3 pm, Saturday, 4 May, in a private house.
1 April
Happy Fools Day! The third issue of the information paper «Something different» (pdf-file, in Russian) by Lyalya Nisina, Sergey Fedin, M.Bredozny, Vladimir Druk, Tatiana Vasilieva, Larisa Petrakova, Yakov Smagarinsky, Mikhil Rabinovich, Alexander Kondratiev, Victor Perelman, Andrey Zhvalevsky and Igor Mytko.
Antipodes Association invites you to number PI symposium.
The reading starts at 6 pm, Thursday, 14 March (3.14), in Il Cugino Pizzeria (186 Norton St, Leichhardt).
For booking please call or e-mail us.
15 February
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya and Antipodes Association invite you to literary workshop «What do we write?».
The reading starts at 6pm, Saturday, March 9th, in a private house.
20 January
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya and Antipodes Association invite you to literary workshop «What do we write?».
The reading starts at 11am, Sunday, February 3rd, in a private house.
2012:
13 December
Antipodes Association and Russian school of St Serafim of Sarov invite you to Gingerbread House Tale.
12 November
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya and Antipodes Association invite you to literary workshop «What do we write?».
The reading starts at 11am, Sunday, December 2nd, in a private house.
16 October
Nora Krouk and Antipodes Association invite you to literary workshop «What do we write?».
The reading starts at 11am, Sunday, October 21st, in a private house.
15 October
Congratulations to Nora Krouk and Natalia Crofts with publication in Novyi zhurnal. Please read What is happiness? interview in N 268, 2012.
9 October
Antipodes Association and Chernovick Almanach are happy to present the collection Concept: Arch. Circle. Sphere.
Participants: Aldo Tambellini (USA), Alexander Fedulov (Russia), Alexander Ocheretyansky (USA), Andrew Topel (USA), Anna Tolkacheva (Russia), Anna Yaguzhinskaya (Russia), Anton Ageev (Russia), Eduard Kulemin (Russia), Ekaterina Samigulina (Belarus), Marco Giovenale (Italy), Michiko Imai (USA), Sergey Kovalsky (Russia), Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya (Australia), Tim Gaze (Australia), Vsevolod Vlaskine (Australia), Yuri Zmorovich (Ukraine).
Please see all works on our site!
10 September
Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya and Antipodes Association invite you to the next literary workshop «What do we write?».
The evening starts at 3pm, Sunday, September 23rd, in a private house.
3 September
An article on Compass translation prize 2012 (Tsvetava's contest) organized by our friends, publishing house Cardinal points, is available now on Compatriots in America web-site (in Russian). Australian authors participated in this contest.
Congraulations to Vsevolod Vlaskine who participated in The Flying Dogs, the V.V. Rozanov contest of literary reviews, and has won a special prize from Vozdukh literary journal. Please see a report about the results of the contest on Kontrabanda literary news web-site (in Russian). Listen here to the speech of Vozdukh chief-editor Dmitry Kuzmin (in Russian).
Nora Krouk and Antipodes Association invite you to literary tea party with reading from the recently published books: Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya' Oz (Crimean Club publishing house; Nezavisimaya gazeta) and David Wansbrough's Rings of Taniva (translated into Russian by Ekaterina Gaevskaya, Crimean Club publishing house).
The meeting starts at 11 am, Sunday, 10th June, in a private house.
17 April
Happy 92nd birthday to Nora Krouk!
Antipodes Association wishes Nora new poems in Russian and English, new poetry books and literary reading!
All the very best to a wonderful and beautiful Nora!
In Unification newspaper you can find an article about Nora written by Natalia Crofts.
Antipodes Association invites you to Alexander Zhukov PI symposium. We will meet in very approximate PI-day (3.17) to talk about the wonderful number PI and celebrate it with the best PIzza in town.
The reading is devoted to the memory of Alexander Zhukov (1955-2011) who studied and popularized the number PI for many years, in particularly working on our Omnipresent number PI collection.
The reading starts 4 pm, Saturday, 17 March, in Il Cugino Pizzeria (186 Norton St, Leichhardt).
For booking please call or e-mail us no later than Friday, 16 March.
19 February
Antipodes Association and Chernovick Almanach are happy to present the collection Pure Concept: Color. Sound. Line.
Participants: Mikhail Bogatyrev (France), Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya (Australia), Tamara Bukovskaya (Russia), Alexander Fedulov (Russia), Tim Gaze (Australia), Marco Giovenale (Italy), Boris Grinberg (Russia), Eugene V. Kharitonov (Russia), Sergey Kovalsky (Russia), Eduard Kulemin (Russia), Rafael Levchin (USA), Victor Maharaja (Russia), Willi Melnikov (Russia), Valery Mishin (Russia), Alexander Ocheretyansky (USA), Gali-Dana Singer (Israel), Nekod Singer (Israel), Aldo Tambellini (USA), Andrew Topel (USA), Vsevolod Vlaskine (Australia), Mikhail Vyatkin (Russia), Nikolay Vyatkin (Ruaas), Alexander Zhukov (Russia), Elvina Zeltsman (USA), Yuri Zmorovich (Ukraine).
Please see all works on our site!
13 February
Nora Krouk and Antipodes Association invite you to the next literary workshop «What do we write?».
The evening starts at 4pm, Sunday, February 19th, in a private house.
26 January
The Cardinal Points Journal announces The International Translations Contest dedicated, in 2012, to Marina Ivanovna Tsvetaeva. Please see the details on the Cardinal Points' web-page.
Please send your translations, both in the body of the message and as an attached Word file, at the Compass Contest email address (compass@stosvet.net) with the words «Tsvetaeva Contest» in the subject line.
We wish you good luck!
2011:
11 November
Antipodes Association presents a collection of works for the Day of the Wonderful Day: 11.11.11, please see on our site (literary works are in Russian).
Congratulations to Nora Krouk and Lyalya Nisina with publications in «Novyi zhurnal».
15 OCtober
Read the article by Natalia Crofts about Australian Russian literature. The article is published in Literaturnaya Gazeta (in Russian).
5 October
Antipodes Association is happy to invite you to the presentation of Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya's book Treading Lightly.
The collection of short stories was published by Stosvet publishing house.
Please see details on our site (in Russian).
26 September
Congratulations to Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya on publication of a collection of her short stories by Stosvet Press publishing house.
Please see details on the web-page.
New publication of Russian Australian authors (Nora Krouk, Sergey Erofeevsky, Gennady Kazakevich, Semion Klimovitsky, Irina (Lyalya) Nisina, Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Yakov Smagarinsky, Natasha Marsheva and Alexey Lis, and Natalia Crofts) in Intelligent (Moscow) literary newspaper, editor of publication Natalia Crofts.
Please see on the newspaper web-site (pp. 7-10).
Cardinal Points literary journal announces the poetry contest devoted to Nikolay Gumilyov's anniversary. Please see the details on the journal's web-site.
Please see an interview of Natalia Crofts, laureate of the tournament of poetic translation «Pushkin in Britain»-2011, for The 45th parallel literary almanac.
21 June
Congratulations to Nora Krouk, Yakov Smagarinsky, Semion Klimovitsky, Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya, Elena Mikhaylik, Gennady Kazakevich, Sergey Erofeevsky, Natalia Crofts, Natasha Marsheva and Alexey Lis, and Lyalya Nisina on publication in Saint-Petersburg Intelligent literary newspaper.
See the publication of Antipodes authors on the newspaper web-site.
10 June
Nora Krouk invites you to the presentation of her new poetic collection Warming the Core of Things, which will take place 3 July in Sydney Writer Centre.
Nora Krouk was born 90 years ago in Harbin, China. She worked as a journalist in Shanghai and Hong Kong. She has written Russian poetry since childhood, switching to English while living in Hong Kong, where a collection of her poetry, Even Though, was published. Her own Russian poetry has been published in various Shanghai magazines, New York's New Review and Israel's Yegund Yotseisin, as well as in the anthology Russian Poetry in China, published in Moscow in 2000 (winner of Russian Booker). In 1993 she won the Fellowship of Australian Writers' Jean Stone Award, and in 2000 she shared the award in the Society of Women Writers Poetry Competition. She won first prize for poetry in the 2008 Antipodes Russian Literary Festival.
Date: 3 July, Sunday, 2 pm entry, 2.30 pm reading's start.
Place: see at the Writer Centre site
7 June
Antipodes Association is glad to congratulate Natalia Crofts with award in Pushkin in Britain poetic translation tournament.
Well done, Natalia! Keep it up!
See details on official site
30 May
Larissa Smagarinskaya invites you to her personal exhibition «LOVE IS BEAUTY» in Gallery 41 (41 Riley street, Woolloomooloo) from 8 to 25 June. The opening will take place on 11 June, from 2pm to 5 pm.
You can find Alexander Lyusuy's review on the works of Antipodes, the Second Australian Festival of Russian Traditional and Experimental Literature, in Znamya magazine.
The works on the number are collected, the best are announced. But the number is inexhaustible, and we couldn't place a dot on it. The collection of works on number is continued. And the Organizing Committee is ready for new collections: on the numbers å, φ (golden section)… But first of all: on the Möbius strip. Check for our new announcements!
Antipodes Association invites you to the first geometrical origami workshop 19 of September at 3pm, cafe of Berkelouw Books shop (19 Oxford St, Paddington).
4 September
Antipodes Association invites you to submit works on number — we wait for your short stories, poems, musical pieces, and other works, created on the strict basis of the number .
19 August
A friend of Antipodes Association, Jardin Galerie (children art school and gallery) invites children from 4 to 14 years old to participate in their next project: Trees, drawn from nature. All received works will be shown in virtual exhibition on gallery’s web-site in October-November, and the best works will be chosen for a real exhibition in New York in November-December.
Antipodes Association invites you to our July poetry evening. Our special guest will be Vladimir Aristov (Moscow). Vladimir Aristov is a poet, writer and essayist. He is an author of seven collections of poetry, a novel, and numerous articles about 20th century poetry. The English speaking audience will be provided with booklets of Aristov's poems bilingua. The evening starts at 4pm, Sunday, July 18th.
23 May
Antipodes Association invites you to participate in Tango-Happening — spontaneous, improvisational, plotless poetic action without words, with participation of Fedor Sofronov (Moscow) and Tatiana Bonch-Osmolovskaya (Sydney) but not controlled by them.
11 May
Antipodes Association warmly greets you on the 70th anniversary of birth of Joseph Brodsky and organize a Fourth Poetry Night on this occasion: «Aloof, provincial, by the seashore».
As usual for our Poetry Nights, we invite everybody to read their favorite poems by the poet and the poets close to Brodsky. We will share our opinions on Brodsky's poetry, and see some archive materials of the author's reading and memoirs about the poet.
The evening will start at 8 pm, Saturday, 22 May, in the cafe on the first floor of Berkelouw Books (19 Oxford St, Paddington).
5 May
Antipodes Association is happy to invite you to the presentation of a book — the collection of works of the Second Australian Festival of Russian Traditional and Experimental Literature.
Book's presentation will take place on May 15, Saturday, at 1 pm, in Bowen Library (Auditorium on level 1, 669-673 Anzac Pde, cnr. Gale Rd & Anzac Pde, Maroubra Junction).
Antipodes Association and School of Languages and Cultures, University of Sydney, invites you to an evening of contemporary Russian video poetry. You will see the best video poetry works of different styles made by Alexandr Gornon, Maria Galina, Elena Katsyuba, and others. The auditory will be provided with booklets of all transcriptions of the poems and their word-for-word translations into English. The evening will take place on 12 of May, 5:30pm.
17 April
Results of super-short text contest MICRONOVEL are announced (in Russian)
17 April
Antipodes Association warmly congratulates Nora Krouk with jubilee!
We wish Nora all the best!
Hemingway once wrote a very short story: «For sale: baby shoes, never worn». And Augusto Monterroso wrote: «When he awoke, the dinosaur was still there». And Alan Moore wrote: «Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time». And Neil Gaiman wrote: «I’m dead. I’ve missed you. Kiss … ?». And… And what can you tell in just six words? To declare your love? To call for compassion? To make them laugh? To express an eternal truth? Or at least, new philosophical concept? Live is short, so write your own six words! Antipodes Association announces a super-short text contest MICRONOVEL.
20 February
At the end of last year Tatiana Âonch-Osmolovskaya participated in the of contest of short stories
«Stoslovie» with topic «Body of my city». Contest was organised by journal «KLYAP». Read about results of the contest on our site.
3 February
All welcome to Literary Workshop. We will read our own texts and translations, and discuss them with others. Workshop will take place on Sunday, 14th of February, in a private house.
4 January
All welcome to Literary Soiree dedicated to video poetry. We will discuss what the video poetry is and watch few works by Russian authors. Workshop will take place on Sunday, 10th of January, in a private house.
2009:
6 October
All welcome to Literary Workshop. We will discuss common problems of translation and read our own works. Workshop will take place on Sunday, 11th of October, in a private house.
All welcome to Crimean Symposium, Centennial Park, 12 of September at 3 pm.
25 August
We are glad to announce «Union of Russian Writers» as a friend of the Association.
Union of Russian Writers has more than 3,5 thousands members, including Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Fazil Iskander, Bella Akhmadulina, Andrei Bitov, Alexander Kushner and many others. The Union has 58 regional organisations.
Welcome to the Rabbit Hole!
You could read the most strange and mysterious stories fell through the Rabbit Hole.
We invite everybody to celebrate this day on Thursday, 29 of January, at 7 pm in Hippo Lounge, Madison hotel, corner of Devonshire and Randle Sts., across the exit from the Central Station.
Executive Producer of SBS Radio's Russian Language Program Sima Tsyskin presents Nora Krouk (Sydney), Grand-laureate of the Festival. Broadcast 20 of December.
All invited to Venedikt Erofeyev's Readings.
2pm, Intercity platforms, Central Station, Saturday, 13 December. (train 2:18 to Emu Plains)
We will repeat Moscow-Petushki route in an Australian way!
Reception of new works is closed for main program of the festival and to the contest of short text.
14 October
Association Imaducation Inc presents «Tilkin-Dilkin» Early Learning Workshops for Russian speaking children 3-5 yrs of age. Unique and extraordinary Early Learning program combines the best and most effective early learning methods with the main and most important theory of all — that children essentially learn through play and imagination.
Classes will be held on Saturdays, starting from the 25th of October at
St Andrew's Cathedral School 499 Kent Street, Sydney (Town Hall station).
Please call 0424 092 716; 0400 231 249; 0421 601 759 for more information http://www.imaducation.org.au/tilkindilkin.html
7 October
Anthology «Australian Mosaic» and it's chief editor Tatiana Torlina
invites to soiree «Cvetaeva'a Bonfire».
Sunday 19 October, 12pm, Cooper Park.
Details are here.
Pilgrim Entertainment Group is waiting for kids on 3 and 10 of August for Interactive Fairytails
26 June
Next Literary Workshop will take place on 29 June, 5:30 pm in 3 Dots pizzeria (45-55 Harris St Pyrmont)
11 June
First Literary Workshop will take place on 14 June, 3:30 pm in Rolling Stones Cafe (ex Plus Coffee-T House)
20 May
Everybody is invited to soiree "What do we read?" 24 May, 3:30 pm in Rolling Stones Cafe (ex Plus Coffee-T House)
30 April
KINETIC ENERGY THEATRE COMPANY presents 'SHAKE-SPEARE'
It's a play about life of Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, who possibly was real author of works by William Shakespeare.
2-4, 9-11, 16-18 May 7:30 pm or 6:00 pm (Sunday only)
St Luke’s Hall Enmore - 11 Stanmore Road (across 7/11)
Tickets 9665 6489, mail: kineticenergy@iprimus.com.au
23 April
Rudolf Steiner presents Longing and Belonging 5pm Sunday 4th May at Rudolf Steiner House, 307 Sussex St, Sydney
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason says Novalis (whose image of a blue flower is often taken to symbolise longing). Which poet's work has not tangled deeply with desire or wrestled with the question of identity? Hear Sydney's cosmopolitan poets engage with these themes; recite your own poem.
Entry: $5. Enquiries: 9484 3392
Anthroposophical Society of Australia invites to two Poetry Evenings under «Sydney's May Festival of the Arts at Rudolf Steiner House». Full program of Festival is on website «Anthroposophy in Australia»
Announcement from Ìbantua Gallery. You could see big collection of artworks in Sydney from 26 March till 1 April. Please, send mail to Josh.vanhaaren@mbantua.com.au.
19 November, 6.10 pm Sydney time First Channel of Russian TV is going to show
documentary series «Russians» about family of Australian Aboriginal, descendants of Russian traveler Ilyn — heroes of Elena Govor's book «My dark brother». Here is announcement on Russian TV.
15 November
Announcement from Mbantua Gallery. You could see big collection of artworks in Sydney from 6 till 12 December. They are going to bring about 200 works.
Contact them to organise meeting.