‹Mojamo. my moscow. 1987-2009› photo exhibition

17/10

Druckereihalle, Ackermannshof

Clinch› moscow night

9.00 pm Aperitif with Russian music

Focus

21:00 h

19/10

Boxeo 23, boxing and culture Basel Boxing Club vs. Dynamo Moscow

Professional bouts, including the heavyweight boxer Arnold ‹The Cobra› Gjergjaj and the double world champion Anja Seki.

Music

20/10

Markthalle

Choir of the gnessin russian music academy ‹altro coro› Conducted by: Alexander Ryzhinsky

‹Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, OP. 31 ›

Music

Daniel zaretsky

Daniel Zaretsky, the star organist from St Petersburg, will grace Basel Minster with an outstanding organ recital.

Music

18:00 h

21/10

Basler Münster

Swissfestivals annual conference 2012

The first annual conference of swissfestivals - the consortium of Swiss culture festivals - will be held in Basel on 24 October 2012.

Focus

09:30 h

24/10

Gare du Nord

Second symphony concert Symphony Orchestra Basel Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies

Musicians have been hearkening the incarnation of God, the Mysterium Magnum, since the Middle Ages.

Music

24/10

Cube concert # 1 ‹Candles for Dmitri›

The atmospheric Balzbar and the new Cube Concerts series of the Symphony Orchestra Basel invite you to a veritable Shostakovich party.

Music

21:30 h

26/10

Balzbar

‹Love me, please! / lyubite menja, pozhaluysta!›

The 25-year old journalist and anarchist Anastasia Barburova was murdered in a Moscow street in January 2009 along with the human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov.

Film

Vladimir solovyov – aspects of his thinking Nadine Reinert and Stefan Brotbeck Reading of Solovyov's texts: Alfred Urankar

Vladimir Solovyov (1853-1900) was a philosopher with diverse and independent views - a maverick, particular due to the broad range of his interests and ideas.

Focus

‹In the name of the revolution› On the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the October Revolution 1917-2012 Multimedia performance

Ivan Monighetti, described by Krzysztof Penderecki as «a phenomenal cellist», was Mstislav Rostropovich's last student at the Moscow Conservatoire.

Music

07/11

Musik-Akademie

‹Russia 88 / rossiya 88›

‹Rossiya 88› is the name of a Moscow skinhead band.

Film

‹The time of women› book presentation and reading With Elena Chizhova and Dorothea Trottenberg (German translator)

‹The Time of Women› reflects the history of Russia in the 20th century through the destinies of four women who wish to protect a child from the watchful eye of the Soviet state.

Literature

12:30 h

09/11

Literaturhaus Basel

‹Leap in the dark› Juergen Hagenlocher Quintett featuring Alex Sipiagin, David Kikoski, Boris Kozlov und Donald Edwards

There are not many European jazz musicians who know how to play traditional American jazz with the respect it deserves while incorporating their own style.

Music

09/11

21:30 h

10/11

‹From tolstoy to sorokin. dorothea trottenberg talks about her work›

She has recently been awarded the coveted Paul Celan Prize for her literary translations.

Focus

12:30 h

10/11

Museum der Kulturen

‹Out in the cold – intellectuals in putin’s russia›

President Putin is not known to use kid gloves when dealing with those who oppose him.

Literature

15:30 h

10/11

Museum der Kulturen

‹Florensky – iconostasis and andrej rublev› Nina Gamsachurdia

Pavel Florensky (1882-1937) was a mathematician, philosopher and theologian, who, after being declared a <counter-revolutionary>, spent ten years in a Soviet gulag before being executed.

Focus

Jerusalem quartet

As Communist Party bureaucrats were more interested in music played by large symphonies than music for chamber ensembles, Dmitri Shostakovich was able to hone his skills without attracting too much attention.

Music

13/11

‹WInter, go away!›

Ten director graduates of Marina Razbezhkina's School of Documentary Film and Theatre in Moscow spent two months filming and documenting the political demonstrations against Vladimir Putin‘s latest presidential campaign.

Film

‹Babushki› / ‹grannies›

They call them <Babushki>: the women who wear headscarves and warm coats over their flowery pinafores even in the summer.

Theater

16/11

Theme day ‹european democracies put to the test›

1.00 pm ‹Winter, Go Away!›

Focus

13:00 h

18/11

‹Democracy.doc› Joseph Beuys Theatre Moscow und TEATR.doc

According to the German director Georg Genoux, everyone is an artist.

Theater

Beethovenquartett

<Beloved Hated City> is Pavel Karmanov's musical homage to the city of Moscow.

Music

20/11

‹Eastanbul› Ensemble Phoenix Basel

THE ENSEMBLE PHOENIX BASEL is well known for enthralling audiences with experimental and cross-style performances.

Music

S AM Schweizerisches Architekturmuseum

21/11

Gare du Nord

‹Alexander brodsky. architect between art and the real world› introductory lecture

Alexander Brodsky is an architect and artist from Moscow and probably the most fascinating figure in Russia's contemporary architecture scene.

Art

18:00 h

22/11

‹The death of a giraffe› Dmitry Krymov's theatre laboratory

<The Death of a Giraffe> is the absurd, funny and sad story about the death of the head of a family - in this case a circus giraffe.

Theater

22/11

Video and short film programme 1

Polina Kanis (*1985) ‹Workout›, RU 2011, 12', OV/e, DVD Communist life in modern day Russia.

Film

Anton kubikov (ru) House, Tech House

It's time again: Founded back in 2008, the house und tech house party label "jack in the box" will kick off the new season at Kaserne Basel and is proud to present Anton Kubikov from Moscow as its special guest for the evening.

Music

23:00 h

23/11

‹The blizzard›

SOROKIN (*1955), a "cult figure in Russia" (Spiegel online), once again underlines his talent as a brilliant and enigmatic narrator.

Literature

Ensemble this, ensemble

In cooperation with CULTURESCAPES, the European Broadcasting Festival <MusMA< presents a concert programme exploring key areas of contemporary European music in Gare du Nord.

Music

26/11

Gare du Nord

‹Grandchildren› The Sakharov Centre Theatre Project

The dear grandfather - he was a GULAG commander. The dear grandmother - she shed hot tears for Stalin.

Theater

29/11

Video and short film programme 2

Dmitry Bulnygin (*1990) ‹Supplies›, RU 2011, 3', DVD Rise and fall in gingerbread style.

Film

Old russian chants

Russian Orthodox chants have a special aura of mystery.

Music

ateliers d'ethnomusicologie

29/11

Offene Kirche Elisabethen

30/11

‹Art splash› Alex Rostotsky's Jazz Bass Theatre

From intimate ballads and jazzy avant-garde compositions to African rhythms - ALEX ROSTOTSKY‘S JAZZ BASS THEATRE discovers a new style during each and every concert, creating a wonderful mix of many musical genres.

Music

30/11

01/12

19:00 h

02/12

Musikcontainer

Presentation artists in residence, iaab, studio arlesheim Daria Plokhova and Alexandra Portyannikova, Olga Vavilova

Birsfelden will play host to the renowned Vaganova Ballet Academy from St Petersburg: In cooperation with the International Exchange and Studio Programme Region Basel (iaab) and Theater Roxy...

Dance

18/10

ROXY

Dance triple <Interview> Olga Dukhovnaya <Through the Forest> DVA (Anastasia Kadruleva, Artem Ignatyev, Konstantin Matulevskiy) <I Will Try> Alexander Adriyashkin

Together with Elena Tupyseva, the director of TsEKh, Moscow's first dance agency, CULTURESCAPES presents a ‘triple evening' featuring the current works of young Russian choreographers.

Dance

27/10

ROXY

‹De profundis›

When the exceptionally gifted accordion composer and self-taught musician Vladislav Zolotaryov applied to become a member of the Union of Soviet Composers in Moscow in the winter of 1974/75, his friend Friedrich Lips played his sonata no 3.

Music