CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY KAZAKH SOCIETY

Dear Friends!

The first gathering of the Cambridge University Kazakh Society will be held this Wednesday at 6.30pm. Come and join us for drinks and nibbles at Panton Arms (CB2 1HL). You will get to know more about our future events and meet new and old members of the society.

Date: Wednesday 26th of October
Venue: Panton Arms (43 Panton Street, CB2 1HL)
Time: 6.30 pm

Hope to see you there!

Cambridge University Kazakh Society

CU Kazakh Society Nauryz

Nauryz is one of the most ancient, respectable and favorite holiday in the Eastern World. In ancient times Nauryz was originally celebrated by Iranians. As time passed the custom to celebrate the beginning of the New Year at the day of vernal equinox was accepted by Turks and by people of the Central Asia: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, southern Russia and
others.

We invite you to attend an unforgettable event organised by Cambridge University Kazakh Society which is sponsored by Central Asia Forum and Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan embassies in the UK.

Do not miss out a very rare chance to taste delicious traditional food and drinks of the region. Wine is also to be served.

Watch an amazing show prepared especially for your pleasure. There will be traditional dancers, famous musicians and singers.

11 March 7-9pm,
Jesus Chapel, Jesus College, Cambridge
Free entry

Fully in English!

Come and bring your friends!

RSVP to Prajakti Kalra: prajakti.kalra@cantab.net

Date: 2 March, Wednesday
Time: 7pm
Venue: Queen’s Building Theatre, Emmanuel College
Admission: free

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1560617/

Amidst the plains of the Kazakhstan steppes lives a mother and Eldon, the youngest of her five grown-up children. Whilst his four siblings have all married and left home, he and his mother live a simple, traditional existence. However when Eldon announces he has met the love of his life, his mother embarks on a tour of her four other children’s homes in search of money for the wedding. As we follow the lovable but demanding mum through the four very different lives, we get a heart-warming family comedy that brilliantly contrasts modern-day and traditional life in Kazakhstan with humour and insight. (Dubai International Film Festival)

Time: Wednesday, February 23 · 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location: Seminar Room E, Mill Lane 17 (through the arch-way, next to the Graduate Union)

Members of Cambridge University Kazakh Society have taken the initiative to introduce Kazakhstan to Cambridge community through giving short presentations followed by discussion on topics such as History, Culture, Economics and Politics. If you ever wanted to find out more about Kazakhstan, this is your chance!

This presentation will give you a brief overview of economics and politics in Kazakhstan.

Friday, 4th February, 7.00pm
Bateman Auditorium, Gonville and Caius College
Tickets: 7 for students and 10 for others.

Dina has participated in a number of international music festivals, performing both as a soloist and a chamber musician in Europe as well as throughout the USA, including the Music Festival in Rome and the Oxford International Piano Festival. Dina has also taken masterclasses with Pascal Devoyon, Gary Graffman,
Vladimir Krainev, Marios Papadopoulos, Menahem Pressler, Marcello Abbado, Yoheved Kaplinsky and Vladimir Viardo. In 2007, Dina was one out of eight pianists selected to participate in Sergei Babayan’s International Piano Academy at the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio, USA.

She has been playing chamber music as part of the Duisen Duo, featuring her brother Ordabek, since attending the State Special Music for Gifted Children in Almaty, Kazakhstan. They have also played in Europe and the USA, and they performed at the Yamaha Artist Service Europe at Chappell of Bond Street in London in March, 2009.

In October 2009, she performed Mozart’s Concerto for two pianos alongside Gamal Khamis, accompanied by the London Conservatoires Orchestra. The Duisen-Khamis duo went on to perform duo recitals and Saint-Saens’ ‘Carnaval of the Animals’ at the All Saints Putney Music Festival 2010. Dina gave a recital at the Jacqueline du Pre Music Building in Oxford, and was invited to reappear in the Autumn 2010-2011 concert series. In January 2011 Dina opened the “Pianists of the World’ series at St Martin in the Fields. Further engagements include concerts in Oxford, London, USA and Kazakhstan.

In 2010, Dina became a Concordia Foundation artist with cellist Hermione Jones, with whom she works regularly, and in January 2011 they gave a recital at St James’s Piccadilly.

“…she played with passion and conviction…” The Oxford Times