Title: Mid-May Outing and Barbecue “Mayovka”
Location: Picnic area at Wandlebury Country Park, Gog Magog Hills, Babraham Cambridge CB22 3AE
Description: Everyone is whole-heartedly invited to CamRuSS’s fresh-air festivity and boisterous barbecue. A delightful day out for the whole family, rain or sunshine (CamRuSS is obviously working hard to ensure beautiful weather)!

PLEASE COME WITH YOUR OWN food and drink (to share), plates, spoons and cups, children, footballs, skipping ropes, guitars, balalaikas and ingenious proposals for pleasurable pastimes!

DIRECTIONS: Wandlebury Country Park is signposted with brown Country Park signs off the A1307 Cambridge to Haverhill Road, 2.5 miles south of the Addenbrooke’s Hospital roundabout.

MAPS: Please go here for Wandlebury Location, and here for Wandlebury Layout.

PARKING: Visitors’ car park at the Main Entrance off the A1307. Parking charge: £2.50 per car.

PUBLIC TRANSPORT: The Addenbrookes to Haverhill buses are Stagecoach CityPlus X13 and X13A.

CYCLING TO WANDLEBURY: There is a separate, safe, cycle path alongside the A1307 Hills Road, leaving Cambridge, from Addenbrookes Hospital past the Babraham Park & Ride to Wandlebury where it ends. There is no cycle path from Haverhill to Wandlebury.

NB No cycling in the park is allowed, except for under 8s, and cycles should be secured in the parking area cycle stands.

DOGS: need to be kept on a lead in the Park, but can be freely exercised in the adjacent Gog Magog Trust area.

FOR MORE INFO please visit the Wandlebury website: www.cambridgeppf.org, and go to ‘Our Attractions’. There is a number of designated walks there, with guide leaflets.

Click here to see a review of CamRuSS’ last year May-day outing, with many attaractive photos.

Please contact John Wilkins with any comments or questions:
jj.wilkins20@btinternet.com
or write to: info@camruss.org

Start Time: 11:00
Date: 2012-05-20
End Time: 16:00

Come and listen to our guests’ incredible and moving memoirs, get inspired by the intertwining of the past and present, plunge into old photos, and share your own stories if you wish, in a calm and warm atmosphere, with a glass of wine, in a circle of friendly and understanding, like-minded people.

Admission free.
Donations are welcome to “Help for Heroes”, a British charity that provides support to war veterans, in particular those who were injured in current wars and suffered life-changing consequences, as well as their families.

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2012-05-28

Friendly family who lives in Stapleford near Cambridge with 3.5 y.o. son is expecting their second child by the end of July and looking for a well-mannered, energetic female with experience in childcare, who can cook and has a work permit in the U.K.
Pay is negotiable.

Please call Anna on home 01223 847 329 or mob. 077 4079 8773.
You may email your CV or questions to anna.beaton@gmail.com

WHEN: Friday 4th May 2012, 19:00-22:00

WHERE: Cambridge Cookery School, Unit 9D, The Imre Building, The Michael Young Centre, Purbeck Road, Cambridge CB2 8HN

(Tel.: 01223 247 620)

Supper will consist of the famous beetroot soup Borsch, followed by Plov (pilau), a beef casserole and Syrniki – a dessert of little pancakes with jam and cream. You will be in the company of Russian-speakers and will be given a rare insight into Russian cuisine. You will cook all dishes hands-on, before sitting down to a warming communal supper.

Cost per person: £30, which includes a glass of wine. (If you suspect the delicious food might require a bit more wine to wash it down, feel free to bring your own.)

To book a place, please go to: http://camruss.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=588ab11fb5d5caedbfb093925&id=c3cdc9cc77&e=6e4c4d9645

Please note that the number of places is limited so please book early to avoid disappointment!

Wagner’s opera Parsifal

WHEN: 3 April 2012, 17:00
WHERE: Barbican Centre Hall
TICKETS: £15/ 25/ 40/ 50 / 65
Booking: https://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing/selectseatblock.asp

Verdi’s Requiem

WHEN: 4 April 2012, 19:30
WHERE: Barbican Centre Hall
TICKETS: £15/ 25/ 40/ 50 / 65
Booking: https://www.barbican.org.uk/eticketing/selectseatblock.asp

You can also find out more about the concerts here:

http://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID

Link out: Click here

Lessons will be focused on revealing specific difficulties of each pupil and finding individual ways of overcoming them. Attention will also be paid to the music content of the played music pieces and their interpretation as well as finding the balance between the content and the expressive component of it.

Lessons for younger pupils can be focused on diagnostic of their professional level and individual difficulties in order to find the ways to over them.
Parents will receive advice about the ways to support and motivate their child.

WHEN: 19 April -3 May 2012
WHERE: Cambridge
Languages: Russian, French
Price: negotiable

Please contact Aminata Alenskaia, aminata505@gmail.com 

English National Ballet celebrates the legacy of Diagilev’s Ballets Russes with performances inspired by some of the troupe’s great works. Ballets Russes productions were collaborations with major choreographers, composers, artists and dancers of the time including Pavlova, Picasso, Debussy, Chanel, Matisse, Nijinsky and Stravinsky.

Eifman Ballet in London
WHEN: 3, 4, 6, 7 April
WHERE: London Coliseum
Tickets can be bought here http://curs.tsd-aff.com/

“Anna Karenina”: Tue 3 & Wed 4 April
Boris Eifman’s astonishing choreography tells the tale of Tolstoy’s famous literary figure with a visceral energy which makes this production unforgettable.

“Onegin”: Fri 6 & Sat 7 April Boris Eifman’s retelling of this classic story fuses Tchyaikovsky’s classical music and Sitkovetsky’s contemporary rock in this remarkable retelling of Pushkin’s classic story.

“He is a master of theater as much of a maker of dances – a man with a seamless feel for the way gesture, music and stage design can coalesce in the art of storytelling”
(Chicago Sunday Times on Boris Eifman.)