Past Events by ASF (selections from Calendar Database - 1999)

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FACES OF RESISTANCE IN THE SOVIET UNION

• Openning of an exhibit at
  on January 28, 1999 (4:00m PM at Slosberg Recital Hall, Brandeis University).

For more information about the exhibit and its opening, please call Tatiana Yankelevich at (781) 736-4717 or E-mail to yankelevich@brandeis.edu. This historic exhibit is dedicated to those who perished in the struggle for human rights, and to those who survived to continue the work. It will be opened at an informal reception on Thursday, January 28th, at 4 PM, at the Slosberg Recital Hall on the Brandeis Campus.Dr. Elena Bonner, widow of Andrei Sakharov, will deliver brief remarks. The reception and the exhibit are free and will be open to the public. The exhibit will be on view from its opening on January 28th to March 1st.The ultimate lesson of the twentieth century is that totalitarian regimes have sought and have often succeeded in destroying humanity as a collective of traditional qualities and values, and as individual human beings. This onslaught against humanity has repeatedly engendered a resistance, a resistance that is not some abstract political force, but one that bares a human face.FACES OF RESISTANCE IN THE SOVIET UNION will present to its audience the human face of the resistance movement in the Soviet Union. While these images cannot cover the movement in its entirety, an effort was made to reflect the full diversity of the resistance movement in this exhibit. The people portrayed on the photographs - poets and industrial workers, farmers and retired soldiers, scientists and scholars - came from different parts of the empire, from different social and professional backgrounds. The common thread that binds them is that they rose up for religious and intellectual freedom, for national independence and for cultural autonomy. They combined their professional skills and personal experience, to find a path away from the bloodshed and catastrophe that was in store for a society that had lost its human face. January 16, 1999

• Съезд Антимилитаристской радикальной ассоциации

May 22, 1999

• A Gala Benefit for the Andrei Sakharov Archives at Brandeis University.

Jordan Hall of the New England Conservatory, Boston, MA
In the XX century's history, Andrei Sakharov played a unique role in worldwide struggle for human rights and against the communist totalitarianism. His courageous andselfless stand for human dignity, freedom of his spirit and intellectual integrity even inthe face of adversity and threat to his life earned him the Nobel Peace Prize of 1975,not to speak of admiration and respect of thousands of people all over the world. Hisuntimely death in 1989 took away a man whose intellectual scope, moral compass andtolerance is sorely missed today.The Archives were created on the foundation of Nobel Peace Prize laureate's personalpapers. These documents were smuggled from the USSR in the 1970-80s, saved fromthe KGB by the efforts of many courageous people, and donated to Brandeis Universityby his widow Elena Bonner, for the purpose of preserving Sakharov's legacy.It is with this very purpose in mind a concert is being organized to benefit the AndreiSakharov Archives and to help create the Sakharov Human Rights Center. The concertwill take place on Saturday, May 22, 1999, in the historic Jordan Hall of the NewEngland Conservatory, one of the most beloved and prestigious music auditoriums inBoston. By a symbolic coincidence, Sakharov's birthday is May 21st. In 1999, he wouldhave been 78.Performers include Maestro Mstislav Rostropovich, Maestro Vladimir Spivakov, mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt, the Lydian String Quartet, pianists Ignat Solzhenitsyn, Yehudi Wyner, Sergei Bezrodny, and a brilliant child prodigy, Bronika Kushkuley. All ofthe musicians are donating their time and energy to the concert dedicated to the memory of Andrei Sakharov. It was Sakharov's conviction that genuine peace and human rights are indivisible. This unique musical event will help preserve Andrei Sakharov's legacy of peace and human rights through the preservation of his papers and the spread of his ideas.Unfortunately, the general admission tickets have been sold out. A small number of tickets are still available at the donor's price of $250. For further information, please call Brandeis University at (781)736-3013. June 1, 1999

• Встреча-дискуссия "Права человека и свобода совести - неразделимая связь". Докладчик: заслуженный профессор истории Йельского университета Фируз Каземзаде. Ведущий: С.Посельский. Организатор: Нэнси Аккерман, директор отдела общественной информации

Национального духовного собрания Бахаи России.June 09, 1999

• День открытых дверей Кестонского института в Москве. Ведущий: директор Кестонского института Лоуренс Юззелл. Организатор: Московское бюро Кестонского Института.