Just two years after the 2008 Oscar-winning Slumdog Millionaire renewed our fascination with India, The Commonwealth Club is presenting a closer look at this ancient culture in their August series of special lectures this year.
“India NOW” will feature topics ranging from Bollywood to yoga, ancient tradition to remarkable innovation. The Club will welcome a number of prominent India experts from various fields, including academia, business, government and the arts. With a host of speakers, panels, films, and exhibits, the series will shed light on India’s complexities and explore its rich diversity.
When: Aug 1 – 31, 2011
Where: Commonwealth Club Main Office
595 Market Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94104
For tickets, call CWC Box Office, (415) 597-6718
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Starting June 18, 2011, the Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture will host a series of programs–exhibits, film viewings, lectures, book presentations, and deportation survivor reminiscences–commemorating 70 years since the start of mass deportations of Lithuanians to the Gulag – the vast network of concentration camps and prisons in Siberia and other remote regions of the Soviet Union.
When: Jun 18, 2011 – Jan 12, 2012
Time: Daily 10 am – 4 pm
Where: Balzekas Museum of Lithuanian Culture
6500 S. Pulaksi Rd.
Chicago, IL 60629
Admission: Adults $5; children (12 and under) $2; there may be an extra cost for special events.
For additional information please visit http://www.balzekasmuseum.org
FESTIVAL SPOTLIGHT SERIES
At Home, Elsewhere Cross-Cultural Identity in the 21st Century We live in a time when cultural identity is often effusive and rarely singular. And if we look closely enough, it is never singular. Yet even as we become more aware of the inherent artifice of borders, issues of identity and labels can still be given an importance that goes beyond an individual’s humanity. Through our featured artists Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Shantala Shivalingappa we see how cross-cultural perspectives manifest themselves into art that challenges the limits of performance as well as staid notions of cultural boundaries. This is not melding one culture into the other, but rather claiming both, or as many as exist, at one time, and often in one place, one home. At Home, Elsewhere featu ... 
This is the first of its kind and all Hindus are invited!
Featuring:
* Significance of rituals in Hindu marriage
* Relevance of Vedic values for Youth
* Kavi Sammelan
* Dandiyan & Karaoke
* Matrimonials networking
When:September 3 – 5, 2011
Where: Holiday Inn Hotel & Suites
3220 S. 48th Street
Phoenix, AZ 85040
For details, please visit www.bsna.org or Contact
Munnu Bajpai (602-938-4757)
Kul Bhushan & Nirmal Chhibber (480-926-8835)
Ashwani & Sushma Bakshi (480-250-0903)
Sudeep & Jahnvi Mehta (480-213-2221)
For more info click here.
Three days of magnificent, free performances, workshops and lectures by artists from all over the world.
Schedule
When: Thursday-Saturday, September 15-17, 2011
Where: Memorial Union – Terrace, Union Theater, and Play Circle.
Admission: Free
For more info click here.
The 2011 West Coast Eisteddfod: Welsh Festival of Arts which celebrates Welsh identity and cultural expression takes place at the Barnsdall Art Park, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, California from September 23 to 25.
A free outdoor festival on Saturday and Sunday includes Welsh food and drink, traditional and contemporary music, lectures, crafts, classes including Welsh language instruction, a Celtic marketplace, demonstrations in rugby, Welsh Corgis, genealogy, storytelling, a Welsh Mythology and Legend Art Show featuring over 30 artists, a Welsh-American traveling exhibit, and tours of the Hollyhock House created by Welsh-American Frank Lloyd Wright.
The opening ceremony is on Friday September 23 on the Barnsdall grounds and the Theatre from 6pm to 9:30pm with performances by Paul Ch ... 
For the past 8 years, the Russian American Medical Association (RAMA) has held its Conference & Scientific Assembly on an annual basis. RAMA is the nation’s only professional medical association uniting Russian speaking medical professionals and other associated industries representatives. RAMA is devoted to medical science and pursuing its noble cause of saving children’s lives and sharing knowledge. This year the NMA Annual Conference will take place in Las Vegas, NV, from October 13 to 16th, 2011.
The 2011 RAMA Annual Conference will provide a great venue to interact with diverse group of Russian-speaking physicians, educators and scientists as well as other healthcare associated professionals. RAMA is working on the conference agenda which includes such featured presentations as:
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The California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks invites families to join them for the celebration of Scandinavian Festival and is ready to provide an affordable fun for every participant. The event includes food arrangements, entertainment and demonstrations highlighting Nordic cultures of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, and let you feel surrounded by the vibe and atmosphere of Northern Europe cultures.
The festival will open with the traditional colorful parade of flags featuring Scandinavian dignitaries and Old World costumes and will continue with ongoing music, dancing, demonstrations and lectures.
The festival offers many activities for children including Dala horse croquet and a lawn game called kubb. Children can explore the cultures of five Scandinavian countries ... 
KAZKA Ukrainian Folk Ensemble was founded in 1987 in order to preserve, promote, and enhance Ukrainian culture, music, and dance in the anthracite coal regions of Northern Pennsylvania. KAZKA is particularly dedicated to the preservation of the music and dance of the first wave of immigrants to the anthracite regions in the late 19th century and early 20th century. KAZKA seeks to share Ukrainian music and dance with a wide audience both at home in Schuylkil County, Pennsylvania and throughout the United States through performances, workshops, and lectures. KAZKA is incorporated as a not-for-profit organization in Pennsylvania.
When: July 2 – July 6, 2012
Where: The Ukrainian Homestead,
1230 Beaver Run Drive, Lehighton, PA 18235
For more information click here.
The Kalamazoo Russian Festival is an all day event with a combination of scheduled programs and open format that runs from 10A to 4P. One of the first things many festival guests like to do is to grab a schedule and mark their “must sees”. At a typical festival we will have at least three musical performances, a theater production, and a vocal choir, with a variety of lectures and ceremonies mixed in. Past years have also seen specialty acts ranging from professional puppet shows, to magicians, and jugglers. Once you have decided when to be where, your time between programs can be spent roaming one of our two exhibition halls full of vendors, perusing the art gallery, enjoying music and crafts in the children’s room, or stopping by the chess room to challenge our loca ... 
