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Dear friends!
We would like to thank everybody who came to our annual Maslenitsa celebration!
We hope everybody has found something interesting.
The puppet-theater (Stage director-Natalia Udal'tsova) made a very successful debut
with "The Rabbit and the Fox" Russian tale. It was a great team work: students, teachers,
parents, even grandfather were involved. Our gratitude to Grigory Manouilov for the
portable screen frame he has made and donated to the theater.
Despite the cold windy weather children (and their parents too!) enjoyed outdoor
games, rope-pooling and scare-crow burning as a culmination of traditional ceremony of
Farewell to Winter. And finally- traditional pancakes, tea with sweets, performances
by children, newly organized folk ensemble, our guests accordionist Sergej Belkin
and dombrist Yury Kolossovsky. And the lottery!
Our gratitude to ALL THE VOLUNTEERS, helpers and guests who brought pancakes
and sweets! Without you, our friends, the celebration would not be possible.
And we would like to thank OUR SPONSORS:
Apex Auto Sales and Repair and Vadim Shershnev,
Bank Mutual and Anton Tchikida,
State Farm insurance company and Ekaterina Bannikova,
CREECA and Flagship program (UW-Madison),
Grand Concept and Aleksey Aminev.
The owners of "Intermarket" grocery store, better known as Russian Store, have
donated gift-certificates, and we desided to present them to families who had new family
members in 2011 and the beginning of 2012: 7 babies were born since Maslenitsa-2011!
Please visit our photo- gallery for pictures.
We hope to see everybody next year for this holiday celebration!
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