|
|
|
News and Announcements
November 2009: Update to "Aivar the Nomad". August 2009: Vladimir Putin visits Tuva again. Spring 2007: the Tuva Trader plans to lead a summer tour to Tuva. May 2006: Book and tour by Galsan Tschinag. Summer 2005: Finnish throat singer Imre Peemot makes his mark on the world. Summer 2005: Tuvan musical group Tyva Kyzy will tour the USA this autumn. July 2005: Feynman CDs available for download. June 2005: Google maps includes Tuva! June 2005: Travel report from Bridget Gersten posted. May 11, 2005: May 11, New York City unveiling of the Richard Feynman stamp and street renaming in Far Rockaway. April 2005: Basic Books publishes Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman. April 2005: Basic Books publishes Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman. March 2005: Tuva Online is back online, providing Tuvan news in English. January 2005: Happy New Year! January 2004: Friends of Tuva notes with great sadness the passing of Jirayr Zorthian. December 2003: Friends of Tuva notes with great sadness the passing of Eric Slone, The Tuva Trader. Late in April 2004, a ceremony was held in Tuva in remembrance of Eric. Summer 2002 will see California's first Tuvan music camp held in Mendocino. The Smithsonian Institution presents the Silk Road Festival this summer. This summer's Dembildei festival now has it's own WWW site at http://www.tuva.ru/dembildei/ . In July 2002, the Riddu Riddu Festival in Samuelsberg (or is it Kåfjord? This is an important detail if you are going to attend!), Norway, will play host to "Alash", as part of the Festival's Tuva Day. Why can't every country have a Tuva Day? :-) Dina Oiun and friends have set up an internet new agency "tuva-online" (http://online.tuva.ru) in two languages (Russian and English) to connect "Tuvan places" all over the world and allow correspondents to grow a network. "QED," the play about Richard Feynman starring Alan Alda (based on writings by Richard Feynman, and the book "Tuva or Bust!"), will reprise on February 17 for another limited run, this time for 26 performances at the 1000-seat Vivan Beaumont Theatre (150 W. 65th St at Lincoln Center) on Sunday and Monday evenings only (7:30pm, not 8pm as before), thru May 13. Tickets are available thru Telecharge (212) 239-6200. We are pleased to present some photos of shamans, courtesy of Abbas. In Moscow on February 12-15 (Shagaa is the night of February 12-13) there will be a stamp and photo exhibition, and a presentation of the Tuvan agency in the House of Russian Journalists. (I think that "the Tuvan agency" refers to "tuva-online" at http://online.tuva.ru - Editor). Details will be posted as they arrive. Stop by to read The Stefan Papers; we'll be posting his letters from Tuva as they arrive. Steve Sklar is arranging a North American tour by Tuvan singer and shaman Nikolai Oorzhak. The tour starts in February 2002; see Steve's WWW site for details. Some details of the recent archaeological find near Kyzyl are now available. I have finally gotten around to posting a review of the new CD by the Tuva Ensemble. The review itself, by Sami Jansson, is a work of art. A panel discussion on south Siberian reindeer herders will take place in Washington, DC, late in November. The Tuva Philatelic Research Society opens its doors. A few photos from the premiere of QED are shown here. The Dalai Lama will visit Tuva this summer. Yat Kha will be touring North America in the autumn. The Mark Taper Forum presents QED, a play about Richard Feynman, this spring. Adrian and Roko Belic (the creators of Genghis Blues) will participate in a live web chat, January 31 2001. Details are posted here! 2001 Khoomei Symposium news will be posted here. Genghis Blues has been released on videocassette and DVD. Professor Mongush Kenin-Lopsan has announced that Shaman School will be in session in 2001. Travel to Tuva and learn from the experts! |
|
|
