The International Women's Club of Moscow www.iwcmoscow.ru Autumn 2012 Your Committee 2012/2013 INTRO TABLE OF C ONTENTS President’s letter.............................................3 The May General Meeting ..............................4 The June General Meeting..............................5 CONTACTS Your Committee 2012/2013 ............................6 As always, we want to hear from you! The IWC is here for all of us, and we want to Let’s get ready for Winter Bazaar....................9 know how we are doing, and what we can do better. Please send us your comments. Apple Spas.....................................................10 Membership Charities........................................................12 [email protected] History: 1812.................................................15 Interest Groups [email protected] Out and about in Moscow ............................16 Charities Get to know: Sweden....................................18 [email protected] In Focus: Golden Ring ...................................20 Donations Office Agenda: Moscow Affiche ..............................22 [email protected] Public Relations [email protected] Website [email protected] IWC Newsletter [email protected] CREDITS St a rry, S The International Women’s Club of Moscow tarry Newsletter is published four times a year, HOLD THE DATE! nig printed by Aeropress and distributed at ht general meetings, coffee mornings, emailed The IWC’s 2012/13 season’s to our members and posted on our IWC web- site. Embassies Dinner and Ball, We welcome your ideas, contributions and own photographs to make our Newsletter Moscow’s most glittering annual event, more interesting! will be held on MARCH 23rd, 2013 Editor: Lisa Bushby at the Renaissance Monarch Page Design: Therese Plappart Centre Hotel. WELCOME Dear Patrons and Members, My dear friends and colleagues, success. Their devotion was highly appreciated. The holidays are almost over and I hope that all of us will However, we have also added to begin our tasks with fresh our team many new Steering energy. Committee members: Anna Lech, Agata Pasek, Jan Friedrich In June, the Steering Committee and Shelley Gaglia were elected. chose me for the post of our new I am sure that our co-operation IWC president. with them will be effective and I want to continue the work of our beneficial for the IWC. It’s great former president. I want to keep to be together again, to be able supporting our cultural program to share this summer’s stories and collect money for charitable with each other and I am more We will hold this year’s first activities (currently we have than happy to welcome our new meeting at the Spaso House, approximately 100 projects, of IWC members. where we are invited by the which some are highlighted in During the holidays we enjoyed charming spouse of the this issue of our newsletter). some lovely coffee mornings and Ambassador of the USA Donna Norton. Moreover, I would like to newcomers’ mornings — as the strengthen our bonds with other summer is coming to an end we In October, we will hold a women associations in Moscow, can start over our IWC activities. General Meeting at the Polish the embassies, universities and We have several wonderful plans Embassy. I hope that you will art galleries. for this year: events, meetings, enjoy looking at the works of presentations, fashion shows — I some of the most interesting Over the summer, we had to say Polish fashion designers. goodbye to some of our active am sure that these projects will members: Anna van der Meer, make our stay in Moscow much I wish all of you another amazing Sandra Lennox, Frances more enjoyable and our charity year in Moscow, and I hope that Appleby, Irina Leonenko, projects that are currently on the our meetings will be both Gersand Horel-Watteau, Becky waiting list will also help those in enjoyable and beneficial. Bednarek, Shanti Bhattacharya need. Our main event will be, as and Teki Schror. We would like usually, the Winter Bazaar, to thank them for their hard work organised this year on 1 Izabella Zajączkowska and wish them happiness and December. President of IWC The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. ~ Sydney J. Harris EVENTS The IWC May General Meeting Our General Meeting in May has traditionally been held together with the IWC’s artists exhibition. This May was no different and brought together artists from around the international community in Moscow to the RuArts Art Gallery , the perfect venue to showcase their work, which included photographs, paintings and sculptures . We would like to thank all our artists for joining us and offering their work for viewing. Anna Schipper- Tcherkasova, Anna van der Meer, Beate Mitrovits, Davina Garrido de Miguel, Ela Kinowska, Iken Warner, Jelena Dobroussova-Davies, Julia Belyaeva, Katherine Owsiacki, Krisztina Rebek-Schay, Naomi Al- Midhadi, Natalia Inkina, Nathalie Trembley-Sierro, Oksana Yanbykh, Sofya Antipova, Spomenka Vukotich, Sue Allen, Tatjana Berhndt, Tatyana Gorbasheva (Zotova), Thirumeni Thilakavathi, Tiiu Viljasaar and Violette Paré. In addition to the wonderful art, it was the first official opportunity for our new president, Ms Izabella Zajączkowska to speak to members. Along with welcoming our members to the event and congratulating all our artists on their work, she thanked the RuArts Art Gallery for opening their doors to the IWC, and to supporting our artists and organisation by providing such an impressive venue for them to exhibit. IWC May General Meeting 2012: Ruarts Art Gallery All pictures from the event were taken by Natalia Inkina, and may be viewed at: http://s1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb463/iwc_moscow_newsletter/General%20Meeting%20%20May%202012/. Our brandbrand----newnew Interest Groups booklet for 20122012––––1313 is now out and can be picked up at any of our meetings! EVENTS June 2012 General Meeting: Hotel Baltchug Kempinsky On 13 June 2012, the International Women's Club held its General Meeting at the Hotel Baltchug Kempinsky. It was the last General Meeting of the season 2011–2012 and it was attended by a large number of the IWC members who also renewed their membership for the next season. The recently elected IWC President, Isabella Zajączkowska, wife of the Ambassador of Poland, warmly greeted all participants and expressed the hope that the IWC will continue functioning successfully, developing interesting activities to help foreign ladies in Moscow to have a pleasant and culturally enriching life in the Russian capital. The General Manager of the hotel, Gerhard E. Mitrovits, also addressed the guests and expressed his satisfaction with such an important event being held in this hotel and invited the IWC to organise other activities, promising his full co-operation. Everybody present at the General Meeting was pleased to enjoy the nice atmosphere, good quality of wines and snacks served, as well as well trained personnel of the hotel helping the guests to feel comfortable. Text by Alla Zenkovich All photos of the event by Marzena Dybowska, and may be viewed at: http:// s1207.photobucket.com/albums/bb463/iwc_moscow_newsletter/General%20Meeting% 20June%202012/. YOUR CLUB Meet Your Steering Committee 2012/2013 As you all know, the IWC is run by a steering committee voted by all members once a year. All members of the Steering Committee work as volunteers and are responsible for running the affairs of the club. The steering Committee is led by up to three presidents, all of whom are ambassadors or the spouse of an ambassador. This year our president is the spouse of the Polish ambassador—Izabella Zajączkowska. As a matter of fact we had to say good bye to a lot of members this summer. As you can see, there are several vacancies - so we are waiting for YOU ! Klynn Lochhead Izabella Zajaczkowska Marianna Aslamazian General Officer President Recording Officer Agata Pasek Anna Lech Inez de Nijs General Meetings General Meetings Interest Groups Jan Friedrick Shelley Gaglia Alla Zenkovich Treasurer Embassies Dinner and Ball Public Relations Assistant YOUR CLUB Cecilia Wettstam Lisa Bushby Therese Plappart Website Editor Website Assitant Newsletter Assistant This could be You !! If you consider to become part of our Team please contact: the steering Committee. You will than get any further information and you will be asked to send in your CV. Breda Faus Fundraising Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ~Henry Ford Adieu! We wanted to take this opportunity to recognize the stand-out contribution that Anna van der Meer made to our Steering Committee as Charities (Co-Chair) for many years. Anna was integral to our team, she put her heart and soul into the role, and she will be sorely missed by us all. We wish Anna all the best as she returns home to Holland. YOUR CLUB Volunteers needed! Please, join our team We have a number of positions open on our both our Steering Committee and our Charities Board. The IWC is run entirely by volunteers and we rely on your help to keep it going. Current vacancies on our Steering Committee are: • Membership/Newcomers Co-ordinator • Membership/Newcomers Assistant Co-ordinator • Public Relations Chair • Interest Groups Assistant Co-ordinator • Assistant Treasurer • Newsletter Editor • Fundraising and Membership Rewards Assistant • Winter Bazaar Co-Chairs (2) Current Charities Board vacancies are: • Charities Co-Chair (2). • Assistant Lead Co-ordinator (Children in Families) • Assistant Lead Co-ordinator (Volunteers) • Lead Co-ordinator for Elderly and Destitute • Donations-in-kind Lead Co-ordinator • Project Co-ordinators • Project Information: Rodniciok • Project Information: MPC Children Hunger Assistance Program • General Volunteers There’s lots more information on the role and responsibilities of the charities positions available on our website at http://iwcmoscow.ru/how-to-get-involved/charity-volunteering.html. If you are interested in joining the Steering Committee, please send your cv to [email protected]. The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side.