Fall 2007 Event

Adventist Faith and Culture Fellowship

presents

A conversation with Ion Drutse

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Richards Hall Chapel, Columbia Union College

3:30 pm

Ion Drutse is a well-known Russian/Moldovan playwright, poet, and novelist whose new play The Apostle Paul is performed in many theaters throughout Russia and this year, for the first time, is staged inside the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.

Ion Drutse will speak on faith and the arts in Putin's Russia today and on his struggle as a young playwright and novelist in the 1950s/60s under communists, and he will read a passage of his story The Samaritan Woman.

Ion Drutse's friendship with the faculty and students of Zaoksky theological seminary in Russia www.zau.ru goes back to 1990. During his work on the play The Apostle Paul, Drutse used the library of Zaoksky seminary, discussed the first drafts with the faculty and students, and had the first reading of the initial version of the play at Zaoksky.

We look forward to seeing you in October at this very special event. To RSVP for the event, please contact Dr. Michael Kulakov at 301.576.0108 or mkulakov@cuc.edu.