Silk Road House: A Cultural and Educational Center   Welcome! Silk Road House is a non-profit organization created to promote and support an impressive array of diverse ethnic cultural traditions. The main goals of the Silk Road House are: to create a center for the collection of pertinent cultural and historical information to provide a place where creative activities can bring to life the traditions of the Silk Road here in United States to celebrate the Silk Road's tradition of hospitality Silk Road House symbolizes the connections, communications and bonds between peoples and cultures united by the Silk Road concept, and at the same time, a real network of the modern day contacts between those peoples and cultures. The Silk Road House is a welcoming cultural center where everyone who might be interested could find a wide range of accurate information concerning the history, culture, and everyday life of Silk Road countries.   A word of appreciation...   Our special and deepest thanks go to those who have made an array of donations to Silk Road House – by money, various things, books, time, skill or all these together... Among these generous individuals are (in alphabetical order): Ruth Abrass Navruz Avloni Shirchin Baatar Hanna Bailey Elena Balashova Alexander Bapa Natalie Bondar Kathleen Braunstein Genrietta Bykin Maria Bykin JoAnn Conrad Dieter Christensen Wayne Eastep Patrick Hayes David Hooson Karen Folger Jacobs Anait Khudanazarova Jack Kollmann Robert E. Lee Cariadne Margaret Mackenzie Semion and Ludmila Mirkin Scott Morgan Aiman and Mairbek Mussipov Elmira and Werdana Mussipov Zhanara Nauryzbaeva Karen Nelsen Joan E. Norvelle Beket Nurzhanov James O.Bailey Akin Orhun Skydrite Rubene Vadim Ryvkin Ernar Sagatov Turburam Sandagdorj Martin Schwartz Chris and Steve Shaw Zhuldyz and Lloyd Shimabukuro Elizabeth Shedd Tatiana Shubin Omerjan and Aygul Siddik John Sommer Kemal Sonmez Tenzin Tsophel Orna Uranchimeg-Tsultem Bayan Tulegenova Leonid Urjuk Santo K. van Ess Albina Yerzhanova Joanne Yoshimura ...as well as anonymous private donors, the SilkRoad Foundation and the Open Society Institute. Our cordial thanks to all of you! - Board of Directors of Silk Road House

Current Events Silk Road House presents: “Jascha Heifetz: God’s Fiddler” As you all remember, on April 21, Silk Road House organized a rare event – live concert with the West Sacramento Music Academy Violin Ensemble. That charming concert took place at unusual for SRH time, at 3pm, and maybe for that reason many of you, unfortunately, had no chance to attend it and to enjoy the art of those beautiful children and their mentors, Irina Kravets and Galina Kistanova. We hope to organize another meeting with that ensemble in the future. Meanwhile not only Kazakhstani connection of pianist Kistanova attracted us in organizing that event but also the very idea of the origins of modern violin – the instrument with so ancient roots that are indeed going back to the time of Silk Roads with its amazing cultural contacts and metamorphoses. So, this time we’d like to offer to your attention another violin connected event – a new documentary film “Jascha Heifetz: God’s Fiddler” named one of the top five classical films of 2011. Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) – the first modern violin virtuoso, the violinist of the century, about whom Yitzhak Perlman says in the film, “When I spoke with him, I thought, ‘I can‘t believe it. I’m talking with God’”. This insightful film portrays a musical wunderkind who went on to set the standards for nearly a century. We get to know Jascha Heifetz through home movies and personal family photos taken from 1903-1987. Great clips are shown for the first time. Director and producer Peter Rosen, writer Sara Lukinson. In crafting the film, two our friends were instrumental – Albina Starkova-Heifetz and Galina Kopytova of St. Petersburg, Russia – latter is the author of the excellently written fundamental book “Jascha Heifetz in Russia” (St. Petersburg, 2004) – the book which hopefully will be soon translated into English. Run time: 87 minutes. Language – English. May 12, Saturday, 5pm