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 Irina Serkebaeva 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 Announcements Silk Road House continues the KAZAKH FAIRY TALE SERIES The Silk Road House continues live storytelling sessions which will bring you and your children on an imaginary journey to the magical world of fairy tales and epic stories once wildly popular along the historical Silk Roads. No matter what happens, even if your father sells you to a witch or an enemy khan throws you into a prison pit, you can always count on your horse to save the day, as we see in "Itygil" and "Alpamys." In February and March, we are offering a special eight-week storytelling series that presents newly translated Kazakh fairy tales, told for the first time in English. Each session will feature a storytelling performance for all ages, followed by a seminar discussion for adults connecting the stories to Kazakh folk culture led by Silk Road House director and Stanford anthropologist Alma Kunanbaeva. This is a unique opportunity to understand traditional tales in their cultural context, and we hope you can join us, whether once or for the whole program! For more information: www.silkroadhouse.org / dlsherry@hotmail.com / https://www.facebook.com/SilkRoadHouse March 1, 2015: Dana Sherry Family Stories from 1-2.30, free and open to the public. Seminar discussion from 2.30-4. $20 drop in, $120 for the eight-week series, $100 for SAC members Silk Road House events are sponsored by the Silkroad Foundation. 2015 Nauryz Celebration Dear Members of the Silk Road House Community! Dear Friends and Supporters of the Silk Road House! The Silk Road House is delighted to invite you to the annual celebration of the Nauryz (Nawruz, Navruz, Norooz) Spring Holiday! Nauryz holiday transcends religious, ethnic, linguistic and national divisions and brings people together. The event will begin at 12 pm on Saturday, March 21, 2015 at the Hillside Club of North Berkeley located at 2286 Cedar Street, Berkeley, CA 94709. The following is a general event schedule: 12.00 pm - Doors open 12.30 pm - 2.00 pm - Concert 2.00 pm - 3.00 pm - Food is served (Silk Road House will provide food, beverages, fruits, as well as plates, cups, utensils, etc.) 3.00 pm - 4.00 pm - Socializing & dancing. Please purchase tickets online and have them with you at the entrance to the venue. The link to the website to purchase tickets: https://eventbrite.com/event/15771243213/ The online tickets are $25 per person. Children and young people up to 18 years old can enter the event free of charge but their parents or guardians are asked to purchase $0 tickets online and ensure they have their tickets at the entry. For those of you who are not able to purchase online tickets - the tickets will be available at the door for a higher price, $35 per person. Finally, those of you who wish to volunteer to bring food or offer a concert performance, may enter the venue free of charge. Please purchase $0 tickets online and have them with you when you come to the event. You are welcome to bring popular Central Asian dishes such as nauryz kozhe, sumalak, pilafs, kuyrdaks, baursaks, beliashi, chebureki, samsa, pirogi, chak-chak and many others. We kindly ask that you make portions that serve 8-10 people. The Hillside Club has a stage with a grand piano and microphones. Anyone with musical, dance, storytelling or other talent is welcome to participate in the concert program. All volunteers, please purchase $0 tickets online and contact us as soon as possible so we can take you into account and make appropriate arrangements. Any other donations for the support of ongoing Silk Road House activities would be gratefully accepted (cash or checks issued to the name of SRH). Contributions will be also collected at the entrance to the Hillside Club on the day of the event. Residential area street parking. If necessary, additional details will be posted in due time. The SRH Board of Directors