Desirable qualities of a volunteer: a sense of purpose - knowing you have a contribution to make, good communication skills, commitment, dependability and punctuality.

Please choose as many positions as you are able to take.

Fill out the Volunteers' sign up form to be put into our volunteer database. Please download the Word document on your computer, save and email to events@newrussiacenter.org.

You make the Festival happen!
Your assistance is VITAL to make this Festival a success! Thank you!
Our volunteers are priceless!

The New Russia Cultural Center offers a variety of interesting and educational opportunities for our volunteers. Our volunteers are assertive, energetic, education-oriented individuals. Commitment may range from several hours a week leading up to an event or a few hours a month long term. Hours can be weekday, evening or weekend.

• There are opportunities to facilitate all stages of project, including assisting staff with creative program ideas, help gather materials and develop activities.
• Volunteers are needed to help with administrative work, assisting with mass mailings, follow up calls or meetings with administration of local libraries and schools.
• Volunteers are needed to coordinate events, set up, supervision, interacting with the children, and clean up after presentations.
• Volunteers are needed to research grant-making prospects, maintain the donor database, handle correspondence.
• A volunteer coordinator is needed to organize and support volunteers.

Whether you are retired, a professional, student or just have a skill and time you would like to share, the New Russia Cultural Center will welcome you as a volunteer.

We are fortunate to have our special volunteers - advising scholars. Their professional works have been helping us to develop a program "Russian Folk Art Revealed". Our thanks to:

• Alison Hilton, Distinguished Professor of Art History, Georgetown University, Washington, DC. She specializes in Russian Folk Art, and her publications include: "Folk Art and the Peasant Village", "The Thread of Tradition", "Russian Folk Art: Tradition, Invention and National Culture", "The Peasant Village and the World of Russian Folk Art".
• Dr. Sarah Burke, Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. Her specialties are Russian art and literature of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
• Maria Holl, Assistant Professor of Modern Languages and Literatures, Trinity University, San Antonio, Texas. She specializes in Russian folklore (narrative genres such as magic tales and epic songs, folk belief, etc.)
• John Potter is Academic Librarian. He has interest in Russian Folk Art. He has a Russian History Blog web site as a daily Internet tour of Russian History and Culture.

A Big Thanks to all Volunteers 2010 who have put their time and energy to make a great success of the second Russian Winter Festival in the Capital District.

Lena Lake
Joe Meschino
Vika Kolomeets
Janet Smith
Dawn Weinraub
Sonja Stark
Mary Emerson
Betty Smith
Irina Shteynvurtsel
Paul Marr
Robert Willard
Boric Melnikov
Lena Dyatlova
Maria Kuznetsova
Svetlana Puzulis
Elena Silverman
Alla Bondar
Luba Ruseva
Marina Tabarovskaya
Rita Rutiana
Sergey Furman
Tanya Stepanets
Tasia Fedorov
Margarita Khaitov
Anton Konev
Larisa Wins
Joel Cornell
Pat Whalen
Donna Ross
Sara Scheldo

You are greatly appreciated !!!