YOUNG is our special meet-up space and programme for people aged 18-26, a place to explore, imagine and create together with others. Join to connect with your peers over arts and culture and benefit from collective making and imagining. What’s more, YOUNG membership gives you discounted tickets for events and workshops at Pushkin House and 10% off in the Pushkin House Bookshop!

Here you can realise your ideas by hosting your own events with the support of our team at Pushkin House. In the past year we have launched our regular monthly meetings, launched an interview series to get to know London’s Russian-speaking community, initiated a collective audio-literature project Surround Sound, and hosted events curated by our YOUNG members.

YOUNG meets once a month at Pushkin House in Bloomsbury. To become a member, simply sign up to our special YOUNG newsletter below.

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YOUNG projects

young interviews

YOUNG Interviews is a project initiated and created by our YOUNG members which highlights interesting people and events in the Russian-speaking community in London — from stand-up and professional networking to wine tasting and pub quizzes. The interviews were organised by Londonskaya Diaspora and filmed at Pushkin House, and you can watch the full videos on our YouTube channel.

Surround Sound

Together YOUNG members created an audio walk in the area around Pushkin House, that takes you on an adventure into the world of literature and associations. You can learn more about Surround Sound here.

YOUNG events

We help our YOUNG members to curate and host their own events at Pushkin House. Our mission is to help you realise your creative ideas and intentions, inspire your peers and create an informal space for people to meet and network. All YOUNG events are free to attend for members of the 26 and under scheme.

2023

YOUNG: LONDONSKAYA DIASPORA NETWORKING EVENT

Londonskaya Diaspora (London's Diaspora, LD) is a small collective with a shared passion for networking and video production. They create online content for the London-based Russian-speaking community by connecting Russian-speaking event organisers with their audiences and collaborators through videos.

Following the success of their Young Interviews project, LD brought the initiative offline and organised a networking evening at Pushkin House, where we had the chance to meet the interviewees, find out how they organise their events, and get some inspiration of our own!

2022

Zine Launch: WET LOVE

We marked the launch of WET LOVE Zine's second issue, ‘ABALONE’, with an offering of drinks, techno music, and zines. ‘ABALONE’ revolves particularly around issues of the post-modern body and how we relate to the body as post-internet beings, discusses self-mythology, body modification, and the digital erotic.

Still Happening: Fundraiser Launch

Still Happening was an art project initiated by Masha Vainshtein with the support of Kupfer and Pushkin House, aiming to raise funds and support Ukrainian artists by bringing together artworks by Ukrainian and Russian creators. The project consisted of an online viewing room exhibiting works by a variety of artists of Ukrainian and Russian origins, accompanied by an event hosted by Pushkin House.

2019

In-Between(ers): Russian, Central and Eastern European Artists at Work in the UK

We were joined by Marta Marsicka, curator at Centrala Space, and Dr Jakub Ceglarz, artist and researcher at the University of Birmingham, to better understand the level of inclusion and visibility of Russian, Central and Eastern European art and artists in the UK.

In paradise Exhibition Tour with Margarita Gluzberg

We were joined for an exclusive YOUNG tour of the ‘In Paradise’ exhibition with artist Margarita Gluzberg. We explored behind the scenes of the new series of large-scale drawings, occupying the central space of Pushkin House, which Margarita calls ‘cinema experiments’.

Exploring Identity in Student Filmmaking

We explored questions around the concept of modern Russian identity, how it has evolved and manifested in young people - especially those on the move and in between cultures. The wonderful Nimasu Namsaren kicked off our Young Pushkin events programme with her award winning short film ‘Mavzhuda’ - a narrative on her experience with identity thought the lens of student film-making.

YOUNG PERSPECTIVES

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Making sense of the forbidden zone that held infinite promise!

Frances Shalom delves into the world of Margarita Gluzberg’s ‘In Paradise’ exhibition and unravels what the artist calls ‘cinema experiments’. Made during the night, these were constructed by projecting Andrei Tarkovsky’s ‘Stalker’ directly onto sheets of paper and ‘recording’ the moving image in real time as pencil marks!

What is it like to work with the Pushkin House archive?

Shani Haberman shares her perspective on the ‘May My Voice Now’ exhibition and her experience of working with materials from the archive including art works that hung in the original Pushkin House, signatures, photographs, posters, programmes and sound recordings, as well as the catalogues and posters from early exhibitions.