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An American and a Russian: Exploring the Other
For decades, Americans and Russians have encountered each other through politics, propaganda, and fear. But what happens when they encounter each other IRL?
“An American and a Russian: Exploring the Other” brings together two storytellers—Bernadine, an American, and Sufian, a Russian immigrant—to explore how they have imagined, misunderstood, and sometimes unexpectedly embraced the other. Join us for an evening of public history, intimate remembrance, and music.
Teller Bios:
An academic by day, Sufian Zhemukhov is an award-winning author and performer. His stories draw on his experience as a first-generation immigrant and college professor, which might be funnier than you’d expect.
Bernadine Joselyn is the Minnesota-born descendant of white Protestant farmers and their settler forbearers. Imagination and longing led her from her childhood home in a first-ring Minneapolis suburb to New York City, India, the Soviet Union-later Russia, and now, rural Itasca County, giving up civil society building for tree tending along the way.
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