The Royal Academy of Arts, A Curious Invitation, Victoria and Albert Museum, Dash Arts, Pushkin House, Michail Khodorkovsky's 'Open Russia' foundation, Mari Vanna restaurant, Watts Gallery are some of the contributors I have worked with as part of Russian Revels - a pop-up dining experience company I co-founded with Karina Baldry in 2012. We also co-hosted events with such award-winning food writers like Olia Hercules ('Mamushka'), Anya von Bremzen ('Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking')' and Alisa Timoshkina's magical pop-up KinoVino.
We created the first food festival of Eastern-European food in London at South Bank Centre together with the Real Food Festival and in 2014 we were asked to cook a dinner for 250 people at the iconic Oxford food symposium. It's been such a ride...Below are some examples.
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samples of work/collaborations:
1920s underground soviet restaurant
a 4-week immersive dining show in a disused building in Clerkenwell
The Futurist dinner
a show and a pop-up banquet inspired by the Italian Futurist movement and Russian Avant Garde
@ Pushkin House, Bloomsbury
Ostalgie* dinner
@ Goethe Institute
* Ostalgie = longing, nostalgia for the 'good, old days' of communism in East Berlin and beyond
Global Feast:
80 meters long feast, drunken cherries and cabaret singing on tables
We represented Russia as part of the celebrations of the Olympic Games in London 2012
(curated by the Latitudinal Dinners & Ms Marmite)
Baba Yaga fairytale
@
A Curious Invitation
Halloween
An arch curated, managed and hosted by us as part of the 3000+ Halloween party