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We are in the UK with a trip to show Britain what Maria’s Children is all bout.

The trip is packed with interesting events and rehab performances. We start off in Stratford-upon-Avon, the native town of the universally praised Bard – William Shakespeare.

The weekend of April 23^rd – April 25^th will see a grand annual celebration of the great Englishman’s birth anniversary in Stratford. As part of it Maria’s Children puts up a performance based on six of Shakespeare’s sonnets. MC’s company is mainly represented by adolescents with an orphanage background. We will also visit the Bards grave and his home and school.

After that we travel to London and stay there for the whopping two weeks! There are lots of things scheduled between April 26^th and May 10th.

The highlights are:

A number of art and drama events for children in London’s Pushkin House

Several Theatre-on-the-Wheels performances of Pushkin’s fairytales

A charity ball with a display of MC’ artwork

Several drama master classes for MC from London’s amateur companies

Apart from that we are anxious to see all those splendid museums London is famed for. Being an art studio MC has developed an extensive program for its children to see the National Gallery, the Tate and the Tate Modern as well as V&A Museum and the British Museum. 

We are back in Moscow on May 11^th.

On the last day of winter, February 28, with children from the boarding-school #4 we were invited to the Italian bakery “Viva Italia” to welcome the coming spring.

On February 26-28 the play training took place in Lipki Holiday Centre, Moscow Region. Children from the boarding-school #80, school-leavers and volunteers came for this training.

In winter there were four tours to Pushkin Art Museum organized for children and  funded by UNICEF project “Open World for Everyone”.   

On February 13 we celebrated the end of Pancake week. The celebration started in the Park where our children were dancing, rope jumping, playing games and having tea. 

Then we went to the studio at Suschevskaya street, where had a feast on traditional pancakes (blini) with sour-cream and condensed milk. Children enjoyed the food and stories and traditions of this old celebration, played guessing games and sang songs. Thank you, all volunteers who made pancakes and played with children. The event was funded by Municipal Council Tverskoye.

On January 24 groups of children from boarding-schools ## 8 and 11 were skating at the skating-rink on Red Square by GUM. This is an annual event for us now thanks to free tickets and skates provided for us by the rink management. We are very thankful to the administration of the rink and personally to Olga Nesterova for the fun that had our children. 

Thank you, all our volunteer who came to share this time with children in the early morning on their day off.

On January 26 we were skating at Petrovka skating-rink with children from the boarding-school # 4.

We are thankful to the rink management for the free tickets and skates provided for us. Children had much fun in spite of the cold weather and had a nice cup of hot tea at the studio afterwards.