The first public showing of „Bravo, Laurencia!” Nadezhda Ptushkina's film based on her own play, will take place at TsDRI (Central House of Art Workers) on Saturday, March 21 at 6 p.m. Oksana Mysina performs the lead role in the comedy about a woman who, when she has a baby, learns more about her mother than she ever expected to know. The showing will take place at an evening honoring Ptushkina's work as a writer and director.
TsDRI is located at at Pushechnaya Ulitsa, 9/6, in the courtyard next to the Kuznetsky Most metro stop. Tel. 623-5047.

A film crew from the Stolitsa channel will be shooting the Oxy Rocks concert at the Bilingua club on March 17. The show begins at 9 p.m. Come out and be part of the event.

The award-winning documentary filmmaker Olesya Fokina will host the premiere of her latest work in the White Hall of the Cinema House on Thursday, March 19, 2009, at 7 p.m. “Don't Tell Me Who You Are” in part explores the work of Xavier Emmanuelli, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and one of the co-founders of Doctors Without Borders. Included in the film are reports of the organization's activities with homeless children in Moscow. Oksana Mysina dubbed the Russian voices of some of the women in the film, including jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater who performed a benefit concert for Doctors Without Borders in Moscow. The premiere is presented by Kod-Film+, Samusocial International and the French Cultural Center in Moscow. The Cinema House is located at Vasilyevskaya Ulitsa, dom 13. Metro Mayakovskaya or Belorusskaya.

Oksana Mysina and Oxy Rocks joined the ConcertInternet.com site at the beginning of March and in just over a week have moved up to 22nd place in the ratings of hundreds of bands. If you can read Russian, log onto www.concertinternet.com/video/Oksy/ or www.concertinternet.com/mp3/Oksy/ and give them a look, a listen — and your votes, should you be so inclined.

Oksana Mysina and her band will play the Bilingua Club March 17 at 9 p.m. The club is located at Krivokolenny Pereulok, 10, Bldg. 5. Metro Chistiye Prudy. Tel. 623-9660. That's a Tuesday night and there's no cover on Tuesdays, so come on down!

Oksana Mysina and her band Oxy Rocks took a close second place in an international internet contest of musicians performing covers of Bob Dylan's songs. Oksana and band competed with their Russian-language version of Dylan's “Things Have Changed.“ The winners of the contest, Maggie's Farm Southern Band, are from Naples, Italy. They performed the song „Slow Train” from Dylan's gospel period. Log onto www.dylanradio.com to hear these and thousands of other Dylan songs — by Dylan and by others.