INTERNATIONAL MIDWEST MAGAZINE
  • Home
  • IM-Magazine Experts Section
    • Expert Contributors
    • Articles >
      • IM-Magazine: Arts
      • IM-Magazine: Culture
      • IM-Magazine: Business
    • Submission Guidelines
  • Events
  • Contact
Connect. Inspire. Promote.

INTERNATIONAL MIDWEST

contact im-magazine

INTERNATIONAL MIDWEST 

A MAGAZINE OF EDUCATION, ARTS & CULTURE 
that promotes and connects Midwestern companies and organizations doing business locally and internationally
partner and advertise
Join our expert Contributors
Contact IM-Magazine

IM-Magazine Partners

Picture
Kansas City RU
Russian Source in KC

Picture
International Relations
Council

Picture
AJ Fashion &
Style Magazine

Picture
Irina's Gourmet Bakery.
European Cuisine in KC


 Events
Our Partners Invite You...

advertise your event

Kansas City RU & Irina's Gourmet Bakery Present  
RUSSIAN CULTURE & CUISINE SERIES
 
Date: September 2, 2018
Time: 1 - 3 PM
RSVP & buy tickets by August 25, 2018
Location: Irina's Gourmet Bakery
Russian Culture & Cuisine - Event & Ticket Info
Picture
If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.
- Maya Angelou

Greetings!

Picture
Dear Readers of INTERNATIONAL MIDWEST:
 
Thank you for your time and interest in our magazine! With it, we will highlight the life of the international community in the Midwest. My own story of coming to this region from another country and making it my home inspires me to CONNECT people of different ethnic groups, INSPIRE those who are not yet confident and PROMOTE the businesses and cultures of our diverse, midwestern community. Originally from Russia, I moved to beautiful Kansas City in 1999. Thank you, Kansas City, for allowing me to call you my home! Thank you, IM readers, for strengthening the support for international culture and business!

I have seen first-hand the profound effects of a culture supporting our diverse backgrounds. I have needed such support myself: with the connection and inspiration of professional friends and editors, I began my life here with limited English skills and have grown into a poet, translator and writer in the English language. With new confidence, I now enjoy contributing both Russian and English literature to my community. For many years, I was embarrassed about my strong Russian accent and was afraid to speak out. But that is not the case any more. I accepted myself and my ethnic background and, with this, possibilities opened for me. As a sense of community grew, I found that others listened to me and valued my opinion. I hope this magazine will help people of diverse cultures find courage if it is lost, embrace talent if it is hidden, reach out to those who live with a minority mindset, and better understand the diverse cultures around them.

We often don't realize how global and multicultural the Midwest region truly is! We might not think about how strongly we are connected. And sometimes, we forget that our world is beautiful because we are different. The idea behind International Midwest is to be connected, inspire each other and promote our unique cultures!

Kansas City is a great example of the artistic and commercial success afforded by an international mindset. The city offers many things that make it a very special place and JAZZ is a fine example. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, designated Kansas City as part of its Creative Cities Network, conferring that  globally recognized designation for our music. Kansas City is the only U.S. city named a “music city” by
UNESCO. Jazz began as a melding of traditions from the African and European diasporas; now, it is an international export. From an art form born in the United States, Kansas City let its own jazz style be born. From here, it is exported and recognized worldwide. “[Our UNESCO designation] gives us a platform that no other city in America has, for our music,” boasted Mayor Pro Tem, Scott Wagner, in 2017. “We know that Kansas City’s jazz has had global impact, and this is now being recognized internationally.”(www.kcmo.gov) As a musician myself, I am especially happy to support our city’s Jazz culture!
         
Together, we can continue legacies like Kansas City Jazz, to make our home in the Midwest more international. Let's CONNECT, PROMOTE and INSPIRE each other.


Sincerely, ​
Svetlana S. Yeager
Founder of the INTERNATIONAL MIDWEST Magazine

Contribute to 
​INTERNATIONAL MIDWEST Magazine

IM-Magazine invites arts, culture and education experts to become contributing writers.
​Learn more about becoming an Expert Contributor
and sharing your international and Midwestern perspectives along with our corps of writers.
Submission guidelines

INTERNATIONAL MIDWEST
​ Arts Articles

 From Around the World. Only the Finest. Only in the Midwest.
Join IM-Magazine arts Expert CONTRIBUTORS
Picture
We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.
— Max de Pree

INTERNATIONAL MIDWEST
Ethnic Food

Only Delicious. Only Authentic. Only in the Midwest.
​(Coming soon)
join im-magazine ethnic food expert CONTRIBUTORS
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience. 
- Yo-Yo Ma 


contact im-magazine

INTERNATIONAL MIDWEST
Articles on Culture and Community

Multiethnic. Multilingual. Multitalented. 
join im-magazine cultural expert contributors
Asian Cultures
partner with im-magazine
Although we are in different boats you in your boat and we in our canoe we share the same river of life.  
- Chief Oren Lyons
Picture

About the Founder

Svetlana S. Yeager moved to the USA in 1999 from her native Russia. She has a degree in music education and conducting which she obtained at the Music College in Ulyanovsk, Russia. in 2018, she graduated from the Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow, Russia.

​Svetlana (Lana) has extensive experience in managing multilingual translation and interpreting projects. She is a poet, writer, singer and songwriter. Her poems and stories were published in literary magazines in Russia. She performed on the Russian TV as well as in concerts, with popular singers in Russia and Ukraine. With her program "From Russia to America," she has participated in international events in Kansas City since 2000. Lana is the founder of the Russian Cultural Association "Russian House of Kansas City", a nonprofit organization that promotes cultures of the Russian-speaking community of KC. She is Commissioner of Russia at the Mayor of Kansas City's Ethnic Enrichment Commission.

Picture

About the Editor

Anne Gatschet was raised in a rural home in the bluffs of the Missouri River. Her grandparents owned and operated a summer community theater, The Bell Road Barn Playhouse, in Parkville, Missouri, where she first acted at age four, in Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. She grew up surrounded by music, literature and the dramatic arts and chose the path of literature, focusing on studies in Romance Languages, Translation, and Poetry. She has studied and written poetry since childhood and considers the space of the poem to be her home. Anne received a Bachelor of Arts from New York University in Latin American Literature and a Masters from the University of California, Berkeley, in Comparative Literature. She worked for years in publishing, first as a managing editor and then as a bilingual lexicographer, and changed careers to classroom teaching when her first child started school. She has taught English, Spanish, art history and environmental sustainability. Her classroom teaching experience includes all ages, kindergarten through college. She moved from New York to Kansas City in 2014 and completed an Executive Masters in Public Administration at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. The mother of two, grown daughters, Anne now works in arts programming and as an arts writer and editor. ​

About Us

INTERNATIONAL MIDWEST Magazine promotes Arts, Culture and Education in the Midwest. 
Our magazine's Editorial Team is based in Kansas City and accepts contributions from writers worldwide.


advertise in IM-Magazine
join our expert CONTRUBUTORS
Contact IM-Magazine

Come back soon!


Hours

M-Th: 9 am - 4 pm

Telephone

1-816-547-8297

Email

info@internationalmidwest.com

www.internationalmidwest.com

2017-2018. All Rights Reserved.  Service of A Consultant Intl, LLC
  • Home
  • IM-Magazine Experts Section
    • Expert Contributors
    • Articles >
      • IM-Magazine: Arts
      • IM-Magazine: Culture
      • IM-Magazine: Business
    • Submission Guidelines
  • Events
  • Contact