Monthly Archives: March 2019

We are happy to present the Spring edition of the Baltic Heritage Network quarterly newsletter. In these pages you will find information about our past and future events, new publications, and what is happening across the globe within the diaspora research and archive communities.

International Research Conference dedicated to World Lithuanian Year Panevėžys County Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Public Library Respublikos Str. 14, Panevėžys 14 May 2019

What do we know about painter Mstislavas Dobužinskis’s links with Latvia? According to philosopher Antanas Andrijauskas, before leaving for Western Europe Dobužinskis visited Riga with exhibitions [1]. What he did not mention was that the artist not only visited Riga, he lived there!

The exhibit about Canadian Estonian architects that was available to view in the fall/winter of 2017 at Tartu College and at the Museum of Estonian Architecture in Tallinn in spring 2018, got its continuation – on March 7th Leala Hewak and William Eakin’s photo exhibit on Uno Prii’s work was opened at Tartu College.

The Lithuanian World Community, Inc. together with the Lithuanian Writers’ Union and the Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore is organizing the first congress of world Lithuanian writers in Vilnius. The event, which will take place on 5-7 May, 2019, will host 50 Lithuanian writers and/or writers of Lithuanian origin who currently live outside Lithuania.

In fall 2018, the book “To the New World: Estonian Architects in Canada” was published. The book is a continuation of the exhibit with the same title, which was on display at VEMU in the fall and winter of 2017, as well as in Tallinn at the Museum of Estonian Architecture in the spring of 2018.

Although the ESTO Festival (estofestival.com) is taking place in Finland and Estonia, we have tied our summer school program into the ESTO events taking place in Tartu and Tallinn. The main topic for the summer school is beautiful art – we will discuss cultural and art history collections.

In February 2019, a new crowd-sourcing project by the National Archives of Estonia has been launched. A public crowd-sourcing platform called “Communal Courts” aims to offer an easy access to the court cases of the 19th century’s daily life in Estonian villages as well as to publish some new thrilling data for the family researchers.