Monthly Archives: May 2019

In relation to the ESTO festival and the song festival taking place in Estonia in summer 2019, as well as the 75th anniversary of the Great Escape in the fall, the Festival of Exhibits by/of Estonians Abroad will begin in May and last to the end of the year throughout Estonia.

On May 14-16, 2019 the 8th Symposium of the Entangled Media Histories research network “Current Challenges of Entangled Media Histories—Theories, Sources, and Methodologies” was organized in the Welsh countryside outside Newtown.

The two-volume monograph Nylon Curtain. Lithuanian Music in the Context of International History of Cold War, by the musicologists, Prof. Rūta Stanevičiūtė, Prof. Danutė Petrauskaitė, and Prof. Vita Gruodytė, was presented at the National Library of Lithuania.

On May 5-7, 2019 the First World Lithuanian Writers Forum took place in Vilnius. It was attended by more than 30 writers, translators and literary critics from fifteen countries.

Panevėžys County Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė Public Library and Faculty of Communication of Vilnius University kindly invite you to take part in an international research conference “Cultural Expression of the Diaspora of the Baltic States in 1944-2018: Documentary Heritage” dedicated to World Lithuanian Year.

The first weekend in May celebrates Jane Jacobs with volunteer-guided walks around Toronto, where people can learn more about specific areas in the city. Estonians in Toronto have been introduced to various examples of architecture by Estonians over the last few years.

The travelling exhibition “We Created the Lithuanian State Together: The Lithuanian- American Community, Inc. 1951- 2018” at the National Library of Lithuania highlights the fact that Lithuanian-Americans have always kept close contact with the homeland and have contributed to country’s development.

For the sixth year in a row, the diaspora researchers and archivists gathered at the National Library of Lithuania. The aim of the seminar is to bring together researchers working in the diaspora field, especially students, to give them the opportunity to share their research, and also to encourage the representatives of archives and museums to introduce the Lithuanian diaspora collections housed at their institutions to the broader audience.

Saturday, April 27, the VEMU (Museum of Estonians Abroad) fundraiser took place for the 8th time. This year the theme was Kihnu.