Monthly Archives: December 2019

MY TARTU – Collection Campaign to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Tartu College

In September 2020, Tartu College will celebrate its 50th birthday. Throughout these long years, this building has been home to many Toronto university students as a residence, as well as a home to Estonians, non-Estonians, and guests from near and far.

Read more December 18, 2019
The Society for the Study of World Lithuanians

On November 8, 2019, on the initiative of Vytautas Magnus University, the Society for the Study of World Lithuanians was established.

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Baltic Heritage Network Newsletter 2019, No.4 is now available

We are happy to present Winter 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. 

Read more December 16, 2019
Latvian Musicians in Canada

Music is the foundation of Latvian culture, beginning with folk songs and continuing with symphonies and opera and other forms of musical expression. Latvia, proportionally to its population, has produced a remarkable number of world-renowned musicians. Here I will look at those who arrived in Canada after WWII leaving their un-erasable musical footsteps and at others who followed in those footsteps.

Read more December 8, 2019
The Screening of a Film by Dutch-Estonian Director

On 25 November, 2019 the screening of a film “Coming Home Soon: The Refugee Children of Geislingen” by Dutch-Estonian film director Helga Merits took place at the National Library of Lithuania. The director’s latest film is about Estonian children who fled Estonia in 1944 with their parents, sometimes with only one parent or relative, and spent the war in the Geislingen refugee camp in southern Germany.

Read more December 2, 2019
10 Years of Empowering Young Researchers

This season marks the ten year anniversary of Baltic Heritage Network young diaspora researchers’ seminars.

Read more December 1, 2019