Monthly Archives: February 2020

New Exhibition on ESTO Festivals

In February 19, 2020 VEMU opened a new exhibition “ESTO – The Keeper of Global Estonianness” at Tartu College. Making of the exhibition was a joint effort by VEMU and the Estonian National Museum (ENM). It portrays the ESTOs from 1972, when the first festival was organized in Toronto, to the latest ESTO that took place in 2019 jointly in Helsinki, Tallinn and Tartu.

Read more February 25, 2020

Tartu New Theatre visited Toronto

This year Estonians living in Toronto had a great Valentine’s present as the Tartu New Theatre visited VEMU and gave two performances of their monodrama “Symphony for One” (directed by Ardo Ran varres) on February 13 and 14.

Read more February 20, 2020

A New Project on Lithuanian Re-Emigration

Adolfas Damušis Democracy Studies Centre of the National Library of Lithuania started implementing a new project whose main focus is Lithuanian re-emigration. Entitled “30 Stories for 30 Years: The Experiences of Returning Immigrants and Their Contribution to the Strengthening of Lithuanian Statehood” the project draws attention to those who have returned from emigration, emphasizing the motives of both emigration and re-emigration, peoples’ experiences, successes, and failures.

Read more February 15, 2020

The Archive of Lithuanian Cultural Attachés Awaits Its Researchers

A year ago, the former cultural attaché of the Republic of Lithuania in the United Kingdom, Rita Valiukonytė, handed over to the National Library of Lithuania the cultural documents of the diplomatic mission of the Republic of Lithuania in London. The archive covers the period from 1991 to 2016. Most of the documents were accumulated during the time served by two cultural attachés, Daiva Parulskienė (2008-2012) and Rita Valiukonytė (2012-2016).

Read more February 2, 2020