January 2022 - BaltHerNet

School Lore Competition for Canadian Estonians Concludes With Preliminary Results

The Estonian Museum Canada (VEMU) of Toronto, in collaboration with the Estonian Literary Museum in Tartu, organized a campaign to collect the school lore of the Estonian diaspora community in Canada throughout 2021. Submissions for the campaign were welcomed from both current students as well as individuals who had either worked in education or previously attended an educational institution. The campaign honoured the memory of the former director of the Estonian Supplementary Schools in Toronto, Edgar Marten, who passed away in 2020.

Read more January 31, 2022

Study on Social Remittances of Transnational (Re) Migrants to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern Europe

People who emigrated after the 1990s and have higher education are bringing back to Lithuania the democratic and civic values of the western world. High culture of professional communication, intolerance of corruption, sensitivity to the marginalized, tolerance of sexual minorities, and a more favourable attitude towards refugees—these are the changes that they bring to their closest circles. This had been the conclusion of a qualitative study conducted by researchers from Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) and the Institute for Social Innovation, together with colleagues in Croatia, Poland and the United Kingdom. The main topic of the study was “social remittances”: knowledge, experiences, social skills, norms, values, social capital and other social and cultural resources that have an impact on the growth of well-being in societies of (re) migrants.

Read more January 12, 2022

Janis Kalninš Opera Hamlets at the LNOB

Jānis Kalniņš’opera Hamlets first opened in Latvia on February 17, 1936, to great acclaim. Because of the Soviet, then Nazi, and then the second Soviet occupation, the opera never crossed its national borders into Europe and the New World. Nonetheless, it enjoyed more than 55 performances during the various occupations, until it was banned in the Latvian SSR. Renowned conductors Erich Kleiber and Leo Blech were enthusiastic about Kalniņš’ opera and wanted to have it produced in Europe, but World War II put an end to their efforts. The new production of Hamlets, which opened on January 13, 2022, at the Latvian National Opera and Ballet (LNOB) during the COVID-19 pandemic had a lot to live up to, and it did so brilliantly.

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