Culture as an Integration Resource Brigita Stroda September 2012 Tallinn
Latvian cheer squad!
Zvanenieki
Smells like integration to me !
Tosca Latvian National Opera Director: Dimitry Bertman
Latvian National Opera production of Carmen – Elīna Garanča
Ilya Repin – The State Council 1903
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"It doesn't matter how small or large the scope of your story is, what matters is the amount of contrast” Dan Harmon
Inta Ruka
Inta Ruka
Katrina Neiburga
Katrīna Neiburga – Patiesība / Truth
Piemineklis Monument Curator: Helena Demakova
Multi-media poetry - Orbita
Editorial Note: Orbita formed in 1999 when Latvian poets Artur Punte, Sergey Timofejev, Semyon Khanin, Zhorzh Uallik, and Vladimir Svetlov, who write in Russian, got together to establish a "text-group." The mulitimedia project entitled Orbita (The Orbit) birthed from these roots starting out with readings in clubs, city squares, and even a small ship, from locations spanning Riga, Moscow, Minsk, Stockhom, Prague, Leipzig, and New York. In 2000 the group produed a CD titled O2 and in 2001 they held a poetic video festival, Word in Motion. Orbita 4 was released as a poetry CD+DVD in 2004. The audio CD is a collaboration with a variety of musicians from Riga, Moscow and St. Petersburg. The DVD is compiled works of Latvian artists from two video festivals and new videopoems from Orbita and partners. Orbita's website is www.orbita.lv.
Māris Bišofs Vents Vīnbergs
The Diving Identity „. . . . We, Latvians are a secretive nation. We communicate in a rare language, seldom recognized even by the closest neighbours. For a community of Northerners, which is forced to be constantly on the defensive both due to its miniscule size and the climate, the rarity of the language is a functional advantage. However, frequently this advantage alone is not enough. We hold in high esteem our ability to be inconspicuous, unassuming, and to keep our hiding place concealed. Our language is structured the same way; it has very few decorative figures of speech and grandiloquence often seems pretentious and thus unnecessary. The surface of the language, in its most refined form, has a smooth, even texture, it is firm and concise. Yet, for a Latvian, it carries a dense web of implied meanings. In other words, the message of „how things really are”, which cannot be communicated so as to remain hidden and avoid deconstruction. Theories that insist that only those things exist, which can be put in words, do not work for a Latvian, with his taste for mysticism and metaphysics”.
Brigita Ozolins – Installation for the Latvian National Library (Kr. Barona iela) on the occaison of the Soros Foundation Latvia – 15 year anniversary
Brigita Ozolins – Installation for the Latvian National Library (Old Town) on the occaison of the Soros Foundation Latvia – 15 year anniversary
Street Theatre – Director Lūkass Rozitis – on the occaison of the Soros Foundation Latvia – 15 year anniversary
Kathy Hinde Piano Migrations HomoAlibi
Kremerata Baltica – the true Baltic «genius loci» Part – Vasks - Dvarionas
Kristaps Ģelzis – Venice Bienale 2011
www.designofprosperity.se
A nation grows up when it develops the ability to laugh at itself !
OMID JALILLI
Goodness Gracious Me !
It was wickedly apt for the creators of this show to choose a title so reminiscent of the stereotypical portrayal of Asians that had blighted the British media for decades. It started as a radio series and then broke out on television, with four British Asian performers (plus 'token white' Dave Lamb) taking part in sketches that managed to be bred from their own backgrounds and yet relevant and (most importantly) funny to a wider demographic. They set their stall almost immediately with the classic "going for an English" sketch, in which a group of Asians embody the loutish behaviour of lager swilling Brits in an Indian restaurant (one diner asks for something "really bland"). Like the best sketches, it was a simple idea done brilliantly, and their strongest ideas took Asian stereotypes but used them to illustrate comic ideas of universal appeal.
«Heart and Soul» / «All The Small Things»
Culture is the best way of having a conversation ! Thank you !