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The mini Boston Baltic Film Festival (BBFF) in April was a huge success, having over 400 participants, bringing together people around the world to watch films made in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. We want to thank the many viewers and our sponsors, ERKU, the NY Consulate General of Estonia, and...
Kadri Kerge is an Estonian-born architect who has been living and working in New York since 2011. She currently works at NBBj NY and she is running her private architecture studio Ministry of Architecture (kadrimaris.com) with her sister Maris Kerge. Her special interest are high-rise buildings and living spaces. Photo...
From Amsterdam University Press Most overviews dealing with eastern Vikings have cast the Eastern Baltic peoples in a predominantly passive role during the large-scale Viking movement into the region. This book demonstrates how communication networks over the Baltic Sea and further east were established and how they took different forms...
We invite you to participate in our first virtual mini-film festival in April. Representing Estonia is "The Real Life of Johannes Pääsuke" (Selfmade Cameraman), during Easter weekend. The Boston Baltic Film Festival (BBFF) was launched in 2018, when Boston's Baltic organizations jointly celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Baltic states....
A masters student at the Estonian Academy of Arts has won the best animation award at the Palm Springs International Animation Festival. "You Are Not a Kiwi" created using watercolors by Maria Savaleva premiered in the festival's main program and won in the watercolor-animation category. The film deals with integration...
Health coach, cookbook author, and retreat facilitator Marika Blossfeldt spends winters in Beacon, upstate New York, and summers at her farm Polli Talu in Rame küla, Estonia. Her most recent book, “COOKING WITH MARIKA: Clean Cuisine from an Estonian Farm” was published in May 2020. It has won the 2020...
The sauna builder’s grandson has just been granted permission to recover the smoke sauna and restore it in the Rocky Mountains The more we write about Estonian saunas, the more people write to us about weird and wonderful Estonian saunas for us to cover, writes Adam Rang in...
Estonian children’s physiotherapist Maarja Säde has released a book, now for sale on Amazon, featuring daily baby exercises that help to shape a child's proper movement patterns and encourage their physical development. The author of the books “My Active Baby” and “Baby Massage and Yoga”, Maarja Säde demonstrates exercises...
A major motion picture is to be developed on the subject of the Mass Refugee Flight of 1944 from Estonia to the West. We are looking for established screenwriting and directing talent to join the team. Any hints that may lead to the right people would also be...
The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir is listed as one of the 10 best choirs in the world by classicalmusic.com. Little surprise that a nation famous for song – its independence from the USSR was preceded by a ‘Singing Revolution’ of massed voices in Tallinn in 1988 – should boast...
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