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More Than 550 Groups Qualify for Estonia’s 2023 Youth Dance Festival
The Artistic Committee of the XIII Youth Dance Festival has sent invitations to 431 dance and 128 gymnastics groups to perform in this summer's Dance Festival performance "Bridges" in Tallinn, according to a press release by Song and Dance Festival Foundation director Margus Toomla. The 559 groups include a total...
Anneli Tammik Jewellery is at MAD About Jewelry Event in NYC
Anneli Tammik Jewelery (annelitammik.com) is participating at the MAD About Jewelry event at the MAD | Museum of Arts and Design’s annual benefit sale of contemporary jewelry. This week until Saturday, April 29, Anneli Tammik and 49 other internationally acclaimed jewelry artists are present at the MAD Museum on Columbus...
Karl Altau: Happy Place – Finland Joins NATO
Karl Altau, JBANC Finland has good reason to be the Happiest Country in the World. On April 4, 2023, the Republic of Finland formally became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), joining 30 other members in what was the fastest accession process in the alliance's history. Without...
Consulate General of Estonia in San Francisco Announces Consular Mission to Seattle on May 20th
The Consul from the Consulate General of Estonia in San Francisco will be in Seattle on Saturday, May 20th to provide consular services (e.g. passport and ID card application submissions, fingerprinting, issuing of e-residency cards). The appointments will take place at 950 N. 72nd Street, Suite 100. Please pre-register for...
In Memoriam Karl Kalju Raadik
Karl Kalju Raadik, a renowned plastics engineer who contributed to the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, passed away peacefully on March 22nd, 2023, at the age of 94. He was surrounded by his loving family and friends, who cherished him dearly. Born on August 2nd, 1928, in Viljandi, Estonia, Karl...
“Smoke Sauna Sisterhood” at San Francisco Film Festival
The San Francisco International Film Festival is back in person April 13–23! The San Francisco Estonian Society is proud to co-present „Savvusanna sõsarad“ (Smoke Sauna Sisterhood), on Sunday, April 23 at 2:15 pm PT in San Francisco. Director Anna Hints' debut feature won the Sundance Film Festival’s World Cinema–Documentary directing...
“How the Estonian Model Can Expand Economic Opportunity in America” in Stanford Libraries
On Tuesday, April 25 at Stanford Libraries, Avik Roy, President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity, and Karen Jagodin, Director of Vabamu, will discuss "How the Estonian Model Can Expand Economic Opportunity in America." At its best, the United States is a dynamic society in which people can...
A Moving Body is a Happy Body
Many good things happen for the body as well as the mind when we are physically active. Most people see weight loss as the main reason for exercising, but that is only one of the many benefits. Physical activity fires up our metabolism. It allows all processes in the body...
Estonia Strongly Represented at “The State of the State Department & Baltic Security” Forum in Boston
Ambassador Kristjan Prikk joined other Baltic ambassadors at a lively panel discussion at the WorldBoston special event, "The State of the State Department & Baltic Security, " held at the Boston Public Library on Monday evening, April 3. The event was open to the public and nearly 300 people filled...
THE IMPORTANCE OF COMMUNITY: An Essay Contest for Middle and High School Students
Sponsored by the Los Angeles Estonian Society Topic: The Importance of Community Tell us your thoughts about community. Put your thoughts in an Estonian context. Estonians are familiar with many communities, ranging from family to social and political groups. Some communities have fixed boundaries. There are other communities that have...
Vaba Eesti Sõna is an Estonian expatriate weekly newspaper with a national readership, founded in 1949 and published in New York City by the Nordic Press.
