Tag: Arved Plaks

The News, 20 page Houston’s Ballet Fall Calander dedicates a full page article to the Estonian Linnar Looris.   According to Jean May, Linnar Looris is a natural storyteller, hillarious as both Petruchio and Baptista in “The Taming of the Shrew”, and as the deliriously happy drunk in Stanton Welch’s ...

The view of Whistler from the mountain top with the Winter Olympics stone icon.   Photos by author   Every two years west coast Estonians host a 4 to 8-day event at one of the five major cities on the west coast of the Continent. The event became known as West ...

The newly elected EANC executive committee posed for a photo-op. On the photo are (from the left): Matti Priima, Maia Linask, Mirjam Krull, Mai-Liis Barthing, Marju Rink-Abel (council president), Eric Suuberg, Arne Kalm, Kristi Allpere, Andres Simonson. Not present at the meeting (but also elected) were Tiina Urv and Alvar ...

The finale of the Song Festival in 2004. I am on the stage’s 23th row, the 96th from the right; did you find me?   by Arved Plaks   Soon, this coming July, Estonia will burst into singing and dancing. Well, not every Estonian, but those not singing or dancing ...

In the photo Arved Plaks   Thoughts Inspired By The Conference At The Stanford University On June 27 Concurrent With LEP-ESTO One advantage of living in hot Texas is this. On my way to San Francisco I did not finish my cup of coffee by time I arrived at the ...