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BONDS OF LIFE - about Irena Veisaite
Irena Veisaite, 92, Holocaust survivor turned human rights advocate BY PENNY SCHWARTZ DECEMBER 28, 2020 5:41 PM
It was with great regret that we received the news of the death of Irena Veisaitė. Friend of the Borderland, Winner of the title "Borderlander" 2019
Krzysztof Czyżewski's farewell poem: What have I learned from Irena Veisaitė?
Summer in Borderland 2019
Borderland Centre of Arts, Cultures, and Nations and Borderland Foundation would like to invite you to:
SUMMER IN BORDERLAND AND ART WORKSHOPS IN BORDERLAND
July – August 2019, Sejny – Krasnogruda
Celebrating Tomas Venclova’s 80th birthday
Tomas Venclova – the poet whom Josif Brodsky called "a son of three literatures": Lithuanian, Polish and Russian, essayist, literature researcher, translator, dissident, one of the last citizens of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, and a borderlander.
MYSTERIES OF CHILDHOOD - JERZY FICOWSKI Exhibition/ told by Bożena Szroeder
First of all, we should understand that this exhibition is something more than just a literary exhibition: it is a perfect workshop we use in our everyday work with children and youth.
PÄRT'S LESSONS by Agnieszka Szyszko
PÄRT'S LESSONS by Agnieszka Szyszko
It was an enormous undertaking: 180 world-class musicians, churches changed into concert halls, difficult situations which always arise during events on this scale. The "Borderlanders," Pärt himself and many colleagues paid close attention to the details to ensure that everything ran according to plan. There was only one thing no one could predict: the public's reaction. In the end the silence and concentration that held sway at the concerts were valued much more highly by the...
Arvo Pärt in Sejny (November 4-11, 2003)
BORDERS NOT FOR CROSSING - Arvo Pärt in Sejny (November 4-11, 2003)
by Tomasz Cyz (Tygodnik Powszechny (Everybody's Weekly), nr 47 (2837), 23.XI.2003)
1. Sejny is a border town in the Suwalki region of northeast Poland with two-thirds of its
residents being Poles, the remainder being Lithuanians. The main street with its White
Synagogue and old talmudic school recalls the Jews who lived here once, the little Evangelical
church - Protestants, the basilica with the grave of the bishop and poet Antanas...
Selections from Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature became available!
Yesterday selections from the Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress became available to stream online for the first time — the launch of a project digitizing some of their 2,000 recordings from the past 75 years of literature.
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