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BALSSI Cultural Event (Film):
The Waterfowl People
BALSSI Cultural Event (Film):
The Winds of the Milky Way
Date: Wednesday, June 3, from 6:30-8:30 P.M.
Location: Goodman Community Center, Evjue Room, 149 Waubesa Street, Madison, WI
Sponsors: FOCCUS (Friends of Chernobyl Centers, U.S.)
About the presentation: Come learn about the current political and economic upheaval in Ukraine, and hear news about the great work the five community centers FOCCUS supports are doing. FOCCUS President, Rob Schuettpelz, and Founder and Past President, Norma Berkowitz, will be sharing experiences from their trip to Ukraine May 12 thru the 24th.
Norma and Rob are visiting all five Community Centers, and meeting with leaders in government, business, and other NGO’s who are working with children and families most directly affected by the Chernobyl disaster.
Please RSVP by May 28, 2009 to rob.foccus@gmail.com or call Charlene at 251-1956. Beverages and Snacks will be served. A short program will begin at 7:00 P.M. A $10 donation to cover costs would be appreciated.
For more information about FOCCUS, please check out their website: http://www.friendsofchernobylcenters.org/
Dates: June 15 - August 2
Location: UW-Madison
Sponsors: The Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI) is sponsored by a consortium of twelve U.S. universities and receives additional support from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.
About the program: BALSSI offers intensive Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian language courses. BALSSI also offers a cultural enhancement program which introduces students to the rich world of Baltic history and culture.
For further information about BALSSI 2009, please contact Nancy Heingartner, BALSSI program coordinator, balssi@creeca.wisc.edu, 1-608-262-3379.
Date and time: June 16, 2009 at 7:00 P.M.
Location: 1217 Mosse Humanities Building, 455 N. Park Street (Click here for a map)
Sponsors: The Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI) is sponsored by a consortium of twelve U.S. universities and receives additional support from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.
About the film: "Imagine the scene in Casablanca in which the French patrons sing 'La Marseillaise' in defiance of the Germans, then multiply its power by a factor of thousands, and you've only begun to imagine the force of The Singing Revolution." - Matt Zoller Seitz, The New York Times
Most people don’t think about singing when they think about revolution. But song was the weapon of choice when Estonians sought to free themselves from decades of Soviet occupation. The Singing Revolution is an inspiring account of one nation’s dramatic rebirth. It is the story of humankind’s irrepressible drive for freedom and self-determination.
If Hollywood made this story up, no one would believe it. And yet this story of hope, nonviolence, and perseverance has been playing to standing ovations in theaters across the country.
For more information about The Singing Revolution, check out the film's website at singingrevolution.com.
Dates: Monday, June 22 - Friday June 26
Location: Concourse Hotel Madison
Sponsors: CREECA and the Center for European Studies
About the workshop: To commemorate the 20th Anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Center for European Studies (CES) and the Center for Russia, East Europe and Central Asia (CREECA) are offering a weeklong K-12 teacher workshop from Monday, June 22 until Friday, June 26, 2009.
The workshop will look at the Cold War and post-Cold War periods, identifying the themes and events that led to the dismantling of the Iron Curtain, evaluating the monumental changes in Europe in the last twenty years and highlighting both their regional and global significance.
For registration information, check out the Teacher Workshop website.
Date and time: June 23, 2009 at 7:00 P.M.
Location: 1217 Mosse Humanities Building, 455 N. Park Street (Click here for a map)
Sponsors: The Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI) is sponsored by a consortium of twelve U.S. universities and receives additional support from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.
About the lecture: This lecture will explore the reconfiguration of commemorative landscapes in Setomaa, the homeland of the Seto people. Setomaa, situated in southeastern Estonia on the border with Russia, provides an ideal case study of power, place, and identity in borderlands, where various actors and institutions are engaged in the cultural politics of memory.
About the speaker: TBA
Date and time: June 30, 2009 at 7:00 P.M.
Location: 1217 Mosse Humanities Building, 455 N. Park Street (Click here for a map)
Sponsors: The Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI) is sponsored by a consortium of twelve U.S. universities and receives additional support from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.
About the film: The Waterfowl People is a documentary about the history
and linguistic ties of the Finno-Ugric and Samoyedic peoples. Speakers of the
Kamassian, Nenets, Khanty, Komi, Mari and Karelian languages were filmed
in their everyday settings in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The footage was
shot in Altai Krai, the Nenets Okrug, Khantia-Mansia, Uzbekistan, the Komi Republic,
Mari El, Karelia and Estonia. The Waterfowl People was the first internationally
significant documentary of its era that dealt with Finno-Ugric ethnology in the 20th century.
Date and time: June 30, 2009 at 8:00 P.M.
Location: 1217 Mosse Humanities Building, 455 N. Park Street (Click here for a map)
Sponsors: The Baltic Studies Summer Institute (BALSSI) is sponsored by a consortium of twelve U.S. universities and receives additional support from the Association for the Advancement of Baltic Studies.
About the film: The Winds of the Milky Way is the sequel to The Waterfowl People.
The author interprets the kinship, linguistic and cultural relationships of the Finno-Ugric
peoples. Finns, Vepsians, Votes, Setos, Erzya-Mordvinians, Mansi, Hungarians, Sami,
Nganasans and Estonians appear in the film. The film was shot in 1977 on location in
northern Finland, Sapmi, Vepsia, Votia, Mordovia, Khantia-Mansia,Hungary, the Taymyr
Peninsula, the Setomaa region of Estonia and on the Estonian islands of Saaremaa and Muhu.
Silver Medal at the 22nd New York International Film and TV festival in 1979.
