Spring is the busiest season of the year for Floridians and the Estonian Society of Central Florida (Kesk Florida Eesti Selts).  Activities span officially from Vabariigi Aastapäev to May and unofficially to Võidupüha and Jaanipäev. More than 60 members and guests of the Estonian Society of Central Florida (KFES) celebrated the 95th Anniversary of Estonian Independence Day with a special program on Saturday, February 23, 2013. The program was designed to reflect Estonian values: love of country; faith; the honoring of soldiers and heroes willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for liberty; love of language, music and education; Estonians' playful spirit; and respect for "Kodu Eestlased" and Välis-Eestlased" who form one family, one nation. 

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Published: July 12 2013

 

An Estonian Girls choir will sing and perform in Missoula, MT, on July 16 – 21st, 2013, at our celebrated “International Choral Fes-tival – 2013 “. Since 1987, Missoula hosts choirs every 3 years from around the world who perform at free concert venues around town.  They are hosted by Missoulians in home stays for a cultural plunge on both sides.  Estonia has sent us choirs three other times; 1990 – Tallinna Kammerkoor conducted by Kuno Areng 2007 – EELK Misjonikoor 2010 – Kalevi  Kammerkoor 2013 – E STuudio kammer-koor http://www.estuudio.ee/   Varju and Bob Luceno Missoula, MT http://www.choralfestival.org     http://www.choralfestival.org/index.php/festival-2013/participating-choirs/47-estonia

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Published: July 12 2013

The Sarasota Orchestra named Estonian conductor Anu Tali as its new music director. The 40-year-old Estonian is being signed to a three-year contract that will officially begin on 1 August. Tali, who led the orchestra in two concerts -- once this past season and the first two years ago, both to critical and audience raves -- made her United States conducting debut in 2005 with the New Jersey Symphony, the news website Yourobserver.com said.

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Published: June 23 2013

 

At the 55th international art biennale in Venice, Estonia is represented by the artist Dénes Farkas with the project “Evident in Advance”, curated by Adam Budak. Dénes Farkas is a Tallinn-based post-conceptual photo artist, who has been focusing on social structures since the second half of the 2000s and presenting them in a laconic artistic expression, which unites photography and the photo caption. His works have been purchased to the collections of the Art Museum of Estonia, as well as by private individuals.

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Published: June 23 2013

 

The victims of communism were commemorated at the Victims of Communism Memorial in Washington on June 12, 2013. The chairmen of the foreign affairs committees of the parliaments of Nordic and Baltic countries, members of U.S. House of Representatives, as well as representatives of nearly 20 embassies were among the participants. The event was organized by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation. Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of Estonian Parliament Marko Mihkelson, Estonian Embassy in Washington and Estonian American National Council laid wreaths at the Memorial.

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Published: June 17 2013

 

One out of eight wage earners in Estonia or approximately 65,000 peop-le are ready to look for work abroad, it appears from TNS Emor's annual survey of wage earners' expectations. The study reflected in-creased readiness to change jobs. Every third employee is considering changing jobs within a year and the share of such persons has increased from year to year along with the decrease in unemployment, the polling company said.

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Published: June 23 2013

– Alan Ago Koerv –  Vaba Eesti Sõna  - Thursday 30th May 2013 

 

I read this article on the back page of ‘Vaba Eesti Sõna’ with great interest as I am both a linguist and a lover of poetry. I agree wholeheartedly with Alan Ago Koerv when he states that translating poetry demands and excellent knowledge of both the source and target languages. As he states, people may have lived in an English speaking country for decades and still not have acquired enough in depth knowledge of the nuances of English to be able to convey the original intentions of the poet. I suspect that Alan, like myself, is a second generation Estonian who was born in the USA (in my case the UK) but brought up bilingually. 

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Published: June 17 2013

 

PM - Estonian residents’ real individual purchasing-power parity based consumption is the lowest among Baltic countries, as evidenced by Eurostat data published on June 19. According to Eurostat figures for 2012, Estonia showed 59 per cent of European average, Latvia and Lithuania preceding it with 61 and 74 per cent, respectively.

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Published: June 23 2013