Thank you for joining us on February 20th for the online celebration of the American architect Louis Kahn, who was born 120 years ago in Estonia.

If you missed it, the event is now online — a discussion with some of the people closest to Kahn: distinguished landscape architect Harriet Pattison; her son, Oscar-nominated filmmaker Nathaniel Kahn; and William Whitaker, Curator, The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania Stewart Weitzman School of Design. https://tinyurl.com/3pn8x5tw

We continue celebrating Kahn 120 as the year develops.

Check louiskahn.org for more info.

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Published: April 04 2021

Longest Serving Estonian Honorary Consul Jaak Treiman Recognized

Estonian Honorary Consul in Los Angeles, Jaak Treiman, took on the post before Estonian independence was restored and has worked as an honorary consul for 35 years – longer than any of his colleagues.

Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets thanked and congratulated Treiman by phone for his dedicated work in representing Estonia's interests, strengthening ties between the two countries and providing invaluable help to Estonian citizens.

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Published: April 04 2021

From Amsterdam University Press

Most overviews dealing with eastern Vikings have cast the Eastern Baltic peoples in a predominantly passive role during the large-scale Viking movement into the region.

This book demonstrates how communication networks over the Baltic Sea and further east were established and how they took different forms in the northern and the southern halves of the Eastern Baltic.

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Published: March 28 2021

The Siblings Day Foundation is excited to announce that we are making healgrief.org’s AMF (Actively Moving Forward) website available to grieving siblings.

Please click https://tinyurl.com/4bx6n9mto check it out.

Right now, the AMF website supports grieving adults.

In the future, their website might have a specific group for bereaved siblings.

This s a wonderful resource and we recommend you explore their website.

If you need help signing up, find it within the link. This is a free service.

We were supposed to have our annual fundraising event on April 24, 2020 at the New York Estonian House, a 4-story Beaux-Arts building located at 243 East 34th St between 2nd & 3rd Avenues.

The event was postponed due to the pandemic.

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Published: March 28 2021

Merle Liivand

Steven Munatones, Courtesy of WOWSA, Huntington Beach, California.

At Redondo Beach, California, Merle Liivand swam along the 10 km course at the WOWSA Ocean Fest, but she choose to do the race as a mermaid swim.

That is, she used a monofin throughout the race.

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Published: March 28 2021

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Published: March 28 2021

Ministry of Foreign Affairs Organising Virtual Forum for Global Estonians

On 13 April, the first virtual forum for Estonians around the world will be held, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs presenting its activities and plans concerning the diaspora.

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Published: March 28 2021

The JBANC team meeting with new House Baltic Caucus co-chair Representative Don Bacon.

The Joint Baltic American National Committee (JBANC) held its first virtual Baltic Advocacy Week from March 8th to 12th. 

JBANC has been holding annual in-person advocacy events for several years but missed last year because of the coronavirus.

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Published: March 20 2021