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Asko Künnap
Asko Künnap (born 6 September 1971) is an Estonian designer, writer, and artist. Education Asko Künnap attendeMiina Härma Gymnasium(1978–1989) and the Tartu Children’s Art School (1980–1984). He graduated from thEstonian Academy of Artsin product- and graphic design (1989–1995), and studied interior architecture at thOslo National Academy of the Arts(1991–1992). Career Künnap has worked as a freelance illustrator and designer (1992–1994) as well as creative director at the advertising agencies ZOOM Ogilvy (1994–2003) anRakett(2003–2014). He has received numerous nominations and prizes in competitions including the Effie Awards and the Estonian Golden Egg Competition. Works Design Künnap has designed logos and corporate identities for customers including the Republic of Estonia and all its national ministries (2013); the Estonian national parks of Lahemaa, Matsalu, Vilsandi, Soomaa, and Karula (2014); the online news portal Delfi (1999); the Estoni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asko Künnap Niguliste Kirikus 2016
Asko or ASKO may refer to: * Asko (name), a male given name common in Finland and Estonia * Askø, a Danish island * Asko Cylinda or Asko Appliances AB, a Swedish company producing household appliances * Asko/Schönberg, AskoSchönberg, a Dutch chamber orchestra * ASKO Kara, a Togolese football club * ASKÖ Pasching, an Austrian football club * ASKÖ (Austria), Association for Sport and Physical Culture in Austria (german: Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Sport und Körperkultur in Österreich) See also * Askos (other) {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cultural Endowment Of Estonia
Cultural Endowment of Estonia ( et, Eesti Kultuurkapital, abbreviated ''Kulka'' or ''KULKA''; also translated as ''Estonian Cultural Capital'') is an Estonian foundation which supports activities related to Estonian culture. The foundation was established in 1925 and re-established in 1994. The foundation was established in 1925 after the Estonian Parliament passed the ''Cultural Endowment of Estonia Act''. It was decided that scholarships are to be given twice a year: on 1 April and on 1 October. The foundation was re-established in 1994 after the Estonian Parliament passed a new ''Cultural Endowment of Estonia Act''. The foundation gives also literary awards ( et, Eesti Kultuurkapitali kirjanduspreemia) and a yearly prize ( et, Eesti Kultuurkapitali aastapreemia). References Further reading * Jüri Ujas "Eesti Kultuurkapital 1921-1941" * Jüri Uljas. Kultuurkapitali uus tulemine. Sirp ''Sirp'' (English 'sickle') is a newspaper published in Estonia Estonia, formal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristiina Ehin
Kristiina Ehin (born 18 July 1977) is an Estonia, Estonian poet, translator, singer and songwriter. Ehin studied at University of Tartu with a degree in philology and specializes in folklore. In 2004, she acquired master's degree in the Estonian language and comparative folklore field at the University of Tartu. The master's thesis topic was "The Possibilities for Interpretation of the Oldest and Newer Lied of Estonia in the Female-Religious Perspective". She has worked as a teacher at Vodja school. Ehin has sung in the ensemble Sinimaniseele and from 2012, in the ensemble Naised Köögis (English: Women in the Kitchen), whose members are Katrin Laidre, Sofia Joons and Kairi Leivo. She represented Estonia at the satellite event of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Poetry Parnassus, which took place from 26 June to 1 July 2012. From 2015 to 2016, Ehin was Professor of Liberal Arts at the University of Tartu. Personal life Ehin is a daughter of Andres Ehin and Ly Seppel. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veronika Kivisilla
Veronika Kivisilla (née Savi; born 21 December 1978) is an Estonian poet and literary critic, possibly best known for her publications ''Kallis kalender'' (2011), ''Cantus Firmus'' (2015), ''Kuni armastus peale tuleb'' (2018), and ''Salutatio'' (2019). Early life and education Veronika Kivisilla was born Veronika Savi in Tallinn, where she attended primary and secondary schools. After graduating secondary school in 1997, she enrolled at Tallinn University, majoring in Estonian language and literature, graduating in 2001. Afterwards, she worked as a schoolteacher in Rocca al Mare and Laagri for several years. Career Kivisilla's first poems were published in ''Looming'', Estonia's oldest literary magazine. Her first volume of poetry, ''Kallis kalender'' (''Dear Calendar'') was published in 2011. This was followed in 2012, by the publication of ''Veronica officinalis''. Kivisilla's poetry has been described as keen elaborations of everyday observations and meaningfulness of small a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vahur Afanasjev
Vahur Afanasjev (born Vahur Laanoja; 24 August 1979 – 10 May 2021) was an Estonian novelist, poet, musician and film director best known for his novel ''Serafima and Bogdan'' a story following the lives in a village of Russian Orthodox Old Believers on the shore of the lake Peipus from the end of the World War II to the nineties. The novel won the 2017 Estonian Writers' Union's Novel Competition. Biography Afanasjev graduated from the University of Tartu in 2002, majoring in economic policy. He was a member of a literary group called Tartu Young Authors' Association since 1998, and a member of the Estonian Writers' Union since 2006. He worked as a journalist, media analyst, copywriter, creative director, and PR officer. From 2005 to 2010, Afanasjev lived in Brussels, Belgium. He summed up his life as a euro official in the European Economic and Social Committee in his 2011 travelogue ''My Brussels''. He was awarded the Baltic Assembly Prize for Literature in 2021. He died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hasso Krull
Hasso Krull (born 1964 in Tallinn) is an Estonian poet, literary and cultural critic, and translator. Krull's main points of focus in his work have been postmodernism and post-structuralism. His topics include history, philosophy, literature, and translation. In 1990 Krull began teaching at the Estonian Institute of Humanities in literary and cultural theory. In 2001 he co-founded Ninniku (poetry in translation online periodical) which led to the book series Ninniju Raamatukogu. He has translated works of various poets including: Sujata Bhatt, André Breton, Allen Ginsberg, Tapani Kinnunen, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, Michael Ondaatje and Paul Valéry. He is a lecturer at the University of Tallinn Tallinn University (TLU; et, Tallinna Ülikool, ''TLÜ'') is a public research university in Estonia. Located in the centre of Tallinn, the capital city of Estonia, Tallinn University is one of the three largest institutions of higher education .... Some of the literary endeav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltoscandal
Baltoscandal is an international theatre festival, which every two year takes place in Estonia. It is the biggest and oldest international theatre festival in Estonia. First festival took place in 1990 in Pärnu. The festival was found by Von Krahl Theatre and Rakvere Theatre. Since 1994, the festival take place in Rakvere Rakvere is a town in northern Estonia and the administrative centre of the Lääne-Viru ''maakond'' (county), 20 km south of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. Rakvere is the 8th most populous urban area in Estonia. Rakvere has a tota .... References External links * {{Official website Theatre festivals Theatre in Estonia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Young Euro Classic
Young Euro Classic is an international music festival for youth orchestras. Established in Berlin, Germany in 2000, it is one of the world's most important international platforms for young musicians in the Western classical music tradition. Every summer, orchestras from all over the world perform at the Konzerthaus Berlin. The festival is an associated member organization of the European Federation of National Youth Orchestras. History 2021 Young Euro Classic 2021 was held from July 30 to August 15. * Young Euro Classic Orchestra Germany–France (in cooperation with the Bundesjugendorchester and the Orchestre Français des Jeunes) * Bundesjugendballett * Greek Youth Symphony Orchestra * Ensemble Mini (replacing the Portuguese Youth Orchestra) * c/o chamber orchestra (replacing the Spanish National Youth Orchestra) * Wiener Jeunesse Orchester * Bundesjugendorchester * National Youth Orchestra of Romania * O/Modernt New Generation Orchestra * German-French Ju ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ledbury Poetry Festival
Founded in 1996 by a group of local poetry enthusiasts, the Ledbury Poetry Festival is now the biggest poetry festival in the UK. History The first Ledbury Poetry Festival was held in 1997 in Ledbury, Herefordshire. It was opened by jazz singer, critic and writer George Melly. The following year it was opened by Mark Fisher, the Labour arts minister. Since then, over a thousand national and international poets have taken part in the festival. Patrons include the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, and Peter Florence, founder of the Hay Festival. Trustees include Ursula Owen, publisher, editor and campaigner for free expression, and Neil Astley, editor of Bloodaxe Books. The original trustees of the festival were Peter Arscott, John Burns, Alan Lloyd, Martyn Moxley, Richard Surman and Margaret Rigby. Ledbury holds its main programme over two weeks in the summer, and its work continues throughout the year, with projects that involve local primary schools and John Masefield High Schoo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheltenham Festival Of Literature
''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' Cheltenham Literature Festival, a large-scale international festival of literature held every year in October in the English spa town of Cheltenham, and part of Cheltenham Festivals: also responsible for the Jazz, Music, and Science Festivals that run every year. Introduction and history Formed in 1949, ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday Times'' Cheltenham Literature Festival is the longest-running festival of its kind in the world. The Festival was founded by the Spa Manager George Wilkinson, in conjunction with the Tewkesbury-based author John Moore, who served as its first director. Actor Ralph Richardson, who was born in Cheltenham, launched the festival, and poet Cecil Day-Lewis, who taught at Cheltenham College, read a selection of contemporary verse. The Festival currently has the national newspaper ''The Times'' and ''Sunday Times'' as its 'title' sponsor: therefore making the full name of the festival ''The Times'' and ''The Sunday T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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