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Minister Jaklitsch visits Trieste / Trst
01.06.2021
Helena Jaklitsch, Minister of the Republic of Slovenia for Slovenes Abroad, met with Mayor Robert Dipiazzo in Trieste on Monday. The focus was on three topics: visible bilingualism, school issues and the return of the Narodni dom.
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Domowina worries about the future of Sorbian museums in the rural areas of Lower and Upper Lusatia
28.05.2021
The uncertain future of Sorbian museums in the rural areas of Upper and Lower Lusatia prompted the incumbent spokeswoman for the Domowina regional association “Jan Arnošt Smoler” Bautzen / Budyšin, Leńka Thomas, to write a letter to the Foundation for the Sorbian People. The Domowina regional board of Bautzen sees an urgent need for a full-time employee to take care of the financial and material resources of the museums and to support the conceptual work, according to the Domowina press release.
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Bilingual lables on pastures in Carinthia / Koroška
25.05.2021
The season begins on the mountain meadows. The Rural Education Association - Kmečka izobraževalna skupnost (KIS) announces that new bilingual labels are being printed and made available to local farmers and land owners. This strengthens the visible bilingualism, emphasizes KIS President Marinka Mader-Tschertou.
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Macedonians from Albania dance and sing Biser Balkanski in the President’s residence
21.05.2021
Representatives of the ethnic Macedonian minority in Albania performed an oro and sang the song Biser Balkanski in the Albanian President’s residence in Tirana, to mark the International Day of Cultural Diversity and Dialogue.
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Presentation "The Croatian Dialect of Northern Burgenland" by Univ. Prof. Dr. Gerhard Neweklowsky
07.05.2021
In continuation of the presentation by Radoslav Janković from Easter Monday about his research on the settlement of Croats from 1524 in the cross-border area between Brno, Mokrý Háj, Győr and today's northern and central Burgenland, the Slavist and em. Univ. Prof. Gerhard Neweklowsky will give a lecture on "The Croatian Dialect of Northern Burgenland". Prof. Neweklowsky describes the immigration, the territory, the language of the Croats of Burgenland and the neighboring areas in Hungary and Slovakia and focuses on the oral language of the Haci and Poljanci of northern Burgenland. The lecture will be held in German.
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Alternative for the canceled Lausitz International Folklore Festival only when there are no restrictions
05.05.2021
The final decision on the regional Sorbian festival, which is planned as an alternative to the Lausitz International Folklore Festival (July 22-25, 2021), which has been canceled due to the pandemic, will not be finalized until the end of June. Domowina speaker Peter Bresan informed that groups from all regions of Lusatia should be included in the cultural program. There is agreement that this festival will only take place if it should be possible again, without celebrating the current restrictions. There will be no festival where distance, masks and alcohol are forbidden.
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10 years of consensus in Carinthia / Koroška
26.04.2021
On April 26, 2011 representatives of the central political organizations of the Carinthian Slovenes, the State Secretary Josef Ostermayer (SPÖ) and the governor Gerhard Dörfler signed the consensus after a decade-long dispute over the bilingual town-signs.
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Grenzenlos Lesen (Reading without borders) - virtual festival of Burgenland literature
16.04.2021
Literature and the digital world are a symbiosis that takes getting used to. Instead of using webcams, GRENZENLOS LESEN had a new video concept created and NOVI GLAS was also allowed to publish the three parts.
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Domowina and the Saxon state government held meeting about the Sorbs and structural change
15.04.2021
On Wednesday, Dawid Statnik, Chairman of the Sorbian umbrella organization Domowina, and the Saxon State Minister for Regional Development, Thomas Schmidt, as well as Culture and Tourism, Barbara Klepsch, met in the Saxon State Parliament in Dresden for a top-level discussion about the realization of the interests of the Sorbian people in the current structural change .
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Veranstaltungsreihe über SorbInnen
29.03.2021
Am Mittwoch, 31. März, um 18 Uhr, wird eine Veranstaltungsreihe der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung über die SorbInnen eröffnet. "Hochdeutsch, sächsisch - sorbisch? Sprache und Identität in der Lausitz" heisst die erste Veranstaltung.
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