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Translation day 🌍
🌍Happy translation day 🌍 "Words travel worlds. Translators do the driving" Anna Rusconi To all hard-working translators who bring down frontiers We will always honour the translators and interpreters who lost their lives in the line of duty Rip
🌍European languages day 🌍
Happy European languages day 🌍 To all hard working language professionals Who work tirelessly To help bridge ideas and Enable communication among unknown worlds
Marina Abramović: Interview to Tim Adams: art, pain, authority and her performance at the at the Royal Academy, London, 23 September-1 January;
Marina Abramović (November 30, 1946), becomes the first woman to have a full Royal Academy retrospective. She has spent a good deal of the past 50 years inflicting pain and stress on her body in the name of art. She has an institution in New York that teaches the "Abramović Method" to aspiring performance artists, a mix of mindfulness and consciousness-raising techniques, designed to unleash determination and creativity. Abramović grew up in communist Belgrade. She was born in 1946, the daughter of parents who had both been famous partisan fighters in Marshal Tito's army during the war. Some of her character was formed by her formidably strict mother. "[My mother] wanted to make me a warrior, so I would not suffer as she did. [...] She never kissed me in my life". In her teenage years, she started to rebel against [the] structures of home and church, and against the oppressive state. "I was against everyo...
Dekapentavgoustos: August 15 is a landmark of religious and cultural Greek life
By Marina Siskos The feeling is ignited only to the lucky ones that have experienced at least one Dekapentavgousto in Greece. The sense of sacredness is diffuse in every corner of the country, heralding the end of summer, in the characteristic, mild breeze of late August. Awakenings, traditions, pilgrimages to historic monasteries throughout the country, offers to the Virgin Mary and a 15-day period of Lent, commonly honour the Dormition of Mary. Some places have tied their name to the uniqueness or the longevity of their celebration of the Dormition of Mary. Inside the Byzantine church of Panayia Kosmosotira, Ferai, Evros Panayia of Kosmosoteira, Ferai, Evros: Liturgy at the Trinational Point of Evros Constructed on the strategically unique position atop a hill trespassing via Egnatia, close to Evros river, the church of Kosmosoteira, in the traditional Ferai settlement (district of Thrace), is an outstanding monument of the mid-Byzantine period. The monastery has been fou...