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Click on the buttons to open and read each of VilNews' 24 sub-sections. Constantly updated news and useful information awaits you!Fri, 9th March, 2012 - Posted by - (2) Comment
UŽUPIS SPRING 2012
Slide show with music. Full screeen recommended!
Photos: Aage Myhre
Director: Cassandra Myhre
Music: Music: Sergey Kuryokhin –
Morning Exercises in the Nuthouse
Užupis is a neighbourhood located in the outskirts of Vilnius’ Old Town. Užupis means “on the other side of the river” in Lithuanian language and refers to the Vilnia River. The name Vilnius was derived from the Vilnia. Užupis is popular with artists, and has been compared to Montmartre in Paris due to its bohemian atmosphere. The district houses art galleries, artists’ workshops, and cafés. On April Fools Day in 1997, the district declared itself an independent republic (The Republic of Užupis), replete with an army of 12 personnel. Užupis is largely characterized by dilapidated buildings, courtyards and cobblestone streets that haven‘t been renovated for decades. But when the music reverberates over the cobbles in the late evenings you will certainly fall in love with this unique part of Vilnius. The atmosphere – filled with love, music, smells and happy people – will certainly catch your soul…
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Come with us‚ off the beaten track‘ to the Republic of Užupiz!
Sun, 12th February, 2012 - Posted by - (0) Comment
Photo: Andrius Ambramavičius
Užupis is an urban area of Vilnius characterized by dilapidated buildings, courtyards and side streets that haven‘t been renovated for decades. But when the music reverberates over the cobbles in the late evenings I am convinced that you will fall in love with this unique part of Vilnius city. Užupis was declared as independent Republic in 1997. The atmosphere – filled with love, music, smells and happy people – will certainly catch your soul. When you at late night again cross the river Vilnia I think you’re going to do it with a big smile and renewed appreciation of the exceptionally many exciting adventures and stories Lithuania has to offer…
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Tue, 1st November, 2011 - Posted by - (3) Comment
 Thomas Jonas Chepaitis. |
A Heroic Lamentation for St. Bartholomew You know, there are two kinds of men, There is another kind, whose skin That’s here they tore off skin from you, But even in the greatest pain From then and on you point the way Lyrics: Thomas Jonas Chepaitis 2011 |
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Eastern-Europe, after the first romance
Tue, 12th April, 2011 - Posted by - (1) Comment
Photo: http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2009/07/17/kommunal-apartments-in-russia/
After one or two years in Eastern-Europe, sometimes one might hear, “there is nothing else quite like …”:
– noticing that everything available for sale is always junk, always from China, that is always junk . . .
– trying to understand how to use an expensive, German-designed vacuum cleaner; to make us more thankful that they did not win the last two World Wars . . .
– cooking on a kitchen gas-stove from Russia with heat controls that function either ‘on’ or ‘off’, and nothing-in-between . . .
– wrestling with an old refrigerator from Minsk that makes us be nice with all of our neighbors, in the hope that someday some necessary six of them will help us lift it so we can finally throw it out . . .
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1 April is Užupis’ Independence Day!
Wed, 30th March, 2011 - Posted by - (0) Comment
It’s again set for party and celebration of the independent Republic of Užupis in Vilnius. Fourteen years have passed since this centrally located city district declared secession and independence from the Republic of Lithuania, and 1 April 1997 is now celebrated every year as the very Constitutional Date of this genuine, fascinating bohemian republic right on the other side of the river Vilnia. It takes no more than five minutes to walk there from the old town of Vilnius, so on Friday afternoon this week, all of you, dear VilNews readers, are warmly welcome to participate in the spring’s biggest and most colourful festival here in Vilnius!
Russia Today video: Artists’ paradise in the Lithuanian capital
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How did you get over there, to Lithuania?
Wed, 30th March, 2011 - Posted by - (1) Comment
Village Chief’s house
{Responding to two (2) E-mails, received on the same day of spring 2006. One from a former classmate from my university graduate-school (Boston, Massachusetts), whom I’ve not seen in 35 years . . . who probably has no idea where is or what is Lithuania . . . The second from an old political protégé (Ottawa, Canada), from my days working with Canada’s Official Languages groups, whom I’ve not seen in 6 years . . . who probably has no idea where is or what is Lithuania . . . }
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The California Baptist who collected 5000 Jewish books and brought them all to Lithuania
Sat, 15th January, 2011 - Posted by - (7) Comment
Wyman Brent Wyman Brent is not like California Baptists in general. Several years ago he fell in love with Vilnius, now living here permanently. “I plan to live here for the rest of my life,” he says. His great passion in life is Jewish books – books written by or about Jews. Therefore, he has over the latest years bought more than 5,000 such books and taken them to Vilnius to open a Jewish library. Read his own story about motives and ideals for a meaningful life.
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Music and poetry
Chet Baker:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4PKzz81m5c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgbPHTBiAVQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsz3mrnIBd0
The Pixies:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oP0-Fu87PU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5qgLBrvcXo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGXdXcpNsv4
Janis Joplin:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7JVxE2SYxo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c215JM3PZY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klhK_4evO5c
Chuck Mangione:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7dg8vRDM68
Lisa Ekdahl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42JOswXMm64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4NSoDfhhO0
Bjork:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-SDIZhnqTo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgk360PZJ7w
Rostropovich /Bach/:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU_QR_FTt3E
Ani DiFranco:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVg7mtgEqGY
The Mountain Goats:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRP6egIEABk
The Avett Brothers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WotnK7pt7IM
Poetry
Che fece...il gran rifiuto
For some people the day comes
when they have to declare the great Yes
or the great No. It’s clear at once who has the Yes
ready within him; and saying it,
he goes forward in honor and self-assurance.
He who refuses does not repent. Asked again,
he would still say no. Yet that no—the right no—
undermines him all his life
Translated by Edmund Keeley/Philip Sherrard
(C.P. Cavafy, Collected Poems. Translated by Edmund
Keeley and Philip Sherrard. Edited by George Savidis.
Revised Edition. Princeton University Press, 1992)
http://www.cavafy.com/index.asp
Roll The Dice
if you are going to try, go all the
way.
otherwise, don't even start.
if you're going to try, go all the
way.
this could mean losing girlfriends,
wives, relatives, jobs and
maybe your mind.
go all the way.
it could mean not eating for 3 or
4 days.
it could mean freezing on a
park bench.
it could mean jail,
it could mean derision,
mockery,
isolation.
isolation is the gift,
all the others are a test of your
endurance, of
how much you really want to
do it.
and you'll do it
despite rejection and the
worst odds
and it will be better than
anything else
you can imagine.
if you're going to try,
go all the way.
there's no other feeling like
that.
you will be alone with the
gods
and the nights will flame with
fire.
do it, do it, do it,
do it.
all the way
all the way.
you will ride life straight to
perfect laughter, it's
the only good fight
there is.
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