father & son in Tartu, Estonia
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Entry Title: Tallinn to Tartu to Viljandi
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I don't know about yesterday being described with 2 drips and today with 1 - today has definitely been wet. Sometimes just drizzle, occasionally stopped, but sometimes it rained quite hard. We hadn't met any other English speakers in the previous 2 breakfasts in Tallinn, but this morning someone at the next table said what a surprise it was to hear English spoken & he just had to introduce himself. He was a Kiwi, from Auckland, who'd been playing (rugby?) in Edinburgh in a World Cup for Veterans. He was a bit of a pain really, but yes it was nice to talk to him in English. He described in detail where he'd been & where he was going. When we answered that we'd spent some days in Finland, and had come over by ferry from Helsinki, a man at the next table (to the Kiwi) introduced himself. He & his wife were from London - not far from Richmond actually - and they were spending a week in Tallinn but today were going over on the ferry to Helsinki just for a day trip & wanted some hints about what to see & do there. I'd been feeling a bit flat this morning, and it was a nice change to speak to other travellers, even briefly. After breakfast we checked out. It wasn't raining so we decided we would walk the kilometre or so to where we were picking up the hire car, and wheel our luggage with us. This was easier than navigating the 1-way streets back to our hotel. We hired our car from Easy Car Rentals (as it says in large letters on our back window - EasyCarRental.ee - so much for travelling discretely as a tourist!). I reckon it might be a father & son operation. Anyway we're hiring our car from Tallinn and returning it in Vilnius. The young guy we were dealing with, Margus, will fly down to Vilnius and meet us there on Monday & then drive the car back to Tallinn. We have a little Opel Astra. 1.4 engine & automatic, so not big on power. It is a hatchback, and little, but fortunately our case & hand luggage fits in the boot. It was a bit stressful getting out of Tallinn in a different car, but Tallinn is a much smaller city than Helsinki - around 400,000 in Tallinn, there is around 1.1 million in Estonia - so we managed. Again I was driving so David could navigate. Once we nearly turned into a shopping centre car-park, but perhaps it was our big car rental ad that encouraged passing cars to tolerate my mistakes & let me back into the traffic. After we drove out of Tallinn, we had originally intended to go to an ex-Soviet submarine base, but TomTom (our GPS navigator) could not find a route for us from there except coming back to Tallinn, so we decided to skip that. Instead we headed for Tartu, about 80 or 90 km east of Viljandi. It was raining quite a lot when we reached Tartu. TomTom helped us find the National Estonian museum, but as David had directed it to take us to Viljandri via the museum, it was fortunate that David was following our progress on a map, because TomTom directed us straight past the museum - but didn't tell us we'd reached it. We had to sort of go around the block (on narrow 1-way streets, some cobbled) in order to find our way back to the museum. Across the road from the museum, cars were parked at 90 degrees to the road, but with their front wheels up on the pavement. One car pulled out as we approached, so we pulled into that spot, bumping up onto the footpath like everyone else. We went in to the museum. David reminded me of the time we'd parked somewhere in Spain, in a long row of other cars, only to come back later & find that everyone else had gone & we had been booked for parking in an illegal location. I worried about that until we came out again, and found we were still one of many cars half on the footpath. The weather was too miserable to do much outside sightseeing, which is why David chose this museum for us to visit. Previous museums we've seen in Tallinn have either been about the history of the city of Tallinn, or 20th century Estonian history. This museum focussed on the much earlier & also regional ...
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Photos from this trip:
1. St John's church, Tartu
2. Terracotta figures outside St John's, Tartu
3. Inside St John's, Tartu
4. Terracotta figures at Tartu
5. Raekoja Plats, Tartu
6. Town Hall, Tartu
7. Tartu
8. Tartu, bridge
9. Turtles (concrete road blocks)
10. Car repairs at Tartu
11. Statue of (?) figure in park in Tartu
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Jaan ja Johannes Luik Dialoog
Jaan ja Johannes Luik räägivad oma Tartu Kunstimaja monumentaalgalerii näitusest Dialoog 28.06.–21.07.2019.
Näitus uurib isa-poja suhteid ja mõjutusi, mis teineteisele antakse. Poja poolt vaadates on selleks lapsepõlv, mis on teda mudinud inimeseks kes ta praegu on. Igapäevaselt segunevad pildid ja mälestused lapsepõlvest, mis liiguvad tajude eest läbi. Isa poolt vaadates on selleks suur muutus, mis nihutas fookust elus. Laste näol tekkis ellu juurde uus muutuja, mis mõjutab otsuseid.
Jaan tegeleb materjaliga, et väljendada sümboolset või sõnastatavat. Johannes tegeleb ideega, et väljendada füüsilist. Materiaalse ja immatriaalse võrdse väljenduspotentsiaali kehastab ringsuunaline liikumine näitusesaalis füüsilisest ja ruumilisest kujutisest tekstilisse ja tagasi.
Johannes ütleb: „Sõnast dialoog võib välja lugeda, et suhtlejaid on kaks. Lisaks viitab see tugevalt millelegi keelelisele. Kui inimesed on samas pikalt koos, toimub suhtlemine ka teistel tasanditel. Antakse edasi informatsiooni, mis ei ole koheselt hoomatav. Juba koos olemine on mingit sorti dialoog. Läbi selle mõjutatakse teineteist.”
Jaan Luik sündis 1953. aastal ja lõpetas 1975. aastal Eesti Riikliku Kunstiinstituudi skulptuuri eriala. Aastal 1988 sündis talle poeg, kellele pandi vanaisa järgi nimeks Johannes. 2019. aastal lõpetas Johannes Eesti Kunstiakadeemia Installatsiooni- ja skulptuuri eriala. Alates 1988. aastast on nende vahel toimunud pidev suhtlemine.
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Jaan and Johannes Luik talk about their exhibition Dialogue in the monumental gallery of the Tartu Art House 28.06.–21.07.2019.
The exhibition explores the father son relationship and the influence they have had on each other. For the son, the most important period was his childhood that shaped him into the person he is: all the images and memories from that time pass through his mind every day. For the father, it was the big change that shifted the focus of his life: children introduced a new variable that influenced his decisions.
Jaan works with material to express the symbolic. Johannes works with the idea to express the physical. The comparable expressive potential of the material and immaterial is represented in the gallery by the circular motion from a physical and spatial to textual and back.
Johannes says: “The word ‘dialogue’ tells us that the communication takes place between two parties. It also references something that is strongly linguistic. But when people are together for a long time, the communication also takes place on other levels. Information is relayed in a manner that is not easily comprehensible. Even being together is a kind of dialogue. People use it to influence each other.”
Jaan Luik was born in 1953 and graduated the Sculpture Department of the Estonian State Art Institute in 1975. In 1988, his son was born and was named Johannes after his grandfather. In 2019, Johannes graduated from the Installation and Sculpture Department of the Estonian Art Academy. Since 1988, the two have been in constant communication.
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Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto (3 February 1898 – 11 May 1976) was a Finnish architect and designer, as well as a sculptor and painter. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware. Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards. His furniture designs were considered Scandinavian Modern. What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art; whereby he – together with his first wife Aino Aalto – would design not just the building, but give special treatments to the interior surfaces and design furniture, lamps, and furnishings and glassware. The Alvar Aalto Museum, designed by Aalto himself, is located in what is regarded as his home city Jyväskylä.
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Finland (Finnish: Suomi [suo̯mi] ( listen); Swedish: Finland Swedish pronunciation: [ˈfɪnland]), officially the Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta, Swedish: Republiken Finland) is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east. Finland is a Nordic country and is situated in the geographical region of Fennoscandia. The capital and largest city is Helsinki. Other major cities are Espoo and Tampere.
Finland's population is 5.52 million (2018), and the majority of the population is concentrated in the southern region. 88.7% of the population is Finnish and speaks Finnish, a Uralic language unrelated to the Scandinavian languages; next come the Finland-Swedes (5.3%). Finland is the eighth-largest country in Europe and the most sparsely populated country in the European Union. The sovereign state is a parliamentary republic with a central government based in the capital city of Helsinki, local governments in 311 municipalities, and one autonomous region, the Åland Islands. Over 1.4 million people live in the Greater Helsinki metropolitan area, which produces one third of the country's GDP.
Finland was inhabited when the last ice age ended, approximately 9000 BCE. The first settlers left behind artefacts that present characteristics shared with those found in Estonia, Russia, and Norway. The earliest people were hunter-gatherers, using stone tools. The first pottery appeared in 5200 BCE, when the Comb Ceramic culture was introduced. The arrival of the Corded Ware culture in southern coastal Finland between 3000 and 2500 BCE may have coincided with the start of agriculture. The Bronze Age and Iron Age were characterised by extensive contacts with other cultures in the Fennoscandian and Baltic regions and the sedentary farming inhabitation increased towards the end of Iron Age. At the time Finland had three main cultural areas – Southwest Finland, Tavastia and Karelia – as reflected in contemporary jewellery.From the late 13th century, Finland gradually became an integral part of Sweden through the Northern Crusades and the Swedish part-colonisation of coastal Finland, a legacy reflected in the prevalence of the Swedish language and its official status. In 1809, Finland was incorporated into the Russian Empire as the autonomous Grand Duchy of Finland. In 1906, Finland became the first European state to grant all adult citizens the right to vote, and the first in the world to give all adult citizens the right to run for public office.Following the 1917 Russian Revolution, Finland declared itself independent. In 1918, the fledgling state was divided by civil war, with the Bolshevik-leaning Red Guard supported by the equally new Soviet Russia, fighting the White Guard, supported by the German Empire. After a brief attempt to establish a kingdom, the country became a republic. During World War II, the Soviet Union sought repeatedly to occupy Finland, with Finland losing parts of Karelia, Salla, Kuusamo, Petsamo and some islands, but retaining independence.
Finland joined the United Nations in 1955 and established an official policy of neutrality. The Finno-Soviet Treaty of 1948 gave the Soviet Union some leverage in Finnish domestic politics during the Cold War era. Finland joined the OECD in 1969, the NATO Partnership for Peace in 1994, the European Union in 1995, the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council in 1997, and finally the Eurozone at its inception, in 1999.
Finland was a relative latecomer to industrialisation, remaining a largely agrarian country until the 1950s. After World War II, the Soviet Union demanded war reparations from Finland not only in money but also in material, such as ships and machinery. This forced Finland to industrialise. It rapidly developed an advanced economy while building an extensive welfare state based on the Nordic model, resulting in widespread prosperity ...
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The Slavic Native Faith, also known as Rodnovery, is a modern Pagan religion. Classified as a new religious movement, its practitioners harken back to the historical belief systems of the Slavic peoples of Central and Eastern Europe. Rodnovery is a widely accepted self-descriptor within the community, although there are Rodnover organisations which further characterise the religion as Orthodoxy, Old Belief and Vedism.
Rodnovers typically regard their religion as a faithful continuation of ancient beliefs that survived as folk religion or as conscious double belief following the Christianisation of the Slavs in the Middle Ages. Rodnovery draws upon surviving historical and archaeological sources, folk religion and even non-Slavic sources such as Hinduism. Rodnover theology and cosmology may be described as pantheism and polytheism—worship of the supreme God of the universe and of the multiple gods, ancestors and spirits of nature identified through Slavic culture. Adherents usually meet together in groups to conduct religious ceremonies. These typically entail the invocation of gods, sacrifices and the pouring of libations, dances and a communal meal.
Rodnover ethical thinking emphasises the good of the collective over the rights of the individual. The religion is patriarchal, and attitudes towards sex and gender are generally conservative. Rodnovery has developed distinctive strains of political and identitary philosophy. Rodnover organisations often characterise themselves as ethnic religions, emphasising that the religion is bound to Slavic ethnicity. This often manifests as ethnic nationalism, opposition to miscegenation and the belief in the fundamental difference of racial groups. Rodnovers often glorify Slavic history, criticising the impact of Christianity in Slavic countries and arguing that these nations will play a central place in the world's future. Rodnovers share a strong feeling that their religion represents a paradigmatic shift which will overcome Western thought and what they call mono-ideologies.
The contemporary organised Rodnovery movement arose from a multiplicity of sources and charismatic leaders just at the brink of the collapse of the Soviet Union and spread rapidly by the mid-1990s and the 2000s. Antecedents are to be found in late 18th- and 19th-century Slavic Romanticism, which glorified the pre-Christian beliefs of Slavic societies. Active religious practitioners devoted to establishing Slavic Native Faith appeared in Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s. Following the Second World War and the establishment of communist states throughout the Eastern Bloc, new variants were established by Slavic emigrants living in Western countries, being later introduced in Central and Eastern European countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In recent times, the movement has been increasingly studied in academic scholarship.
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The Slavic Native Faith, also known as Rodnovery, is a modern Pagan religion. Classified as a new religious movement, its practitioners harken back to the historical belief systems of the Slavic peoples of Central and Eastern Europe. Rodnovery is a widely accepted self-descriptor within the community, although there are Rodnover organisations which further characterise the religion as Orthodoxy, Old Belief and Vedism.
Rodnovers typically regard their religion as a faithful continuation of ancient beliefs that survived as folk religion or as conscious double belief following the Christianisation of the Slavs in the Middle Ages. Rodnovery draws upon surviving historical and archaeological sources, folk religion and even non-Slavic sources such as Hinduism. Rodnover theology and cosmology may be described as pantheism and polytheism—worship of the supreme God of the universe and of the multiple gods, ancestors and spirits of nature identified through Slavic culture. Adherents usually meet together in groups to conduct religious ceremonies. These typically entail the invocation of gods, sacrifices and the pouring of libations, dances and a communal meal.
Rodnover ethical thinking emphasises the good of the collective over the rights of the individual. The religion is patriarchal, and attitudes towards sex and gender are generally conservative. Rodnovery has developed distinctive strains of political and identitary philosophy. Rodnover organisations often characterise themselves as ethnic religions, emphasising that the religion is bound to Slavic ethnicity. This often manifests as ethnic nationalism, opposition to miscegenation and the belief in the fundamental difference of racial groups. Rodnovers often glorify Slavic history, criticising the impact of Christianity in Slavic countries and arguing that these nations will play a central place in the world's future. Rodnovers share a strong feeling that their religion represents a paradigmatic shift which will overcome Western thought and what they call mono-ideologies.
The contemporary organised Rodnovery movement arose from a multiplicity of sources and charismatic leaders just at the brink of the collapse of the Soviet Union and spread rapidly by the mid-1990s and the 2000s. Antecedents are to be found in late 18th- and 19th-century Slavic Romanticism, which glorified the pre-Christian beliefs of Slavic societies. Active religious practitioners devoted to establishing Slavic Native Faith appeared in Poland and Ukraine in the 1930s and 1940s. Following the Second World War and the establishment of communist states throughout the Eastern Bloc, new variants were established by Slavic emigrants living in Western countries, being later introduced in Central and Eastern European countries after the collapse of the Soviet Union. In recent times, the movement has been increasingly studied in academic scholarship.