Archive for the Kulturë Category

Konkurs i Poezise Shqipe ne Internet

Posted on September 2, 2010 by Toplica

Klubi Poetik Virtual “ZAHIRI”, shpallë konkurs të hapur për poezi, në të cilin mund të marrë pjesë çdo krijues i cili shkruan poezi në gjuhën shqipe, kudo në botë.

· Poezitë duhet të jenë të pabotuara më parë .· Një person mund të konkuroi me vetëm dy poezi.· Poezitë dërgohen me të dhënat e [...]

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Prince Leka of Albania at Parmoor House in Bucks

Posted on August 8, 2010 by Toplica

News
On Thursday 24th June, about 130 people came to Parmoor House, Frieth near High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire to mark the 70th anniversary of King Zog of Albania’s exile in Britain in June 1940.
History
King Zog had married the beautiful Hungarian Countess Geraldine in 1938 and they had a son Prince Leka in April 1939.  Two days [...]

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Alda Dizdari in Concert: Eastern Europe - A musical journey

Posted on June 22, 2010 by Toplica

Wigmore Hall, Friday 23 July 2010, 7.30 pm. Address: Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, London, W1U 2BP. Book now: http://www.wigmore-hall.org.uk/whats-on/productions/alda-dizdari-violin-26019The Albanian born concert violinist Alda Dizdari makes her Debut at the Wigmore Hall together with the pianist Tom Blach in this exceptionally engaging programme reflecting a very personal journey. The works create a [...]

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‘unearthed’ an exhibition with prehistoric figurines from Albania and other countries

Posted on June 21, 2010 by Toplica

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, Tuesday 22 June – Sunday 29 August.

This exhibition brings together over 100 prehistoric ceramic figurines from Albania, Macedonia, Romania and Japan for the first time.

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Tonight Albania in Eurovision finale

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Toplica

Following their qualification to the Eurovision Song Contest final in Oslo, and today’s dress rehearsal, esctoday.com met with the happy representatives from Albania, Juliana Pasha and her backing group Olen, Dezy, Glenys and Joy.

The group talk about their feelings of joy after qualifying for the final and the anxious wait they experienced before the results [...]

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Tonight in London: La Traviata with Albanian Artists

Posted on May 11, 2010 by Toplica

Ermonela Jaho as Violetta Valéry and Saimir Pirgu as Alfredo Germont.  La traviata is one of the most popular of all operas, loved for its drama, its excitement and its famous music. The social scandal, stormy love affair and doomed heroine of La Dame aux camélias inspired Verdi to music of matching passion and memorable melodies.
Richard [...]

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Theater review : You Took Away My Flag

Posted on May 1, 2010 by Toplica

A new rock opera about the ragtag Kosovo Liberation Army that fought the controlling Serbian forces, the third largest army in Europe at the time, to gain political autonomy, Flag features a trite plot. The youthful frivolity of two ethnic Albanian teenagers (we get a lot of bared abs in Act I) ends when a [...]

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Ekspozitë në The Brick Lane Gallery me 14 prill 2010

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Toplica

Artisti nga Prishtina, Lorik Sylejmani, merr pjese në një ekspozitë në galerinë The Brick Lane Gallery të Londrës. Ekspozita mbahet prej 14 - 26 prill 2010.
Hapja e ekspozites është me 14 prill në ora 18.00. Adresa: 196 BRICK LANE, E1 6SA.
Rreth Lorik Sylejmani (në anglisht):
Statement of my artworks:
My art is a reflection but also a [...]

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Dy libra të reja të huaja me personazhe shqiptare

Posted on April 11, 2010 by Toplica

Dhimitri
(ang .Dimiter) shkruar nga William Peter Blatty
Autori i librit Ekzorcisti, William Peter Blatty, në të cilin u bazua një nga filmat më të frikshëm në historinë e horrorit, tash ka publikuar një novelë me një personazh të frikshëm shqiptar. Novela Dhimitri është një tregim spiunazh/metafizik që ndodhë në Shqipëri dhe Jerusalem.
Novela “Dhimitri” e emëruar në [...]

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A new film based on Kadare’s The Palace of Dreams

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Toplica

An Iranian born, New York based visual artist, Shirin Neshat, who has recently turned into filmmaking is planning to shoot a film based on Kadare’s The Palace of Dreams.

I have been very interested by another novel written by an Albanian author Ismail Kadare, called “The Palace of Dreams,” this film will be made in English, [...]

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