by Toplica | Mar 7, 2020 | Culture, English, Featured, News
About Gjon’s Tears Born as Gjon Muharremaj in Broc, Switzerland to parents with Albanian ethnicity, he was internally selected to represent Switzerland by the national broadcaster SRG SSR. Gjon competed in the first ever and only season of Albanians Got Talant back in...
by Toplica | Feb 29, 2020 | Culture, English, Featured, News
What to wear for a dinner date with your Albanian speaking dogs? When you’re Dua Lipa, it’s a glamorous array of the hottest looks from New York Fashion Week. Starring in her own ’90s style sitcom for Vogue’s Fall 2020 collections video, the singer shows off looks...
by Toplica | Feb 28, 2020 | Culture, English, Featured
Switzerland is due to announce its act for Eurovision 2020 this Wednesday, 4 March. Broadcaster SRF has given clues about the artist and their song, but now Eurovision fans have done some digging and may have a name of both the artist and the song: Gjon’s Tears with...
by Toplica | Feb 23, 2020 | Community, Culture, English, Featured, News, Videos
The Duchess of Cornwall on 19th of February visited a much-loved community centre as Brent Council continued its programme as the London borough of culture for 2020. Camilla attended a special event at The Granville, South Kilburn, to mark the borough’s cultural...
by Toplica | Feb 9, 2020 | Culture, English, Featured, News
The Eurovision 2020 season received a much need kick-start this week when Spain released Blas Cantó’s long-awaited song for Rotterdam — “Universo”. This brought the current tally of confirmed acts and songs to two, the other being Albania’s Arilena Ara with “Shaj”....
by Toplica | Jan 30, 2020 | Culture, English, Featured, News
The Doll is an autobiographical story, with his beloved, inscrutable mother at its heart Ismail Kadare is a kind of lapidary artist who carves meaning and pattern into the rocky mysteries of his native Albania. Born, like his frenemy the Communist dictator Enver...
