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30.06.2021
Woodrow Wilson's 105-year-old flag a nod to his advocacy for Flag Day, celebrated in Staunton
Congress didn't approve Flag Day as a holiday until 1949, but Woodrow Wilson was the first president to propose the idea of Flag Day in 1916 as a nationally recognized holiday. He didn't come up with it on his own, though.
Now, 105 years after Wilson vouched for Flag Day to be a national holiday, the home where he was born in Staunton, Virginia is working to commemorate it year after year.
The Woodrow Wilson Library and Museum received the gifted flag in 1969 after the granddaughter of Cigrand gifted it to the organization.
The century-old flag may be folded up and tucked away safely for days to come, but it will continue to reside in the museum, along with the dozens of other artifacts that pay tribute to American history, flag and Wilson himself, available for Stauntonians and travelers today to reflect on.
JFK Presidential Library and Museum to Reopen on July 4th Weekend
The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum announced that it will reopen to the public on weekends with reduced hours beginning Saturday, July 3. In appreciation of the significant sacrifices that were made by everyone over the past year to keep people safe, admission to the Museum will be free in July and August.
The Museum will be open on Saturdays and Sundays from 10 a.m. to 2.p.m.
https://www.jfklibrary.org/about-us/news-and-press/press-releases
Blood Drive at the Nixon Library
On June 22 and 30 people can participate in the blood donation at the White House East Room in the Nixon Library.
Within days of closing the Nixon Library to the public due to COVID-19 in March 2020, the White House East Room, known for its once-active programming and frequent events, became a center for much-needed blood donations.
Since then, the Foundation has hosted over 40 blood drives, resulting in over 1,700 usable units of blood and potentially 5,100 lives saved.
The Richard Nixon Foundation intends to continue these popular and meaningful blood drives as long as the shortage continues.
This blood drive is presented in partnership with LifeStream Blood Bank.
https://www.nixonfoundation.org/event/blood-drive-nixon-library-4/
Reagan Foundation & Institute announces Nancy Reagan Centennial celebration
As July 6, 2021 marks the 100th anniversary of Nancy Davis Reagan’s birth, today the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation & Institute announced the launch of the Nancy Reagan Centennial, which will run from July 6, 2021, through July 6, 2022. This year-long commemoration will be filled with celebratory events, content rich programming, and special projects that will highlight her many contributions to the nation and her life of extraordinary achievements.
The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Institute is the sole nonprofit organization created by President Reagan charged with continuing his legacy and sharing his principles — individual liberty, economic opportunity, global democracy, and national pride. The Foundation is a nonpartisan organization which sustains the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, CA, the Reagan Center for Public Affairs, the Presidential Learning Center, The Air Force One Pavilion, the award-winning Discovery Center and the Reagan Institute, which carries out the Foundation’s mission in Washington, DC.
In Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants exhibit opened at the George W. Bush Presidential Center
In Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants, a powerful new collection of oil paintings and stories, President George W. Bush spotlights the inspiring journeys of America’s immigrants and the contributions they make to the life and prosperity of our nation. Through 43 powerful four-color portraits — personally painted by the President himself — and their accompanying stories, Out of Many, One reminds us of the countless ways in which America has been strengthened by those who have come here in search of a better life.
A public exhibition of the portraits and an in-depth look at the many issues surrounding the immigration debate in our country will runs through January 3, 2022 at the George W. Bush Presidential Center.
https://www.bushcenter.org/exhibits-and-events/exhibits/2021/out-of-many-one.html
The Obamas are going home to Chicago — in portrait form, at least
Kehinde Wiley’s portrait of Barack Obama and Amy Sherald’s painting of Michelle Obama attracted record crowds to the National Portrait Gallery after they were unveiled in early 2018, a testament to the celebrity status of the former president and first lady and the artists’ groundbreaking representation of Black power and achievement.
From June 14, the portraits will bring their star power to five American art museums, where they will be featured in exhibitions on portraiture, representation, power and race. The year-long tour of museums in Chicago, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, Atlanta and Houston will allow millions more to view the paintings, which have been celebrated for their vibrant colors and tradition-breaking style. The paintings made history, too, because Wiley and Sherald are the first African American artists commissioned by the Smithsonian museum for its portraits of a president or first lady.
“[The Obamas] are celebrities in ways previous presidents and first ladies are not. And Kehinde and Amy are absolutely rock stars. They are on equal footing,” Art Institute of Chicago President James Rondeau said. “And that combination has produced a kind of image and a kind of poetry we haven’t seen before.”
The Return of Submerged Antiquities to the BA Antiquities Museum
The BA Antiquities Museum re-displayed a remarkable collection of unique artefacts following their safe return to Egypt after nearly five years of traveling across the United States and several European countries in world tours.
The exhibition toured a number of European countries in 2015 and United States in 2018. The most iconic item of the exhibition was the statue depicting one of the Ptolemaic queens in the form of the goddess Isis. This outstanding artefact was the highlight of every museum display, attracting the attention of international media and press.
https://www.bibalex.org/en/news/details?documentid=40213&page=4
'Rectors Recommend Books' Social Media Event
Social media accounts of the Nation’s Library are holding event "Rectors Recommend Books!" where rectors are recommending books to the youth.
Social Media Accounts:
https://twitter.com/cb_kutuphane
https://www.instagram.com/cbmilletkutuphanesi/
https://mk.gov.tr/icerik/detay/rectors-recommend-books-social-media-event
Program of the XIII International Scientific Conference "History of Stalinism"
On June 21-24, the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg will host the XIII International Scientific Conference from the cycle "History of Stalinism". The theme of the conference is “Ways to Victory. Man, society, country during the Great Patriotic War".
The task of the thirteenth conference from the cycle "History of Stalinism" is to summarize some of the results and prospects of the study of the Great Patriotic War and World War II as a whole as the most dynamic and promising direction of world historiography.
https://yeltsin.ru/news/XIII-Mezhdunarodnaya-nauchnaya-konferenciya-Istoriya-stalinizma/
On a high note: the third festival "Words and Music of Freedom" at the Yeltsin Center
Born in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Russian Constitution, the “Words and Music of Freedom” festival with its special and unique atmosphere is one of the highlights of the Yeltsin Center. This year it was held for the third time and again presented Yekaterinburg with two unforgettable days filled with meetings and discussions with the country's brightest people and performances by favorite musicians.
For the sake of live communication, limited to a minimum in the midst of a pandemic, the current music and conversation festival was postponed to June 12-13 and timed to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the first presidential elections in Russia. The festival was opened by the First Deputy Executive Director of the Yeltsin Center, Lyudmila Telen.
https://yeltsin.ru/news/Na-vysokoj-note-tretij-festival-Slova-i-muzyka-svobody-v-Elcin-Centre/
Yeltsin Center and Garage create an archive of contemporary art in Yekaterinburg
The Yeltsin Center Art Gallery, together with the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, which provided a grant for this project, began to collect an archive of contemporary art in Yekaterinburg for the RAAN database, a network of archives of Russian contemporary art. Curators Anna Litovskikh and Svetlana Usoltseva will work on the Yekaterinburg archive.
The archive will be composed of digitized and physical material. The digitized ones will become available on the online platform of the RAAN base, and the tangible ones - documents, photos, videos, etc. - will be stored at the Yeltsin Center and can be accessed upon request.
https://yeltsin.ru/news/Elcin-Centr-i-Garazh-sozdayut-arhiv-sovremennogo-iskusstva-Ekaterinburga/
Holidays in Science City. 3D modeling
The Yeltsin Center will host a 3D modeling summer camp from June 21 to 25. In the summer camp "3D modeling" children, under the guidance of a teacher, will learn how to work in Blender and create a room of their dreams in 3D. In addition, young researchers will get acquainted with the history of great inventions and with different types of creativity.
https://yeltsin.ru/affair/Kanikuly-v-Naukograde-3D-modelirovanie/?id=42727
Presentation of documentary books about veterans of the Great Patriotic War
On June 16, 2021, the Presidential Library of the Republic of Belarus hosted a presentation of documentary books about veterans of the Great Patriotic War and the police of the city of Novopolotsk"Forged in the flame of war" and "Soldier of victory and law and order".
The event was initiated by Denis Nikolayevich Karasem, a member of the Standing Committee on Industry, Fuel and Energy Complex of the National Assembly of the Republic of Belarus, within the framework of republican events of the Year of National Unity.
“Musical heritage and Karabakh horses on Jidir Duzu plain” composition organized by HeydarAliyev Foundation was presented in Shusha
The “Musical heritage and Karabakh horses on the Jidir Duzu plain” composition organized by the HeydarAliyev Foundation has been presented in Shusha.
President of the Republic of Azerbaijan IlhamAliyev, First Lady Mehriban Aliyeva and President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan, First Lady Emine Erdogan viewed the musical composition.
During the event, President of the Republic of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan was presented with a Karabakh horse “Zafar”, one of the oldest horse breeds, and a “Kharibulbul” composition. The “Kharibulbul” composition features two Kharibulbulflowers, considered the symbol of Karabakh, uniting and embodying the eternal friendship and brotherhoodbetween Azerbaijan and Turkey.
The participants of the event organized in Shusha were also presented with a collection of publications of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation called “Cultural Heritage of Karabakh”. The collection includes separate publications in the fields of literature, music, architecture, folk art and carpet weaving.
https://heydar-aliyev-foundation.org/ru/content/view/59/5068/%D0%A4%D0%B...
Heydar Aliyev Foundation presented the publication "Cultural Heritage of Karabakh" in Shusha
The Heydar Aliyev Foundation has prepared a collection of publications “Cultural Heritage of Karabakh”. The collection includes five editions, reflecting the literary, musical, architectural spheres, folk art and carpet weaving.
The publication "Folk Art" provides information on folk crafts that occupy one of the important places in the rich folk art of the Azerbaijani people, associated with their life and routine.