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05.02.2021
The Heydar Aliyev Foundation gave holiday food packages to 100 thousand families
On the initiative of the First Vice-President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, President of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Mehriban Aliyeva, food packages were given to low-income families and other families from vulnerable groups in connection with International Solidarity Day of Azerbaijanis.
The campaign, held by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the Public Association "Regional Development", covers up to 100 thousand families throughout the country. Along with low-income families, this includes children with disabilities, families with 5 or more children, as well as families who left their homes due to the damage caused as a result of the military aggression of Armenia.
Food packages are distributed to citizens with the support of the Ministry of Labour and Social Protection and in compliance with the requirements of the quarantine regime. Volunteers of the Public Association "Regional Development" actively participate in the action.
Opening of the art exhibition "The Edges of Creativity - the Edges of Victory"
On January 14, 2021, the Presidential Library of the Republic of Belarus hosted the official opening of the art exhibition "The Edges of Creativity - the Edges of Victory", which consists of the final works of students of the I. F. Khrutsky Children's Art School in Novopolotsk.
Following the recent trends, the opening was held in the format of an online conference. The works featured at the exhibition are united by a common theme of Victory in the Great Patriotic War and the memory of the heroic deeds of the brave Belarusian soldiers.
Each picture of the exhibition "The Edges of Creativity - the Edges of Victory" is filled with personal emotions, experiences and impressions of the children from Novopolotsk. As part of the opening, they shared what inspires them to create - for some it is family traditions, local culture, or even flowers that have become an unspoken symbol of the memory of the victims of the Great Patriotic War.
Exhibition "Vanguard. On a cart in the XXI century". Virtual tour
"Vanguard. On a cart in the XXI century" (September 18, 2020 - January 10, 2021) is the first exhibition in the history of Russian art, revealing the history of the exhibition of modern art, unprecedented for provincial cities. In the project of the Yeltsin Center and the "Encyclopedia of the Russian vanguard" are collected nearly a hundred works from the collections of the Vyatky Art Museum, the Yaran Museum of Local Lore and the Sloboda Museum of Local Lore.
In the autumn of 1921, a traveling exhibition of vanguard artists went to the Vyatkaya province with the most utopian goal – to enlighten the revolutionary workers and peasants with the works of Vasily Kandinsky, Alexander Rodchenko and fifty other contemporaries. A month after the opening, due to problems with financing and impassable roads, the masterpieces were delayed for almost a hundred years. The exhibition opened in the Yeltsin Center gallery is a kind of reconstruction of the historical exhibition.
The unique nature of Crimean peninsula to be considered at the Presidential Library’s Cinema Club meeting
The cinema club meeting dedicated to the richest nature of the peninsula will be held on January 20, 2021, on Day of the Republic of Crimea at 16:00 at the Presidential Library.
The cinema club’s program includes a creative meeting with the candidate of biological sciences, author and presenter of the channel about animals in Russia Two of Every Kind Pavel Glazkov.
He will present his works filmed in Crimea telling about the beauty and uniqueness of the nature of the peninsula. In particular, one of them -The Swan Islands Reserve - is dedicated to the birds that inhabit the archipelago from small islands in the Karkitinsky Bay in the north-west of the Crimean peninsula.
The event will be broadcasted live on the Presidential Libraries portal in Live broadcast section, in the Presidential Library’s cinema club group on the Vkontakte social network and on the institution's YouTube channel.
https://www.prlib.ru/afisha/1308097
Obama Foundation honors NJ charity that continued during pandemic
A New Jersey charity that kept plugging away despite the pandemic has received national recognition. According to NorthJersey.com, the Franciscan Charities in Newark refused to give up when COVID forced them to shut down their soup kitchen; the kitchen had been serving hundreds of people a day who now might not have access to any food.
Since the needy could no longer come to them, the charity came to the community, preparing the food off-site and filling bags with meals to be distributed to the people who needed them. They now provide the meals from outside their home base at St. Ann’s Church on South 6th Street in Newark. For this effort, the Franciscan Charities was honored by the Obama Foundation as a “Story of Hope.”
https://nj1015.com/obama-foundation-honors-nj-charity-that-continued-during-pandemic/
Bush 41’s White House photographer shares perspective on inauguration imagery
David Valdez is in an exclusive club. Valdez served under former President George HW Bush while he was Vice President and when he became Commander in Chief. “My job put me in close proximity, seven days a week, 15 hours a day for a decade,” Valdez recalled. His memory of Bush’s inaugural parade is somewhat flipped around. “They just got to walk down the road. I actually did it walking backwards, taking pictures,” Valdez said with a chuckle. Later that day, the newly-minted President Bush attended a congressional luncheon.
After that photograph, he rushed to the helicopter awaiting Bush, and captured the 41st President peeking out the window to view the U.S. Capitol.
Valdez now lives in Georgetown, Texas, and has kept in touch with the Bush family.
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library offers virtual presentation on ‘Preserving Presidential Papers in the Modern Era’
The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library will host a virtual presentation by The Honorable Don W. Wilson, former Archivist of the United States, on “Preserving Presidential Papers in the Modern Era” as part of its “Evarts W. Opie Jr. Memorial Speaker Series” on Thursday at 7 p.m. on Zoom.
Topics such as the Presidential Records Act, the emergence of new technologies, and the use of private email servers and private messaging apps will be discussed.