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30 April 2022
Approximately one-third of all Romansh language speakers now reside outside the canton of Grisons/Graubünden. The (travelling) exhibition aims to inform the other language communities of the country (German, French and Italian) about this language and culture and enlarge the network of speakers of Romansh. Even with only basic knowledge of Latin, German, French and/or Italian, … Read more » “Romansh Language and Culture”
15 March 2022
Hospitals are testing therapies today, and pharmaceutical companies are rapidly developing vaccines. At the same time, the public discusses the results of medicine and debates its significance. Rarely has the work on the unknowable been as visible as in the past two years. In Basel, pandemics and medicine have been science and industry focal points for … Read more » “Topical Medicine History and Inoculation”
8 March 2022
One project of the Origen Foundation (Fundaziun Origen) in Riom (canton of Graubünden) has barely begun, or the next is already emerging. The Weisse Villa (White Villa) relocation in Mulegns was completed in 2020. The renovation of the famous Post Hotel Löwe is almost finished. The Foundation has also built a theatre (the Julierturm) on … Read more » “Origen’s Cultural Campus”
7 March 2022
On 27 February 2020, the Bundesrat/Conseil fédéral (the national government) and the canton of Basel-Stadt decided to cancel the Fasnacht of 2020 (from 2 to 4 March) because of the Covid epidemic. The disappointment was omnipresent, but the following year, the cancellation was self-evident. Finally, on 7 March 2022, at 4 a.m., the Vorwärts Marsch order was … Read more » “The Basler Fasnacht 2022”
18 February 2022
The dreamed city. (Die geträumte Stadt) The exhibition’s title is “Klingental” at the former monastery in Klingental (Museum Kleines Klingental) in Basel. The title is open to two interpretations. A dream can be a vision that is never realised or a dream that becomes a reality (or a nightmare). Both possibilities apply to Basel and … Read more » “The Dreamed City of Basel”
31 January 2022
The work “Svizra Rumantscha” has been hanging in Bern’s House of the Cantons (Haus der Kantone/Maison des cantons) since December 2021. The work shows the names of Switzerland’s approximately 2200 municipalities in the Romansh language. The artist Donat Caduff has converted the names of some 2200 municipalities into Romansh, although most did not have a … Read more » “Svizra Rumantscha in Bern”
23 January 2022
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