A Walk on Folk Song Hill – \u201cThe uniqueness of Folk Song Hill and Indulis Oj\u0101rs Ranka\u2019s sculptures in today\u2019s perspective\u201d. A conversation between Arta V\u0101rpa, Art Historian, Curator of the LNAM Sculpture and Object Collection, and Ilze Egle, Artist and daughter of sculptor Indulis Oj\u0101rs Ranka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
October 18, 10:00 a.m. \u2013 6:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A Hike of Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Barons with tasks in cooperation with the Ziedonis Museum. Route: Sigulda, a monument to K. Barons – homestead “Dainas” \u2013 a clean up on Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Barons trail, organized in cooperation with the Nature Conservation Agency. The hike will conclude on Folk Song Hill with a performance of the traditional singing group “Sauc\u0113jas” and folklorist Aiga Auzi\u0146a.<\/p>\n\n\n\n October 31 at 10:00 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n A morning with folk songs. Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Barons \u2013 190. At the Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Barons monument in Sigulda. Everyone is invited to share their favorite folk song throughout the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In October, school-age students and those who are interested will be offered a new interactive programme at Folk Song Hill, where participants will discover the world of folk songs and learn more about the sculptures created by Indulis Ranka on Folk Song Hill when searching for marks and solving tasks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The programme was created by the Turaida Museum Reserve in collabortion with the representatives of Ziedonis’ class<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Turaida Museum Reserve, in collaboration with the Sigulda County Council, the Ziedonis Museum, the Nature Conservation Agency, and the K. Barons homestead “Dainas” invites everyone to celebrate the 190th birthday of folklore researcher, linguist, public figure, and teacher Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Barons with a variety of events in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Barons (1835-1923) is best known to the general public for his work of compiling, systematizing, and publishing Latvian folk songs in the collection \u201cLatvju dainas\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n However, his interests and contribution to the education of the Latvian people were much broader. He was a linguist and translator, and was involved in introducing foreign words, for example, in mathematics, geography, physics, and biology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the representatives of the movement \u2013 the New Latvians, founder of the newspaper “P\u0113terburgas av\u012bzes” (St. Petersburg Newspaper). He published the latest scientific findings of his time, was interested in mathematics, astronomy, geography, etc., and prepared and published several popular educational works, such as the bibliographic index “Reflections on the Indigenous Peoples of the Baltic Region” and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n He published poems and stories, but his book “A Description of Our Homeland\u201d, published in 1859, is unique in that it contains two 19th-century accounts of the Latvian land and people in a single volume.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The book was published to educate the Latvian people about the land they live in, about other peoples who inhabit our land, as well as about the value and antiquity of the native Latvian language among the languages of the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Barons spent the last summer of his life, in 1922, at the homestead \u201cDainas\u201d in Turaida. His daughter-in-law L\u012bna Barone wrote about this period in a memoir: “After breakfast, if the weather was sunny outside, my father went out for a walk and disappear for several hours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He was always carrying a walking stick made of juniper in one hand and a collapsible little chair in the other. Thus \u00a0he hiked accross the hills and hillocks of the area..<\/p>\n\n\n\n There was\u00a0 once a young man who was climbing up the steep trail of the Turaida Hill\u00a0 and when he got to the top, he was weary and sat down for a rest. Then he spotted \u00a0a white-haired little old man climbing the same trail – climbing and climbing until he reached the top. <\/p>\n\n\n\n He did not sit down. Instead, he walked past the young man to the edge of the hill, from which a lovely view of the Gauja valley can be found. He looked at the vista \u00a0for a while, and then slowly walked away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n It didn\u2019t seem at all that the little old man was weary, and only then the young man realise that it was Father Barons. He was delighted at the old man\u2019s durability and flexibility at such a great age.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Foto: Edgars Semanis<\/p>\n\n\n\n Inviting everyone to remember the folklore researcher Kri\u0161j\u0101nis Barons and draw inspiration from his achievements, long life and endurance, several events will be organized in October: 11 October, 1:00 p.m.\u20132:30 p.m. A Walk on Folk Song Hill – \u201cThe uniqueness of Folk Song Hill and Indulis Oj\u0101rs Ranka\u2019s sculptures in today\u2019s perspective\u201d. 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