Other Events

On June 27, the school contest “What do I know about Europe” ended with its final stage competition that was hosted by the Swedish embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania. The Office for a Democratic Belarus was among organisers and co-sponsors of the event. Team of school pupils from Brest, who won the 2012 contest, will be visiting Brussels on the invitation of our Office.

The contest has its roots back in 2004 and is built of a series of competition events for high school children where they show knowledge in history, culture and geography of the European continent with Belarus being part of it. Participating teams come from different parts of the country and include each five students and a supervisor.

From August 18 to September 4, 2011 Bonn has witnessed an expression of the Belarusian creative soul. The Artists Forum in Bonn hosted an exhibition of the Belarusian poster art entitled “Visual code of the time: post-Soviet poster art in Belarus”. Bonn was the latest destination of this traveling exhibition in its European tour, which was already enjoyed by the public in a number of other European cities, such as Warsaw, Berlin, Dresden, Trieste, Granarolo, Toulouse, and Brussels. The event was co-organised by the Robert Bosch Foundation, the Office for a Democratic Belarus (Brussels, Belgium),  Kuenstlerforum (Bonn, Germany), and Freude Joy.

Yesterday sunny Brussels hosted the opening of the exhibition ‘Visual code of the time: post-Soviet poster art in Belarus’. It was the second presentation of this exhibition in Brussels. After the Administration Communale d’Evere and Curieus Evere, the Centre culturel Forest expressed its great interest in presenting Belarusian posters to Brussels’ public.

Dear friends,

The Office for a Democratic Belarus, the Centre culturel Forest (Brussels) and Association Culturelle Joseph Jacquemotte, have the pleasure to invite you to the exhibition Visual code of the time: post-Soviet poster art in Belarus. The exhibition represents the works of 19 designers and demonstrates the impact that important socio-political transformation taking place in Belarus in the mid 1980s-1990s had on the country’s poster art.

It has already been seen by the audiences of Warsaw, Berlin, Dresden, Trieste, Granarolo, and Toulouse. In January 2009 it was also available for Brussels’ citizens at Aula Toots which was kindly supported by Administration Communale d’Evere.

Exhibition of Belarusian Poster Opens in Toulouse

Two more European cities got the chance to see a travelling exhibition of Belarusian posters ‘Visual code of the time: post-Soviet poster art in Belarus’.

Since February 28 until March 5, 2009 thirty works of the well-known Belarusian designers were on display in Italian city of Granarolo. The exhibition was hosted by the local administration at the library named after Gianni Rodari. The posters of ecology and Chernobyl problematic resonated in the audience most of all as each year this Italian city receives hundreds of Belarusian children from radioactively polluted areas of Belarus.

Dear friends,

The Office for a Democratic Belarus and the French association “Kolbasso” have the pleasure to invite you to the exhibition Visual code of the time: post-Soviet poster art in Belarus.

The exhibition represents the works of 19 designers and demonstrates the impact that important socio-political transformation taking place in Belarus in the mid 1980s-1990s had on the country’s poster art.

The exhibition opens at 19:00 on March 11 at the café "Le Caméléon", 19 rue du Pont Saint Pierre, Toulouse (France).

Dear friends

Office for a Democratic Belarus and the United World College of the Adriatic (Trieste, Italy) have the pleasure to invite you to the exhibition Visual code of the time: post-Soviet poster art in Belarus.

The exhibition represents the works of 19 designers and demonstrates the impact that important socio-political transformation taking place in Belarus in the mid 1980s-1990s had on the country’s poster art.