Participate in our Latvian community!
New York, New Jersey and Connecticut are home to a vibrant Latvian-American
community with many ongoing activities. We invite you to join us. Click on
the following list or page down and read about all activities.
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church of New York:
This calendar does not list all of the church services held by the Latvian
Evangelical Lutheran Church of New York but this information may be found at
www.nydraudze.org. Church services
and other events take place in Yonkers NY, Melville (Long Island) NY, Brooklyn
NY, Summit NJ, East Orange NJ, Jamaica NY and at the Church Camp "Nometne"
in Elka Park NY in the Catskill Mountains.
Latvian Schools are open from September to May
or June:
The Bronx School meets at the Yonkers Church
on Saturdays from 09:15 to 13:45.For further information write: Laura Zamurs
or call (516) 922-8338
The Long Island School meets at the
Long Island Church on Sundays from 09:00 to
13:30.For further information write: R. Kerno
or call (516) 431-6547
The New Jersey School meets on Saturdays from 09:45 to
14:00 at the Christ Church, 66 Highland Avenue in Short Hills, NJ. A new play group is being
formed for children ages 2-4. For further information
write: Anita Batarags,
telephone: (201) 760-6417.
The Brooklyn School meets twice a month on Saturdays at the Brooklyn Parsonage.
For further information please visit: http://centrelv.com/skola.aspx
or write Ilona Vilciņa
or call :
(718)-332-7510.
  Latvian Boy Scouts & Girl Guides:
The New York Rīga 90th Latvian Boy Scouts and Zilais kalns 4th
Girl Guides have two active groups. One usually meets about twice a month on Saturdays
from 14:00 to 15:30 after Latvian school in
Summit NJ (see above). The other meets a little less often on Saturdays after
Latvian School at the
Long Island Church (see above). For further information
about the Latvian Boy Scouts write Inta Sķiņķis
and for information about the Latvian Girl Guides write: Kristīna Putenis. See the calendar (below) for dates of other
events, weekend and summer camps.
 The New York Latvian Concert Choir
The New York Latvian Concert Choir invites singers to join the choir in
spirit and in person. Most of the rehearsals take place at the
Yonkers Church, at 11:15 am, immediately
after the Sunday church service. For more information, please contact the
conductors Andrejs Jansons (201) 201-944-1273 or Laura
Zamurs (516) 628-1465. Please also visit:
www.nylatvianconcertchoir.org.
The choir has resumed intensive practice sessions for 2007. to prepare for
several concert programs. The concert calendar for 2008 promises to be just as
interesting as the one for 2007. For more detailed information please write the Choir's
President Aija Pelše or call
(516) 935-0967.
 Latvian folk dance group Jumis rehearsals:
The New York Latvian folk dance group Jumis rehearses
regularly from fall through spring. Rehearsals usually
take place Thursday evenings. All are invited to
participate, whether or not you have previous experience with Latvian folk
dancing. To find out where rehearsals take place and for other information
write: info@jumis.org or call
Kristine Varik (917) 951-4767 or Andris Krumkalns (212) 744-2970 and visit www.jumis.org
.
 Paintings
For Sale at the DV house.
Click here to read more.
 ALA
Ethnographic & Cultural Collection at Priedaine,
NJ.
Click here to read more.
  Support Baltic interests by contacting your
elected representatives!
Pressure from Latvian-Americans is still
needed to defend the interests of Latvia and Latvian-Americans before US
government bodies. This includes US aid for the Baltic
militaries. Please visit www.alausa.org
, www.jbanc.org and www.bafl.com Please
also see the ALA Infogram below.
Support the Victims of Communism
memorial in Washington DC.
Please visit: www.victimsofcommunism.org
A.L.A. Infogram:
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