{"id":42919,"date":"2023-05-31T10:01:11","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T07:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baltica.ee\/?p=42919"},"modified":"2023-05-30T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-30T09:24:31","slug":"greetings-from-president-of-estonia-alar-karis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baltica.ee\/en\/greetings-from-president-of-estonia-alar-karis\/","title":{"rendered":"GREETINGS FROM PRESIDENT OF ESTONIA ALAR KARIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container has-pattern-background has-mask-background nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"max-width:1352px;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-image-element\" style=\"--awb-margin-top:40px;--awb-margin-bottom:40px;--awb-caption-title-font-family:var(--h2_typography-font-family);--awb-caption-title-font-weight:var(--h2_typography-font-weight);--awb-caption-title-font-style:var(--h2_typography-font-style);--awb-caption-title-size:var(--h2_typography-font-size);--awb-caption-title-transform:var(--h2_typography-text-transform);--awb-caption-title-line-height:var(--h2_typography-line-height);--awb-caption-title-letter-spacing:var(--h2_typography-letter-spacing);\"><span class=\" fusion-imageframe imageframe-none imageframe-1 hover-type-none\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" title=\"Greetings Alar Karis\" src=\"https:\/\/baltica.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Greetings-Alar-Karis-1024x576.jpg\" alt class=\"img-responsive wp-image-42920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/baltica.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Greetings-Alar-Karis-200x113.jpg 200w, https:\/\/baltica.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Greetings-Alar-Karis-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/baltica.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Greetings-Alar-Karis-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/baltica.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Greetings-Alar-Karis-800x450.jpg 800w, https:\/\/baltica.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Greetings-Alar-Karis-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/baltica.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Greetings-Alar-Karis.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/span><\/div><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Dear <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">guardians<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\"> of heritage and its enthusiasts, and those who seek to learn from it,\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The stronger the wind blows and storms shake the treetops, the more important the roots become. The more volatile and perplexing the times, the more we need to look to the past, to seek solace from our history. There we can find many answers to what we can become and who we are. When it seems that the new and the unknown are permeating our lives with great speed, phenomena like Baltica act as important balancers. It forces us to lean into this wind of time and look inside ourselves, so that the gusts do not carry us away.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">From time to time culture is nourished from contact with other cultures. The best and closest to us is adapted to our ways and is moulded into our own tradition. This year's heritage festival is one of those occasions that brings together such encounters. Because yes, there is only one Estonia, but within this Estonia there are many more small, distinctive places and communities with their own traditions. The same is true in Latvia, Lithuania and elsewhere. We are always bigger inside than we think.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">I wish you all the best in discovering and finding yourselves (and your sources) at Folklore Festival Baltica 2023!\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>President of Estonia<br \/>\nAlar Karis<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GREETINGS FROM PRESIDENT OF ESTONIA ALAR KARIS - Baltica<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/baltica.ee\/en\/greetings-from-president-of-estonia-alar-karis\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GREETINGS FROM PRESIDENT OF ESTONIA ALAR KARIS - 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