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a hundredth birthday or a song first of all. many facets insulation artists all of us and i give diverse artwork. and many attractions a park in austria has a multitude of outdoor activities. first up but it's time to celebrate for what reason well because lithuania a small country in north eastern europe is celebrating its one hundredth birthday and nine hundred eighteen they threw a new declared itself independent of russia for the first time along with the stonier and latvia all three of them lie on the baltic sea and say gather they make up what is known as the baltic states. if you any unless the soviet union twenty eight years ago and finally became a free republic choral singing is one of the country's population dishes and they love the festivals too so what better way for the locals to celebrate this milestone in history than with

a music festival of bega better than ever before. cause. you some twelve thousand people crowded onto the stage at the song festival in vilnius the massive choir struck up the lithuanian national anthem and for a few minutes the country stood still and listened. i being here in person to hear it was a special experience for many lithuanians. was everybody was very excited and i am very i think citing the five nights i am such a big test it's a big part of such a crowd of people sitting here having was moved up in just the best

emotions you feel this area unity you are evil and the vibe. that's crazy it's crazy. everywhere i go one family. the song festival is lithuania's paramount cultural event it's held every four years. and cliques lithuanians come from the world over to join in. march to nineteen twenty four it's been listed with unesco's intangible cultural heritage since two thousand and eight long with the song festivals in latvia and estonia choral singing as an essential part of the baltic republics identities and histories so we like to say that we sang our way to freedom we had the singing revolution at the end of the eighties and now have a huge amount of songs that are about freedom that are about our identity our

nation. this time. the first of all with its songs mass dances and procession to the singers stage had a special significance. one hundred years have passed since lithuania declared independence from russia the first time and laid the foundation of today's lithuanian republic. on this antenna the festival is an emotional experience for many of the performers and visitors. the one hundred other west three are all just really very sick feel part of it is very real we're all american like we get so we all came from around the globe to come apart and after all so it's really bringing us back to our roots just by smashing in the same way that you have nationalism which can be a negative thing these days with national pride to skate with around the song festival is itself a tradition that focuses heavily on tradition but today's lithuania is

a very modern country that draws newcomers one reason may be the one town of vilnius lithuania is an innovator with information technology europe's largest bloc chain center opened here in twenty eighteen its engineers work on refining data encryption villiers's art scene is also fresh and vibrant and confident designers like yulia yana was give their work a uniquely baltic touch their ideas reflect nature's influence patterns with drops of water and waves. i was traveling around baltic sea and i was trying to find out what is really baltic. and i think yes the lakes and woods it's truly baltic. lithuanian cuisine has also undergone changes in recent years restaurants like the air clear now must in villiers make their own

interpretations of traditional dishes with homegrown ingredients. if you study me you'd all be a. big lot off because it's on the planes and you're caught by and i opened it. and it's different the difference so we have for so fine dining. to feel. looks nice. even with modernization picking up the pace the song festival is a celebration of tradition. was the way mia is a young old nation with something to celebrate on its centennial. i i . from one send tannery we tend to another in our express but first we have news for you on the latest

person to be awarded with a very prestigious prize. premium imperioli prize goes to french actress catherine deneuve the announcement came on wednesday in berlin the award on a very impressive acting career spanning over sixty is the premium in perry and is considered the art world's nobel prize presented by the japan authorization it recognizes outstanding contributions in art architecture film and theater and another laureates this year is the turning conduct a recount a move to the awards are to be presented on october twenty third and ten pm. the realm luxury hotel will reopen on thursday in the cafeteria. and powers after being closed for four years for remember. the art deco hotel first opened in one

thousand and ten famous guests include ernest hemingway and pablo picasso the renovations cost around two hundred million euros and prices were staying overnight in one of its one hundred eighty four rooms and suites was started paid hundred fifty euros. britain's royal air force celebrated its century in london on tuesday queen elizabeth the second attended the ceremony the royal family including princes charles william and harry watch the airshow from the balcony of buckingham palace while thousands of spectators gathered in front. of. the british air force was founded in one thousand nine hundred eighteen in the final year of world war one and is considered the world's first independent air force. icelandic danish artist all of us and is now playing with people senses he's

devoted to developing ideas and thanks he does this by using materials light. water light and air temperature in homes of us experience like you can see here many of his sculptures and large scale art installations have been displayed around the world and very rarely in a museum there saying that he's probably best known for the weather project at the tate modern and lunch at this site specific installation and point a semicircular screen a saving of near is an artificial mist to create a dazzling sound that enchanted over two million people. now he has a new show opening which depicts a much softer the side of his work the exhibition called water colors in munich spin you have to take is not what you might expect the images present his multi-faceted skills as a draftsman. these humble works of art or

a far cry from monumental installations. for any use on the man who made them he's actually famous for his spectacular highly emotive pieces. but his current exhibition in munich spinnaker take them all down on shows a different side of the artist. a more delicate frugal such a sight. this block used to hold a chunk of ice when it melted it left its shape inside hardened concrete. only for an e.s.r. and had a few ice chunks left over so he placed them on watercolor paper to fool examining what it means to let twenty thousand years melt away this is not the first time he's left a part of the world around him a can sell for trade on it. his first kinetic during experiments where twenty years ago with his father he was also an artist as well as a cook on a fishing boat. you know and i have no we asked ourselves what if the boat were

a pencil and the sea were making the drawing. stiffed wonder what would it look like if we flipped the motion of the boat and the waves around here so the motion of the sea becomes the motion of the hands during the drawing our spirit and how would that look at this than i was him. so he dipped a ball in in placed it on a sheet of paper and let waves and time do the rest it turns out the sea favors clean lines and surprising turns each in his strange and is a study of the inexorable flow of time and as in all of his works an agent cool for view is to engage as he views his nice and calm for this is not about comfort. you do vis is about taking part in the production and accepting the fact that you are also responsible for what you see ceased. it seems aren't consumers left

between spotlights on the white wall automatically tend to become active produces even without any prompting by the museum. some of these dances main even have asked themselves the same thing the artist did. the bus is there now about what is drawing anyway is it us making an impression of the world or is it the world's ability to make impressions on us. visitors to the munich exhibition who ponder that question too long run the risk of missing an especially bad feeling machine. in conspicuous piece hangs near the exit every few minutes and begins to oscillate but to see what it actually does the was have to close there are nice machine drawings and proves that installations don't have to overwhelm to impress and neither does the owner for n.d.s.

on. and the exhibition will be on it in munich tell at. the september now there's a growing trend amongst environmentalists to live a green self-sufficient life but it is not always easy yes you can grow produce in your garden and farm animals too but what you do when you want to caffeine fix coffee beans don't grow in every country do that however there is now a coffee shop in hamburg that imports its coffee without making a mark on their carbon footprint that's because the coffee that this shop by is delivered to them on a sailing ship i do love the idea but it has its price. the album tour cargo sailing ship has arrived in hamburg carrying a very special consignment. we've been out and about since eight am should be stocked so we can start unloading the coffee the. hundreds of bags of coffee each weighing about seventy kilos have to be unloaded by hand it's hard work for these

volunteers. to know how are they holding up. substituting one the others just started the aventura cargo sailing ship just got in from nicaragua last winter captain cornelius spoke a man and his crew set sail for the central american country there they picked up fair trade coffee and returned to hamburg with it could only a spark a man spent two years refurbishing the nearly century old vessel now it carries freight across the world's oceans. will be the first and we're doing this for idealistic reasons we're not making a profit in fact we're financing this project out of our own pockets i started it because i wanted to do something for the environment. home and it from hamburg celebrate hito coffee association had been waiting for just such a project and promptly ordered two tons of fair trade coffee beans what they wanted

to protest against those huge container ships which are major polluters and show that alternatives exist that we can choose different transport methods so having our coffee delivered from nicaragua with a sailing ship makes a powerful statement of. the coffee bags are distributed with cargo bikes so the entire journey from nicaragua to germany and within hamburg is one hundred percent emissions free the coffee idealists hope others will be inspired but alas a dirty container ships are still the norm. of its kind of transporting all coffee only on sailing ships is not a realistic alternative it's there's just too much coffee for that. and few people are willing to pay the extra cost we need to set prices in the mid range to ensure we have enough buyers that's right. two hundred fifty grams of this coffee can be had for seven euros fifty which makes this brand about ten percent more expensive than most other fair trade coffee but every car is guaranteed to be environmentally

guilt free. well one place known for the strong and delicious coffee is italy and that's where we're off to now milan is the second largest city in the country and locals there are notoriously known for having a great sense of style those who can afford it have tastefully decorated houses or apartments to architects giovanna equality canario is no exception her apartment stretches over three floors and two hundred eighty square metres at first bogs the building scene unspectacular but as the saying goes never judge a book by its cover. this is my lamb supporter teacher nazeer district it's home to many historic

buildings but some of the streets have dried architecture dating from one thousand nine hundred fifty s. even so giovanni conejo still wanted to move into the eighth floor of this building she transformed it into a luxury as living space i think you. know. inside it's anything but dull and dreary. the open plan living room is flooded with light . turned two apartments into one now has two hundred eighty square metres of floor space. to this house because of the lack because of terrorists. and this had to draw on this thing called the like to do in the day and so every room. it's a different view of site and in a different proportion with the light giovanni. fifty's era design these eye

catching chairs are up holstered with fabric used to cover all train seats and this shown prove a swing arm lamp is also a design classic from nine hundred fifty as is the couch. if you can use it from the south. you can see it on the other side looking to the direction that they have the south of. the architect designed some of the furniture herself including this oversized couch. and the shelving units across from its kitchen is located on the same floor. conelly of employing plenty of stainless steel to make a kitchen durable and functional. with just a splash of color. seafood is that strong that yes the news of the day.

says i why are there any space with this table from the fifty's drawn by both the family in the chair. from the same years. and narrow staircase integrated into the shelving unit leads up to the ninth floor . this used to be a windowless room that was used as a storage space canario replace the concrete walls with glass touching the room into a studio. to. establish a play is said well they. do in there we can go in the evening to look at hear more to our cat. because he said it completely he is a link in the box and you can't imagine to be in a town. the studio is almost completely encircled by an eight hundred square meter

u. shaped tears. you can stay here all reside in the world changing the working with plans it's like to be in on days. from the terrace you can get to the tenth floor which the architect also designed herself she calls it someday. i might be able to the glass out side the side of the roof to you just because you'll never let your feet completely. forget what you have to do is. looking out from a line from here puts the building some considered eyesores into a whole new light. before we leave you today we want to give you a little address. randall and rush yes the adventure park in our series episode today is the most scary of them all become was this outdoor park you don't sit on rides and just let the machine throw you around you have to jump dive swing or

climb to create the thrills yourself every hour forty seven in the austrian alps is a big hit for the extremes for sports fans but is acceptable for beginners too and if you can't get there then maybe just watching it now will make your stomach. area forty seven intro park in the austrian alps is a real treat for fans of the great outdoors. the park offers what may be the world's greatest variety of open air activities in such a compact space. he said the platform was time to get. in the bag here you can try out all the trying to mountain sports that's them have all this is the dates area the idea behind area forty seven is to have a location where visitors can get to know all the sports. and a relaxed and laid back atmosphere. around one

quarter of a million visitors mostly young men flock here between may and september the main attraction is the high ropes course. that visitors here want more than what conventional parks offer. was recovered its physical activity not just letting yourself be driven around on both sides it's more of an adrenaline rush than a merry go round here you have to do the hard work yourself on this we've done this often at high ropes course it was always fun cool showering twenty seven metres above the ground the high ropes course is one of europe's highest open air climbing facilities it takes several hours to complete. distension or who co-manage is every forty seven it's a climber and freak ladder himself but the high ropes course also welcomes amateurs . he called it's your own on that side not everyone has the physical condition to scale a three thousand meter mountain with a rope and pick we can to get through this explained what we offer everyone the

chance to experience that thrill within a very safe environment or to meet without spending months preparing and training as a mountain climber like a golf ball to provide. the region is the european cradle of outdoor extreme sports since the late nineteenth. seventy's rafting has been one of the most popular summer activities in the alps the park offers daily tours on the rivers in and it's. the tour takes about two hours. the seans the rapids the feeling all of it the water fantastic good i have a great god awful backdrop great guides it was fun the whole team was super. this is one for the truly brave to make a swing involves a plunge from a height of thirty metres towards a paved parking lot. but it looks more dangerous than it actually is.

from below i don't mean our society people want an adrenaline rush in as much action as possible but it has to be safe there's a mentality is insure me against everything that if. the average visitor spends three days at area forty seven the price for individual activities ranges from eight to one hundred twenty one year around this many think it's money well spent. i don't think at least pays off we're all freestyle motor crossers and freestyle b.m.x. writers so we're already adrenaline junkies i'm planning to come soon you know for sundays or something we had so much fun credible i want the weather is crazy it's wonderful. despite the hard work out visitors don't pack it in early here. time is party time at area forty seven.

well i guess that is a good way it's about off the line it seems all of you love unused parks today we've enjoyed having all of you say i had tears in his if you just share you this he was a popular destination of course for many of you whether when you were with the laughter your favorite carriage to all you out there on the track it's. sammy and he had some very memorable days among she will do you keep the photos coming and you can send them to us at via the website and by doing so you will be in with a chance of winning this a year max a watch and. the website address as well i'd say said to check it out as we've come to the end of the program thanks so much for watching everyone and until next time take carry. on the next edition of your imax for landscape architect enzo n.a.s. dreams are like sculptures created by mother nature to celebrate these works of natural heart he's opened up a tree museum near lake zurich it boasts

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