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South Africans enter the boots of the white conqueror – this presentation may change your perception of migration

South Africans enter the boots of the white conqueror – this presentation may change your perception of migration

Two men in the theater performance.
Dark Noon’s style is Western. European settlers are clearing indigenous representatives. In roles in Thulani Zwane and Mandla Gaduka.

In Dark Noon visiting Finland, South Africans play European American immigrants. The genre is a western. Weapons speak and laughter gets stuck in the throat.

There is a rugby match against Natives against Settlers. It doesn’t look very fair: the team of the settlers wins the indigenous people just by relying on weapons.

We are at the Espoo Theater, where a performance by the Danish Fix Foxy group called *Dark Noon *. It is a cunning and inventive story of migration.

It tells of poor and starved Europeans who, in the 19th century, rolled over the sea in the 19th century for a better standard of living.

Does it sound familiar? That’s it.

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The congregation knew it had a \”old book\”-a 477-year-old giant surprise was found

The congregation knew it had a \”old book\”-a 477-year-old giant surprise was found

New Testament of 1548.
The nearly 500 -year -old New Testament is still reading.

The inventory of the Viitasaari parish is in its final stages. The objects are carefully recorded and documented.

In Viitasaari, in Central Finland, rare discoveries have been made in the inventory of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation. Some of the objects have been forgotten in the archives for decades.

– No one can say where he got the book. The New Testament was given to the church in the 1980s. Pastor Heikki Karjalainen designed a showcase for it, but it did not materialize, says Salo.

New Testament page from 1548.
The New Testament margins have hand -made markings.

The New Testament has rested in the parish archipelago in a locked cash register.

In the 19th century, fabric covers have been sewn in the 19th-year book. The book lacks the first pages.

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