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This Wednesday in Cafe Amsterdam we have a very intersting talk by Mr.Jonathan Schlesinger who is working on research about the Manchu Era in Mongolia. The topic of the lecture is: "Environmental Protection in Mongolia during the reign of the Manchus". It will start at 8PM as usual.
Jonathan Schlesinger, a young scholar from Harvard has spent the last few months going through the National Archives in Ulaanbaatar researching the environmental history of Mongolia. As is well known Mongolia might be the first country in history that established natural reserves like Terelj and Bogd Uul . But what is less known is that they were established during the reign of the Manchus, who ruled Mongolia from distant Beijing. Why did they do it in the first place? And what interest did the Manchus have in establishing protected areas in Mongolia? How where the protected areas enforced and what kind of penalties where in place? And were these rules obeyed or was it rather like today? Jonathan Schlesinger who is writing his PHD thesis on the base of his findings, will talk about that and a lot more... About corrupt aristocrats, who enforced the rules against common people but were only too happy to hunt in Terelj themselves... About Chinese peasants who came in the summer to hunt for mushrooms and were promptly imprisoned and send back... or about the fur trade which very quickly exhausted the number of fur bearing animals near lake Khovsgol.
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This Wednesday we have a wonderful film to show. Its a documentary that won an award from American film festival "Mountainfilm" in 2006. The film will start at 8pm.  Catch a glimpse of one day in the life of Amarbat, a young Mongolian man whose legs were paralyzed as a child by a mistaken vaccination. In a country where life is not always easy, Amarbat's story is not one of a victim. He is an intelligent young man, who is an artist and an inventor and whose life changed completely in one day.
(Mongolia, 2006, 20 min) In person:
Batbileg Zoljargal - Director and Photographer
Zoljargal Gombo - Producer
Oidov Vaaanchig - Translator
Amarbat Bold - "Star" of the film |
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Dear All, For tomorrow's cultural evening (Wednesday 3rd of June at 8 PM) we decided to invite the music group "Jonon" for the second time on request of many, after their great and much appreciated concert in Cafe Amsterdam with Peter and Sara's farewell party beginning May. The group is inspired by Mongolian traditional folk music. However, they combine and mix this traditional music with modern and western influences. The group has been founded only few months ago, but has gained in this short period already a high popularity among Mongolians. Those who were not at the performance before shouldn't miss the this opportunity and those who were there have another chance to have a great musical evening. So everybody very welcome tomorrow 8PM in Cafe Amsterdam. Team Cafe Amsterdam |
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This Wednesday at 8pm we will have a talk by Peter Oetzmann who has lived and worked in Mongolia for the last 2 years. Whilst working for Tseren Tours and Café Amsterdam Peter has also worked as a photojournalist for an international news agency. The evening will begin with an introduction to photography and then a presentation of his photographs documenting the year’s news. The presentation will last about 45mins with plenty of time for questions and answers. This promises to be a great evening.
The following week we are delighted to announce we will have Jan Wigsten from the tour operator-Nomadic Journeys. He first traveled in Mongolia 30 years ago and is the grand father of tourism in Mongolia. He has witnessed and been part of tourism explosion in Mongolia. The evening will be filled with anecdotes from the past years and will also give a wonderful incite to Mongolia and tourism in this beautiful country.
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On Wednesday 13th of May, Cafe Amsterdam has a film for Cultural Evening. This time we will show "The Last King Of Scotland". Starting time: 20:00 Finishing time: 22:03 The Last King of Scotland is a 2006 British drama films based on Giles Foden's novel of the same name. It was adapted by screenwriters Peter Morgan and Jeremy Brock and directed by Kevin Macdonald. The film was a co-production between companies from the United Kingdom and the United States, including Fox Searchlight Pictures and Film4. The Last King of Scotland tells the fictional story of Dr. Nicholas Garrigan (James McAvoy), a young Scottish doctor who travels to Uganda and becomes the personal physician to the dictator Idi Amin (Forest Whitaker ). The movie is based on factual events of Amin's rule. While the character of Idi Amin and the events surrounding him in the movie are mostly factual, Garrigan is a fictional character. His story is loosely based on events in the life of English-born Bob Astles. Like the novel on which it is based, the film mixes fiction with real events in Ugandan history to give an impression of Amin and Uganda under his authoritarian rule. While the basic events of Amin's life are followed, the film often departs from actual history in the details of particular events. In real life and in the book, Kay Amin was made pregnant by her lover Dr. Mbalu Mukasa. She died during a botched abortion operation by Mukasa, who subsequently committed suicide. (source and verification of these claims?) Astles believes that her body was cut up not on Amin's orders, but by Mukasa while attempting to hide it. Amin never had a son named Campbell. Despite the wording of the film's coda, three hostages died during Operation Entebbe. The body of a fourth hostage, 75-year-old Dora Bloch, who was killed by Ugandan army officers at a nearby hospital was eventually returned to Israel and buried with state honors in Jerusalem's Mount of Quietudes. |
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