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BLAGO Fund is a non-profit organization that preserves and promotes Serbian cultural heritage. Its experts and enthusiasts, within the homeland country as well as throughout Serbian Diaspora, seek to develop a broader awareness and understanding of the importance of Serbian cultural heritage along with its place in the global cultural landscape, and to present its significance and beauty to the world.
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BLAGO was founded in San Francisco in the spring of 1998 by the Serbian Unity Congress. Understanding that the first step in the protection of national cultural heritage (and above all its most endangered elements), through systematic and up-to-date documentation and presentation, inspired a group of enthusiasts from the Diaspora to embark on such a journey.
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In June of 2019, for the Serbian Unity Congress Reunion event, BLAGO Fund created a booklet with the history, goals, and achievements of BLAGO over the last 20 years. Please, enjoy the reading.
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Word wide available digital archive of BLAGO Fund, became an inevitable resource for both students and scholars on numerous faculties in Serbia, as well as abroad. A large number of BLAGO Fund photographs are published in Serbian and foreign scientific periodicals and monographs. All this facts shows the importance of detailed and high-quality photo documentation for the researches of Byzantine and Serbian Medieval art which is provided by BLAGO Fund.
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PATRIARCHATE OF PEC
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In accordance with once established objectives, BLAGO Fund gladly provides its material for scientific and non-commercial use. Amongst the others, BLAGO photographs were used by the following scholars in 2019:
- Elena-Dana Prioteasa, Institute of Archaeology and History of Art in Cluj-Napoca, Romania
- Kaori Kodera, TV researcher of One By One Plus in Tokyo, Japan
- Amy Neff, Professor Emerita of Art History at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Roland Betancourt, Professor of Byzantine art history at the University of California, Irvine
- Michaеl Gottfried, The Open University of Israel
- Yoanna Tsvetanova, Paris X University, France
- Anthony Cutler, Professor of Early Christian and Byzantine art, College of Arts and Architecture, Penn State University
- Charlie Barber, Professor at the Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
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HISTORY
Remember the Great Retreat 1915
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This passed November 23rd marked the 84 years anniversary of the Great Retreat by the Serbian Army in WWI.
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During the journey across the mountains of Montenegro and Albania, around 70,000 soldiers and 140,000 civilians froze, starved to death, or were killed by hostile Albanian tribes between November 1915 and January 1916. They should never be forgotten.
During one of the BLAGO expeditions, a letter from after WWI was found among the books of the Monastery Manasija. After noting its importance for the Serbian collective conscience, BLAGO team decided to create a shot movie and preserve its legacy.
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Lost Letter, Monastery Manasija
Created by Vladimir Vukicevic, 2003
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Upcoming Collection - PRIZREN - January 2020
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Since our visit in June 2019 (see our previous announcement), BLAGO team has been working on making the collection available on the website. Four churches and more than 3,000 pictures must be selected, processed, and cataloged for the comprehensive presentation of the Prizren heritage. Our target date for completion is by the end of this year, Dec 31st, 2019.
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Theotokos of Ljevis Frescos
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This valuable undertaking is partially funded by the Ministry of Culture and Information of the Republic of Serbia.
We are especially pleased and thankful to the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Their cooperation and individual participation in the project are irreplaceable and show the height we can reach by working together on projects important to the preservation and promotion of the rich cultural and spiritual heritage of the nation.
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Numerous studies have linked aronia berries to potential health benefits such as: helping to fight cardiovascular disease, normalizing blood pressure, diabetes prevention & help, urinary tract health, weight control, anti-carcinogenic effect, and many more.
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Our aronia berries are never chemically treated, and grow in sprawling fields in Siberia, where sub-zero temperatures reduce acidity and push more antioxidants into each plant—resulting in a more potent, resilient, and lower-sugar fruit.
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PRESERVE THE HERITAGE
YOU CAN HELP
BLAGO Fund continues in its quest for preservation and promotion of the Serbian heritage. BLAGO does not have administrative overhead, and all donations directly support the undertaken projects.
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Copyright 2019 - BLAGO Fund Inc. USA/Serbia
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