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Although the Bulgarian communist regime was hostile to the Catholic Church, the center was visited by Bulgarian historians - active members of the Bulgarian Communist Party (Aksinia Dzhurova, Bozhidar Dimitrov, etc.).

The archive of the Abagar cultural center was moved from Rome to Bulgaria in 1997. The Abagar Foundation, established at that time, took care of the archive. A year after the death of Prof. Eldarov in 2011 a woman in Sofia was arrested for illegally selling objects from the archive; the ultimate fate of the archive material is, unfortunately, unknown.

See also https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Български_католически_книжовен_архив_„Абагар“

The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague is the oldest Czech art school. It was founded in 1799 by the Society of Patriotic Friends of the Arts. During the nineteenth century and in the first half of the twentieth century most of the important figures of fine art as well architecture graduated from this school. After the communist coup in 1948, the school taught students socialist realism, but some of its students became part of the unofficial culture.

Academy of Movement is an artistic group using theatre, performance and visual arts methods. It was founded in the Warsaw student milieu in 1973. It has organized performances, happenings, theatre workshops and acted as an interdisciplinary art centre. It was one of the first groups in Poland to stage performances in city space.

The Academy of Movement was led by Wojciech Krukowski from 1973 to 2014. Among most known performances of the group are: Collage (1973), Language lesson (1973), Hunger (1974), Bus (1975), Lessons (1976) and Everyday Life after the Great French Revolution (1980).

The performances of the Academy of Movement were based on rhythm, space and movement.

The group often resigned from dialogues and plot, as well as clearly-defined characters with individual traits. Instead of traditional ways of staging the plays, the group used scratches of dialogues, music fragments and impersonal characters. Academy of Movement entered the public space of different Polish cities: Warsaw, Ciechanów, Poznań, Oleśnica or Świnoujście and engaged audiences to participate in the performances. In 1979 The Academy of Movement transformed into a professionalized institution and started to perform abroad: in Paris, London, Avignon or Brussels. In the 1990s it continued to stage happenings in Poland and Europe.

Die Akademie Herrnhut entstand aus der Geisteswissenschaftlichen Initiative Oberlausitz (GWI) und möchte das geisteswissenschaftliche Potenzial der Region bündeln, fördern und entwickeln. Es soll die Kooperation zwischen den lokalen Bildungseinrichtungen aber auch den überregionalen Austausch und interdisziplinäre Projekte fördern und will auch Anstoß zu eigeninitiativ entwickelten Forschungen geben.

Um das zu erreichen, bietet die Akademie eine universitär ausgerichtete Struktur und vielfältige Möglichkeiten, die die Oberlausitz langfristig als weiteren wichtigen Standort der Geisteswissenschaften etablieren sollen.

Der wissenschaftliche und regionale Fokus liegt dabei auf Ost(mittel)Europa und dessen außergewöhnlichem Kulturraum. Durch die wechselhafte Geschichte mit sich immer wieder verschiebenden politischen und regionalen Strukturen prägte er europäisches Denken auf eine unvergleichbare Art und Weise. Zu den Gründern und Initiatoren gehören das Internationales Hochschulinstitut (IHI) Zittau, das Archiv Brüder-Unität Herrnhut und die Umweltbibliothek Großhennersdorf.