Authors

Toby Screech

Toby Screech

writer and linguist

Toby Screech is a professional linguist who lives in Amsterdam and Liverpool.

— Articles by Toby Screech —

Magazine article

Livonian culture in Latvia: Mazirbe

by Toby Screech

Guest author Toby Screech travels to the heartland of the Livonian minority in Latvia to visit the their annual cultural festival. Not as grand as the main Latvian event in Riga, it is an altogether more intimate affair. And it reveals that the Livonian identity today is hardly more than the ephemeral memory of a once mighty realm.

Magazine article

Latvia: song is power - dance is power

by Toby Screech

Guest author Toby Screech was in Riga in Latvia last summer and chanced upon a remarkable cultural event. In the Baltic region, song and dance festivals are an important medium for asserting national identity. Toby reports for hidden europe on the Latvian Festival of Song and Dance.