POETRY IN ACTION
LINGUA HOUSE, TBILISI
January 14th, Saturday, 2007....special poetry reading/performance
event! Starts at 6pm.
Come and Enjoy to Your Fullest the Wine, Women & Song [of Poetry] of
Georgia, Tbilisi, and the World! 6PM. Jan. 14, 2007.
POETRY OF GALAKTION TABIDZE, aka "Galaxy", and many other world class
poets, will be read at Lingua House, Tbilisi, Georgia, on Saturday,
January 14th, 2007, starting at 6:00 PM. Hosted by Nino Mgeladze and
Bryan Adrian!
The Moon over Mtatsminda
by Galaktion Tabidze
My eyes have never seen the moon so lovely as tonight;
In silence wrapt it is the breathless music of the night.
Moonbeams embroider shadows with fine thread of silver light;
O, eyes have never seen the sky so lovely as tonight!
The moon adorned in beams of pearls seems like a queen divine;
The stars like fire-flies tangled in a web about her shine.
The Mtkvari flows a silver stream of lambent beauty bright;
O, eyes have never seen the sky so lovely as tonight!
Here in immortal calm and peace the great and noble sleep
Beneath the soft and dewy turf in many a mouldering heap.
Here Baratashvili came with wild desires to madness wrought,
Oppressed by raging fires of passion, and perplexing thoughts.
O, could I like the swan pour forth my soul in melody
That melts the mortal heart and breathes of immortality !
Let my song fly free far beyond this world to regions high
Where on the wings of poetry it will glorify the sky.
If death approaching makes the fragrance of the roses sweeter,
Attunes the soul to melodies that make all sadness dearer,
And if that swan's song thus becomes a denizen of heaven,
If in that song she feels that death will be but ecstasy, then, -
Let me like her sing one last song, and in death find delights.
So breathless still and lovely I have never seen the night!
O, mighty dead, let me die here beside you as I sing.
I am a poet, and to eternity my song I fling,
And let it be the fire that warms and lights the spirit's flight.
O, eyes have never seen the sky so lovely as tonight!
NEW 2007 RATES FOR
LINGUA HOUSE
Foreign Language Educational Centre Lingua House
1st alley, 11 Badri Shoshitaishvili St., Tbilisi 0179
Tel: (+995 32) 29 36 59 Mobile: 895 50 29 57 www.linguahouse.ge
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Lingua House in Tbilisi’s Vake District:
The native speaker teachers on our staff are ready and waiting to be
hired by you!
Lingua House can provide you with advanced grammar, business, essay,
creative and filmscript writing tutorials. Native speakers, be they
Scottish, American, German, French, Spanish, Italian or Japanese, that
is, natives teaching in their native tongue here at Lingua House, will
cost you $10/hour [per hour per class] for your custom tailored
lessons. 90 minute and 2-hour classes can be arranged also, calculated
at this same pay rate.
Standard lesson fees include:
Individual one-to-one pre-intermediate and intermediate classes, alone
with an LH [Lingua House] private tutor – 100 GEL per month for two
times a week – in a class length of one hour (1:00) with a Georgian
expert of a foreign language, or 120 GEL per month for the same
times/hours with a native speaker.
Group rates with a Georgian expert of a foreign language are 100
GEL/month per student per group [120 GEL for a native speaker
instructor] for twice weekly, with the added benefit of receiving
one-hour-and-fifteen minute classes for groups consisting of more than
two students (1:15 hrs each class length rather than 1-hour).
Call LINGUA HOUSE today at 29 36 59 to arrange your future lessons, by
phone or through your in-person interview here at Lingua House [LH], as
soon as you can!
Again, custom-made and personally tailored special classes with a
native speaker, as an individual or in groups, can be arranged at the
rate of $10/hour, for as many hours as you wish (for example, in the
fields of business writing, speech writing, politics/law, screen
writing, creative writing, or any specialized language training you may
need with a native speaker, if we have one).
Lingua House also conducts iBT TOEFL internet-Based Test classes, GRE
and SAT preparation for Reading Test sections; our monthly training
rates for these classes are $115/month per person, two times a week for
two hours each meeting. Please call LINGUA HOUSE today: 29 36 59.
And, don’t miss our Poetry/Wine celebration party on Jan. 14th, 2007,
around 6pm. Readings and performances in many languages of
international and provocative poets will fill this entire evening!
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/linguahouse-tbilisi/TBILISI.html
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Galaktion Tabidze wrote Snow fell on winter gardens in 1916 as a 25
year old living in Kutaisi, Georgia's second city. It is an example of
the cryptic style of much of his poetry dating from this period, while
also touching on loneliness, a common theme of his. Much influenced by
the Symbolists, Tablize (who survived the purges of the 1930s and died
in 1959) was one of the most popular Georgian poets of the last
century.
ათოვდა ზამთრის ბაღებს
Snow fell on winter gardens
ათოვდა ზამთრის ბაღებს,
მიჰქონდათ შავი კუბო
და შლიდა ბაირაღებს
თმაგაწეული ქარი.
გზა იყო უდაბური,
უსახო, უპირქუბო.
მიჰქონდათ კიდევ კუბო…
ყორნების საუბარი:
დარეკე! დაუბარე!
ათოვდაზამთრის ბაღებს.
Snow fell on winter gardens,
a coffin was brought out
and the standards unfolded
caught by the dishevelled breeze.
The roadway was desolate,
without form and without shape.
One more coffin was brought out...
The raven's exhortation:
Let the bells toll! Bury them!
Snow fell on winter gardens.
Nino Mgdeladze, director and poetry coordinator at Lingua House,
Tbilisi, Georgia, Arakishvili Street 11 [newly named Badri
Shoshitaishivili Street 11]
SPECIAL OFFER for TOEFL Christmas 2006/ New Year's 2007, use our
Self-Scoring Barron's TOEFL TESTS CD-ROM .... come in with your own
LAPTOP and use the self-scoring Toefl test CD disk for 7.50 GEL/hour!
Come to Lingua House and hear all about the famous Georgian Horsemen
[trick riders/commandos] who tamed the American Wild Wild West and
toured with Buffalo Bill and Calamity Jane!
SPECIAL UPCOMING EVENT!
An American poet from New York City, Bryan Adrian, will recite from the
works of Charles Bukowski, on January 14th, 2007, at Lingua House, 6pm
on, including his old favorite below:
My Father (from "Septuagenarian Stew" 1994), "COMPLETE WORKS OF CHARLES
BUKOWSKI"
My father
was a truly amazing man
he pretended to be
rich
even though we lived on beans and mush and weenies
when we sat down to eat, he said,
"not everybody can eat like this."
and because he wanted to be rich or because he
actually
thought he was rich
he always voted Republican
and he voted for Hoover against Roosevelt
and he lost
and then he voted for Alf Landon against Roosevelt
and he lost again
saying, "I don't know what this world is coming to,
now we've got that god damned Red in there again
and the Russians will be in our backyard next!"
I think it was my father who made me decide to
become a bum.
I decided that if a man like that wants to be rich
then I want to be poor.
and I became a bum.
I lived on nickles and dimes and in cheap rooms and
on park benches.
I thought maybe the bums knew something.
but I found out that most of the bums wanted to be
rich too.
they had just failed at that.
so caught between my father and the bums
I had no place to go
and I went there fast and slow.
never voted Republican
never voted.
buried him
like an oddity of the earth
like a hundred thousand oddities
like millions of other oddities,
wasted.
Post by TOEFL Xenon ElementNino Mgdeladze, director and poetry coordinator at Lingua House,
Tbilisi, Georgia, Arakishvili Street 11 [newly named Badri
Shoshitaishivili Street 11]
call her today on her telephone in Tbilisi: 29 36 59 Lingua House
SPECIAL OFFER for TOEFL Christmas 2006/ New Year's 2007, use our
Self-Scoring Barron's TOEFL TESTS CD-ROM .... come in with your own
LAPTOP and use the self-scoring Toefl test CD disk for 7.50 GEL/hour!
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/linguahouse-tbilisi/TBILISI.html
Please Come Also to our Jan. 13th 'THE GLADIATOR' movie screening in
the original Russell Crowe english language version ---with Fosters
Beer also to honor the actor in true style! [Friday]
Then, the next evening, we will have many readings of English language
poets and Georgian poets, in both English and Georgian, served with red
wine. [Saturday]
And don't forget, the next day Sunday is St. Nino's Day! [Ninooba]
Post by Tbilisi GossipIsn't Medea Zaalashvili the well known Georgian translator of the
modernist Kartulian poet named Galaktion [Galaxy] Tabidze's poetry into
english?
Foreign Language Educational Centre Lingua House
1st alley, 11 Arakishvili St., Tbilisi 0179
Tel: (+995 32) 29 36 59 Mobile: 895 50 29 57 www.linguahouse.ge
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/linguahouse-tbilisi/TBILISI.html
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/linguahouse-tbilisi/LH_Promo.html
Lingua House of Vake District in Tbilisi is offering individual and
group language lessons/classes in English, French, Spanish, Italian,
Greek, Japanese, German, Turkish, Russian, Chinese, Georgian.
Russian and 'Georgian for Foreigners' language instruction is
available at Lingua House, also.
We have highly professional Georgian foreign language teachers, most of
them trained abroad. In addition, we have teachers specializing in
training children and adults to pass successfully the many Cambridge
international exams, such as PET, FCE, CAE, and CPE.
Lingua House of Vake District in Tbilisi
For the Native Speaker teachers on our staff, most personalized courses
are $10/hour. We can provide business, essay, creative and script
writing tutorials. Native speakers, be it English, German, or French,
that is, in any teaching their native tongue at Lingua House will cost
$10/hour per hour class. 90 minute and 2-hour classes can be arranged
also, calculating at this very same pay rate.
Standard lesson fees include: individual one-to-one classes, alone with
a LH [Lingua House] private tutor - 120 GEL per month for two times a
week - in a class length of one hour (1:00). Group rates are 100
GEL/month per student per group in the group for twice weekly, or with
the added benefit of one hour and fifteen minute classes for groups of
three or larger (1:15 hrs). Again, custom made classes, individual or
group, can be arranged by phone or through an in-person interview here
at the Lingua House [LH], for $10/hour for as many hours as you want
(for example, business writing, speech writing, screen writing, or
specialized training with a native speaker).
We also conduct iBT TOEFL (Internet based test) classes, GRE and SAT,
monthly training rates are $100/month per person, twice weekly for two
hours. Or, drop by our TOEFL workout lab and use our SELF SCORING
TESTS CD-ROM! Even if not a student of Lingua House, we offer to all
visitors for 10 GEL/hour a chance to test themselves on the TOEFL iBT
test with our self-scoring tests!
We currently have Canadian and American native speakers on our staff,
and a New Yorker too. They can provide business, essay, creative and
scriptwriting tutorials. Native speakers, be it in English, German,
French, or any native teaching their native tongue at Lingua House, are
requesting $10/hour per hour class. Ninety [90] minute and 2-hour
classes can be arranged calculated at this same pay rate formula.
At times, our students are invited to a get together during weekend
evenings for film viewings in the original language versions, and for
poetry readings too, of famous poets, American (for example Charles
Bukowski) and Georgian poets, recited in both English and Georgian.
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/linguahouse-tbilisi/TBILISI.html
Please call us as soon as possible to make your inquiries about the
most suitable plan of study for your language needs here at Lingua
House.
Post by TOEFL Xenon ElementForeign Language Educational Centre Lingua House
1st alley, 11 Arakishvili St., Tbilisi 0179
Tel: (+995 32) 29 36 59 Mobile: 895 50 29 57 www.linguahouse.ge
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/linguahouse-tbilisi/TBILISI.html
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/linguahouse-tbilisi/LH_Promo.html
Lingua House of Vake District in Tbilisi is offering individual and
group language lessons/classes in English, French, Spanish, Italian,
Greek, Japanese, German, Turkish, Russian, Chinese, Georgian.
Russian and 'Georgian for Foreigners' language instruction is
available at Lingua House, also.
We have highly professional Georgian foreign language teachers, most of
them trained abroad. In addition, we have teachers specializing in
training children and adults to pass successfully the many Cambridge
international exams, such as PET, FCE, CAE, and CPE.
Lingua House of Vake District in Tbilisi
For the Native Speaker teachers on our staff, most personalized courses
are $10/hour. We can provide business, essay, creative and script
writing tutorials. Native speakers, be it English, German, or French,
that is, in any teaching their native tongue at Lingua House will cost
$10/hour per hour class. 90 minute and 2-hour classes can be arranged
also, calculating at this very same pay rate.
Standard lesson fees include: individual one-to-one classes, alone with
a LH [Lingua House] private tutor - 120 GEL per month for two times a
week - in a class length of one hour (1:00). Group rates are 100
GEL/month per student per group in the group for twice weekly, or with
the added benefit of one hour and fifteen minute classes for groups of
three or larger (1:15 hrs). Again, custom made classes, individual or
group, can be arranged by phone or through an in-person interview here
at the Lingua House [LH], for $10/hour for as many hours as you want
(for example, business writing, speech writing, screen writing, or
specialized training with a native speaker).
We also conduct iBT TOEFL (Internet based test) classes, GRE and SAT,
monthly training rates are $100/month per person, twice weekly for two
hours. Or, drop by our TOEFL workout lab and use our SELF SCORING
TESTS CD-ROM! Even if not a student of Lingua House, we offer to all
visitors for 10 GEL/hour a chance to test themselves on the TOEFL iBT
test with our self-scoring tests!
We currently have Canadian and American native speakers on our staff,
and a New Yorker too. They can provide business, essay, creative and
scriptwriting tutorials. Native speakers, be it in English, German,
French, or any native teaching their native tongue at Lingua House, are
requesting $10/hour per hour class. Ninety [90] minute and 2-hour
classes can be arranged calculated at this same pay rate formula.
At times, our students are invited to a get together during weekend
evenings for film viewings in the original language versions, and for
poetry readings too, of famous poets, American (for example Charles
Bukowski) and Georgian poets, recited in both English and Georgian.
Please call us as soon as possible to make your inquiries about the
most suitable plan of study for your language needs here at Lingua
House.