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27-05-2025
- Entertainment
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Susanne Bartsch Brings new Exhibition 'Transformation!' to Switzerland
A tribute to creativity, fashion, queerness and self-expression opens in Zurich during Pride Month Susanne Bartsch at the Chelsea Hotel. She is wearing a look by The Blonds. Susanne Bartsch at the launch of Bartschland, 2024. She is wearing a look by Mathu & Zaldy from the early 1990s. New York, May 27, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- International style icon and legendary nightlife figure Susanne Bartsch returns to her roots this summer with 'Susanne Bartsch – Transformation!', a vibrant exhibition opening June 20, 2025, at the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, the leading Swiss design museum. Launching during Zurich Pride Festival, the exhibition spotlights Bartsch's trailblazing influence on fashion, performance, and LGBTQ+ culture. About the exhibition: a night out in six actsThe exhibition 'Transformation!' at the leading Swiss design museum offers an immersive celebration of Susanne Bartsch's life, artistry, and influence, structured like a night out in six evocative chapters: 'Welcome!', 'Hair and Make-up', 'Getting Ready', 'Queuing', 'The Club' and 'Lounge'. Unveiling a full-scale 'club' and showcasing over 35 of Bartsch's most iconic outfits, each section captures the creative chaos and vibrant community of Bartschland. 'This exhibition is not just about clothes—it's about celebrating individuality, creativity, and community. It's such an honor and I'm thrilled to bring my world back to Switzerland, where my journey began' says Susanne Bartsch. Visitors are greeted by Bartsch herself in a life-sized welcome video, then guided through curated installations that highlight her collaborators, from makeup artists and costume designers to underground style icons. Archival videos, fashion ephemera, and rare photography reflect her enduring role as a cultural connector and LGBTQ+ advocate. The exhibition concludes with a reflective lounge showcasing footage of Susanne Bartsch's most iconic moments, including the Love Ball, her tributes to drag and ballroom culture, a catalog of around 120 signature looks presented by the Museum at FIT, and more Susanne Bartsch: Swiss beginnings to global fameBorn in Switzerland, Bartsch left at 17 for London's punk and New Romantic scenes, later rising to prominence in 1980s New York. Her parties became epicenters of creativity and community, especially for queer artists and performers. With her legendary Love Ball in 1989, Bartsch mobilized the fashion world to support HIV/AIDS awareness, a cause she continues to champion today. Swiss Textile Heritage: St. Gallen, from embroidery to the red carpetSusanne Bartsch's avant-garde fashion celebrates Switzerland's legacy of textile innovation, especially the craftsmanship of St. Gallen, a city renowned for its exquisite embroidery since the 19th century. Bartsch has influenced generations of trailblazing artists and fashion legends, including Thierry Mugler or Lady Gaga, who wore a gown made with St. Gallen embroidery by Nicolas Jebran at the 2019 Met Gala. The city's artisans have long dressed royalty and celebrities alike, most notably, Michelle Obama wore a custom Isabel Toledo ensemble featuring St. Gallen lace at her husband's 2009 presidential inauguration. Zürich Pride FestivalThe exhibition opens on the same day as the Zurich Pride Festival (June 20–21, 2025) the biggest pride celebration in Switzerland. Instagram Live with Susanne Bartsch - win a trip to Switzerland!On June 5 at 12 PM EST, Susanne Bartsch and Out Magazine Editor-in-Chief Daniel Reynolds discuss the exhibition Transformation! and raffle a trip to Switzerland on Out's Instagram live. Susanne Bartsch – Transformation!June 20 – December 7, 2025Opening hours: Tue–Sun 10 am–5 pm, Thu until 8 pmMuseum für Gestaltung Zürich, Ausstellungsstrasse 60Media & partner preview: June 19, 2025, 11 amExclusive Opening: Thursday, June 19, 2025, 7 pmCurated by Meret Ernst with co-curators Susanne Bartsch and Waleed KhairzadaMore Info: Press Materials & ImagesDownload images hereAccess press material here About Museum für Gestaltung Zürich The Museum für Gestaltung Zürich is the leading Swiss museum for design and visual communication. Its internationally significant collection comprises over half a million objects. Through its three Zurich locations, traveling exhibitions, and extensive digital offerings including with over 125,000 works, the museum makes design accessible to a global audience and pioneers digital curation. Press Contact:Divine Bonga, Head of Communications North AmericaSwitzerland TourismPhone: +1 212 757 5944Email: materials available at: About Switzerland TourismSwitzerland Tourism (ST) is the national marketing and promotion organization for Switzerland as a holiday, travel, and convention destination. With a presence in 23 global markets and headquartered in Zurich, ST collaborates closely with the Swiss tourism industry to implement demand-driven campaigns that showcase the country's rich diversity from majestic mountains and pristine nature to vibrant cities and cultural experiences. Funded through a combination of public and private resources, ST promotes sustainable tourism development and aims to inspire travelers year-round with authentic and memorable Swiss experiences. Attachments Susanne Bartsch at the Chelsea Hotel. She is wearing a look by The Blonds. Susanne Bartsch at the launch of Bartschland, 2024. She is wearing a look by Mathu & Zaldy from the early 1990s. CONTACT: Divine Bonga Switzerland Tourism 212-757-5944
Yahoo
29-04-2025
- Business
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Grand Forks school administrators seeking $1.6 million for new English curriculum
Apr. 28—GRAND FORKS — Administrators are asking the Grand Forks School Board for $1.6 million over the next seven years to pay for new English curriculum. Chief Academic Officer Amy Bartsch presented the request for $1,574,000, including $422,832 in its first year, to purchase Wit and Wisdom curricular resources from developer Great Minds for kindergarten through fifth grade, as well as separate reading and handwriting curriculum. Grand Forks Public Schools previously purchased a 13-year license for Great Minds' sixth-grade curriculum using Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief, or ESSER, dollars in 2023. School Board members approved the purchase of a nine-year license for the seventh- and eighth-grade curriculum in 2024. Bartsch and Associate Superintendent Catherine Gillach separately touted the curriculum as a key tool to boost the district's test scores in reading and early literacy, with Gillach saying she expected to see "exponential increases" in performance. "This is the product that we need to help us move our student achievement," Bartsch said. The $1.6 million purchase price also includes a seven-year license for Really Great Reading and Really Great Handwriting curriculum. (Cursive is still being taught in district schools, though it will shift from being taught in the third grade to the second grade in 2026-27, with it being taught to both grades next academic year.) A high school steering committee elected to write its own curriculum, after the committee decided high school-level commercial curriculums offered little new benefit. That committee asked the School Board for $294,000 over the next seven years for new textbooks, replacing current class texts and adding new novels, as well as continuing to pay for an instructional tool that teaches academic and practical vernacular — like, for instance, the meaning of the word "vernacular." Board members will vote whether to approve payment for the new curriculum materials at the next School Board meeting. Grand Forks Public Schools and the Air Force base school district performed well on their annual audits, Brian Opsahl of Brady Martz and Associates told board members. The district ended the 2023-24 school year with $11.4 million in its general fund, some 7.8% of its $132 million in expenditures last year. Opsahl said the district should endeavor to have reserves of 10% or more, though he noted bigger school districts "can have a smaller fund because the size is a lot larger." He also noted that percentage incorporated some of the district's capital spending, meaning its financial position was probably better than the audit let on. District leadership partook in a controversial cost-cutting effort last year in a bid to boost the district's reserves to 15% of operating expenses, though School Board members have since wavered on that goal. "Guys and Dolls" and "All Shook Up" will be this year's summer musicals, according to Summer Performing Arts Director Allison Peterson. Already, 865 students are registered to participate in the summer program, Peterson said, on par with previous years. The performing arts program performed well during this year's Giving Hearts Day, receiving a $6,000 award for having the highest donor retention in 2025. "Guys and Dolls" will be performed at Central High School, while "All Shook Up" will be staged at Red River. In other news: * Red River classroom specialist Tim Delmore was named the classified employee of the quarter, while South Middle School's Title I coordinator, Theresa Ostgarden, was named the certified employee of the quarter. * The School Board formally accepted the resignation of Century Principal David Saxberg, who resigned April 7 effective at the end of the year. Saxberg's resignation leaves two elementary principal positions open at the end of the school year with Viking Principal Jolyn Bergstrom also retiring. * The district's mental health coordinator, Christine Litzinger, is leaving the district for family reasons. * Board members entered executive session for less than an hour to discuss safety and security upgrades to district schools. Discussions of school safety plans are exempt from open meetings laws under North Dakota Century Code 15.1-09-60. * Board members also visited Red River to view its new front office, part of the $18 million in safety and security upgrades being implemented across the district.
Yahoo
26-04-2025
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83-year-old Greensburg woman identified by police as wrong-way driver in Route 30 crash
Apr. 25—State police have identified an 83-year-old Greensburg woman as being the wrong-way driver who caused a multi-vehicle crash Wednesday on Route 30 in Hempfield. Nancy Duva entered the eastbound lanes of the divided highway going west in Subaru Crosstrek around 5:15 p.m., causing the crash just past the Cedar Street exit at a bend in the highway, troopers said. Duva struck a Dodge Ram being driven by Jace Bartsch, 20, of Wheeling, along with a second car, a Hyundai Elantra being driven by Kassidy Warfel, 27, of Latrobe, police said. Bartsch and Warfel were both eastbound. Duva and Bartsch were taken to Forbes Hospital in Monroeville, Mutual Aid spokesperson Shawn Penzera said. Their conditions are unknown. Warfel refused treatment, police said. The sight distance for eastbound travelers on that section of Route 30 is difficult, state police Trooper Steve Limani said. "The sight distance is designed for people traveling the speed limit or close to it," he said. "Add a vehicle driving toward you at the same speed ... your sight distance is basically cut in half. You basically have no chance — it's almost no chance." The road was closed for four hours while state police reconstructed the crash. About 37,000 vehicles use that stretch of highway daily, according to a PennDOT traffic volume map. Traffic was detoured onto Route 119 and various side streets. Limani said the highway is so busy at that time of day, he is surprised there weren't more injuries. A video recorded by a driver in the westbound lanes and posted on social media showed what appeared to be an SUV driving the wrong direction and slamming into a pickup truck other motorists avoided the collision. Video from Trib news partner WTAE showed a car that appeared to have collided with the pickup. Both had front-end damage. The SUV came to a stop several feet west. In March 2021, AAA and the National Transportation Safety Board warned motorists of an increasing rate of wrong-way crashes resulting in fatalities. The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety found that there were 2,008 deaths from wrong-way crashes on divided highways nationwide between 2015 and 2018. Authorities charged a Charlotte, N.C., man who was eastbound on the westbound side of Interstate 376 near Downtown Pittsburgh on April 13 when he struck an oncoming car, causing a collision that left two people dead. And a little over a year ago, a Scottdale woman was arrested and charged with homicide by vehicle after, police said, she was driving the wrong way on Interstate 70 in South Huntingdon, causing a 2022 crash that killed David Ott of Perryopolis. Patrick Varine is a TribLive reporter covering Delmont, Export and Murrysville. He is a Western Pennsylvania native and joined the Trib in 2010 after working as a reporter and editor with the former Dover Post Co. in Delaware. He can be reached at pvarine@
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15-04-2025
- General
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Mixed progress on reading, math proficiency goals for Grand Forks students
Apr. 14—GRAND FORKS — Student test scores showed mixed progress on Grand Forks Public Schools' proficiency goals, according to data shared at a Monday School Board meeting. According to Renaissance Star test results taken over the winter, three of five selected grade cohorts were meeting proficiency benchmarks in early literacy and reading, as were three of the five grade cohorts measured by mathematics scores. The district set five-year student performance goals based on the Star assessment during the 2023-24 school year. "We still have more work to do, but we're pleased with where we're at," Superintendent Terry Brenner said. Kindergarteners and first-graders met benchmarks for early literacy, while second-graders, and fourth- and fifth-graders met proficiency benchmarks for reading. Third-graders and sixth-, eighth- and 10th-graders fell behind reading targets. In mathematics, eighth-graders and sixth- and seventh-graders did not meet their benchmarks, but all other groups did. Administrators were able to shed light on why some groups underperformed. Associate Superintendent Catherine Gillach pointed out that the district's sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders were "COVID kids" who had spent some of their first years of school online during the pandemic. Third-graders weren't, though, Brenner pointed out, adding schools would need to take a closer look at this group to see how to improve their performance. Low-income, multilingual and special education students posted lower scores than the general population and often did not meet benchmarks, a consistent theme in district assessments. Racial disparities also remained present across all age groups. None of the district's multilingual 10th-graders met performance benchmarks in math, though Chief Academic Officer Amy Bartsch pointed out that parents can ask for their children to opt out of the Star test. Brenner told the Herald the increases in multilingual students over the prior school year, many of whom have lived in the U.S. for less than a year, could have also driven down performance for ML students. Bartsch said the district had hired interventionists and reading specialists to help underperforming students, but noted the district did not have the financial resources to meet all of the needs in Grand Forks' schools. "There just isn't enough people to provide all the support the data has indicated is necessary," Bartsch said. Changes at the state and federal level could significantly alter how the district reviews student test scores going forward. Brenner said it was likely that the Trump administration's efforts to dismantle diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives across the nation's schools would likely preclude the district from breaking down data by race and ethnicity in the future, an outcome he called "very sad for public education." He told the Herald it could also mean the district could not examine data broken down by multilingual, special education and low-income students, but was waiting to find out how the U.S. Education Department interpreted President Donald Trump's executive orders. "Most superintendents just have their heads on a swivel right now, and we're waiting for what comes next," Brenner said. The Renaissance Star tests, which are administered three times a year, are meant to gauge student performance on North Dakota's statewide assessment. This spring, the state will use a new assessment, the North Dakota Academic Progression of Learning and Understanding of Students, with a new standard for proficiency. That may mean that Grand Forks will have to adjust its proficiency goals on its Renaissance Star assessments, depending on how students perform on the new assessment and what North Dakota deems proficiency. "Let's say we take the ND A-PLUS and our kids are 90% proficient. We have to redo the (Renaissance Star) proficiency goals," Bartsch said. "Let's say we take the ND A-PLUS and our kids are 20% proficient. We have to redo the proficiency goals." In other news, * Board members voted to waive liquidation fees for a Valley Middle School math teacher who resigned April 4. Robert Waddle resigned effective immediately earlier this month; administrators recommended the fee waiver "due to circumstances and reasons remaining undisclosed." * Bargaining units representing Grand Forks Public Schools' principals and directors will delay negotiations until after May 2, when the Legislature is set to close out its 2025 session. School Board members agreed to separate requests submitted by both entities.
Yahoo
23-03-2025
- Politics
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East German must hold top role in incoming government, say The Left
{microsoft_credit="" caption="Dietmar Bartsch, then parliamentary group leader of the Left Party, speaks during a press conference in the German Parliament (Bundestag). The hard-left party's former parliamentary leader Dietmar Bartsch told dpa in comments released on Sunday that "an East German must occupy a central ministry in the new federal government - either the Finance Ministry or an Infrastructure Ministry." Michael Kappeler/dpa"} As Germany's political parties continue to wrangle over the composition of the future coalition government, The Left is demanding the inclusion of a strong voice for the country's east. The hard-left party's former parliamentary leader Dietmar Bartsch told dpa in comments released on Sunday that "an East German must occupy a central ministry in the new federal government - either the Finance Ministry or an Infrastructure Ministry." Bartsch's demand came after a €500 billion ($544 billion) special fund for infrastructure and climate projects passed in the German parliament this week. He highlighted the results of last month's parliamentary election results, in which the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) prevailed across the board in the regions of the former East Germany, capturing well over 30% of the vote. "In the federal election, the AfD became the strongest party in the eastern German states," said Bartsch. The incoming coalition of the conservative CDU/CSU bloc and the centre-left Social Democrats must acknowledge the result in eastern Germany, he argued. The eastern German perspective should be represented in a central ministry and not just by a commissioner for the east, Bartsch said. Bartsch's The Left - a successor to the Socialist Unity Party which once governed East Germany - surged to 8.8% in February's election, which strong support in its eastern heartlands. Germany is set to mark 35 years since reunification this year, but the results of February's election showed how deeply divided the country remains.
