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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 is an international community of a maximum of 500 artists, who have contributed to the art of their time and whose work is honoured in a special way by being accepted into the Akademie der Künste. It is divided into six Sections – Visual Arts, Architecture, Music, Literature, Performing Arts, Film and Media Art. Its members gather together for the two general assemblies that are usually held each year. The most important organ in the Academy is the General Assembly, which is also the body charged with electing new members. The candidates are nominated by secret ballot in the Sections beforehand.

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.

The Herrnhut Academy emerged from the Upper Lusatian Humanities Initiative (GWI) and seeks to bundle, promote and develop the potential for humanities in the region. It is intended to foster cooperation between local educational institutions as well as cross-regional exchange and interdisciplinary projects, and also aims to initiate in-house research.

In order to achieve this, the Academy offers a university-oriented structure and diverse opportunities, which should establish Upper Lusatia [Oberlausitz] as an important center for the humanities in the long term.

The scientific and regional focus rests therefore on Eastern (Central) Europe and its extraordinary cultural space. Through its oft-changing history with repeatedly shifting political and regional structures, it has left an incomparable mark on European thinking. The International Institute for Higher Education (IHI) in Zittau, the Uniate Brother Archives Herrnhut and the Großhennersdorf environmental library are among the initiators and founders.