-On February 27, 1908, Pjetër Dungu, composer, Merited Artist, was born in Shkodër. In the years 1926-1938 he worked in the brass orchestra of Tirana and then at Radio Tirana. He composed many waltzes, fantasias, intermezzos, arias, overtures, suites, romances and light music songs. He is the author of the litrary collection “Lyra” in which he included 50 old folk songs. In 1956, Dungu introduced the operetta “Friendship” and a year later the other operetta “Rrjeta e arte” /The Golden Net/. Pjeter Dungu passed away in Durrës in 1989.

-On February 27, 1910, a rally was held in Korça in defense of the Albanian alphabet. It was organized by society Dituria /The Knowledge/ in the “Hills of the Letters” of the city.

On February 27, 1958, the painter Pashk Përvathi was born in the village of Manati in Lezha. He graduated from the Academy of Arts in Tirana for Monumental Painting. He first worked at the Lezha Ethnographic Museum as the museum’s guide, then for two years as the manager of the Art Gallery of Lezha. Now he is a freelance painter. In 2002, he completed all the paintings of the new Saint Paul’s Cathedral in Detroit, US. In 2006, the then President of the Republic of Albania, Mr. Alfred Moisiu decorates the painter Pashk Përvathi with the “Golden Naim Frashëri ” Order. In 2010, he won the “Abdurahim Buza” award in painting, awarded by the “Dea” Art Center. He also became the winner of the “KULT” award, being announced by the “KULT” Academy as the VISUAL ART ARTIST OF 2011.

On February 27, 2018, Gëzim Qëndro, art and aesthetics critic, philosopher and historian, academic, translator and researcher, passed away.

Qëndro started his career as a director and designer of cartoons in the “New Albania” Film Studios, to continue then with the leading of the National Art Gallery, from 1998 to 2002, with whose name the turning point of this institution is connected.

Director of the artistic magazine PamorART /Visual Art/, and co-founder of the International Art Biennale of Tirana. Curator of fine art exhibitions, Gëzim Qendro is also the translator of 14 books mainly related to the history and theory of art, author of over 100 articles on the history of Albanian art, in the Albanian and foreign press, and author of many publications, among which “Morning Archeology”, “The heroes are hungry, etc. He was also a lecturer of visual language, history and philosophy of art.

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