High-profiled ceremony for the forthcoming The Lost Shtetl Museum & Memorial Complex - @ ArkLM
Society

High profile ceremony for the forthcoming museum in Lithuania

On May 4, 2018 the ground-breaking ceremony for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial Complex took place in the middle of Lithuania, in Šeduva. The project is designed by professor Rainer Mahlamäki and Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects, Finland. Professor Mahlamäki attended the ceremony, as well as Dr Inna Rogatchi, the author of the forthcoming film and book on Rainer Mahlamäki’s projects of memorial architecture. […]

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Economy

Slovakian baked goods leader Ambropek enters Lithuania

Lithuanians seeking healthy baked goods and true butter croissants will soon feel changes in the baked goods market. The Slovakian and Czech market leader, which supplies its goods across Central Europe, is now in Lithuania. Ambropek offers its exceptional quality assortment at the recently opened bakery in Kaunas, Vytautas avenue 47, according to a press release from Nexus Operations. […]

Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects Lost Shtetl museum render
Society

Ground-breaking ceremony for “The Lost Shtetl,” a unique museum and memorial complex in Lithuania designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki architects

On Friday 4th May the ground-breaking ceremony will take place in Šeduva, Lithuania, for The Lost Shtetl Museum and Memorial designed by Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects. The ceremony will mark the official start of on-site preparations for the construction of the 3000m2 museum, which will stand to remember and teach about life in what was a predominantly Jewish area – before local populations were decimated by the Holocaust, according to a press release from Lahdelma & Mahlamäki Architects. […]

Vilnius new office town from Green Hall Photo
Economy

Catalyst Development Ltd Announces Record Year and New Nearshore Hub in Lithuania

Fast-growing financial services consultancy Catalyst Development Ltd has announced a record year. Between April 2017 and March 2018 [FY18], Catalyst substantially grew its investment base, services, markets, clients, staff and profitability. Since October 2017 alone, Catalyst has achieved a record increase in organic growth and client delivery, tripled its staff numbers, acquired a market-leading asset and wealth consultancy with an offshore base in Jersey and been named as one of the UK’s top 50 Best WorkplacesTM. Today, the firm is announcing the opening of a new nearshore consultancy hub in Vilnius, in partnership with Invest Lithuania, to allow it to further scale its services to clients across all European financial centres, a Catalyst Development press release states. […]

2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate Brian Kobilka
Society

Nobel Prize winner to speak at Life Sciences Baltics 2018 in Vilnius

Brian K. Kobilka, MD, Professor of Molecular and Cellular Physiology and Hélène Irwin Fagan Chair in Cardiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, the recipient of the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on G-protein-coupled receptors, will be the keynote speaker at the Life Sciences Baltics conference to be held in Vilnius, Lithuania on September 26-27, 2018, a press release from Enterprise Lithuania states. […]

N. Numavičius' Haute Spot
Economy

Numavičius opens his first UK convenience store, Haute Spot

Nerijus Numavičius, a UK-based investor and entrepreneur, has introduced his convenience store Haute Spot to the British consumers. The first store opened this weekend in Watford and is set to cater to the dynamic lifestyle of the locals. In addition to the essential groceries, Haute Spot will also serve hot and freshly prepared food, and coffee. Should this convenience store format prove successful, Haute Spot would become a chain and expand, including into Commonwealth and European countries. […]

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Economy

More by 10% flights handled, 5 leading users remain the same

During the first quarter of this year, the total number of flights in the Lithuanian airspace handled by air traffic controllers made up 54.4 thousand and was higher by 9.5% than in the same period last year. Transit flights made up three quarters of this number: air traffic controllers provided services to 40.8 thousand aircraft overflying the Lithuanian airspace, according to a press release issued by Oro Navigacija. […]

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Society

Personal stories from the Holocaust in Lithuania told in new website

“We drank tea using the observational method: we would hang a sugar cube by a string and sip tea while looking at it. This didn’t make the tea taste any sweeter, but it cheered us up,” wrote Tamara Lazersonaite in her memoirs. She was the daughter of professor Vladimir Lazersonas, the pioneer of clinical psychology in Lithuania. Professor Lazersonas and his family drank their ostensibly sweetened tea in the Kovno Ghetto.” This is how the Lazersonas family, who were part of Kaunas intelligentsia before the start of World War II, are introduced in the new website stumblingstones.lt, a press release from manoteises.lt states. […]

Painting Routers initiative
Culture

Painting Routers lets you jump on a trolleybus by famous painters in Vilnius

Have you ever taken a journey on a piece of art? Now you can take an epic ride on one of Vilnius’ trolleybuses covered in contemporary art. Running for the second consecutive year, the Painting Routers art initiative has once again turned normal trolleybuses into canvases painted on by five teams of well-known young artists from Lithuania and Estonia, a press release from GoVilnius states. […]

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Foreign affairs

Norway finds Lithuania as innovative and advanced business partner

Today around 60 companies and associations participated in the Norwegian-Lithuanian B2B meetings organized by Enterprise Lithuania. On April 24-25 during the Norwegian-Lithuanian business days companies from both countries are discussing cooperation opportunities in the areas of innovation, high technology, logistics and defence, the Enterprise Lithuania press office informed in a press release. […]

The Devil's Bride by Arūnas Žebriūnas_Photo by Rimvydas Strikauskas, from the archive of The Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum
Culture

Baltic Films and Symposium on Baltic Cinema at goEast Festival in Germany

In April, for a whole week the German city of Wiesbaden becomes a meeting point and a promotion platform for Central and Eastern European film and filmmakers. The 18th goEast festival, which kicked off yesterday, is shining a spotlight on the Baltic States with a symposium, “Hybrid Identities – Baltic Cinema”, dedicated to the national cinemas of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, their histories, pursuits of national and cultural identities. The festival’s programme also includes some of the key recent titles of Baltic cinema. The project is part of a wide-ranging tripartite programme with which the Baltic States present their cinemas to Europe on the occasion of their centenary of statehood. […]

The First Place Winners of the JA Marketpalce event @kaunieciams.lt
Society

Junior entrepreneurs gather for Innovative Business Fair in Kaunas

Kaunas is proud of being one of the host cities and presenting itself as a capital of technologies! It is investing not only in the present but also in the future! The international Student Company Trade Fair “Innovative Business 2018” is being hosted for the third time in Kaunas, gathering the most enterprising students from all of Europe. It is a part of the Junior Achievement (JA) Marketplace events that became an excellent tradition across Europe. […]

A Vilnius Winter Sonata  Photo © Ludo Segers  @ The LIthuania Tribune
Freetime

Ludo Segers to feature Lithuania in photo exhibition in Brussels

On 5 April, an exhibition will open in Brussels with a selection of photos by Ludo Segers, a regular contributor of The Lithuania Tribune. The exhibition, entitled “A Place, A Time, A Reason?” will feature images photographed in Lithuania and during Ludo’s travels around the world.

Observers describe Ludo’s photography as a cross between narrative documentary and fine art, noting a high level of awareness that is required in photojournalism punctuated with magical moments captured in between assignments. Some of those exquisite instants will be on display in Gallery 74 in Brussels. […]