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Algirdas Julius Greimas in Paris (1971) (Family archive)

The multi-layered legacy of Algirdas Julius Greimas

March 22, 2017 Interviewed by Agne Grineviciute 0

Algirdas Julius Greimas (1917-1992), the Lithuanian-born linguist who founded the influential Paris school of semiotics in the 1960s, has left a legacy that goes beyond his academic pursuits. Dr. Arūnas Sverdiolas, professor at Vilnius University and Head of the A.J.Greimas Centre for Semiotics and Literary Theory, recollects how, at the time when the Iron Curtain was finally lifted, the Paris-based semiotician worked towards reintegrating Lithuania into the Western culture, not least by helping us build networks with European scholars. […]

Holocaust researchers meeting in Vilnius

March 22, 2017 BNS EN 0

A conference on As Mass Murder Began: Identifying and Remembering the Killing Sites of Summer-Fall 1941 is starting at the Vilnius Gaon Jewish State Museum on Wednesday. […]

President sees Vilnius opera house chief’s work as “shadow play”

March 16, 2017 BNS EN 0

Backstage operations of Gintautas Kevišas, the director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT), have turned into a “shadow play” and fall short of the requirement of transparent management and responsibility of an institution’s chief, says President Dalia Grybauskaitė. […]

Lithuania picks Fusedmarc as this year’s Eurovision entry

March 13, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

Fusedmarc band has been selected to represent Lithuania at this year’s Eurovision song contest in Kiev in May with its song Rain of Revolution. […]

House of Basketball including museum planned in Kaunas

March 13, 2017 BNS EN 0

The House of Basketball will be established in Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas to accommodate the Lithuanian Basketball Federation and an interactive technology-filled basketball museum. […]

Making and Growing – Traditions between Fibre & Fabric in Oslo

Ambassadors of Lithuanian linen bring good news from Norway

February 28, 2017 Sponsored article 0

“We are in Oslo, in Norway’s largest open-air museum, Norsk Folkemuseum, presenting Lithuanian linen. Lots of tourists from all over the world here, asking with great interest what the linen looks like. When we notice curious faces, we invite visitors of the live exhibition to give it a spin at the workshop where we demonstrate the path of yarn and show how the fibre is processed. We are very happy seeing the emotions of visitors – their interest has exceeded all expectations,” says Agnė Žilinskaitė, CEO of the Fine Crafts Association and implementer of the international Lithuanian-Norwegian project Making and Growing – Traditions between Fibre & Fabric. […]

International Vilnius Book Fair opens in Vilnius

February 23, 2017 BNS EN 0

An annual international book fair, one of the key cultural events in Lithuania, is kicking off at the Litexpo exhibition center in Vilnius on Thursday. […]

sculptures being removed from Vilnius' Green Bridge

Authorities mull transferring Soviet-era Green Bridge sculptures to museum

February 17, 2017 BNS EN 0

The authorities are considering transferring Soviet-era sculptures removed from Vilnius’ Green Bridge to the Lithuanian Art Museum, which could in turn give them for display to Grutas, a Soviet-era theme park in the southern part of the country, Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson said on Friday. […]

Vilnius invites to celebrate the 100th Independence Anniversary with sound of trumpets

February 15, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

One year before the proclamation of the 100th anniversary of the restoration of Lithuanian statehood in Vilnius – from this February 16 until February 16 next year, daily at 19 hours 18 minutes – trumpet player Laurynas Lapė and his students will perform the composition “Dear Lithuania” for Vilnius residents and guests from the Palace of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, Go Vilnius agency reported. […]

Lithuania at the Berlin Film Festival

February 9, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

Lithuania will be hosting a stand at the European Film Market, an international film industry event that takes place during the Berlin International Film Festival and opens today. The stand will present Lithuanian film industry, tax concession for film production, and the latest Lithuanian projects. Two feature films supported by Lithuania will be screened for foreign film professionals, and a Lithuanian project will be introduced in the special “Berlinale Talents” programme. […]

Vilnius film Kino Pavasaris festival reveals competition programmes

February 8, 2017 Lithuania Tribune 0

Films from Central and Eastern Europe as well as the Baltic region will be screened in the New Europe – New Names, Baltic Gazeand Short Films competition programmes of the 22nd edition of Vilnius Film Festival Kino Pavasaris. […]

Lietuva Cinema to be demolished. Welcome Modern Art Center

February 6, 2017 Ludo Segers 0

1 February was the last day for Lithuanians to say goodbye to a city landmark. The Lietuva Cinema is soon going to be demolished. The new owners, the Modern Art Center (MAC), threw a bit of a party and invited citizens to visit the place one last time. The place had closed down in 2005 and now the decaying structure will be flattened in February. […]

Corruption Index sends message to Govt to avoid SocDem mistakes

January 25, 2017 BNS EN 0

Lithuania’s decline on the annual Corruption Perception Index sends a message to the new government to avoid mistakes made by the earlier Cabinet of the Social Democratic Party and start specific tasks, says Sergejus Muravjovas, the head of the Lithuanian office of Transparency International. […]

Academic explains why foreigners find it difficult to learn Lithuanian

January 24, 2017 Media Briefing 0

Every speaker of Lithuanian has no doubt heard that Lithuanian is one of the oldest languages in the world. Prof. Dr. Olegas Poliakovas a well-known scholar of the Baltics understands this and explains why foreigners find it difficult to learn Lithuanian. […]

Culture

Culture Committee asks society to help Seimas buy grand piano

December 23, 2016 BNS EN 0

The Lithuanian parliament’s Culture Committee has sent an open letter to the society, asking for help in buying a new grand piano. […]

New CultMin slams 100th statehood anniversary celebration plan

November 30, 2016 BNS EN 0

The parliament’s Committee on Culture and Culture Minister-designate Liana Ruokytė Jonsson on Wednesday criticized the outgoing government’s plan for marking the 100th anniversary of Lithuania’s statehood. […]

Vytautas Žalakevičius with L. Noreika (on the right) while shooting Nobody Wanted to Die („Niekas nenorėjo mirti“) (A.Zavackio photo)

Focus on Lithuanian film in Ukraine

October 21, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

The 46th Kiev International Film Festival ‘Molodist‘ will begin tomorrow with the participation of Lithuania as a guest country. The programme of the festival will include the latest Lithuanian films and a special section dedicated to the filmmaker Vytautas Žalakevičius. […]

Value of Kaunas’ modernism lies in city’s spirit, not only in buildings – UNESCO expert

October 15, 2016 BNS EN 0

A UNESCO expert says that the value of Kaunas‘ modernism, which Lithuania want to be recognized as a World Heritage site, lies not only in its buildings, but also in the spirit of the city. […]

Film I’M NOT FROM HERE goes to EFA

October 13, 2016 the Lithuania Tribune 0

The European Film Academy and EFA Productions presented this year’s short film nominations with the film I‘M NOT FROM HERE (by Maite Alberdi and Giedrė Žickytė) in the nomination list, Lithuanian Film Centre announced. […]

Archaeologists reveal mystery of Klaipėda castle

October 7, 2016 BNS EN 0

Lithuanian archaeologists have established an island in the lower River Dange as the location of the first wooden castle built in 1252, thus revealing one of the biggest mysteries of the founding of the port city of Klaipėda, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Friday. […]