On this day in 1323, Grand Duke Gediminas, the ruler of Lithuania at the time, wrote a letter that has become the first known historical mention of the name of Vilnius. This January 25th is the Lithuanian capital’s 693rd birthday! […]
The Lithuanian Film Centre is set to increase its funding and support for Lithuanian filmmakers to €2.66 million in 2016 and expects the number of foreign productions filmed in Lithuanian to grow in the year ahead. […]
A treetop walkway in Anykščiai has been awarded as one of the most innovative tourism projects at the UN World Tourism Organization’s (UNWTO) 12th Excellence and Innovation in Tourism awards. […]
Director‘s Evgeny Afineevsky film about the conflict in Ukraine, Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom, which includes much of DELFI photographer‘s Artūras Morozovas footage and photos, was nominated in the best documentary film category in the upcoming Academy Awards. […]
Lithuanian photographer Karolis Janulis uses a drone to take breath-taking photos of Vilnius and the countryside from above. […]
A new Modern Art Centre is to be built in Vilnius by 2019. The design of a modern building by the Polish-American architect Daniel Libeskind has been recently announced, and the construction is set to begin in 2017, Vilnius Convention reports. […]
When the National Geographic published its list of winners of its annual photography awards, one photo among the honorable mentions seemed very familiar to Lithuanians. Photographer Hideki Mazuta had captured a photo of a girl with a pink dress running through Kryžių Kalnas, a famous religious monument in Lithuania. […]
A studio album of Giuseppe Verdi’s Simon Boccanegra opera that was recorded by the Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra received international recognition when it was named the Editor’s Choice opera album by the influential Opera News magazine in New York, the Kaunas City Municipality reports. […]
On 1 January 2016, Vilnius residents and guests will be able to attend a solemn ceremony on Gediminas Tower to mark the day in 1919 when the Lithuanian tricolour flag used today was first flown. […]
Lithuania’s second-largest city Kaunas has become the first Central and Eastern European city granted the status of a UNESCO design city in the UNESCO Creative Cities Network, reports Invest Lithuania, the state investment promotion agency. […]
Though kūčiukai, the tiny Lithuanian poppy cookies baked for Christmas Eve (Kūčios), have traditionally been hand-made for the holidays, 64 percent of Lithuanian consumers prefer buying these cookies from supermarkets instead, according to a survey performed by the RAIT survey company. […]
A monument to the first manager of the Bank of Lithuania, Vladas Jurgutis, has been unveiled near the headquarters of the Bank of Lithuania. […]
The laureates of the Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Art 2015 were announced on Thursday at the Ministry of Culture. […]
After sold-out premières in Vilnius, Lithuania, and New York, new documentary film “Land of Songs” will have its West Coast Première on the closing night of Stanford University’s 2015 Baltic Film Series. […]
The Vilnius Yiddish Reading Circle, which is celebrating its seventeenth year, has been concentrating this autumn on prewar Yiddish newspapers from Vilnius and Kaunas (Vílne and Kóvne, to use their Yiddish names), trying to balance literary materials with entertaining episodes of the day and the light they shed on a now-vanished civilization that once thrived here. […]
On 1 December in Warsaw, the Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita presented the Jerzy Giedroyc award to Tomas Venclova, the Lithuanian poet, translator, publicist, and a well-known figure, for contributing to the current literary scene in Central and Eastern Europe. The award was also presented to the Institute of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports. […]
On November 18 and 19, the well-known Lithuanian singer Jurga Šeduikytė performed in Brussels and Luxembourg. The singer presented her newly released album „Giliai vandeny“ (Deep in the Water) and performed her most famous award-winning songs whilst having the audience singing along. […]
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