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Lithuanian leaders sing the national anthem

Kudirka’s National Anthem behests will live forever

July 7, 2014 Linas Jegelevicius 0

For the sixth time in a row, all Lithuanians, in their Homeland and abroad alike, celebrating the Lithuanian King Mindaugas’ coronation every year on 6 July, have coalesced for singing Lithuania’s National Anthem in over 30 countries worldwide. Behind the heart-gripping but simple verses there stands Vincas Kudirka, an outstanding 19-century public activist, publicist, song and satire writer and the author of Lithuania’s national anthem. […]

Folklore Day of Song Festival 2014 to start with Bread Ritual

July 4, 2014 the Lithuania Tribune 0

More than 300 loaves of bread will be distributed to residents and guests of Vilnius city in the Cathedral Square on 4 July. The Folklore Day of the Song Festival 2014, which will start with the symbolic bread-bringing ritual, will fill the capital with a variety of old traditions, and flood the streets of Vilnius city with the melody of folk songs. […]

Song Festival invites Lithuanians from all over the world

July 1, 2014 ELTA 0

On 2-6 July, the Lithuanian Song Festival, the country’s most important cultural event, included in the UNESCO World Heritage list, will take place in Vilnius. […]

Entrepreneurial playwright Ivaškevičius: “Plays sell best today”

June 30, 2014 Linas Jegelevicius 0

41-year-old Marius Ivaškevičius today is an established playwright, aspiring movie director and definitely one of the most talented young-generation’s artists in Lithuania. Frankly, we had met ages ago, in the early 1990, when Marius, then a student of the Lithuanian language and literature at Vilnius University’s Philology Department, mingled in M.K. Sarbievijus courtyard along with other literature wannabes, some of which, like him, very aspiring. […]

Druskininkai, photo by Vaclavas Liubinas

What “Druskininkai Summer with M.K.Čiurlionis” will offer this year

June 26, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

The 22nd “Druskininkai Summer with M.K.Čiurlionis” international art festival hosted by the Lithuanian Musician Support Fund and Druskininkai municipality will begin on 29 June, writes Lietuvos Žinios. […]

Folklore Day of Song Celebration 2014 to start with Bread Ritual

June 26, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

More than 300 loaves of bread will be distributed to residents and guests of Vilnius city in the Cathedral Square on 4 July. The Folklore Day of the Song Celebration 2014, which will start with the symbolic bread-bringing ritual, will fill the capital with a variety of old traditions, and flood the streets of Vilnius city with the melody of folk songs. […]

Thomas Mann festival celebrates Lithuanian intellectuals

June 26, 2014 Lithuania Tribune 0

The 28th international Thomas Mann Festival “Summer of the Century” program, which offers the public a chance to meet with famous Lithuanian and European intellectuals, will be dedicated to European cultural history topics, such as the World War I political peripeteia. […]