On Saturday more than 50 participants met in Vilnius at the first hackathon of arts and tech hARTckathon to create and develop ideas how to enrich museum going experience. A team which suggested a way to talk to paintings won this one-day workshop. This idea will be put to practice at the MO Museum that opens this fall already. […]
Vilnius authorities are considering giving a Soviet-era school building in central Vilnius, built where the Great Synagogue of Vilna used to be, to artists and later demolish the building. […]
The MO Modern Art Museum under construction in place of the demolished Lietuva Cinema in Vilnius will open to the public on Oct. 18. […]
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 crew of the Lokis play triumphed at the Lithuanian Golden Cross of the Stage awards in Kaunas on Tuesday, winning four awards including one to director Lukasz Twarkowski. […]
Gabrielė Gervickaitė joins photography and illustration in her investigative exhibition 03 that opens at 6 PM on March 28 at the gallery Meno Niša. The artist looks back at the Soviet period, in which she was born and came of age, as well as investigates the power structures of today and how these were shaped by Soviet imageries. […]
Read an interview with a Lithuanian film maker Eglė Vertelytė. […]
A light installation is planned in Lithuania’s second city Kaunas to honor Jan Zwartendijk, honorary consul of the Netherlands who rescued Jews in the interwar period. […]
Singer Ieva Zasimauskaitė with a lyrical song When We’re Old has been picked as this year’s Lithuanian entry for the Eurovision Song Contest that will take place in Lisbon in May. […]
Aušra Mažonė’s ‘s first book The Unknown Frontline – 12 true stories of soldier’s wives collected around the globe, (in Lithuanian ”Nežinios fronto linijos -12 tikrų istorijų apie karių moteris iš viso pasaulio”) was launched last weekend at the Vilnius book fair. […]
An exhibition of portraits by Litvak painter Rafael Chwoles is opening at the Tolerance Centre of the Vilna Gaon State Jewish Museum on Tuesday. […]
The Rooster Gallery, the first mobile gallery that was established in Lithuania ten years ago, started its activity with minimum resources, without a concrete exhibition space, and had to look for a new space each time when it held an exhibition. Today, the gallery can take pride in its significant achievements both on the Lithuanian and international art scene. Head of the gallery Jurgita Juospaitytė-Bitinienė currently works with the most interesting Lithuanian painters of the young generation whose work is already known in the international context. […]
An official Lithuanian account has been created on Spotify, one of the biggest online music platforms, providing an opportunity for listeners to enjoy the history of Lithuania’s music over the past century. […]
The National Executive Committee of the Lithuanian-American Community, Inc. has chosen Philadelphia as the host city for the 16th Lithuanian Folk Dance Festival in 2020. Called “Šokių Šventė” in Lithuanian, this event is held every four years to celebrate the unique traditions of the Lithuanian heritage. Beginning in 1957, these festivals provided a way for Lithuanian immigrants and Lithuanian-Americans to keep their heritage alive while the Soviet Union occupied Lithuania during the Cold War. Now that Lithuania is an independent nation, these festivals are an essential part of celebrating Lithuanian traditions. […]
Jonas Sakalauskas, the new head of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater, says he has changes planned in the theater’s management and would attract people who have never worked for the institution, adding he would not rush with the changes. […]
Jonas Sakalauskas, a 35-year-old opera singer and composer, on Monday scored the highest points in the selection process for the post of director general at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre (LNOBT), officials at the Culture Ministry have confirmed to BNS. […]
Literatūra ir Menas, a Lithuanian weekly cultural magazine, published a blank edition on Friday in protest against decreased state funding for the cultural press. […]
Experts from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) approved in principle of a residential complex development project in Vilnius’ Old Town, but recommended refining the concept and design of an office building created by Studio Libeskind, the Culture Ministry said on Wednesday. […]
The Cinémathèque Française in Paris is hosting one of the biggest projects presenting Lithuania’s national cinema, a two-week long film retrospective which opened yesterday. It also marks the launch of a cycle of events in France to celebrate the centenary of the restoration of Lithuania’s statehood. The French cinema-going public will have the chance to explore the most extensive programme of Lithuanian film put together in recent years, covering several generations of filmmakers and a variety of genres and styles, Lithuanian Film Centre announced in its press release. […]
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