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Belarusian Nobel Prize winner to view play about herself in Vilnius
Svetlana Alexievich, Belarusian writer and journalist who won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, is coming to Vilnius in early January. […]
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Lithuania awards National Culture, Arts Prize to Gabrėnaitė, Kalinauskaitė, Trimakas
This year’s National Culture and Arts Prize has been awarded to actress Eglė Gabrėnaitė, writer Danutė Kalinauskaitė and photographic artist Gintautas Trimakas. […]
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Winners of National Culture and Arts Prize to be announced in Vilnius
Winners of this year’s Lithuanian National Culture and Arts Prize will be announced at the Culture Ministry in Vilnius on Monday. […]
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Klaipėda sea museum’s aquarium reopens after renovation
The Aquarium of the Lithuanian Sea Museum reopened after renovation in the port city of Klaipėda on Sunday. […]
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Drink full and descend
Adomas Danusevičius and Tomas Daukša are considered one of the most distinct Lithuanian artists of the young generation. Though they usually address quite different themes in their work, their newest works presented in this exhibition –painting, ceramics, and light installations – form an unexpected and mysterious combination, the Roosters Gallery announced in a press release.. […]
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Lithuanian film festival Šeršėliafam excludes movie with Bartas from opening night
Organizers of the film festival Šeršėliafam have decided to exclude the movie featuring Šarūnas Bartas, the film director under the suspicion of sexual harassment, from the opening night, delfi.lt news portal said on Friday. […]
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State protection requested for Europe’s oldest kurenkahn
The Neringa municipality plans to apply to the Cultural Heritage Department with a request to list Europe’s oldest kurenkahn Kuršis, a traditional wooden type of flat bottom boat that was used in the Curonian lagoon, in the register of cultural values, Lietuvos Žinios daily said on Saturday. […]
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Mini series filmed in Lithuania nominated for Emmy
A five-part historical drama Tokyo Trial that has been filmed in Lithuania was nominated for an Emmy award in the category of mini series. […]
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Litvak painter Samuel Bak grateful to Vilniusites for his saved life
Internationally-renowned Litvak painter Samuel Bak, back in Vilnius for the opening of his museum, on Wednesday expressed his gratitude to residents of his hometown who helped him survive the Holocaust. […]
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Vilnius Gospel Music Festival
On November 12, the Vilnius Gospel Music Festival finale took place at Vilniaus kongresų rūmai. […]
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For films shot in Lithuania – prestigious International Emmy nomination and success at International Film Festivals
Lithuania is an attractive destination for those foreign filmmakers who come here seeking not only flexible prices for film production and services but also a professional crew and suitable locations. Last year, Lithuania attracted the highest number of foreign productions since the introduction of its 20 percent tax incentive in 2014. Worldwide known directors, actors and producers work with the projects partly shot in Lithuania. Films produced in this country have also been noticed on the international film market. The Founder and producer of a Lithuanian production company, ARTBOX, Kęstutis Drazdauskas shares his International co-production experience. […]
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European film forum Scanorama kicks off in Vilnius
Over a hundred films from Europe and beyond will be screened during the 15th European film forum Scanorama that gets underway in Vilnius on Thursday. […]
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We Thought We’d Be Back Soon. It’s Hard to Leave Lithuania, Especially for a Farmer
This is an extract from the book “We Thought We’d Be Back Soon. 18 Stories of Refugees 1940-1944” (compiled and edited by Dalia Stakė Anysas, Dalia Cidzikaitė and Laima Petrauskas VanderStoep, published by Aukso žuvys, 2017). The book is an impressive collection of reminiscences about emigration by Lithuanians to the West during World War II. The conversations with émigrés that are central to the book bring new knowledge about wartime reality and provide insight into the meanings of home and place, and the social impact of the geopolitical upheaval when the state’s sovereignty is annihilated. […]
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First English language translation for award winning Lithuanian writer
Despite being one of Lithuania’s most prominent writers, winning an array of awards and selling more than a million copies of his novels in Russian, Grigory Kanovich is virtually unknown to English readers. […]
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We Thought We’d Be Back Soon. I Left With Only My Suit
This is an extract from the book “We Thought We’d Be Back Soon. 18 Stories of Refugees 1940-1944” (compiled and edited by Dalia Stakė Anysas, Dalia Cidzikaitė and Laima Petrauskas VanderStoep, published by Aukso žuvys, 2017). The book is an impressive collection of reminiscences about emigration by Lithuanians to the West during World War II. The conversations with émigrés that are central to the book bring new knowledge about wartime reality and provide insight into the meanings of home and place, and the social impact of the geopolitical upheaval when the state’s sovereignty is annihilated. […]
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We Thought We’d Be Back Soon. A Flag and a Handful of Earth
This is an extract from the book “We Thought We’d Be Back Soon. 18 Stories of Refugees 1940-1944” (compiled and edited by Dalia Stakė Anysas, Dalia Cidzikaitė and Laima Petrauskas VanderStoep, published by Aukso žuvys, 2017). The book is an impressive collection of reminiscences about emigration by Lithuanians to the West during World War II. The conversations with émigrés that are central to the book bring new knowledge about wartime reality and provide insight into the meanings of home and place, and the social impact of the geopolitical upheaval when the state’s sovereignty is annihilated. […]
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Publisher withdraws Vanagaitė’s books over remarks about Lithuanian partisan leader
The publishing group Alma Littera said on Friday that it was ending cooperation with Rūta Vanagaitė and withdrawing all of her books from the market over the author’s unacceptable statements about Lithuania’s anti-Soviet resistance commander Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas. […]
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Journalist wins competition for Lithuania’s culture attache to New York
Gražina Michnevičiūtė, journalist and editor-in-chief of the magazine Moteris, has won a competition for Lithuania’s culture attache to New York, the Culture Ministry said. […]
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Matelis wins Best Documentary at Warsaw Film Festival
‘Wonderful Losers. A Different World”, from Lithuanian film director Arūnas Matelis, was awarded the Best Documentary Feature at the 33rd edition of the International Warsaw Film Festival (WFF). As the winner at one of the top eight ‘A’ class film festivals (along with Cannes, Venice and Berlin) in Europe, Arūnas Matelis’ documentary will also be eligible in the selection for the European Film Academy Awards, Kino Komunikacija wrote in a press release. […]