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Lithuania’s Culture Ministry looking for new chief of National Opera House
Lithuania’s Culture Ministry on Tuesday announced a call for applications for the new director of the National Opera and Ballet Theater. […]
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Culture Ministry Tuesday calling competition for Opera House director
Lithuania’s Culture Ministry will Tuesday call a competition for director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT). […]
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Focus on cooperation with Baltic countries at the Odessa Film Festival
Today, the Baltic Focus events dedicated to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are launching within the programme of the industry days of the International Odessa Film Festival, the Lithuanian Film Centre wrote in a press release. […]
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Sugihara Week Festival 2017
Chiune Suhigara made a profound impact on thousands of Lithuanian lives. The honorable yet humble man, stood up during the dark days of WWII saving thousands of innocent people. He made every second count, spending his final moments leaving Lithuania via train, passing out travel visas to Jewish Lithuanians. […]
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Lithuania wants to move culture attache to US from Washington to New York
Lithuania’s Culture Ministry wants the country’s culture attache to reside in New York instead from the current location of Washington D.C. […]
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7th international folk contest-festival “the Flower of the Sun” has unfolded and blossoms in Šiauliai
On 1–6 July, Šiauliai hosts the international folk contest-festival “The Flower of the Sun” for the seventh time; it brings joy, colours and diversity of events to city residents and guests. […]
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National museum selects exhibits for Donelaitis museum in Kaliningrad region
The Lithuanian National Museum has selected exhibits to be displayed at a memorial museum of Kristijonas Donelaitis, a Lutheran pastor and poet who wrote the first classic Lithuanian-language poem, in Chistye Prudy, a village in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, for the next ten years, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Tuesday. […]
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Lithuanian filmmakers fear censorship as conservative MPs propose to evaluate film content
A group of Lithuanian conservative lawmakers on Monday called on Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Culture Minister Liana Ruokyte-Jonsson to look at whether the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) could perform the function of a feature film watchdog. […]
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French critics name Lithuanian drama theater’s production as best foreign production
Heroes’ Square, a production of the Lithuanian National Drama Theater (LNDT), has been named by French critics as the best foreign production presented in France this year, the theater said on Wednesday. […]
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Decorative Tibetan-language sign to be unveiled in Vilnius’ Tibeto Skveras
Decorative signs in the Lithuanian and Tibetan languages will be unveiled in Tibeto Skveras, a small public garden in Vilnius’ Uzupis neighborhood, on Tuesday. […]
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Lithuanian-American writer Sepetys receives British literary award
Ruta Sepetys, a US writer of Lithuanian decent, was presented on Monday with the Carnegie Medal, a British literary award that annually recognizes one outstanding new book for children or young adults, the Lithuanian Culture Institute said. […]
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Banker Zutautas appointed temporary head of national opera and ballet theater
Sigitas Zutautas, a banking and project management specialist, will temporarily head the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT) after its long-standing director general was fired on Monday. […]
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Mazylis gets EUR 10,000 Lithuania Progress Award for finding independence act
Liudas Mazylis, a professor at Vytautas Magnus University who earlier this year found an original copy of Lithuania’s Act of Independence of Feb. 16, 1918 in a German archive, on Monday received a Lithuania’s Progress Award. […]
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Kevisas fired as national opera and ballet theater director
Gintautas Kevisas, the long-standing director general of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT), is being dismissed from his post, the Culture Ministry said. […]
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Seimas orders at least 90% of TV content in EU languages
Content in the official languages of the European Union (EU) should make at least 90 percent of rebroadcast television content offered in every package of programs, according to a bill approved by the Lithuanian parliament on Thursday. […]
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Film Polish Institute and Lithuanian Film Centre to cooperate closer
On 22 May, 2017, during the 70th Cannes International Film Festival, representatives of the Polish Film Institute and the Lithuanian Film Centre – director Magdalena Sroka and director Rolandas Kvietkauskas – signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation between the two national institutions in the field of cinematography and the implementation of joint film projects. […]
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Lithuanian film industry to be showcased in Cannes
The anniversary 70th Cannes Film Festival will be opened today with Lithuanian elements in its programme. Representatives of the Lithuanian film industry will also attend the “Marché du Film” film market organised by the festival on May 17–26. […]