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2021-04-29Jewish Vilnius in the Works of Artist Eglė Ridikaitė
Lithuanian Culture Institute and Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius present a short film “Jewish Vilnius in the works of artist …
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2021-04-26Kaunas 2022: The Crown Jewel of Europe’s Contemporary Culture
Kaunas – the future European Capital of Culture – has everything to captivate the world’s attention. The city’s history, Fluxus …
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2021-04-21Jewish Vilna and Beyond: Contemporary Art and Historical Memory
In her series of paintings “We Are Guests”, Lithuanian artist Eglė Ridikaitė depicts fragments of the Great Vilna Synagogue, which …
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2021-03-28WORLD’S BEST CONDUCTOR MIRGA GRAŽINYTĖ-TYLA OPENS LITHUANIAN CULTURAL SEASON IN BAVARIA
On 26 March, conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla’s debut at the head of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra began the Lithuanian cultural …
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2021-03-19Applications are open for the Translation Grant Programme!
Deadline for the submission of applications for the support for translation of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, drama, children’s and young adult …
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2021-03-18100 Years in One Month: The Athens of the North
In 1990 restored Lithuania took not just political but also cultural traditions and ideas from the interwar years of the …
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2021-03-15100 Years in One Month: The Never – Ending Creation of an Open Society
The restoration of statehood did not become, to paraphrase Francis Fukuyama’s metaphor, a ticket to the ‘end of history’, in …
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2021-03-10100 Years in One Month: A Struggle Gandhi Style
No one knew how to achieve it. No one, to tell the truth, for a long time knew what exactly …
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2021-03-08100 Years in One Month: The Joycean Liberation of Literature
Published in 1989, the first novels by the writer Ričardas Gavelis Jauno žmogaus memuarai (Memoirs of a Young Person; to …
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2021-03-04100 Years in One Month: The Discovery of the Baltic World out of the Spirit of Music
The territorial expansion of the Baltic tribes in pre-Christian Europe and its acute decline in the modern Western era is …
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2021-03-01100 Years in One Month: Mekas, Maciunas, Fluxus
Lithuanians who had fled from the war and the Soviet occupation to Germany, and after that to the USA were …
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2021-02-25100 Years in One Month: Prophesy About the End of the Soviet World
For the majority of its inhabitants and foreign observers the Soviet Union seemed eternal. One of the two world powers, …