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Dec
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Downhill skiing in Lithuania is about to become possible even in summer – a new indoor skiing facility is set to go up in Druskininkai.
Lithuania’s economy ministry has announced 40 million litas in funding towards the complex, to be built in the southern resort town near Lithuania’s border with Poland.
Plans call for a slope 53 to 63 metres wide and 412 metres long, which would rank it at the upper end of indoor skiing facilities in terms of slope length.
The ministry projects that the complex would attract up to 146,000 visitors per year, which would make it one of the more popular indoor skiing venues in Europe.
The closest indoor slopes are in Hamburg and Moscow.
Financing for the project is coming from EU infrastructure funds, and the building must be finished by 2013.
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Dec
29
Date: 2010-01-04, event starts: 18:00
Venue: Church of Sts. Johns, Šv. Jono St. 12
The programme “Alma Mater Musicalis” (a cycle of 7 concerts) is the programme of musical education for those who study at Vilnius higher institutions and high schools, colleges, for their pedagogues, for all lovers of music. The programmes seeks, with the help of a highly qualified musicologist, to acquaint the young listeners, the academic society with classical and the latest contemporary academic music, to enrich the studying youth, pedagogues, the former students, and lovers of music on the whole with comprehensive knowledge of music, to provide them with the possibility to listen to the best performers of the country (soloists, ensembles, orchestras, choruses).
A speech of welcome by the Rector of Mykolas Romeris University Prof. ALVYDAS PUMPUTIS
Creative evening of the laureates of the Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize
VERONIKA POVILIONIENĖ and friends
VANDA JUKNAITĖ reads her works
In the presence of the literary critic AUDINGA PELURITYTĖ
Dec
29
Date: 2009-12-29 and 2009-12-30, event starts: 19:00
Venue: Congress Hall, Vilniaus St. 6/16
Piotr Tchaikovsky. Fantasy for orchestra “Francesca da Rimini,” op. 32
Piotr Tchaikovsky. Scene and German’s aria from “Queen of Spades”
Giacomo Puccini. Cavaradossi’s arioso, Tosca’s aria, Cavaradossi’s aria, Tosca and Cavaradossi’s duet from “Tosca”
Giacomo Puccini. Turandot aria, the riddles scene, Calaf’s aria from “Turandot”
ALEKSANDR ANTONENKO, tenor
SANDRA JANUŠAITĖ, soprano
Conductor GINTARAS RINKEVIČIUS
The Lithuanian State Symphony Orchestra led by the conductor Gintaras Rinkevičius and Aleksandr Antonenko, the superstar form Latvia and one of the most famous and most charismatic tenors, are ready to make the last evenings of the year 2009 a joyful event. The Lithuanian audiences know the singer from his performance in 2006 when he sang at the premiere of Shostakovich’s opera at the Congress Concert Hall. In 2007, he performed the part of passionate Rodolfo in “Boheme.” The distinguished Latvian tenor Kārlis Zariņš has said that Antonenko is his successor. Antonenko who sings parts of counter tenor and tenor started his brilliant career with the Latvian Opera Choir. Several years later, he performed in “Don Juan,” “Eugene Onegin,” “The Flying Dutchman,” „Boheme” and other parts. His international career started in 2004 and now he is probably the best-known Latvian tenor and a guest performer at the world’s best theatres. This year he debuted at the Metropolitan Opera House with the part of Prince in Dvorak’s “Mermaid” against the legendary Renée Fleming. This evening his partner is Sandra Janušaitė, a soloist with the Lithuanian Opera.
More information: www.lvso.lt
Dec
28
Date: from 2009-10-10 to 2010-10-10
Venue: Museum of Theatre, Music and Cinema, Vilniaus St. 41
“Lithuanian Cinema. 1909-2009″ is the first exhibition devoted exclusively to cinema that has been mounted in Lithuania. The exhibition is dedicated to the one-hundredth anniversary of Lithuanian cinema. The maximum number of cinema exhibits available is displayed at the exhibition: sketches, costumes, models, posters, photographs, prizes, unique cinema equipment, animated cartoon drawings, etc. The exhibition occupies the entire space of the ground floor of the Museum – seven halls. Upon coming to the exhibition the visitor is immersed in the atmosphere of Lithuanian cinema from the pre-war days up to the present time. Right there, in some exposition halls, one will have the opportunity to see Lithuanian films of different periods or their fragments. It is planned to demonstrate different films at a different time.
Visitors of any age will find interesting material at the exhibition because the exhibits will be supplemented with ever-different Lithuanian films. There is no doubt that this has been the first exhibition presenting visual information about our cinema concentrated in a single place thus far.
More information: www.ltmkm.lt
Open:
I – II 11:00 - 18:00 III 11:00 - 18:00 IV 11:00 - 18:00 V 11:00 - 18:00 VI 11:00 - 16:00 VII –
Dec
28
Date: from 2009-12-18 to 2010-02-20
Venue: Gallery “Vartai”, Vilniaus St. 39 (The Teachers House, 3 floor)
Part of the Vilnius – European capital of culture 2009 program ARTscape is a large-scale project that involves contemporary art, cinema and jazz, co-organized by some of the most qualified cultural institutions: “Kino pavasaris”, “Vilnius jazz” and Gallery “Vartai”. Throughout the year 2009 and in the beginning of 2010 these three experienced institutions will be presenting the contemporary culture scenes of twelve European countries, the cities of which are, were, or will become European capitals of culture. The three different media – art, cinema and music – will outline the diagrams of dynamic cultural processes.
RA DI MARTINO
GIANLUCA E MASSIMILIANO DE SERIO
UGNIUS GELGUDA
The works of Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio are an intense exploration of extreme feelings such as love and loss, madness and ecstasy. Through the investigation of socially excluded figures, such mental disabled persons, their trilogy constituted by A Star Love (2008), A Dark Love (2008), and Animalove (2009) investigates the absolute dimension of love and its transcendental nature.
Rä di Martino’s practice conveys a complex reflection on the notion of time and its flow by exploring the logic of memory and its social construction.
Dec
28
Date: from 2009-12-11 to 2010-02-16
Venue: Vitražo Manufaktūra, Stiklių St. 6 - 8
The unique joint exhibition of Lithuanian stained-glass artists “Vitražas 2009″ is held at the gallery-workshop of the Public enterprise “Vitražo manufaktūra”, a participant in the Ethnographic and Fine Crafts and Fairs Programmed of the Vilnius City Municipality.
This is an exceptional possibility for the residents of Vilnius and guests of the city to admire and evaluate creative work of the most distinguished and also very young stained-glass and glass artists –- Kazimieras Morkūnas, Konstantinas Eugenijus Šatūnas, Vytautas Švarlis, Bronius Bružas, Vincas Matonis, Julija Vaičienė, Edita Radvilavičiūtė-Utarienė Dalia Truskaitė, Rasa Grybaitė and others.
Stained-glass works will be displayed in the halls and basement of the gallery. Works to be exhibited in the basement spaces will reflect the development of the history of Lithuania, classical heraldry, copies of famous stained-glass works, portraits of distinguished personalities, panoramic views of cities, unexpected themes. Visitors will have the opportunity to see works created by means of modern technologies in the halls of the gallery too.
More information: www.stainedglass.lt
Dec
28
Date: from 2009-12-10 to 2010-02-14
Venue: National Museum of Lithuania, Arsenalo St. 1
Archaeological findings of the Bronze Age discovered in Lake “Luokesai” are displayed at the exhibition “Gyvenimas virš vandens” (Life above the Water) organised by the Lithuanian National Museum and the public enterprise “The Underwater Archaeology Centre”.
Archaeological investigations that have been carried out for ten years allowed many new facts and archaeological material about the pre-history of Lithuania to be collected. During the investigations many exceptional findings were discovered and information about the construction peculiarities of the period of early metals, the lifestyle and paleogeographical conditions, was collected.
The discovery and investigations into the settlements of Lake “Luokesai” are exceptional in Northern Europe because they enable the interpretation of the pre-history of the Bronze and the early Iron Age of Europe to be expanded. Recently this subject has received attention from the world scientists – the complex of ancient settlements of Lake “Luokesai” is attributed to the category of unique archaeological monuments of Europe.
More information: www.lnm.lt
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