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Jan
22
On March 4, Latvia’s national airline airBaltic will start direct flights from Vilnius to London (Gatwick).
Tero Taskila, Chief Commercial Officer of airBaltic: “Due to the beneficiary tax policy, the Vilnius airport has now become more attractive for airlines, and we are delighted to offer the new Vilnius – London service for leisure and business travellers.”
Direct flights from Vilnius to London will be offered on Thursdays and Saturdays. Passengers will board a Boeing 737 aircraft for a flight of two hours and 55 minutes. One-way ticket prices start at EUR 25 (LTL 85), including airport fees and service charges. A full schedule of flights can be found at www.airbaltic.com.
Jan
21
From 2010-01-07 to 2010-01-30
Venue: Gallery “Artifex” (Gaono St. 1, Vilnius)
The most distinctive feature of Andrius Erminas is transferring the traditional Lithuanian textile patterns onto objects and materials that are unusual for textile. The black and white color contrast is characteristic to Erminas’ works. Just as the symbolic contrast of the materials: fabric and wood, or yarn and wire.
Like many traditional textile products, “Patterns” by Andrius Erminas could be used for interior decoration, as well.
Artifex initiated the project “Male Textile” this year. Even though textile is considered to be a female sphere of art, the history of professional textile of Lithuania (A. Tamošaitis, J. Balčikonis, V. Daujotas, M. Šimelis, V. Jūrevičius, F. Jakubauskas, A. Jonutis, Ž. Jonutis, R. Terleckas J. Stankevičiu, many others) as well as a wider international context testifies that it is not an occupation of women only. Therefore, the project organisers will try to present a number of male textile creators working in this field. Artists will be presented who use textile as material in the narrow and broad meaning, i.e., as information about textile as material for creation.
The first part of this project is such. The artist Andrius Erminas did not study textile but creates objects on the basis of Lithuanian traditional patters of fabrics or imitating textile techniques. The author creates imitations of traditional Lithuanian textile on industrial pallets that conform to European standards. In this way he creates a new unique (Lithuanian) product that conforms to general (European) requirements. Thus, the author raises an actual question about uniqueness and exceptionality in general processes of globalisation.
Jan
18
From 2010-01-06 to 2010-02-19 | Event starts: 16:00
The exhibition is to commemorate the 90th anniversary of Vaclovas Dargužas (1920–2009), honorary doctor of Vilnius University, patron and Maecenas of VU Library. V. Dargužas accomplished much for the good of Lithuania collecting the cultural heritage of Lithuanian emigration and bringing it back to the homeland.
Venue:
Library of Vilnius University
Universiteto St. 3
Jan
14
Scandinavian airlines SAS today starts regular flights from Vilnius International airport to Copenhagen. SAS passengers between the capitals of Lithuania and Denmark shall be carried twice a day, and 14 times a week in total.
„SAS was the first international airline company which started regular flights from Vilnius to the capital of Denmark in 1992. Carrying passengers from Lithuania to the capital of Denmark for seventeen years, we can assert that this route is extremely popular for a convenient communication with more than 30 countries of the world via this airport”, Head of theSAS representing company, Rūta Jucienė, says.
According to R.Jucienė, after resuming flights from Vilnius airport, Scandinavian airlines shall further make regular flights from Palanga airport to Copenhagen. Since 25 October, 2009, SAS has been making 19 flights per week to the Danish capital from this airport. Since 11 January, 2010, the Scandinavian airlines SAS shall make 33 flights per week from Lithuania to Copenhagen in total.
Flight time of the route Vilnius-Copenhagen-Vilnius shall be especially convenient for those who have business trips to Copenhagen: if departed at 6:30 in the morning from Vilnius airport (local time), it shall be possible to return back in the evening of the same day, as the plane takes off at 20:55 (local time). The flight times shall be also convenient for those who shall sel ect Copenhagen as a stop to reach destination in other Scandinavian, European countries or even further ones.
„Almost 70 per cent of Lithuanian passengers who choose Copenhagen as an intermediary stop, travel to London, Dublin, Munich, Brussels and other European directions, also, we observe an increasing interest in long-haul directions. Among the most popular routes there are New York, Peking, and Bangkok“, R.Jucienė says.
Jan
11
Date: from 2010-02-18 to 2010-02-21
Venue: The Lithuanian Exhibition and Convention Centre “Litexpo“, Laisvės Ave. 5
In the end of February Vilnius Book Fair will traditionally invite lovers of books, publishers, authors and book creators to come to the Fair.
Vilnius Book Fair has become a meeting place of publishers, book sellers, writers and book readers. It is exceptionally orientated towards the reader, its most important accent is books and cultural events, the authors’ communication with their audience live. The Fair and the events taking place during it, meetings with famous Lithuanian and foreign writers, in particular, attract thousands of visitors from Lithuania and the neighbouring countries.
Jan
11
Date: 2010-02-14, event starts: 16:00
Venue: Museum of Applied Art, Arsenalo St. 3 A
Love… Perhaps it is one of the most inspirations for composers evermore. The ensemble Vilniaus arsenalas will talk about this romantic feeling in musical sounds, at the concert on February 14th - St Valentine’s Day. The gripping programme is prepared for the listeners. The subtle sounds of Bach’s Trio will accompany to the world of popular operas dedicated to the love celebration. They are the snappy Pergolesi’s The Servant Mistress, the fairy-tale by Mozart The Magic Flute and the pert and puckish Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. The operas’ arias and duets will be performed by soloists Julija Stupnianek and Ignas Misiūra. A convivial duet of amorous cats that you’ll hear at the end of concert, will remind of the coming spring…
Chamber Ensemble Vilniaus arsenalas
Laima Šulskutė (flute)
Rolandas Romoslauskas (viola)
Sergejus Okruško (harpsichord)
Soloists:
Julija Stupnianek (soprano)
Ignas Misiūra (baritone)
Jan
11
Dates:
2010-02-11, event starts: 19:00
2010-02-12, event starts: 19:00
2010-02-13, event starts: 12:00
2010-02-14, event starts: 19:00
Venue: Congress Hall, Vilniaus St. 6/16
Creative team:
Conductor GINTARAS RINKEVIČIUS
Director DALIA IBELHAUPTAITĖ
Set designer DICK BIRD
Costume designer JUOZAS STATKEVIČIUS
Lighting designer PETER MUMFORD
Soliosts: Dainius Stumbras, Asmik Grigorian, Laimonas Pautienius, Joana Gedmintaitė, Egidijus Dauskurdis, Rafailas Karpis, Kęstutis Alčauskis, Audrius Rubežius, and Edmundas Seilius
The choir of the National Opera and Ballet Theatre (leader Česlovas Radžiūnas)
The musical thriller, which was written in the 1970s, was a revolutionary event in the genres of the opera and musical. Its Lithuanian premiere in 2009 shook the academic establishment, creating a lively controversy. One can say that it was an extraordinary event in the country.
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