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May
31
Date: from 2010-05-27 to 2010-06-10
Ticket prices: free admission
Venue: “Fluxus Ministerija” (Gedimino pr. 27, Vilnius)
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“Vaistinė” means a word pharmacy. This time pharmacy will suggest you not pharmaceutical products, but young and fresh art. New pharmacy also has different format of all show – interdisciplinary art exhibition of young artists will be the core which will be followed by with sorts of other events – dancing evenings, fashion show, different workshops, temporary installations of sound and space. Notice it’s non-galeric type exhibition, which grants artist way more freedom to express their ideas. About 50 of artists are paricipating in “Vaistinė”. Differencies and coutnless types of arts are expected to be seen and shown
Composition and a form of exhibition
Exposition: Andrėja Šaltytė, Antanas Stančius, Aurelija Ciuškaitė, Tomas Dėžutė ir Tadas Vincaitis, Edvinas Špetas, Ernestas Zacharevič, ETOJA, Gintaras Antanas Kubilius, Gintarė Pašakarnytė, Ingra Miler, Indrė Ercmonaitė, Jelena Lukošaitė, Jonas Aleksiejus, Julija Matulytė, Julijus Balčikonis, Laimikis, Juozas Sidaravičius, Justė Balčiūnaitė, Justė Christauskaitė, Justina Nekrašaitė, Karl-Olav Lunde, Karolis Tamulis, Kristina Kurilionok, Spalvų kolektyvas iš Tuvalų, Lina Praudzinskaitė, Linas Blažiūnas, Marija Olšauskaitė, Milda Simanavičiūtė, Monika Furmanavičiūtė, Mykolas Sauka, Nicolas Lafay, Olga Dedova, Povilas Gavarilka, Rafal Piesliak, Rokas Beržiūnas, Vaidotas Kristopaitis, Vytautas Stakutis.
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May
31
Date: from 2010-05-29 to 2010-09-01
Ticket prices: Free admission
Venue: “Fluxus Ministerija” (Gedimino pr. 27, Vilnius)
George Maciunas, architect and visionary founder of the Fluxus art movement, conceived the idea of establishing cooperative buildings in New York where people could freely work and create. Rare documents, structural maps and correspondence with officials detail the excruciating process he underwent to legalize SoHo that transformed the entire downtown area.
Visual works by renowned Fluxus artists Shigeko Kubota and Larry Miller will be shown along with those of filmmaker Jeffrey Perkins and photographer Peter Moore. First-person interviews and historical footage will complement the exhibition. A special Guest of Honor will be the legendary avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas, a close co-worker with George Maciunas during the early period of the creation of SoHo.
“The SoHo phenomenon was an important creative initiative that made a significant impact on social urban development in New York. It is compelling in its grand scope and should be appreciated by both a local Lithuanian audience as well as an international one”, stated Mr. Arturas Zuokas, founder of the Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center.
The publication of “Illegal Living: 80 Wooster Street and the Evolution of SoHo” by authors Roslyn Bernstein and Shael Shapiro will be celebrated at the opening. Hundreds of artists, including Allen Ginsberg, Philip Glass, John Lennon, Hermann Nitsch, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, and Andy Warhol were drawn to the building by Jonas Mekas’ Cinematheque and showed their work in and around it.
In conjunction with the opening of the exhibition, Deputy Director of the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, John Hatfield, will give a series of lectures highlighting the effects and significance of cultural neighborhoods on the economic, social and political life of a city. His main presentation in Vilnius will be at the “Ministry of Fluxus”, a new venue containing studios, galleries and performance areas for avant-garde artists.
May
26
Date: 2010-05-26 | Event starts: 19:00
Ticket prices:50 Lt
Venue: St. Catherine‘s Church (Vilniaus St. 30, Vilnius)
Concert dedacated to Georgia Independence Day
Participants: AsroGeorgia
Programme: religious and traditional songs and dances.
May
26
The installation of a category II system of signalling lights for precision approach and landing at Vilnius International Airport (VIA) has been completed and the system has been acknowledged as suitable for use. On implementation of the procedures of this category, flight safety will be enhanced and the duration of aircraft idle time due to poor weather conditions will be reduced.
Until recently, the airport had a category I precision approach and landing system. This means that the height when aircraft captains took the decision to land or terminate the approach to land at the airport was 60 meters and the horizontal runway visibility was 550 metres. With the category II system, the decision-taking height is reduced to 30 meters, and horizontal visibility is reduced to 350 metres.
‘On implementation of these higher category installations, it will be easier for aircraft captains to land at the airport when there is poor visibility, and as a result aircraft idle time due to bad weather conditions will decrease. All this enhances flight safety and makes the airport more attractive’, Darius Okunevičius, director of the Infrastructure Department of VIA, said.
Mr Okunevičius stated that technical work for the implementation of category II installations has been completed, and procedures for the legalisation of the installations have been initiated. Those procedures could take several months. Experts from the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) will also have to present their conclusions regarding the compliance of the installations at the airport with category II requirements.
Siemens UAB, which won a public tender to become contractor of this work, has supplemented the current signalling system of Vilnius Airport with approach and landing area lights; approximately 250 additional lights were installed. The value of the runway work project is LTL 4.86 million.
Runways at airports can be equipped according to three different categories of precision approach and landing systems.
May
26
On 23 May the Lithuanian low-cost air carrier Star1 Airlines is launching direct flights from Vilnius to Girona. The route that was highly popular last summer shall be operated twice per week, on Thursdays and Sundays, until 3 October.
The head of Star1 Airlines Martynas Laivys confirms that last summer airline carried 5700 passengers on the route that proved to be one of the most popular ones last summer.
„In summer season Barcelona becomes one of the largest attraction points for tourists from Europe and all over the world. No wonder we feel high interest from travellers in this destination. This year the timing of flights to Girona is extremely favourable for longer weekend trips – departing from Vilnius on Thursday morning tourists shall have 3,5 day for their stay at the Catalonian capital and be back to Vilnius Sunday afternoon” – says Laivys.
It is estimated that around 7000 travellers will choose this route during this summer season. Flight to Girona shall take 3 hours and 15 minutes.
May
24
The Festival has been taking place in Vilnius since 1973. Each spring, during the last week of May, the Sereikiškės Park and yards of the Old Town are filled with songs and dances of our ancestors. Country singers, dancers, musicians from different ethnographic regions of Lithuania take part in the Festival. Over 30 folklore groups from Vilnius are regular participants of the Festival. Guests from the Baltic States and other foreign countries arrive to perform in Vilnius annually. The Festival is visited by about 20 thousand people each year.
“Skamba skamba kankliai” take place in Vilnius on the 27th -30th of May, 2010.
May
24
Lithuanian budget air travel company Star1 Airlines is relaunching direct flights from Vilnius to Girona, near Barcelona on May 23.
The route will be operated twice a week on Thursdays and Sundays until October 3.
Last summer, the route was very popular as the airlines took 5,700 travellers on their planes.
This year, the company is anticipating around 7,000 travellers to and from Barcelona.
The outbound flight from Vilnius to Girona airport will take 3 hours 15 minutes, the company‘s press release says.
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