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Jun
30
Date:July 31, 2010
Venue: Trakai castle
Price: 100 LT, VIP- 200 LT
Pure Future Festival will be held in Trakai castle for the sixth time.The festival is widely known not only in Lithuania but also abroad.
It is 7th, among “Open Air” festivals in European.
Participants are expected from 7 pm until 4 am.
Performing artists:
Kaskade :: USA
Ricky Ryan :: Argentina
Fritz Kalkbrenner :: Germany
The Maneken:: Ukraine
Virus J :: Lithuania
Justin Xara :: Lithuania
Julia Fedotova :: Lithuania
Acrobats dance schools and Theatre performances
Laser Show
The municipality warns that parking in the evening and at night will be charged.
Most of the caffeines and restaurants will be working threw-out the night. Also you will have the chance to hire a yacht.
Be sure to make reservations for the hotels and surrounding villas in advance.
Organizers of the festival are asking all guests to behave cultured. Not to litter and be quiet at night. Police forces will be monitoring the area.
Jun
22
Baltic Cup football tournament was completed with Kaunas team triumph. It asked a riddle to the Scottish football team, although Scots did not participate in that tournament.
Scottish strategist Craig Levein tried to see the real face of Lithuania. Scots in particular duel with Lithuanians will begin the 2012 European Cup qualification. The match will take place in Kaunas on 3rd of September.
45 years guest from Scotland carefully watched Lithuanians game with Latvians and Estonians and wrote down his comments in the notebook.
On the first day of competition Lithuanian team did not win against Latvian team, result was 0:0, but they reached the victory on Sunday against Estonians, the result was 2:0. Estonians with Latvians played with no goals scored.
Daily newspaper’s “Lietuvos rytas” interview with Craig Levein:
- Did the match in Kaunas, which you saw, calm down you?
- Looking at the control game is difficult to see the real potential of the team. However, I am not quite calm, because I remember that several times we were hard done by Lithuanians.
I also visited the stadium in Kaunas (S. Darius and S. Gireno. - Ed.) and hotel, which will be staying at. I was satisfied with what I saw.
- What is the meaning to follow Lithuanian national team, if it does not represent a lot of key players, who will be playing in the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship?
- I wanted to see several more important footballers who have played here. I have seen them videos, but see it lively - is another.
To the Lithuanian tactical maneuvers I disregarded, because when their leaders come together they probably will change the game style. On the other hand, I do not expect big surprises.
- R.Žutautas have very little coaching experience, while you worked at not one club in Scotland and England. Does it give you an advantage?
- I do not think so. While talking with Raimondas, I did not give coaching advices to him. I think he will do his job well. I know how difficult is to be a coach. And over the years, unfortunately this job does not get easier.
- What are the aims of Scottish team at the first group, where also will play European champions Spanish, Czechs?
- We, as the Lithuanians, want to qualify for the finals. But now it’s much harder to do than a decade ago.
There is no team which can win while playing on one foot.
Of course, we hope to bring back the points from Lithuania, the Czech Republic, Liechtenstein, with the Spanish we will have more chances at home.
Travel agency “Visit Lithuania” wants to offer special room prices in Kaunas and also in our capital -Vilnius! Scotland will begin their Euro 2010 qualification campaign away to Lithuania, so don’t miss opportunity to support your team and spend a good time in our country!
Jun
21
FEAST of ST.JOHN – June 24th [ a.k.a. JONINËS]
From ancient times people marked the time of the return of the sun, the shortest and longest night. In olden times it was called the Feast of the DEWS, [ a.k.a. RASOS ]. When Christianity was established in Lithuania, the name was changed to Feast of St. John, according to agrarian folk calendar, the start of haying.
The rituals of the longest day were closely related to agrarian ideas and notions. The main aim was to protect the harvest from natural calamities, evil souls, witches and mid summer visitors like draught, hail, downpours of rain and thunder. The ancients worshipped the great Goddess Lada and God of Thunder, the ruler of thunder and lightning. From May 25th till June 25th men visited taverns while women and girls danced in the fields holding hands, sang and sacrificed white hens.
This year you can participate in these St. John events:
“Rasos” (Dew Holiday) Festival in Verkiai Regional Park
Date: 2010-06-23
Venue: Verkiai Park near the Palace (Žaliųjų ežerų St. 53 , Vilnius)
Ticket prices: free admission
“Rasos” (Midsummer) Festival is held in Verkių Park according to the ancient Lithuanian customs that have been preserved by the old people of Lithuania. At the festival of thriving nature wreaths will be twined, fortunes will be told from grasses, Midsummer Day rounds will be danced, old rituals will be performed, wreaths will be floated down the Neris River, people will look for a magic fern blossom, wash with dew, will greet the rising sun with songs. Well-known folklore ensembles will present their programmes. Most of the participants in the festival usually arrive dressed in national costumes and wearing grass wreaths.
In 2007, “Rasos” Festival in Verkių park was recognized as the best ethno-cultural festival in Lithuania.
“Rasos” (Midsummer) Festival in Kernavė
Date: 2010-06-23 | Event starts: 18:30
Venue: Cultural Reserve of Kernavė (Kerniaus 4a, Kernavė)
Ticket prices: free admission
“Rasos” (Midsummer) Festival is held in Cultural Reserve of Kernavė according to the ancient Lithuanian customs that have been preserved by the old people of Lithuania. At the festival of thriving nature wreaths will be twined, fortunes will be told from grasses, Midsummer Day rounds will be danced, old rituals will be performed, wreaths will be floated down the Neris River, people will look for a magic fern blossom, wash with dew, will greet the rising sun with songs. Well-known folklore ensembles will present their programmes. Most of the participants in the festival usually arrive dressed in national costumes and wearing grass wreaths.
“Rasos” (Midsummer) Festival in Vingis Park
Date: 2010-06-23 | Event starts: 19:30
Venue: Vingis Park (Čiurlionio g. 100, Vilnius)
Ticket prices: free admission
Impressive 4 hours event of music, lights and fireworks!
Participants:
Group “InCulto”, winners of “Choir Wars ” - champagne CHOIR, Panevezys, Marijampole choirs, St. Christopher Chamber Orchestra, team of funny television broadcasting “Dar paziuresim”, special musical FIREWORKS program !
Jun
19
Date: from 2010-06-18 to 2010-08-15
Ticket prices: 8 Lt (on Wednesdays 50 percent discount for the tickets)
Venue: Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) (Vokiečių St. 2, Vilnius)
Since antiquity, painting has struggled with its status as a ‘tradition’. This constant awareness of the past is a mixed blessing for contemporary painting. Many of the approaches that contemporary painters are choosing from have been available for generations. Shall painting be used to make images, or shall it by-pass any quest for illusion and express itself through gesture and tactility? Shall painting stay on the surface or shall it create depth? Shall it visualise ideas or attract attention to its own materiality? Having access to a long line of predecessors in the field of painting may help those new to it in their efforts to sound a tone of their own.
In a field that remains inscribed in tradition, it seems counter-productive to only look for that which openly negates tradition. Securing the position of the image by looking for new ways of configuring it has long been part of Western tradition, but so has fighting the whole tradition of images and their special status. Rather, it would appear wiser to stay finely attuned to the tradition of painting and try to detect subtle moves that bend it off in unexpected directions. Newness in painting might be something that at first looks very small, even insignificant. It might be a change of tone rather than a change of programme. It might be a shift in confidence or craftsmanship, a dexterity or an awkwardness that we have not seen before in this precise constellation.
The 14th Vilnius Painting Triennial presents painters who exemplify the tension between tradition and newness and who articulate different attitudes towards the image, the gesture, time and subjectivity.
Jun
19
Venue: Vilnius Graphic Art Centre (Latako str. 3, Vilnius)
Contemporary Art gallery Zaum Projects (Portugal) represents Italian Artist Samuele Belloni Drowings Exhibition “UNTITLED OR TITLED”.
On display the visitor will see small and medium drawings from 2007- 2009 and 5 animation videos.
The drawings are the result of a process relating on very different media. The artist selected a series of images from the Internet, personal photographs, images of famous paintings (mostly japanese old masters).
While drawing this series Belloni got very interested in cinema and the moving image, especially to movies and collages referring to Quentin Tarantino’s cinematography. The reproduction on paper of this inputs, stealing and pirating the images inducted the artist to use them like Duchamp used objects for his ready mades.
The ready-made is today used by a large number of contemporary artists like a material that leads to the object, the work of art. Belloni explains “[...] an artist can use tempera or oil colour. He can use marble, wood or iron. The ready made works the same way, it is a material, a recognised technique in contemporary creation. Instead of using painting or sculpture I started using images. I would call my drawings more “collages” then proper drawings considering the fact that I meticulously reproduced preexisting images without manipulating them.”
Jun
18
2010 June 19th. 18:00-06:00
Culture night “Let There Be Night!” invites you to spend a sleepless night from 19th to 20th of June. Over than 80 free events you will help visitors fight drowsiness. The same as every year there will classical and contemporary music concerts, movies, open air dance lessons, performances, arts workshops, museums and galleries will be open with special programs.
The walls of the old town will be filled with video projections accompanied by electronic music, halls and squares will be flooded with piano classics. Guitars, violins and Indian tablas will play in cosy museums and arts workshops. There will be 4 open air cinema spots with specially crafted programs. Those, who admire handcraftsmanship, will be able to craft themselves shirts, make their own latern or mix aromatic balsam according to traditional recipes. Public gardens will be filled with laughter and the cosy light of candles will help to tame the energy of Baltic amber.
The program you can find here:
http://www.kulturosnaktis.lt/en_program.html
Jun
17
The fourth year Vilnius Ethnic Cultural Center invites all to “Herbage market” in Vilnius, which will be held on June 19 (Saturday) at 10.00 - 21.00 hrs. in Town Hall square.
Witches fortune-tellers, herbalists, market of herbs and other healthy food products, market of crafts, spectacular bath, characters of the market, direct “Cricket Radio” reportages from the hottest marketplace points awaits you!
In this event Herbal Carpet will be woven, you will be able to weave a posy in this carpet too.
At the market alongside the traditional LTL will run money of the herbage market – JONPINIGIS, all those who will participate in entertainment at the market will be able to purchase these not traditional money. You will be able to spend JONPINIGIAI at the Herbage market auction!
If you are open to the sun, water and humor baths, herb’s flavours - herbage market is the best place for you!
Programme
10.00 – Trade beginning.
12.00 – Opening of the herbage market. “Cricket Radio” broadcast’s start.
12.15 – Concert of VU students folklore ensemble “Ratilio”.
14:00 – “Cricket Radio” broadcast about the herbs and their power.
15:00 – “Cricket Radio” journalistic investigation - the direct interviews with traders of the market.
15.15 – Vaidas Lengvinas and Vaiva Kriščiokaitė concert (vocals, acoustic guitar).
16:00 – “Cricket radio” show “Magic power” – interview with witches, fortune-tellers.
16.15 – Opening of the “Beauty bath”.
16.20 – Concert of folk group “Laukis”.
17.00 – Games, mischief, surprises.
17.30 – Concert of folk group “Verdene”.
18.00 – Greeting-wishes concert.
20.00 – Auction - only for JONPINIGIAI!
21.00 – Closing.
