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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
01.10.13.–14.10.13. Survival kit Meet Me in the Museum!
The Museum of Naïve Art, Latvia will popularize naïve
art and the culture of Latvia in Europe with an
international collection. There is creative potential in
everybody needing an impulse to be expressed. The
slogan project to promote the creativity of the public
‘Meet Me in the Museum!’ will stir everyone to turn to
creativity or to return to long forgotten paint-brushes or
crayons. Meet Me in the Museum!
As part of the project ‘Meet Me in the Museum!’ the
Museum of Naïve Art – Latvia will open and invite to a
fortnight exhibition of the works created during the
museum’s autumn plain-air, which will, traditionally, invite
finding one’s own creativity and engage in creative work or
return to the paint brushes long since put aside.
Visual arts,
participation of
the public Exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
Floating galleries
'Noass' and
'Betanovuss' on AB
quay Free noass.lv
23.10.13.–27.10.13. Thirst for the Ocean
Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of an idea) is an
exhibition, visits, public talks, texts and art work
focusing on unearthing and visualization of the different
segments of thinking. It is a program posing the
question ‘What the public of Riga is interested in?’ –
and stirring the thinking about its confusion in the
moments of confronting and discussing contemporary
art.
In preparation for the
residencies of
international arts
curators - thinkers in
Riga, 'Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
Internationally active professionals of art and culture will
participate in the project ‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of
an idea) to reconsider and widen the discourse on artistic
themes actual in Riga. The curators of the visit programs
Anne Barlow, Courtenay Finn, Egija Inzule, Ainārs
Kamoliņš, Margarida Mendes, Zane Onckule, Chris Sharp,
Jānis Taurens, Alise Tīfentāle etc. The date of the event
may be subject to change.
Music, cinema,
literature, visual
art, design,
architecture,
photography,
history, science,
education,
multimedia,
tradition
Performance,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture,
conference,
workshop,
action, event
Children,
youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free kim.lv
24.10.2013. Survival kit RigaDot
Drawing on cultural heritage as well as emerging
innovative elements in science and culture, Project
‘RigaDot’ is envisaged as a complex of events to inform
the audience, in engaging, attractive and practically
useful form, about Riga as creative center of culture
and science. This program will feature events like the
cycle ‘Science cafes,’ thematic exhibitions, concerts in
Nabaklab, thematic shows in radio Naba and Science
Festival. Science cafes
Science will be highlighted in such ‘RigaDot’ project
events as the cycle of discussions ‘Science cafés.’ They
will offer a chance to meet scientists in person and propose
questions they could address. ‘Science cafés’ discussions
are to evolve as free, informal exchanges of views on the
issues of science currently in the public eye.
Music, science,
education
Concert,
discussion /
lecture, event,
TV/radio Youth, adults
University of Latvia,
radio „Naba”,
„Nabaklab” Free rigapunkts.lv
14.11.2013. Survival kit RigaDot
Drawing on cultural heritage as well as emerging
innovative elements in science and culture, Project
‘RigaDot’ is envisaged as a complex of events to inform
the audience, in engaging, attractive and practically
useful form, about Riga as creative center of culture
and science. This program will feature events like the
cycle ‘Science cafes,’ thematic exhibitions, concerts in
Nabaklab, thematic shows in radio Naba and Science
Festival. Science cafes
Science will be highlighted in such ‘RigaDot’ project
events as the cycle of discussions ‘Science cafés.’ They
will offer a chance to meet scientists in person and propose
questions they could address. ‘Science cafés’ discussions
are to evolve as free, informal exchanges of views on the
issues of science currently in the public eye.
Music, science,
education
Concert,
discussion /
lecture, event,
TV/radio Youth, adults
University of Latvia,
radio „Naba”,
„Nabaklab” Free rigapunkts.lv
15.11.13.–18.11.13. Riga Carnival Shine, Riga!
In the context of the festival of lights, the cityscape is a
space of contemporary art addressing every inhabitant
of Riga. For artists, it is a dialogue with the viewer and
a challenge to offer a modern, visually engaging
message reaching a possibly wide range of people.
Various creative groups and technicians participate in
the light festival. The program of festival competition
and partners in collaboration is wide-ranging and open
to local and international initiatives. The guests of the
festival are also invited to enjoy its particular
atmosphere in the taverns and restaurants of the Route
of Light. Shine, Riga!
During the festival of light ‘Shine, Riga!’ 100 objects are
designed to light up to be viewed up close, from afar and as
part of the cityscape. The facades, bridges, monuments and
parks of Riga become the objects of the art of light
installation and light and video technology, often
complemented by theatrical elements. The viewers of
‘Shine, Riga!’ – already the sixth such festival in the
capital – are more than just observers, becoming
participants of the processes of playing with light as active
involvement of the public is frequently pre-requisite of the
realization of the festival projects.
Visual art,
multimedia,
participation of
the public
Festival, object
of city
environment
Children,
youth, adults Riga cityscape Free riga2014.org
06.12.13.-31.01.14. Thirst for the Ocean Nature. Urban. Future
By the festival of cityscape art and participation,
Sigulda announces new, innovative processes beginning
in the town, to promote development of creativity. The
city environment will offer light objects inviting people
to take a creative walk of light through Sigulda. The
festival aims at activating inter-action of different
branches of art and inhabitants in its territory. The
object will employ modern light and video technologies,
for the first time, to change the townscape by means of
lighting. Nature. Urban. Future
Sigulda will hold townscape and participation festival for
next to two months offering objects of environment
lighting, aiming to present innovative and creativity
promoting activities.
Participation of
the public,
multimedia
Exhibition,
environment
object,
workshop,
festival
Children,
youth, adults Sigulda town Free www.sigulda.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
12.12.2013. Survival kit RigaDot
Drawing on cultural heritage as well as emerging
innovative elements in science and culture, Project
‘RigaDot’ is envisaged as a complex of events to inform
the audience, in engaging, attractive and practically
useful form, about Riga as creative center of culture
and science. This program will feature events like the
cycle ‘Science cafes,’ thematic exhibitions, concerts in
Nabaklab, thematic shows in radio Naba and Science
Festival. Science cafes
Science will be highlighted in such ‘RigaDot’ project
events as the cycle of discussions ‘Science cafés.’ They
will offer a chance to meet scientists in person and propose
questions they could address. ‘Science cafés’ discussions
are to evolve as free, informal exchanges of views on the
issues of science currently in the public eye.
Music, science,
education
Concert,
discussion /
lecture, event,
TV/radio Youth, adults
University of Latvia,
radio „Naba”,
„Nabaklab” Free rigapunkts.lv
01.01.14.–31.03.14. Amber Vein On the Amber Side
The youngsters of The Environment Film Studio
Dzintra and Dzintars undertook an expedition in the
group of scientists and experts of foreign affairs in order
to bring back a whole cycle of tv programs about the
ancient track of amber trade. What can people still tell
about amber, do they remember it, what is its meaning
in the frenzied modern urban life and is it still
considered a more valuable gemstone than gold? The
route of the expedition took these explorers across
Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany and Central
Europe even as far as to India. The program will air in
the beginning of 2014 and be presented in an internet
home page.
The cycle of TV
programs On the Amber
Side
A new, attractive, informatively entertaining cycle of
programs On the Amber Side will be presented to tv
audiences of Baltic states, which was launched searching
the factual traces of the track of amber trade, examining
the hypotheses surrounding it and possible parallels in the
lesser known northern-southern axis. Important, for its
creators, was destruction of stereotypes (still held
particularly by the young) about amber as cult and cultural
relic. The program aimed at defining amber as one of the
central elements of regional identity of the Baltic Sea
region states and promoting its global recognition.
Participation of
the public,
multimedia,
tradition TV/radio Youth, adults
Latvia, Lithuania,
Estonia Free vfs.lv
09.01.2014. Survival kit RigaDot
Drawing on cultural heritage as well as emerging
innovative elements in science and culture, Project
‘RigaDot’ is envisaged as a complex of events to inform
the audience, in engaging, attractive and practically
useful form, about Riga as creative center of culture
and science. This program will feature events like the
cycle ‘Science cafes,’ thematic exhibitions, concerts in
Nabaklab, thematic shows in radio Naba and Science
Festival. Science cafes
Science will be highlighted in such ‘RigaDot’ project
events as the cycle of discussions ‘Science cafés.’ They
will offer a chance to meet scientists in person and propose
questions they could address. ‘Science cafés’ discussions
are to evolve as free, informal exchanges of views on the
issues of science currently in the public eye.
Music, science,
education
Concert,
discussion /
lecture, event,
TV/radio Youth, adults
University of Latvia,
radio „Naba”,
„Nabaklab” Free rigapunkts.lv
11.01.2014. Riga Carnival
The facsimile edition of
the book ‘The Royal
Vidzeme Town of Riga –
Honorable Council’s
Decree of Festivity and
Dress’
Printing inaugurated a new era in information exchange
and perception of the world. ‘The Royal Vidzeme Town
of Riga – Honorable Council’s Decree of Festivity and
Dress’ was printed in N. Molleen’s printing house in
Riga, in 1593. The Turaida Museum-reserve holds a
copy of this rarity. The book is a perfect example of
Renaissance artistic tradition of printing and editing.
The articles found in this book reveal the constraints
imposed on luxury in the 16th and 17th centuries,
‘bukinist’ uniqueness of this edition, introduce the
reader with its publisher Molleen and his practice of
printing in Riga, and illustrate the fashion of the period
in Latvia.
Presentation of the
book’s ‘The Royal
Vidzeme Town of Riga –
Honorable Council’s
Decree of Festivity and
Dress’ facsimile edition
and opening of the
exhibition ‘’The New and
Different Time’
‘The Royal Vidzeme Town of Riga – Honorable Council’s
Decree of Festivity and Dress’ was first printed in Riga in
1593 by Nikolaus Molleen. In 2014, its facsimile edition
and translation in Latvian with academic commentary and
articles will be published. It will be presented to the public
in Turaida Museum-reserve by art historian Ina Līne, the
leading researcher of Latvia State Archive Valda
Kvaskovska and bibliographer Aija Taimiņa as part of the
larger event comprising the opening of the exhibition ‘The
New and Different Time,’ demonstration of 16th century
fashion and concert of the period music in the Bauska
Castle Museum.
Dance,
literature,
history
Presentation,
exhibition, event Youth, adults
Turaida Museum-
reserve Free turaida-muzejs.lv
15.01.14.–19.01.14.
Without thematic
division
Inauguration of the year
of Riga - European
Capital of Culture
The year of holding the title of the European Capital of
Culture signifies a rich, varying and excellent program
of culture from its beginning to the end. It will address
different audiences and inhabitants and guests of Riga
as well as highlight the capital of Latvia for Europe and
wider world. Umea in Sweden is another European
Capital of Culture 2014, while the official partner town
of Riga will be Sigulda.
Inauguration of the year
of Riga as the European
Capital of Culture
Riga will inaugurate the year of the European Capital of
Culture with several exhibitions, special actions and events
in different venues around the town offered to the widest
possible audience, which will highlight and evoke the
promises of the entire year and the content of its program
awaiting the public.
Theatre, music,
visual art,
science, history,
participation of
the public
Exhibition,
event,
performance
Children,
youth, adults Various sites in Riga Free riga2014.org
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
15.01.14.–31.12.14. Amber Vein Amber Route
Participating in the project Amber Route, NMMA Rīgas
Birža, Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Museum of
Nature, Museum of the History of Medicine and
Latvian Museum of History will take their different
approaches to amber in order to reveal its history,
identity and many uses.
Amber Through the
Times
Exposition of the Museum of Natural History ‘Amber
Through the Times’ will be the 1st
stop in the progress of
the project Amber Route. It will throw light on amber in
the Baltics, demonstrating its natural forms, richness of
shades and its significant role amongst world’s deposits of
amber. Exhibition will stress uniqueness of amber as the 1st
material, by which we were introduced to neighboring
cultures in the ancient Europe. The audience will learn
more about natural amber, its applicability in wide variety
of spheres, underlining the economic potential of amber
thread in particular.
Science,
education Exhibtion Youth, adults
Museum of Natural
History
Museum of Natural
History dabasmuzejs.gov.lv
16.01.14.–16.03.14. Thirst for the Ocean
From Johanson to
Johanson
The project ‘From Johanson to Johanson’ aims to reveal
the interrelations between art works and continuity of
ideas connecting them across centuries and ideological
eras. It is a dialogue between different periods of history
– the 1920s, 60s and 70s and the 1st decade of the XXI
century.
From Johanson to
Johanson
The exhibition of kinetic art ‘From Johanson to Johanson’
uniting seven Latvian artists from different generations,
each of whom has been innovative in their work, will tell a
story of Latvian art and cultural values, as well as
contemplate our fate as the subjects of history. Supervised
by curator Ieva Astahovska, the exhibition is organized by
the Center of Contemporary Art and the range of artists
represented in it will include Gustavs Klucis (1895–1938),
Kārlis Johansons (1890–1929), Valdis Celms (1943), Jānis
Krievs (1942), Artūrs Riņķis (1942), Gints Gabrāns
(1970) and Voldemārs Johansons (1981).
Visual art,
history Exhibtion Youth, adults
Latvian National
Library Free lcca.lv
17.01.14.– 20.04.14. Freedom Street 1914
"1914" is an art exhibition dedicated to WWI and
reflects on three ages: the one that collapsed as soon as
the war started, the one in war times and the third period
that represents nowadays. The conceptual axis of the
exhibition is made of documentary evidences about the
early bright days of the broken empire. Those are
formal, innovative artworks produced by new artists
from Northern and Central Europe - war eyewitnesses
and philosophical, contemporary comment. 1914
Exposition ‘1914’ will combine the visual arts’ testimony
on WWI as definitive, for the last century, in terms of
historic, social and cultural development of Europe. The
show is prepared in collaborative partnership with the
national museums of art of Lithuania, Estonia, Finland,
Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia,
Croatia and Serbia.
Visual art,
history Exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
LNMA Exhibition
Hall Arsenāls
The ticket office to be
announced 1914.lv
17.01.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Production of multimedia
opera 'Rienzi. Triumph
and Defeat'
Composed in Riga in 1837-1839, Richard Wagner’s
opera ‘Rienzi’ is inextricably linked to this city. LNO
plans to world-premiere a multimedia production of this
opera early in 2014, to turn it into one of the European
level events to inaugurate Riga’s year in the status of
European Capital of Culture. Mora than just a staging,
this production will entail re-working of the operatic
material and integrating it according to directorial
vision.
Rienzi. Triumph and
Defeat
The multimedia production of Wagner’s ‘’Rienzi’ in Riga
will be realized by an international of team of creative
artists.
Music, theatre,
multimedia
Performance,
show Adults
Latvian National
Opera opera.lv opera.lv
18.01.2014.
Without thematic
division Chain of Booklovers
The new building of LNB is significant, new object of
infrastructure. The first Christmas tree, the Capital of
books to mark the 100 years of national independence,
the chain of books to be passed from the old building
into the new one will be a symbolic joining of hands and
affirm the system of values in Riga and Latvia. Chain of Booklovers
At the start of the year of the European Capital of Culture
in Riga, every citizen and every guest of the state is invited
to participate in a living chain of people affirming cultural
values, their preservation and passing over to the next
generations. The chain of people passing books by hand
from the historic National Library of Latvia to their new
home in the Castle of Light will affirm the system of values
upheld in Latvia and its capital.
Literature,
participation of
the public Action
Children,
youth, adults
Streets of Riga
connecting the old
and new buildings of
National Library Free riga2014.org
18.01.2014. Riga Carnival
World chamionship of
fire sculptures
About 12 teams from all around the world will compete
in creation of the fire sculptures in the World fire
sculpture championship, announcing the champions on
January 18.
World chamionship of
fire sculptures
19.00 on January will be the hour when the finals of World
fire sculpture championship are to begin, where an exciting
musical show will highlight the announcement of the world
champions in fire sculpture building. Every sculpture will
be observed – and exist – for ten minutes, and the whole
event will conclude with theatrical and interactive fire
installation created by the sculptor Kārlis Īle.
Music, visual
art,
participation of
the public
Concert,
exhibtion,
workshop, event
Children,
youth, adults
Daugava aquatorium
between AB quay and
Kuģu street Free makeart.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
19.01.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Production of multimedia
opera 'Rienzi. Triumph
and Defeat'
Composed in Riga in 1837-1839, Richard Wagner’s
opera ‘Rienzi’ is inextricably linked to this city. LNO
plans to world-premiere a multimedia production of this
opera early in 2014, to turn it into one of the European
level events to inaugurate Riga’s year in the status of
European Capital of Culture. Mora than just a staging,
this production will entail re-working of the operatic
material and integrating it according to directorial
vision.
Rienzi. Triumph and
Defeat
The multimedia production of Wagner’s ‘’Rienzi’ in Riga
will be realized by an international of team of creative
artists.
Music, theatre,
multimedia
Performance,
show Adults
Latvian National
Opera opera.lv opera.lv
20.01.14.–26.01.14. Freedom Street forte forte
The program of contemporary theatre ‘forte forte’
comprises five productions of the leading European
directors supplied by a parallel program, combining
theoretical, artistic and educational segments, and
developing the themes foregrounded in the performance.
The aim of the series of performances is to determine
the outlook of the European theatre in 2014. They are
united by a range of themes focusing on the relationship
between the individual and power, personality and
sociality, what is and what isn’t perceived as norm,
personality and masses norm, viewed, both, against the
background of historic events and – in everyday context.
Riga will enjoy five weeks of guest performances to
center around Freedom Street, with one week dedicated
to each of the artists.
forte forte. First week of
performances
The first week in the program of contemporary theatre
‘forte forte,’ director it is dedicated to and the program will
be announced. Theatre
Show,
performance,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop Youth, adults
Theatres or
experimental
locations for
performing around
Brīvības street bilesuparadize.lv theatre.lv
21.01.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Production of multimedia
opera 'Rienzi. Triumph
and Defeat'
Composed in Riga in 1837-1839, Richard Wagner’s
opera ‘Rienzi’ is inextricably linked to this city. LNO
plans to world-premiere a multimedia production of this
opera early in 2014, to turn it into one of the European
level events to inaugurate Riga’s year in the status of
European Capital of Culture. Mora than just a staging,
this production will entail re-working of the operatic
material and integrating it according to directorial
vision.
Rienzi. Triumph and
Defeat
The multimedia production of Wagner’s ‘’Rienzi’ in Riga
will be realized by an international of team of creative
artists.
Music, theatre,
multimedia
Performance,
show Adults
Latvian National
Opera opera.lv opera.lv
22.01.2014. Thirst for the Ocean Escaping Riga
This project is an attempt to reflect the events arising
from WWI. A story about a curious friendship and
decisive events of the XX century, which continue to
exert the influence on the times we live in, the film
reveals the influence of war on the lives of two
outstanding men. Escaping Riga
Film ‘Escaping Riga’ tells a fascinating story about the
unique and tragic friendship of Russian filmmaker Sergey
Eisenstein and British philosopher Isaiah Berlin. Dir. Dāvis
Sīmanis, camera – Andrejs Rudzāts and Valdis Celmiņš,
art directors – Ieva Romānova and Kristīne Plūksna-
Zvagule, make-up artist – Sarmīte Balode, editing director
– Andra Lejniece, producer – Līga Gaisa, main cast –
Mikhail Karasikov, Gints Grūbe, Mārtiņš Počs et al. Cinema, history
Presentation,
event Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced facebook.com/escapingriga
07.02.14.–16.03.14. Thirst for the Ocean
Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of an idea) is an
exhibition, visits, public talks, texts and art work
focusing on unearthing and visualization of the different
segments of thinking. It is a program posing the
question ‘What the public of Riga is interested in?’ –
and stirring the thinking about its confusion in the
moments of confronting and discussing contemporary
art.
‘Spinoza’ – exhibition,
diary, and symposium
As part of the project ‘Waiting for…’(Archeology of an
idea), one of the most prominent new era philosophical
texts, Benedict Spinoza’s ‘Ethics’ will be actualized,
visualized and restructured; author of the idea –
philosopher Ainārs Kamoliņš.
Literature,
visual art,
design, history,
science,
education,
multimedia
Exhition,
discussion /
lecture,
conference,
workshop
Children,
youth, adults
The Center of
Contemporary Art
„kim?” and other
cultural venues in
Riga
The ticket office to be
announced kim.lv
13.02.2014. Survival kit RigaDot
Drawing on cultural heritage as well as emerging
innovative elements in science and culture, Project
‘RigaDot’ is envisaged as a complex of events to inform
the audience, in engaging, attractive and practically
useful form, about Riga as creative center of culture
and science. This program will feature events like the
cycle ‘Science cafes,’ thematic exhibitions, concerts in
Nabaklab, thematic shows in radio Naba and Science
Festival. Science cafes
Science will be highlighted in such ‘RigaDot’ project
events as the cycle of discussions ‘Science cafés.’ They
will offer a chance to meet scientists in person and propose
questions they could address. ‘Science cafés’ discussions
are to evolve as free, informal exchanges of views on the
issues of science currently in the public eye.
Music, science,
education
Concert,
discussion /
lecture, event,
TV/radio Youth, adults
University of Latvia,
radio „Naba”,
„Nabaklab” Free rigapunkts.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
14.02.14.–17.02.14. Freedom Street Lysistrata
Musicians and artists from Latvia, Switzerland and
Germany will join forces to make a stage performance
as a creative team, inspired by the great Aristophanes’
classic of antiquity ‘Lysistrata.’ Two chamber operas,
drama and comedy, each 45 minutes long, will be
performed in a single evening, artistically reflecting on
the theme ‘Woman and War.’ It will also be the unifying
and structuring theme of lectures, competition of student
and amateur short films, workshops and other activities
to surround this premiere. Lysistrata
International team of artists will realize the project of
‘Lysistrata’ combining a diptych of chamber operas–
drama (composer J. Nīmanis, libretto by I. Zandere, dir. C.
Cyris (Switzerland)) and comedy (composer K. Evald
(Switzerland), dir. Zane Kreicberga). Main cast: soprano J.
Hirzel (Switzerland), baritone R. Koller (Switzerland), and
soprano K. Gailīte (Latvia).Scenographer – K. Jurjāne,
light design – M. Feldmanis, conductor N. Dreģis – joined
by the theme ‘Woman and War.’ Music, theatre Performance Youth, adults
The Railroad
Museum, Liepāja
Theatre
The ticket office to be
announced
15.02.2014. Riga Carnival Riga Wintering
Year 2013 saw the realization of the pilot project of
Riga Wintering located on Basteja Hill featuring
interactive playing with the most popular traditional and
new symbols of Riga. In 2014, it will be further
developed as a carnival with its basic regular structure,
visual image and symbol of the year – the beaver of
Riga Channel. Inviting the participation of prominent
athletes, artists and society figures, the festivities on the
Basteja Hill will be extended by attractions involving
sports, education and artistic events. Riga Wintering
The main idea of Riga HiberNation is top establish a new
winter tradition combining carnival events with cultural
and sports activities and entertainment for citizens and
guests of Riga regardless of their age. The whole day event
will feature activities to conclude with Einter ball in the
end: Opening of the Carnival with a presentation of Riga
Wintering’s symbol the Beaver of the city channel, a
masque parade, sportive entertainment and competitions,
artisan workshops, music and dancing ‘conducted’ by the
most popular DJs.
Sports,
participation of
the public, street
art
Event,
performance
Children,
youth, adults Basteja Hill Free riga2014.org
15.02.14.–16.03.14. Riga Carnival
Riga Skijoring fest
A complex festivity introducing one of the most
prominent traditions in the motorized culture for winter
conditions, the fest will feature carnival parade, variety
of individual and crew athlete performances and a range
of events to complement it – such as workshops of street
art, object of city environment, film screenings, photo
competition, souvenir art competition, lecture,
discussion, conference, issuing of a stamp, presentation
of translated and children’s literature and varied
undertakings in the neighbourhoods and outside Riga.
Carnival of Riga
Skijoring fest
Carnival rally crossing the centre of Riga and featuring
skill demonstrations on river Daugava ice, as well as crew
show will be part of Riga Skijoring fest to introduce the
locals and guests of Riga to this unique tradition of
motorized winter sports. The date of the event may change. Sports
Presentation,
exhibition,
object in the city
environment,
discussion /
lecture,
conference,
workshop,
event, festival
Children,
youth, adults
The natural
amphitheatre on
Daugava and its
coves and canals, and
the neighbourhood
environment and
cultural venues Free
17.02.14.–23.02.14. Freedom street forte forte
The program of contemporary theatre ‘forte forte’
comprises five productions of the leading European
directors supplied by a parallel program, combining
theoretical, artistic and educational segments, and
developing the themes foregrounded in the performance.
The aim of the series of performances is to determine
the outlook of the European theatre in 2014. They are
united by a range of themes focusing on the relationship
between the individual and power, personality and
sociality, what is and what isn’t perceived as norm,
personality and masses norm, viewed, both, against the
background of historic events and – in everyday context.
Riga will enjoy five weeks of guest performances to
center around Freedom Street, with one week dedicated
to each of the artists.
forte forte. Second week
of performances
The second week in the program of contemporary theatre
‘forte forte’, director it is dedicated to and the program will
be announced. Theatre
Show,
performance,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop Youth, adults
Theatres or
experimental
locations for
performing around
Brīvības street bilesuparadize.lv theatre.lv
26.02.14.–02.03.14. Thirst for the Ocean
Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of an idea) is an
exhibition, visits, public talks, texts and art work
focusing on unearthing and visualization of the different
segments of thinking. It is a program posing the
question ‘What the public of Riga is interested in?’ –
and stirring the thinking about its confusion in the
moments of confronting and discussing contemporary
art.
In preparation for the
residencies of
international arts
curators - thinkers in
Riga, 'Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
Internationally active professionals of art and culture will
participate in the project ‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of
an idea) to reconsider and widen the discourse on artistic
themes actual in Riga. The curators of the visit programs
Anne Barlow, Courtenay Finn, Egija Inzule, Ainārs
Kamoliņš, Margarida Mendes, Zane Onckule, Chris Sharp,
Jānis Taurens, Alise Tīfentāle etc. The date of the event
may be subject to change.
Music, cinema,
literature, visual
art, design,
architecture,
photography,
history, science,
education,
multimedia,
tradition
Performance,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture,
conference,
workshop,
action, event
Children,
youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free kim.lv
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01.03.14.-09.03.14. Riga Carnival Winter Festival
More sports, more arts, more entertainment. This
Winter festival will offer diverse sports, artistic and
cultural activities. The culmination of the festival will
be the attractive event ‘Stars and kings of the ice treks’
combining professional sports competitions with project
of art and music and championship of snow sculptures.
The festival will coincide with III Latvian Winter
Olympics which are to invite teams of all 109 civil
municipalities and republican towns. Winter Festival
The Winter festival will offer themed exhibitions, invite the
public to view skiing and snowboarding competitions,
winter fishing and bathing, automobile show on ice, special
championship in sledging on spades and frying pans,
unique concert of musicians who have been successful in
sports as well as artistically, a conference, a winter party
and Winter Olympics in ten athletic disciplines. The
opening event will be a unique show combining the talents
of amateur artists, sports clubs and ‘Aerodium’ School of
flying, created specially for 2014.
Music, visual
arts, sports,
participation of
the public Festival
Children,
youth, adults
In Sigulda sports and
cultural venues Free www.sigulda.lv
12.03.2014. Amber Vein
Mikhail and Mikhail play
chess
Performance of the unique opera ‘Mikhail and Mikhail
play chess’ will require 8 singers, 8 dancers, 14
musicians, and 2 conductors; the whole ensemble of 32
has not been casually selected as every artist involved
will represent a figure in a concrete championship game
of chess – and, to be more precise, the sixth round of the
duel of masters, which took place in Moscow in 1962
between Mikhail Tal and Mikhail Botvinnik. Chess is a
fascinating game with its own dramaturgy, heights of
psychological tension, and specific terms, which, co-
incidentally, relates it to theatre and music.
Mikhail and Mikhail play
chess
Riga is to see the world premiere of Kristaps Pētersons’
opera ‘Mikhail and Mikhail play chess’, dedicated to
Magus from Riga, world champion in chess Mikhail Tal.
The artists to form the creative team of the production are
conductor Ainārs Rubiķis, choreographer Kiril Burlovs
who resides in London, director Viesturs Meikšāns, set
designer Reinis Suhanovs, and French video artist Carlos
Franklin. Opera will be performed in Russian.
Music, theatre,
multimedia Show Youth, adults New Hall of LNO opera.lv opera.lv
13.03.2014. Survival kit RigaDot
Drawing on cultural heritage as well as emerging
innovative elements in science and culture, Project
‘RigaDot’ is envisaged as a complex of events to inform
the audience, in engaging, attractive and practically
useful form, about Riga as creative center of culture
and science. This program will feature events like the
cycle ‘Science cafes,’ thematic exhibitions, concerts in
Nabaklab, thematic shows in radio Naba and Science
Festival. Science cafes
Science will be highlighted in such ‘RigaDot’ project
events as the cycle of discussions ‘Science cafés.’ They
will offer a chance to meet scientists in person and propose
questions they could address. ‘Science cafés’ discussions
are to evolve as free, informal exchanges of views on the
issues of science currently in the public eye.
Music, science,
education
Concert,
discussion /
lecture, event,
TV/radio Youth, adults
University of Latvia,
radio „Naba”,
„Nabaklab” Free rigapunkts.lv
13.03.14.–25.08.14. Thirst for the Ocean re:visited
This project is aimed at bringing to Riga a selection of
art works, which would allow the viewers to form
impression about the latest tendencies in contemporary
art. This large exhibition will feature prominent and
notable artistic productions, selected in teo latest
European biennales of modern art. re:visited
‘Re:visited’ will offer the viewer works of 15-20 foreign
artists who have earned recognition in some of the most
recent European artistic forums. Visual art Exhibition Youth, adults
Latvian Railway
Museum
Latvian Railway
Museum lcca.lv
13.03.2014. Amber Vein
Mikhail and Mikhail play
chess
Performance of the unique opera ‘Mikhail and Mikhail
play chess’ will require 8 singers, 8 dancers, 14
musicians, and 2 conductors; the whole ensemble of 32
has not been casually selected as every artist involved
will represent a figure in a concrete championship game
of chess – and, to be more precise, the sixth round of the
duel of masters, which took place in Moscow in 1962
between Mikhail Tal and Mikhail Botvinnik. Chess is a
fascinating game with its own dramaturgy, heights of
psychological tension, and specific terms, which, co-
incidentally, relates it to theatre and music.
Mikhail and Mikhail play
chess
Riga is to see the world premiere of Kristaps Pētersons’
opera ‘Mikhail and Mikhail play chess’, dedicated to
Magus from Riga, world champion in chess Mikhail Tal.
The artists to form the creative team of the production are
conductor Ainārs Rubiķis, choreographer Kiril Burlovs
who resides in London, director Viesturs Meikšāns, set
designer Reinis Suhanovs, and French video artist Carlos
Franklin. Opera will be performed in Russian.
Music, theatre,
multimedia Show Youth, adults
New Hall of Latvian
National Opera opera.lv opera.lv
15.03.14.–16.03.14. Amber Vein Amber Songs
In ‘Amber Songs’ project, the quire ‘Kamēr…’
(geographically oriented by the original range of historic
Amber Route states) plans to commission Latvian folk
song settings to international group of composers
attempting to test the strength of the national immaterial
heritage set against the influence of other ethnics and
mentalities, posing such questions as how is this
possible influence manifested and does this reflect in
music in any way? Amber Songs
Latvian folk songs, arranged by international selection of
composers, will build the ‘Amber Songs’ concert program.
The idea of this project of to popularize novel quire
repertoire oriented around Latvian identity, which would
‘translate’ to international audiences. Its main participants
are youth quire ‘Kamēr…’, conductor Jānis Liepiņš and 20
composers and arrangers from all around the world who
worked with Latvian folk songs in terms of this project. Music Concert Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced facebook.com/youthchoirkamer
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
21.03.2014. Amber Vein
Mikhail and Mikhail play
chess
Performance of the unique opera ‘Mikhail and Mikhail
play chess’ will require 8 singers, 8 dancers, 14
musicians, and 2 conductors; the whole ensemble of 32
has not been casually selected as every artist involved
will represent a figure in a concrete championship game
of chess – and, to be more precise, the sixth round of the
duel of masters, which took place in Moscow in 1962
between Mikhail Tal and Mikhail Botvinnik. Chess is a
fascinating game with its own dramaturgy, heights of
psychological tension, and specific terms, which, co-
incidentally, relates it to theatre and music.
Mikhail and Mikhail play
chess
Riga is to see the world premiere of Kristaps Pētersons’
opera ‘Mikhail and Mikhail play chess’, dedicated to
Magus from Riga, world champion in chess Mikhail Tal.
The artists to form the creative team of the production are
conductor Ainārs Rubiķis, choreographer Kiril Burlovs
who resides in London, director Viesturs Meikšāns, set
designer Reinis Suhanovs, and French video artist Carlos
Franklin. Opera will be performed in Russian.
Music, theatre,
multimedia Show Youth, adults New Hall of LNO opera.lv opera.lv
21.03.14.–22.03.14. Survival Kit IMAGINE 2020
Project ‘IMAGINE 2020’ comprises two inter-
disciplinary events dedicated to the survival strategies of
humanity and individual in the shifting reality influenced
by climatic change. Artistically scientific symposium ‘I,
the consumer’ combines theoretical discussion and
performative reflection on the situation of having
arrived at a produce-filled world and search for the
answers to the question – What can be done with this
materiality? ‘Blackmarket of Useful Knowledge and
Non-knowledge’ offers exchange of views with one of
100 knowledge dealers on the ways of surviving the
technology. I, the consumer
The artistically scientific symposium ‘I, the consumer’,
engendered in collaboration with the British art and
climate organization TippingPoint, will study the modern
human’s obsession with shopping and material gains by
installations, lectures, discussions, performances, a film
program and interactive actions. Philosophers and
economists, researchers of environment and
anthropologists, artists and activists will address and
engage the audience in search of ideas and solutions for
sustainable consumption in the future.
Theatre,
science,
multimedia
Performance,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture, action,
event Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free theatre.lv
24.03.14.–30.03.14. Freedom Street forte forte
The program of contemporary theatre ‘forte forte’
comprises five productions of the leading European
directors supplied by a parallel program, combining
theoretical, artistic and educational segments, and
developing the themes foregrounded in the performance.
The aim of the series of performances is to determine
the outlook of the European theatre in 2014. They are
united by a range of themes focusing on the relationship
between the individual and power, personality and
sociality, what is and what isn’t perceived as norm,
personality and masses norm, viewed, both, against the
background of historic events and – in everyday context.
Riga will enjoy five weeks of guest performances to
center around Freedom Street, with one week dedicated
to each of the artists.
forte forte. Third week of
performances
The third week in the program of contemporary theatre
‘forte forte,’ director it is dedicated to and the program will
be announced. Theatre
Show,
performance,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop Youth, adults
Theatres or
experimental
locations for
performing around
Brīvības street bilesuparadize.lv theatre.lv
27.03.14.–30.11.14. Freedom Street Monument Wars
The basis of ‘Monument Wars’ project is historic
context, thus, aiming to accentuate relationship of
power and culture. Riga has been on the crossroads in
every century. Every power has affirmed and
perpetuated itself by monuments it left to testify about
its reign. The crossroads of Brīvības and Elizabetes
streets, occupied by the monument of Lenin until the
second independence will turn into platform for work of
four sculptors from Russia, Germany, Sweden and
Poland since these are the states, which Riga’s and
Latvia’s history has become inextricably linked with. A
singular podium will contain four sculptors created by
these artists, which will rise from this sheath in turn,
competing amongst themselves for primacy. Monument Wars
Project ‘Monument Wars’ will invite creation of an object
to form basis of the exposition of four monuments, created
by artists from Russia, Germany, Sweden and Poland.
They will be presented to the public along with materials
reflecting historic expansion of these states in Latvia. The
viewers will be invited to photograph in front of this object,
thus, elevating themselves to the state of one more,
unlimitedly subjective object of this exposition.
Visual art, street
art
Object in the
city environment
Children,
youth, adults
Crossroad of
Brīvības and
Elizabetes streets in
front of Cabinet of
Ministers Free mmic.lv
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31.03.14 Thirst for the Ocean
Windstream 2014 in the
Sign of Bach
Program ‘Windstream 2014 in the sign of Bach’
features a range of concerts and an international
competition of composers ‘Windstream 2014’ organized
by the professional brass orchestra Rīga as part of its
annual spring Windstream festival. The concert
dedicated to Bach’s jubilee will be followed by concerts
of participants and jury of the competition ‘Windstream
2014’ announced in 2013 where new compositions for
brass orchestra inspired by the theme ‘Feel Bach,
continue Bach, debate Bach!’ will be performed. April
2014 will see the competition jury and six selected
authors of the best compositions to arrive to Riga to
participate in the concert of jury as well as in the finals
of the competition and the concert of laureates. 329th jubilee of Bach
Bach’s jubilee will be celebrated in a concert planned as
part of the project ‘Windstream 2014 in the sign of Bach.’
Professional brass orchestra Rīga conducted by Mārtiņš
Ozoliņš will perform arrangements of Bach for wind
instruments commissioned to Latvian composers. Bach
dance suites and instrumental music will come to the
forefront in this concert where musicians will aim at
creating modern sound of brass orchestra and the rhythmic
design to align it with the XXI century. Music, history
Concert,
workshop Youth, adults The Big Guildhall bilesuparadize.lv music.lv/riga
02.04.14 Amber Vein World in a Picture Book
International conference ‘World in a Picture Book’ will
take place on April 2, 2014 – the International Days of
Books for Children. Its participants – writers, artists,
translators, historians of art and literature, publishers
and professionals – librarians, pedagogues, and
journalists – involved in connecting children and books.
A parallel program of activities will be organized, led by
local and foreign artists.
Conference 'World in a
Picture Book'
Conference ‘World in a Picture Book’ will address the
special role of illustrated books in development of
children’s personality and world view, the novelties in the
picture book genre etc. As special guests, this conference
will host laureate of Astrid Lindgren’s Memorial Award,
Belgian artist Kitty Crowther and laureate of H. C.
Andersen’s Award, German artist Jutta Bauer who will
also give workshops for widely ranging related audience.
Literature,
visual art,
design,
education
Exhibition,
conference,
workshop Youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia Free lnb.lv
02.04.14 – 02.05.14 Amber Vein World in a Picture Book
International conference ‘World in a Picture Book’ will
take place on April 2, 2014 – the International Days of
Books for Children. Its participants – writers, artists,
translators, historians of art and literature, publishers
and professionals – librarians, pedagogues, and
journalists – involved in connecting children and books.
A parallel program of activities will be organized, led by
local and foreign artists.
Exhibtion 'Image in the
Story'
International conference ‘World in a Picture Book’ will
include exhibition ‘Image in the Story,’ bringing the 1st
Picture Book Quadrennial of the Baltic States to Riga,
which presented illustrations along with authorial concepts
for new books. The Grand Prix of the forum is commission
of the book, translation and distribution of the book to the
libraries of the countries in the region.
Literature,
visual art,
design,
education
Exhibtion,
conference,
workshop Youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia Free lnb.lv
03.04.14.–05.04.14. Amber Vein Riga Jazz Stage
‘Riga Jazz Stage 2014’ is international competition of
jazz musicians founded in 2004. The idea of the project
is to offer possibilities to test their talents in a contest to
young artists. The award fund of the year 2014th
competition will be 6000 euro and its laureates will be
invited to perform in prestigious jazz festivals ‘Pori
Jazz,’ ‘Rīgas Ritmi’ and others. Riga Jazz Stage
International competition of jazz musicians ‘Riga Jazz
Stage 2014’ will bring to Riga young artists from 15
countries. In ‘Riga Jazz Stage 2014,’ they will compete in
two categories – ‘Jazz Vocal’ and ‘Jazz Saxophone.’
Music,
education
Concert,
workshop,
festival, event
Children,
youth, adults
Film theatre
‘Splendid Palace' bilesuserviss.lv rigajazz.lv
04.04.2014. Thirst for the Ocean Bach Passion Riga
Project ‘Bach Passion Riga’ will present the most
significant Passions of the genre of sacred music. Johan
Sebastian Bach’s compositions are unparalleled in
courage, depth and the strength of philosophic
conception. The great influence and energy of Bach, the
power of his music has stirred minds and urged the birth
of ideas, his music in the places of reverence in Riga
will bring the audiences closer to the essence of living.
Participation of the most prominent European interprets
of Baroque music in the project will highlight the
placement of Riga as European Capital of Culture in the
historic cultural space of the continent. The three largest
churches of Riga will host the series of ‘Bach Passion
Riga’ concerts on three Fridays preceding the Easter.
Passions of Mark and
Luke
The program of ‘Bach Passion Riga’ offers Bach’s lesser
known Passion of Mark as well as a novel work dedicated
to this event – Passion of Luke by Ēriks Ešenvalds, which
is to be world-premiered at this time. The audience will
enjoy these compositions in exquisite interpretations –
conductor Sigvards Kļava and Latvian Radio Choir will
collaborate with Sinfonietta Riga and the best European
Baroque singers. Music Concert Youth, adults Riga Dome
The ticket office to be
announced radiokoris.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
05.04.2014. Survival kit IMAGINE 2020
Project ‘IMAGINE 2020’ comprises two inter-
disciplinary events dedicated to the survival strategies of
humanity and individual in the shifting reality influenced
by climatic change. Artistically scientific symposium ‘I,
the consumer’ combines theoretical discussion and
performative reflection on the situation of having
arrived at a produce-filled world and search for the
answers to the question – What can be done with this
materiality? ‘Blackmarket of Useful Knowledge and
Non-knowledge’ offers exchange of views with one of
100 knowledge dealers on the ways of surviving the
technology.
Blackmarket of Useful
Knowledge and Non-
knowledge
With the support of the culture programme of the European
Union in the framework of the project "IMAGINE 2020:
Art and Climate Change" "The Blackmarket for Useful
Knowledge and Non-Knowledge" is a temporary
production and showroom in which narrative formats of
knowledge mediation are tried out and presented. 30
individual tables are occupied by experts (natural
scientists, artists, philosophers, anthropologists, physicians
etc.) who are being invited to offer a portion of their
knowledge that can be told and learned in 30 minutes. In
Riga '60 talks on Repaired, Enhanced and Dead Body' will
be provided. The audience will be able to book an expert
and his or her offer of knowledge for a half-hour, or to
listen to selected talks via 'Black Radio'. Theatre, science
Performance,
event Youth, adults
"Sapņu fabrika"
(Lāčplēša 101)
New Theatre Institute
of Latvia theatre.lv
10.04.2014. Survival Kit RigaDot
Drawing on cultural heritage as well as emerging
innovative elements in science and culture, Project
‘RigaDot’ is envisaged as a complex of events to inform
the audience, in engaging, attractive and practically
useful form, about Riga as creative center of culture
and science. This program will feature events like the
cycle ‘Science cafes,’ thematic exhibitions, concerts in
Nabaklab, thematic shows in radio Naba and Science
Festival. Science cafes
Science will be highlighted in such ‘RigaDot’ project
events as the cycle of discussions ‘Science cafés.’ They
will offer a chance to meet scientists in person and propose
questions they could address. ‘Science cafés’ discussions
are to evolve as free, informal exchanges of views on the
issues of science currently in the public eye.
Music, science,
education
Concert,
discussion /
lecture, event,
TV/radio Youth, adults
University of Latvia,
radio „Naba”,
„Nabaklab” Free rigapunkts.lv
11.04.2014. Thirst for the Ocean Bach Passion Riga
Project ‘Bach Passion Riga’ will present the most
significant Passions of the genre of sacred music. Johan
Sebastian Bach’s compositions are unparalleled in
courage, depth and the strength of philosophic
conception. The great influence and energy of Bach, the
power of his music has stirred minds and urged the birth
of ideas, his music in the places of reverence in Riga
will bring the audiences closer to the essence of living.
Participation of the most prominent European interprets
of Baroque music in the project will highlight the
placement of Riga as European Capital of Culture in the
historic cultural space of the continent. The three largest
churches of Riga will host the series of ‘Bach Passion
Riga’ concerts on three Fridays preceding the Easter.
J. S. Bach The Passion
of Matthew
The magnificence of Passion of Matthew by J. S. Bach will
be revealed in one of the project ‘Bach Passion Riga’
concerts by an outstanding group of musicians: the Latvian
Radio Choir will collaborate with foremost interprets of
Baroque music in Europe – ‘Les Passions de l'Ame’
orchestra (Switzerland), conductor and director of the
International Bach Academy (Stuttgart, Germany) Hans-
Christoph Rademan and many prominent guest soloists. Music Concert Youth, adults Church of St. Peter
The ticket office to be
announced radiokoris.lv
11.04.14.–22.06.14. Thirst for the Ocean Vija Celmiņa. Works
Exhibition of Latvia born American artist Vija Celmiņa
has been long-awaited in Riga. Presenting American art
from 1960s to present day, Vija Celmiņa’s work can be
found in the world’s most influential collections of
contemporary art – MoMa and Metropolitan Museum in
New York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the National
Tate Gallery in London etc. Sea, desert, stars, and
cobweb are constantly recurring objects in Vija
Celmiņa’s work.
Exhibition of Vija
Celmiņa's work
Exhibition by Vija Celmiņa curated by Elita Ansone will
be open for almost two months. Several paintings, graphic
art and drawings will be included. This will be a unique
possibility to get to know those works from 1960s
including popart, photo realism and conceptualism artistic
expressions. Visual art Exhibition Adults
Art Museum „Rīgas
Birža”
Art Museum „Rīgas
Birža” www.lnmm.lv
13.04.2014. Thirst for the Ocean Vija Celmiņa. Works
Exhibition of Latvia born American artist Vija Celmiņa
has been long-awaited in Riga. Presenting American art
from 1960s to present day, Vija Celmiņa’s work can be
found in the world’s most influential collections of
contemporary art – MoMa and Metropolitan Museum in
New York, the Pompidou Centre in Paris, the National
Tate Gallery in London etc. Sea, desert, stars, and
cobweb are constantly recurring objects in Vija
Celmiņa’s work.
Sunday conversations in
museum
Art Museum Riga Bourse will invite the public to meet
artist Vija Celmiņa for a conversation in the series ‘Sunday
conversations in the museum’, moderated by the curator of
exhibition of this well-known artist’s work in Riga Elita
Jansone. Visual art
Discussion /
lecture Youth, adults
Art Museum Riga
Bourse Free www.lnmm.lv
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15.04.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Academic readings
'Content of XXI Century'
Academic readings 'Content of XXI Century' and
exhibition ‘500 years of the Book 1514-2014’ will
address the change in the habits of reading – from
poring over manuscripts in 1514 to present day boom of
the printed book – year 2014 and its forms of co-
existence of printed and digital literature. Content of XXI Century
Excellent world-known thinkers will take part at the
academic readings „21. gadsimta saturs” („The 21st
century content”) who will develop the understanding about
the diverse European culture improvement. The project will
be available to everyone around the world via virtual
exhibitions and regular on-line open lectures. The
exhibition is curated by The National Library of Latvia in
cooperation with greatest national libraries in Europe and
Latvian as well as EU embassies.
Literature,
multimedia
Discussion /
lecture
Children,
youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia Free lnb.lv
15.04.14.–01.11.14. Amber Vein
Amber mythical and
scientific
Project ‘Amber mythical and scientific’ will observe
Baltic amber within the network of European cultural
relationships through the ages foregrounding the many
facets of its uses. The main event of this project is
exhibition, which will include numerous accompanying
activities, quizzes for school youth, a scientific
conference etc.
Amber mythical and
scientific
Exhibition ‘Amber mythical and scientific’ and the cluster
of its accompanying events will view the relationship of
men and amber through and from the times, when Baltics
was a mythical territory in this respect for the
Mediterranean nations. What have Avicenna, Tacitus, and
Pliny written about amber and how it was used by Baltic
tribes? Amber today and contribution of Latvian scientists
to its research and elaboration of new products; exhibits
from museums in Latvia and – around the world; the prism
of amber will be the mode of demonstrating our emergence
in the processes of European cultural and economic
exchange.
History, science,
education
Exhibition,
conference
Children,
youth, adults
Riga Pauls Stradiņš
Museum of the
History of Medicine mvm.lv mvm.lv
17.04.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Windstream 2014 in the
sign of Bach
Program ‘Windstream 2014 in the sign of Bach’
features a range of concerts and an international
competition of composers ‘Windstream 2014’ organized
by the professional brass orchestra Rīga as part of its
annual spring Windstream festival. The concert
dedicated to Bach’s jubilee will be followed by concerts
of participants and jury of the competition ‘Windstream
2014’ announced in 2013 where new compositions for
brass orchestra inspired by the theme ‘Feel Bach,
continue Bach, debate Bach!’ will be performed. April
2014 will see the competition jury and six selected
authors of the best compositions to arrive to Riga to
participate in the concert of jury as well as in the finals
of the competition and the concert of laureates.
Concert of the
'Windstream 2014'
competition jury
Project ‘Windstream 2014 in the sign of Bach’ will offer
concert of the members of jury of this international
competitions of composers. Five internationally re-known
musicians are invited to work in this jury and to give this
concert together with the professional brass orchestra Rīga.
The jury of the competition will present themselves as
composers as well as – interprets and conductors. Music Concert Youth, adults The Big Guildhall bilesuparadize.lv windstream.lv
18.04.2014. Thirst for the Ocean Bach Passion Riga
Project ‘Bach Passion Riga’ will present the most
significant Passions of the genre of sacred music. Johan
Sebastian Bach’s compositions are unparalleled in
courage, depth and the strength of philosophic
conception. The great influence and energy of Bach, the
power of his music has stirred minds and urged the birth
of ideas, his music in the places of reverence in Riga
will bring the audiences closer to the essence of living.
Participation of the most prominent European interprets
of Baroque music in the project will highlight the
placement of Riga as European Capital of Culture in the
historic cultural space of the continent. The three largest
churches of Riga will host the series of ‘Bach Passion
Riga’ concerts on three Fridays preceding the Easter.
J. S. Bach Passion of
John
The concert series ‘Bach Passion Riga’ will offer one of
Bach’s most outstanding and dramatic opuses – Passion of
John to be presented to the public and guests of Riga on
Good Friday by the best European interprets of Baroque
music – the orchestra ‘Concerto Copenhagen,’ Danish
conductor Lars Ulrik Mortensen and prominent guest
soloists to collaborate with Latvian Radio Choir. Music Concert Youth, adults Church of St. John
The ticket office to be
announced radiokoris.lv
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19.04.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Windstream 2014 in the
sign of Bach
Program ‘Windstream 2014 in the sign of Bach’
features a range of concerts and an international
competition of composers ‘Windstream 2014’ organized
by the professional brass orchestra Rīga as part of its
annual spring Windstream festival. The concert
dedicated to Bach’s jubilee will be followed by concerts
of participants and jury of the competition ‘Windstream
2014’ announced in 2013 where new compositions for
brass orchestra inspired by the theme ‘Feel Bach,
continue Bach, debate Bach!’ will be performed. April
2014 will see the competition jury and six selected
authors of the best compositions to arrive to Riga to
participate in the concert of jury as well as in the finals
of the competition and the concert of laureates.
Final of 'Windstream
2014' competition
Project ‘Windstream 2014 in the sign of Bach’ will
conclude in gala concert of international competition of
composers with the program of best compositions
presented in the contest. The concert of the brass orchestra
Rīga, conducted by Mārtiņš Ozoliņš, will be the third
round of the competition assessed by the jury. Music Concert Youth, adults The Big Guildhall Free windstream.lv
20.04.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Windstream 2014 in the
sign of Bach
Program ‘Windstream 2014 in the sign of Bach’
features a range of concerts and an international
competition of composers ‘Windstream 2014’ organized
by the professional brass orchestra Rīga as part of its
annual spring Windstream festival. The concert
dedicated to Bach’s jubilee will be followed by concerts
of participants and jury of the competition ‘Windstream
2014’ announced in 2013 where new compositions for
brass orchestra inspired by the theme ‘Feel Bach,
continue Bach, debate Bach!’ will be performed. April
2014 will see the competition jury and six selected
authors of the best compositions to arrive to Riga to
participate in the concert of jury as well as in the finals
of the competition and the concert of laureates.
Awarding and concert of
laureates of 'Windstream
2014'
Award ceremony and concert of the laureates of
international competition of composers ‘Windstream 2014’
will conclude the project ‘Windstream 2014 in the sign of
Bach.’ With this event, musicians of the professional brass
orchestra, conducted by Mārtiņš Ozoliņš, will finish off a
year and half long period of ‘Windstream 2014’ activities. Music Concert Youth, adults The Big Guildhall Free windstream.lv
20.04.14.–30.04.14. Amber Vein
International competition
of young fashion
designers 'Habitus Baltia'
International competition for new fashion artists
"Habitus Baltija" is organized since 2001 when
worldwide fashion artists gather together in one place.
Approximately 40 new and upcoming artists from The
Baltics, Poland, Russia, Belarus, Croatia and other
countries will participate this year. The competition
includes fashion shows, a conference, seminars and
lectures about fashion. Also the competition of sketch
work "Dzintara avangards" ("The Amber Avant-
Garde") will be organized at "Habitus Baltija". This
competition is included in "Rīga 2014" programme. The Amber Avant-Garde
The competition of sketch work "Dzintara avangards"
("The Amber Avant-Garde") will be organized at "Habitus
Baltija". This competition is included in "Rīga 2014"
programme where new fashion artists will produce sketches
related to various amber themes. The best author will
receive funding for a real costume producing that is later to
be presented at the fashion show.
Design,
education Event Youth, adults
International expo in
Ķīpsala
The ticket office to be
announced www.bt1.lv/habitus
21.04.14.–27.04.14. Survival Kit En-rooters
The aim of the project ‘En-rooters’ is to create platform
of inter-generational communication by the use of
instruments of design and gardening. The project is
three-fold: 1. Involving senior citizens and children in
gardening. 2. Stimulation of inhabitants of Riga
neighbourhoods to cooperate by Big Get-together
initiatives. 3. Activities in the centre of Riga, on
Esplanade, involving participants of the first two stages.
The ‘Green Space’ will be created there for exhibitions,
concerts, lectures and thematic discussions.
En-rooters in the
neighbourhoods
Workshop ‘En-rooters in the neighbourhoods’ will be
organized within the project ‘En-rooters’ where senior
citizens and children will engage in gardening activities.
The greenery to be grown in this process will find place in
the neighbourhoods in Riga actualizing involvement of
public in improvement of living environment. The dates of
these events may change depending on weather conditions.
Design,
education,
participation of
the public Workshop
Children,
adults
The venue to be
announced Free
22.04.14.–31.12.14. Freedom Street Cinematic Trophies
Project 'Cinematic trophies’ is a two-part process to
include an exhibition about the film theatre repertoire
short after the WWII and film screenings to represent
the ‘Splendid Palace’ program of years 1940 and 1950.
The ‘Film trophies’ takes a look back on demonstration
of film and culture of viewing in the Soviet period when,
in the form of film copies, the USSR took over the
cinematographic heritage of Germany. Entertaining
films captured minds and imaginations of the viewers,
added the missing light accents to the repertoire and
annoyed Soviet ideologists with their popularity.
Exhibition 'Cinematic
trophies’
As part of the project 'Cinematic trophies,’ exhibition
about film repertoire soon after WWII will be assembled
and remain displayed until the end of the year. Its will
thematically divide into a film program reflecting repertoire
policy in the aftermath of the war – film fragments,
publications of film repertoire, printed material etc, while
its second part will be dedicated to architecture of cinemas
in the period, small models of which, offer to the viewer in
the exposition, will give spatial impression of these cultural
venues. Cinema
Exhibition,
performance,
event
Children,
youth, adults
Riga Film Museum
and film theatre
‘Splendid Palace’
The ticket office to be
announced kinomuzejs.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
23.04.14.–27.04.14. Thirst for the Ocean
Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of an idea) is an
exhibition, visits, public talks, texts and art work
focusing on unearthing and visualization of the different
segments of thinking. It is a program posing the
question ‘What the public of Riga is interested in?’ –
and stirring the thinking about its confusion in the
moments of confronting and discussing contemporary
art.
In preparation for the
residencies of
international arts
curators - thinkers in
Riga, 'Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
Internationally active professionals of art and culture will
participate in the project ‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of
an idea) to reconsider and widen the discourse on artistic
themes actual in Riga. The curators of the visit programs
Anne Barlow, Courtenay Finn, Egija Inzule, Ainārs
Kamoliņš, Margarida Mendes, Zane Onckule, Chris Sharp,
Jānis Taurens, Alise Tīfentāle etc. The date of the event
may be subject to change.
Music, cinema,
literature, visual
art, design,
architecture,
photography,
history, science,
education,
multimedia,
tradition
Performance,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture,
conference,
workshop,
action, event
Children,
youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free kim.lv
24.04.14.–30.04.14. Freedom Street Cinematic Trophies
Project 'Cinematic trophies’ is a two-part process to
include an exhibition about the film theatre repertoire
short after the WWII and film screenings to represent
the ‘Splendid Palace’ program of years 1940 and 1950.
The ‘Film trophies’ takes a look back on demonstration
of film and culture of viewing in the Soviet period when,
in the form of film copies, the USSR took over the
cinematographic heritage of Germany. Entertaining
films captured minds and imaginations of the viewers,
added the missing light accents to the repertoire and
annoyed Soviet ideologists with their popularity.
Film program 'Cinematic
trophies’
Film programme will be screened within the „Cinematic
Trophies” programme inlucing the 1940s-1950s repertoire
from „Splendid Palace”. It will be a unique „time
meachine” that helps to get back in past, the last days of
Stalin. To make these times even more realistic, screening
location will be decorated with several Soviet-ish atributes
such as pictures, the red corner, etc. Cinema
Exhibition,
performance,
event
Children,
youth, adults
Riga Film Museum
and film theatre
‘Splendid Palace’
The ticket office to be
announced kinomuzejs.lv
26.04.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Three meetings. Versions
of Latvian composers’
works offered by world
choreographers
Three one act ballets set on music of composers Pēteris
Vasks, Rihards Dubra and Georgs Pelēcis will see their
world premieres in LNO. The music of Latvian
composers has truly inspired three of the most
outstanding guest choreographers - Demis Volpi, Mário
Radačovský and Tim Rushton.
Three meetings. Versions
of Latvian composers’
works offered by world
choreographers
Three new one act ballets will be offered to the viewers as
part of the program ‘Three meetings. Versions of Latvian
composers’ works offered by world choreographers’
created by a trio of guest choreographers – Argentinean
artist Demis Volpi who has studied in Stuttgart, but works,
both, in Europe and America; the superintendant of Ballet
Bratislava Mário Radačovský and the director of Dance
Theatre of Denmark Tim Rushton. The LNO orchestra and
ballet artists participate in these new productions. Music, dance Show Youth, adults
Latvian National
Opera opera.lv opera.lv
26.04.2014. Survival Kit
Big Get-Togethers to
Lend a Hand, The
Courtyard Movement
‘The Courtyard Movement’ is program of public
participation to clean and improve the courtyards. The
project aims at stimulating the engagement of the
inhabitants in development of their living environment,
helping them in fulfillment of their ideas by joined
activity. The organizers hope that it will inspire other
such initiatives as no one knows better the exigencies of
courtyards than people from the houses around them.
The situation in these environments will be surveyed
first (the courtyards are entered into competition by the
citizens), to be followed by creating the development
visions of these territories, which will be collectively
brought into existence in the Big Get-together.
Courtyard improvement
in the Big Get-together
Three courtyards will be re-designed and improved –
cleaned, greened, furnished etc. – in the Big Get-together.
The prerequisite of these transformations is public
initiative and active participation. In a single day, the
courtyards will be changed beyond recognition; adults and
kids will join hands to bring the improvements they need to
life, assisted by consultants – student author groups,
landscape architecture professionals etc. The courtyards
undergo preparation for the make-over, but it will be
finalized in a public-engaging event.
Design,
education,
participation of
the public Event
Children,
youth, adults
Three of Riga's
courtyards Free talkas.lv
27.04.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Three meetings. Versions
of Latvian composers’
works offered by world
choreographers
Three one act ballets set on music of composers Pēteris
Vasks, Rihards Dubra and Georgs Pelēcis will see their
world premieres in LNO. The music of Latvian
composers has truly inspired three of the most
outstanding guest choreographers - Demis Volpi, Mário
Radačovský and Tim Rushton.
Three meetings. Versions
of Latvian composers’
works offered by world
choreographers
Three new one act ballets will be offered to the viewers as
part of the program ‘Three meetings. Versions of Latvian
composers’ works offered by world choreographers’
created by a trio of guest choreographers – Argentinean
artist Demis Volpi who has studied in Stuttgart, but works,
both, in Europe and America; the superintendant of Ballet
Bratislava Mário Radačovský and the director of Dance
Theatre of Denmark Tim Rushton. The LNO orchestra and
ballet artists participate in these new productions. Music, dance Show Youth, adults
Latvian National
Opera opera.lv opera.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
28.04.14.–04.05.14. Survival Kit En-rooters
The aim of the project ‘En-rooters’ is to create platform
of inter-generational communication by the use of
instruments of design and gardening. The project is
three-fold: 1. Involving senior citizens and children in
gardening. 2. Stimulation of inhabitants of Riga
neighbourhoods to cooperate by Big Get-together
initiatives. 3. Activities in the centre of Riga, on
Esplanade, involving participants of the first two stages.
The ‘Green Space’ will be created there for exhibitions,
concerts, lectures and thematic discussions.
En-rooters in the
neighbourhoods
Workshop ‘En-rooters in the neighbourhoods’ will be
organized within the project ‘En-rooters’ where senior
citizens and children will engage in gardening activities.
The greenery to be grown in this process will find place in
the neighbourhoods in Riga actualizing involvement of
public in improvement of living environment. The dates of
these events may change depending on weather conditions.
Design,
education,
participation of
the public Workshop
Children,
adults
The venue to be
announced Free
28.04.2014. Freedom Street
Show-windows towards
Brīvības Street
"Skatlogi uz Brīvības ielu" ("Show-windows towards
Brīvības Street") project expositions will be available to
everyone in order to evolve thoughts about the historical
changes and everything that goes along with it. Every
historical period will be offered for one artist who might
be able to make his/her own interpretation about the
established period. Cooperation with Museum of the
History of Riga and Navigation will be set within the
project. Museum exhibits will be available in order to
create as authentic show-window design as possible.
Show-windows towards
Brīvības Street
The main aim of "Skatlogi uz Brīvības ielu" ("Show-
windows towards Brīvības Street") exposition is to show
history of Brīvības Street in five separate time periods
depending on the historical name for this street. 8 to 12
authentic show-windows for the historical period related to
1914 until 2014 will be set on the Brīvības/Elizabetes
Street corner until Brīvības/Stabu Street corner. Thos show-
windows will become historical mirrors showing sights
from the old times and representing that-time fashion,
culture and political trends, etc. depending on the artist's
idea. Artist Anna Heinrihsone will join in order to fulfill the
creative concept for the show-window designs. The event
dates may be changed.
Design, history,
visual arts,
architecture,
photography,
multimedia
Exhibtion,
object in the city
envirnoment
Children,
youth, adults
The section of
Brīvības street from
Elizabetes to Stabu
street Free riga2014.org
29.04.2014. Survival Kit
Dance day in your
nosebag
International Day of Dance, celebrated on April 29, will
culminate in Riga in a wide and varied program of
dance classes opened to public – people will dance in
their offices, in hospitals, at hair-dressers and in the
shops. April 2014 will take professional dancers and
choreographers to a mission of meeting representatives
of other walks of life (hospital staff, ‘flower girls’ of
Sakta flower market, radio DJs etc.) where they will
design classes according to the needs of their specific
audiences, drawing on everyday movements of these
different people.
Dance day in your
nosebag
The project ‘Dance day in your nosebag’ will make
choreographers of contemporary dance to survey the
everyday movements of representatives of different
professions in their natural environment, observing,
registering, dancing and exercising together. Habitual
gestures and movements will turn into material of
choreographic phrases, which the viewers will be able to
watch as a mini performance. April 29 will see eruption of
such performances all around Riga, in attempt to dedicate
the whole day to non-stop dancing. These events will be co-
ordinated and a map of proceedings – prepared in order to
turn this action into a publicly enjoyable process. Dance
Performance,
event Youth, adults
Several venues in
Riga Free theatre.lv
30.04.14.–31.10.14. Freedom Street Corner House
The building on the corner of Brīvības and Stabu streets
already several years lays abandoned. In the spring of
2014, the atmosphere reigning in the walls of this
Corner House – as it has been popularly called – will be
vented by exhibitions and variety of cultural and
storytelling events. Representatives of different regimes
have resided in its cabinets leaving traces of their times.
He project Corner House will include six thematic
expositions, created by the Museum of Occupation,
society ‘Art Space,’ Latvian Museum of Exile, Latvian
Museum of Naïve Art, Riga Museum of History and
Navigation and Kinolats Ltd. The exposition will extend
to the ground floor, basement, and the 5th
and 6th
storeys
as well as the courtyard of the building. In spite of everything
Every European country is proud of its heritage of naïve
art, assembling and popularizing its collections. Naïve art
in Latvia has flourished in the period spanning the decades
from 1950s to 1990s when this development was indirectly
spurred by WWII and the occupation of Latvia, which
followed. The exhibition will reflect the impact on our
history of art of creative personalities whose lives relate to
or involved the consequences of occupation, deportation
and simple artistic impulse to resist an inhuman regime.
Exhibition is curated by: Māra Ādiņa, Arno Jundze,
Valters Māziņš, Guna Millersone, Astrīda Rogule, Alise
Tīfentāle, Dzintars Zilgalvis, Valdis Poikāns, Aivars Leitis,
Kate Zilgalve and Laima Āze.
Visual art,
history Exhibition Youth, adults
Corner House on
Brīvības street
The ticket office to be
announced noass.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
30.04.14.– 30.09.14. Freedom Street Corner House
The building on the corner of Brīvības and Stabu streets
already several years lays abandoned. In the spring of
2014, the atmosphere reigning in the walls of this
Corner House – as it has been popularly called – will be
vented by exhibitions and variety of cultural and
storytelling events. Representatives of different regimes
have resided in its cabinets leaving traces of their times.
He project Corner House will include six thematic
expositions, created by the Museum of Occupation,
society ‘Art Space,’ Latvian Museum of Exile, Latvian
Museum of Naïve Art, Riga Museum of History and
Navigation and Kinolats Ltd. The exposition will extend
to the ground floor, basement, and the 5th
and 6th
storeys
as well as the courtyard of the building.
Story of man and of
power in ten objects
Riga Museum of History and Navigation has planned an
exhibition, which will allow objects to be storytellers, thus,
demonstrating the range and diversity of information
material things can offer. The main ‘speakers’ will be ten
museum exhibits, complemented and aided by other
material. Therefore, from a single, concrete point of
departure, not only personal stories will surface, but the
tales of whole families, communities, towns and state
surviving the turns of power and history in the XX century. History Exhibition Youth, adults
Corner House on
Brīvības street
The ticket office to be
announced
30.04.14.–30.09.14. Freedom Street Corner House
The building on the corner of Brīvības and Stabu streets
already several years lays abandoned. In the spring of
2014, the atmosphere reigning in the walls of this
Corner House – as it has been popularly called – will be
vented by exhibitions and variety of cultural and
storytelling events. Representatives of different regimes
have resided in its cabinets leaving traces of their times.
He project Corner House will include six thematic
expositions, created by the Museum of Occupation,
society ‘Art Space,’ Latvian Museum of Exile, Latvian
Museum of Naïve Art, Riga Museum of History and
Navigation and Kinolats Ltd. The exposition will extend
to the ground floor, basement, and the 5th
and 6th
storeys
as well as the courtyard of the building.
(re)Construction of
Friendship
The centre of the exhibition ‘(re)Construction of
Friendship’ will be relationship – a sort of friendship
occurring when superpowers decide to ‘befriend’ smaller
states, engendering the relationships, which in normal
circumstances would not be formed. Such friendships are
different for the ‘friendship of nations’ cemented in the
USSR and relationship of US and Iceland, for instance.
The exhibition will offer artistic (re)Construction of such
dependencies, using archive material and works of
contemporary art reflecting on the theme of the project.
Visual art,
photography,
history,
education,
multimedia Exhibition Youth, adults
Corner House on
Brīvības street
The ticket office to be
announced
30.04.14.–30.09.14. Freedom Street Corner House
The building on the corner of Brīvības and Stabu streets
already several years lays abandoned. In the spring of
2014, the atmosphere reigning in the walls of this
Corner House – as it has been popularly called – will be
vented by exhibitions and variety of cultural and
storytelling events. Representatives of different regimes
have resided in its cabinets leaving traces of their times.
He project Corner House will include six thematic
expositions, created by the Museum of Occupation,
society ‘Art Space,’ Latvian Museum of Exile, Latvian
Museum of Naïve Art, Riga Museum of History and
Navigation and Kinolats Ltd. The exposition will extend
to the ground floor, basement, and the 5th
and 6th
storeys
as well as the courtyard of the building.
The museum of fate
symbols
‘The museum of fate symbols’ will invite the public to
propose objects to an exposition relating their life stories to
the new museum connected to these objects, which may
have changed their lives and – remained within the reach. A
new museum of the objects of personal history will open in
2014, assembled by inhabitants of Riga. The new form of
interactive social communication will take the observer into
world of material objects, forming exposition palpably
linked to human lives. Video versions of their personal
stories will also be added to the design. A book about
objects with their own stories to tell will be published,
bringing together the most vivid texts and requisites. The
author of the project is director and journalist Ilona
Brūvere; the author of the design – artist Artis Rutks.
Music,
literature, visual
art, design,
photogtaphy,
history,
education,
participation of
the public,
multimedia,
tradition
Presentation,
exhibition,
workshop,
action, TV/radio
Children,
youth, adults
Corner House on
Brīvības street Free liktenslietas.lv
30.04.14.–01.09.14. Freedom Street Corner House
The building on the corner of Brīvības and Stabu streets
already several years lays abandoned. In the spring of
2014, the atmosphere reigning in the walls of this
Corner House – as it has been popularly called – will be
vented by exhibitions and variety of cultural and
storytelling events. Representatives of different regimes
have resided in its cabinets leaving traces of their times.
He project Corner House will include six thematic
expositions, created by the Museum of Occupation,
society ‘Art Space,’ Latvian Museum of Exile, Latvian
Museum of Naïve Art, Riga Museum of History and
Navigation and Kinolats Ltd. The exposition will extend
to the ground floor, basement, and the 5th
and 6th
storeys
as well as the courtyard of the building. Latvian suitcase
Many waves of exile have washed over Latvia, now,
through individual stories and human experience to be
reflected in an exhibition. The main symbol of this
exposition is suitcase. The packing of suitcase is the last
decisive choice and re-vision of values, weighing on what is
to be taken along and what – left behind. For Latvians, all
the discarded life mostly turned out to be irretrievably lost.
This exhibition aims to demonstrate what was to be found
in the luggage of those Latvians who, for different reasons,
had to leave their country for ever. Its focus will be objects
symbolic of the memory of their owners, historic
photography, video and audio material, language of
computer graphics and animation. Rather than being
perceived as no more than passive observers, the audience
will be posed questions – What would you take along in
case you had to leave Latvia for indeterminate time? History Exhibition Youth, adults
Corner House on
Brīvības street Free lapamuzejs.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
30.04.14.–31.10.14. Freedom Street Corner House
The building on the corner of Brīvības and Stabu streets
already several years lays abandoned. In the spring of
2014, the atmosphere reigning in the walls of this
Corner House – as it has been popularly called – will be
vented by exhibitions and variety of cultural and
storytelling events. Representatives of different regimes
have resided in its cabinets leaving traces of their times.
He project Corner House will include six thematic
expositions, created by the Museum of Occupation,
society ‘Art Space,’ Latvian Museum of Exile, Latvian
Museum of Naïve Art, Riga Museum of History and
Navigation and Kinolats Ltd. The exposition will extend
to the ground floor, basement, and the 5th
and 6th
storeys
as well as the courtyard of the building.
Step Through the Corner
House!
Project of the Museum of Occupation ‘Corner House’ will
open the main State Security Office or KGB building in
Riga to wide audience, presenting an exhibition there,
which will reflect its functioning in Latvia, and designing
the tour around the building to be offered to the viewers. Its
cameras, basements, walking grounds, escalator for the
persons under investigation and the offices of the
investigators will be offered for visits. The venue is
expected to become a historic discovery for the younger
generation and guests of the city as well as become a
memorial of those who have suffered in its walls. The
notorious basements of KGB will hold an installation
created drawing on the material of National Guard. Floor 6
of the building will reveal the walking grounds to the view
and the narrow space where those under investigation were
kept for shorter stretches of time. Floor 5, to an extent, will
turn into memorial to the chief of frontier guards, General
Ludvigs Bolšteins, who shot himself in his office
protes History
Exhibition,
event Youth, adults
Corner House on
Brīvības street
The ticket office to be
announced omf.lv
01.05.14.–30.05.14. Road Map Ziedoņdārzs Tales
Project ‘Ziedoņdārzs Tales’ is envisaged as a meeting
space, where, in a kaleidoscope of almost 50 different
social and cultural events, grandmothers will walk the
kindergarten children while students and artists living
around this venue will present the viewers their work in
exhibitions, video instalations and readings of poetry,
modern dance and theatre performances, concerts,
programs for children and activities for the youngsters
as well as actions aimed at creating socially responsible
society. Ziedoņdārzs Tales
Project ‘Ziedoņdārzs Tales’ will include a month of daily
activities organized in the park for people of different age
groups. Mondays will be for meeting new people, Tuesdays
– for games and playing, Wednesdays – for emotional
recreation, while Thursdays will be dedicated to art of
conversation. Fridays will bring Unusual events, organized
by the students of The College of Culture collaborating
with professional artists, photographers, musicians and
other creative prominences from the Ziedoņdārzs’ area.
Music, dance,
literature, visual
art, design,
photography,
participation of
the public,
multimedia
Concert,
performance,
exhibition,
object in the city
environment,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop
Children,
youth, adults Ziedoņdārzs park Free
01.05.2014. Survival Kit Potato Opera
Project 'Potato Opera' invites to take a closer look at
and learn a lot of new about this well known staple
vegetable. Project includes
-a colorful performance for the family;
-action for young and not so young Friend in a pot or
Potato Diaries;
-Internet resource www.kartupelis.lv to be launched in
January 1, 2014 to provide exhaustive popular science
view on potato.
Friend in a pot of Potato
Diaries
The process of growing potato will be the focus of the
project Potato Opera, offering the audience to grow one in
a pot for themselves; to enjoy the summer together, making
friends on the way and entertaining them with stories and
pictures. Everyone involved in the project will receive a pot
and a plant of potato – the first potato or the patriarch. Its
well-being must be the focus of the person growing it for
entire duration of the project – from May till October,
when the potato diary must also be kept. All the ‘activities’
of the potato need to be reflected in its project home page
profile.
Photography,
education,
participation of
the public,
multimedia,
tradition
Workshop,
action, event
Children,
youth, adults All over Latvia Free kartupelis.lv
01.05.14.–30.05.14. Road Map
Dance Goes Out Into
Town
In 2014, Riga will become an action-site for the
recognized choreographers of contemporary dance, who
will engage the young artists of dance from Latvia in
process of search and creativity aimed at finding new
sites for dance and generating professional pieces of
contemporary dance outside their traditional studios,
theatre houses and platforms. The subject of the project
research will be potential of urban environment to
become the stage of contemporary dance.
Dance Goes Out Into
Town
Project ‘Dance Goes Out Into Town’ will have
choreographer of Belgian dance company ‘Les Ballets C de
la B’ residing in Riga and working, for the length of several
weeks, with 10-12 young dance creators and dancers from
Latvia developing a performance to be presented in and
around the culture house ‘Ziemeļblāzma.’ These
performances will be a fresh learning and artistic
experience for young artists. The rehearsals and creative
process will be open to viewers who will experience an
artistic piece and process in making.
Dance,
education, street
art
Performance,
workshop, event
Children,
youth, adults
Culture Hall
'Ziemeļblāzma' and
around the park Free theatre.lv
01.05.14.–31.05.14. Road Map
Riga photo month 2014.
Urban Viewfinders
The program of 2014 will include 'Riga photo month
2014. Urban Viewfinders.' Its many-fold program
consists of exhibitions, projects in the city environment,
presentations of photographers and artists, discussions
and other activities, creating, collectively, a photo map
of a journey of a kind and allowing to express and
experience what is the most actual in modern
photography. iRiga
Photo competition, as part of the project 'Riga photo month
2014 Urban Viewfinders,' will invite participation of
everybody. Its aim is to reveal Riga from multiple and
possibly novel points of view. Project ‘iRiga’ began
already in 2013 with a photo competition for unlimited
range of professional and amateur participants – everyone
interested in photography. Altogether 11 themes are
proposed to be addressed in photography throughout the
year to be consigned electronically in order to be presented
to the audience on ‘Flickr.’ The best of them are selected
for the finale and assembled in a show also to be offered to
the public.
Photography,
participation of
the public
Exhibition,
festival, event Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
01.05.14.-01.06.14. Riga Carnival 3D Carnival
Human memory is surprising and diverse. Some
remember the names, faces and events, but others –
sensations accompanying them. However, it is
impossible to experience all the sensations in the world,
which prompts storing memories of these particular
senses in Sense Containers quite like in Latvian Cabinet
of Dainas. The most beautiful of them will be available
to all in a three-dimensional (3D) carnival of sensations. Sense Containers
Labyrinth of 3D visualizations will, within the project ‘3D
Carnival,’ will take the viewer to a journey through rooms
of sensations or Sense Containers, designed by Antra
Cilinska, Roberts Rubīns, Didzis Eglītis, Kaspars Braķis,
Didzis Jaunzems, Elizabete Nīmane, Aija Liepiņa and
Ingus Josts.
Cinema,
participation of
the public,
multimedia
Object in the
city
environment,
event
Children,
youth, adults
The venue to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced
05.05.14.–11.05.14. Survival Kit En-rooters
The aim of the project ‘En-rooters’ is to create platform
of inter-generational communication by the use of
instruments of design and gardening. The project is
three-fold: 1. Involving senior citizens and children in
gardening. 2. Stimulation of inhabitants of Riga
neighbourhoods to cooperate by Big Get-together
initiatives. 3. Activities in the centre of Riga, on
Esplanade, involving participants of the first two stages.
The ‘Green Space’ will be created there for exhibitions,
concerts, lectures and thematic discussions.
En-rooters in the
neighbourhoods
Workshop ‘En-rooters in the neighbourhoods’ will be
organized within the project ‘En-rooters’ where senior
citizens and children will engage in gardening activities.
The greenery to be grown in this process will find place in
the neighbourhoods in Riga actualizing involvement of
public in improvement of living environment. The dates of
these events may change depending on weather conditions.
Design,
education,
participation of
the public Workshop
Children,
adults
The venue to be
announced Free
06.05.14.–13.06.14. Survival kit Meet Me in the Museum!
The Museum of Naïve Art, Latvia will popularize naïve
art and the culture of Latvia in Europe with an
international collection. There is creative potential in
everybody needing an impulse to be expressed. The
slogan project to promote the creativity of the public
‘Meet Me in the Museum!’ will stir everyone to turn to
creativity or to return to long forgotten paint-brushes or
crayons. Meet Me in the Museum!
Autumn plain-air as part of the project ‘Meet Me in the
Museum!’ will invite everybody to discover their creative
potential, turn to creative activity or to return the paint-
brushes long since put away and to show their work aside
with productions of recognized Latvian naive genre artists.
Visual arts,
participation of
the public Workshop
Children,
youth, adults
Floating galleries
'Noass' and
'Betanovuss' on AB
quay Free noass.lv
06.05.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
May, June, August, and September 2014 will be the
months of multigenerational readings on Esplanade
joining 24 European – and 12 writers from Latvia,
actualizing 150 jubilees of Rainis and Aspasia, which
will be celebrated in 2015. Essays dedicated to this
event will foreground the themes of exile, and one of the
discoveries of the audience will be unique
correspondence of both classic Latvian poets. The texts
in this event will be presented in Latvian and English,
and the collection of essays dedicated to it will be
published, both, in printed and electronic form.
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
Project ‘Readings dedicated to Rainis and Aspasia’ will
extend for 12 cultural events bringing together three guest
writers and one of Latvian writers on their stage. The event
will be far-ranging geographically: participants of
discussion, including literary translators, will include
guests from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway,
Great Britain – particularly highlighting Scotland and
Wales – Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, especially,
Catalonia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. The time of
readings will be between 17:00 till 19:00 in the afternoon. Literature
Discussion /
lecture, festival,
event Youth, adults Esplanade Free literature.lv
07.05.2014. Road Map
Riga photo month 2014.
Urban Viewfinders
The program of 2014 will include 'Riga photo month
2014. Urban Viewfinders.' Its many-fold program
consists of exhibitions, projects in the city environment,
presentations of photographers and artists, discussions
and other activities, creating, collectively, a photo map
of a journey of a kind and allowing to express and
experience what is the most actual in modern
photography. Films about photography
Project 'Riga photo month 2014 Urban Viewfinders' will
offer screenings of films about photographers and
evolvement and actualities of photography.
Cinema,
photography Festival, event Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced
08.05.2014. Survival Kit RigaDot
Drawing on cultural heritage as well as emerging
innovative elements in science and culture, Project
‘RigaDot’ is envisaged as a complex of events to inform
the audience, in engaging, attractive and practically
useful form, about Riga as creative center of culture
and science. This program will feature events like the
cycle ‘Science cafes,’ thematic exhibitions, concerts in
Nabaklab, thematic shows in radio Naba and Science
Festival. Science cafes
Science will be highlighted in such ‘RigaDot’ project
events as the cycle of discussions ‘Science cafés.’ They
will offer a chance to meet scientists in person and propose
questions they could address. ‘Science cafés’ discussions
are to evolve as free, informal exchanges of views on the
issues of science currently in the public eye.
Music, science,
education
Concert,
discussion /
lecture, event,
TV/radio Youth, adults
University of Latvia,
radio „Naba”,
„Nabaklab” Free rigapunkts.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
08.05.14.–31.05.14. Road Map
Riga photo month 2014.
Urban Viewfinders
The program of 2014 will include 'Riga photo month
2014. Urban Viewfinders.' Its many-fold program
consists of exhibitions, projects in the city environment,
presentations of photographers and artists, discussions
and other activities, creating, collectively, a photo map
of a journey of a kind and allowing to express and
experience what is the most actual in modern
photography.
Exhibition 'Urban
Viewfinders' - new
photography of Baltic
and Northern states
The central event of 'Riga photo month 2014 Urban
Viewfinders' will be exhibition ‘Urban Viewfinders’
presenting work of 15 artists from Baltic and Northern
region focusing on human in search of self in the modern
urban space with its interplay of private and public, local
and global, mental and physical. The exhibition will also
bring to the foreground the latest tendencies in photography
and search for the ways to break out of traditional limits.
The exhibition program will feature discussions and
viewing of artist portfolios.
Visual art,
photography,
education
Presentation,
exhibition,
festival, event Youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia Free
08.05.2014. Road Map The Islands of Riga
The idea of ‘The Islands of Riga’ is re-discovery of the
romantic, marginal and still partly preserved, but
gradually fading part of Riga – its islands. Traditional
complaining and grudging envy of Estonians, who have
their variety of islands, while Latvia, allegedly, has not,
will be countered by writer Gundega Repše and
photographer Kaspars Goba collaboration, which
promises not only educational, literary and factual
discoveries, but could boost the self-esteem of the
‘nation’ of Riga and widen the habitual frame of
identity. Project ‘The Islands of Riga’ events will
present the existing and extinct islands of Riga to its
inhabitants and guests alike.
Presentation of the book
'The Islands of Riga'
Part of the project of 'Riga photo month 2014 Urban
Viewfinders,' presentation of the ‘The Islands of Riga’ will
be hosted by its authors writer Gundega Repše and
photographer Kaspars Goba. The date of the event may
change.
Literature,
visual art,
photography,
street art
Exhibition,
object in the city
environment Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free
09.05.2014. Road Map
Riga photo month 2014.
Urban Viewfinders
The program of 2014 will include 'Riga photo month
2014. Urban Viewfinders.' Its many-fold program
consists of exhibitions, projects in the city environment,
presentations of photographers and artists, discussions
and other activities, creating, collectively, a photo map
of a journey of a kind and allowing to express and
experience what is the most actual in modern
photography. Riga Photomarket
The event 'Riga photo month 2014 Urban Viewfinders'
program will invite to attend ‘Riga Photo Market,’ offering
a meeting spot for publishers of photo magazines and
literature, self-publishers, as well as art galleries and all
other who are interested in the genre. ‘Riga Photo Market’
will last for entire week-end and introduce the wider public
to the novelties of photo publishing. The date of the event
may be subject to change.
Photography,
participation of
the public
Workshop,
festival, event Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free
10.05.2014. Survival Kit Garden of Freedom
Garden of Freedom’ is an aesthetically ecological
research-oriented project aiming at creation of real
urban garden on a cornice and balcony of a building on
Brīvības street 90. Its main idea is to urge thinking
about the idea of urban garden in the centre of town and
returning to ground values, traditions and long-forgotten
skills such as ability to grow edible and medicinal
greens on window sills, balconies and terraces in the
city.
Garden of Freedom -
Opening event
Organizers and team of the project ‘Garden of Freedom’
will invite public to the action of planting and seminar
about developing of gardens on window sills, balconies and
terraces, offering the experience of such forms of gardening
and knowledge about such traditions evolving in the urban
landscape as well as advice on planting and tending to such
greens. Practicing gardeners will introduce public to this
field of activity, and those, who are interested, will receive
a hand-book on urban gardening, prepared, based on
research of the gardening tradition in Riga, which involved,
both, individual gardeners and owners of window and
terrace garden-beds.
Education,
participation of
the public,
tradition Action, event Youth, adults
Brīvības street 90,
the courtyard - the
territory of Vidzeme
inner city market Free serde.lv
10.05.14.-11.05.14. Riga Carnival Magic Dance Expo 2014
International dance festival ‘Magic Dance Expo 2014’
will gather a great diversity of dance groups, individual
artists and pedagogues, to present a remarkable
experience of this art form. In two halls of the venue,
several stages and dance floors will be given to parallel
dance shows, show case demonstrations and concerts as
well as – championships in several dance genres and
expanded by quiz programs and master classes for the
participants.
Dance show 'Riga Magic
Dance'
Participants of International dance festival ‘Magic Dance
Expo 2014,’ the best professional dancers and
choreographers, popular musicians, TV stars and athletes
from Latvia and abroad who may be far from dance
professionally, will perform in a surprising dance show,
demonstrating synthesis of dance and other genres of art
and culture. A modern two-part dance show will be created
blending the tradition of dance with what is actual,
multicultural and multi-form. Classical dance will meet its
modern styles and improvisation; the talented artists will
translate the power of sound, water and fire into language
of dance.
Dance,
multimedia
Concert,
performance,
event
Children,
youth, adults
International expo in
Ķīpsala
The ticket office to be
announced magicdanceexpo.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
12.05.14.–18.05.14. Survival Kit En-rooters
The aim of the project ‘En-rooters’ is to create platform
of inter-generational communication by the use of
instruments of design and gardening. The project is
three-fold: 1. Involving senior citizens and children in
gardening. 2. Stimulation of inhabitants of Riga
neighbourhoods to cooperate by Big Get-together
initiatives. 3. Activities in the centre of Riga, on
Esplanade, involving participants of the first two stages.
The ‘Green Space’ will be created there for exhibitions,
concerts, lectures and thematic discussions.
En-rooters in the
neighbourhoods
Workshop ‘En-rooters in the neighbourhoods’ will be
organized within the project ‘En-rooters’ where senior
citizens and children will engage in gardening activities.
The greenery to be grown in this process will find place in
the neighbourhoods in Riga actualizing involvement of
public in improvement of living environment. The dates of
these events may change depending on weather conditions.
Design,
education,
participation of
the public Workshop
Children,
adults
The venue to be
announced Free
13.05.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
May, June, August, and September 2014 will be the
months of multigenerational readings on Esplanade
joining 24 European – and 12 writers from Latvia,
actualizing 150 jubilees of Rainis and Aspasia, which
will be celebrated in 2015. Essays dedicated to this
event will foreground the themes of exile, and one of the
discoveries of the audience will be unique
correspondence of both classic Latvian poets. The texts
in this event will be presented in Latvian and English,
and the collection of essays dedicated to it will be
published, both, in printed and electronic form.
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
Project ‘Readings dedicated to Rainis and Aspasia’ will
extend for 12 cultural events bringing together three guest
writers and one of Latvian writers on their stage. The event
will be far-ranging geographically: participants of
discussion, including literary translators, will include
guests from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway,
Great Britain – particularly highlighting Scotland and
Wales – Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, especially,
Catalonia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. The time of
readings will be between 17:00 till 19:00 in the afternoon. Literature
Discussion /
lecture, festival,
event Youth, adults Esplanade Free literature.lv
13.05.14.–17.05.14. Road Map Blank Canvas
Festival of the street art ‘Blank Canvas: art ground,
crime ground, play ground?’ is organized within the
professional environment, addressing the question –
Whether the street art reaches maturity to become part
of the art market if not in Latvia, then in Europe and the
world? Is it a savage game verging on hooliganism? The
festival will feature a cycle of presentations and
discussions to actualize the theme of the street art for
the public, and the street artists will create video art
work and installations in the cityscape.
Blank Canvas: art
ground, crime ground,
play ground?
Festival of the street art ‘Blank Canvas: art ground, crime
ground, play ground?’ aims at promoting understanding of
street art by discussions, presentations and art work. The
festival of the street art week is divided into events for the
first part of the day when, in authorized central and
neighborhood locations, the artists and volunteers from the
side will create street art exhibits, while the evenings will
be dedicated to activities introducing the public to street
art and drawing its attention to this artistic expressions, as
well as offering possibilities to expand knowledge about it
in lectures, discussions and workshops given by
professionals.
Visual art, street
art
Object in the
city
environment,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop,
festival Youth, adults
Territory of the
creative quarter VEF
or elsewhere Free
14.05.14.–01.11.14. Amber Vein
Amber - the precious
stone of the Baltic Sea
Only few know that ancient Latvia could be proud of
the best amber artisan workshops of its time. In
meticulous research, archeologists have found evidence
of this highly developed craftsmanship and now it will
be presented to everyone in Latvia. Latvia’s National
Museum of History holds the widest collection of amber
arte facts from the Stone age till the present day,
demonstrating continuity of amber artisanship from the
era 4000 years BC till the XXI century. Assembled in
archeological and ethnographic expeditions, the
Museum’s collection of the Museum, which is soon to
reach almost 15 000 objects, forms a unique whole with
its scientific research materials.
Amber - the precious
stone of the Baltic Sea
Exhibition of Latvia’s National Museum of History
‘Amber – the precious stone of the Baltic Sea’ presenting
the most noteworthy examples of amber artisanship and
demonstrating the process of their creation from the Stone
age till the present day, will open in the Castle of Riga.
What is the famous Amber Head of Moose? Discover it for
yourselves! The unique collection of the museum will be
expanded by multimedia presenting the Amber Route to the
viewer, and its informative space- enriched by the
catalogue and booklets of the exposition along with
souvenirs created by the craftsmen of ‘Nice Place’.
History,
tradition Exhibition
Children
youth, adults
Latvia's National
Museum of History,
the Castle of Riga
Latvia's National
Museum of History lnvm.lv
15.05.2014. Road Map
Riga photo month 2014.
Urban Viewfinders
The program of 2014 will include 'Riga photo month
2014. Urban Viewfinders.' Its many-fold program
consists of exhibitions, projects in the city environment,
presentations of photographers and artists, discussions
and other activities, creating, collectively, a photo map
of a journey of a kind and allowing to express and
experience what is the most actual in modern
photography. Films about photography
Project 'Riga photo month 2014 Urban Viewfinders' will
offer screenings of films about photographers and
evolvement and actualities of photography.
Cinema,
photography Festival, event Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
15.05.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Academic readings
'Content of XXI Century'
Academic readings 'Content of XXI Century' and
exhibition ‘500 years of the Book 1514-2014’ will
address the change in the habits of reading – from
poring over manuscripts in 1514 to present day boom of
the printed book – year 2014 and its forms of co-
existence of printed and digital literature. Content of XXI Century
Excellent world-known thinkers will take part at the
academic readings „21. gadsimta saturs” („The 21st
century content”) who will develop the understanding about
the diverse European culture improvement. The project will
be available to everyone around the world via virtual
exhibitions and regular on-line open lectures. The
exhibition is curated by The National Library of Latvia in
cooperation with greatest national libraries in Europe and
Latvian as well as EU embassies.
Literature,
multimedia
Discussion /
lecture
Children,
youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia Free lnb.lv
15.05.14.–03.08.14. Survival Kit
Exhibition ‘Fields’ and
the accompanying events
of the festival ‘Art +
Communication 2014’
The Center of New Media RIXC organizes large-scale
international festival of media art ‘Fields’, which will
address contested issues of modern society, environment
and sustainability of technologies. The exhibition will
part of its annual international festival ‘Art +
Communication’- an event bringing about a hundred
local and foreign artists to Latvia – is a well known
forerunner in terms of the choice and treatment of its
themes. The festival exhibition will be enriched by
performances, workshops, a program of experimental
films, a conference, and various presentations of artists. Fields
International exhibition of media art ‘Fields’ will introduce
the viewer to parallel lines of development in art and
technological science. It will present historic works from
various museum and gallery collections in Europe viewing
the mode appropriation of scientific findings and media
technologies by the XX century art, and the audience will
be able to observe the latest trends in the search for new
approaches and forms in the XXI century art practices in
Latvia, Baltic sates, Europe and wider world. The
exhibition will go hand in hand with performances,
workshops, program of experimental films, a conference
and artistic presentations of the festival ‘Art +
Communication 2014’.
Visual art,
science,
education,
participation of
the public,
multimedia
Performance,
presentation,
exhibition,
conference,
workshop,
festival
Children,
youth, adults
Expositon hall
'Arsenāls', RIXC
Media space, creative
quarter of Spīķeri
The ticket office to be
announced rixc.lv/14
16.05.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
Opening of the program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The first concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults Riga Dome cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
17.05.2014. Thirst for the Ocean Born in Riga
The cycle of concerts ‘Born in Riga’ highlights Riga as
connecting place – the unifying ground for the
contemporary great stars in the musical world, the place
where these outstanding artists have made their first
steps in music, the place, which has given so many
wonderful musicians to more than Europe alone. Concert of Inga Kalna
In the cycle of concerts ‘Born in Riga,’ soprano Inga
Kalna, who, coming from Riga, is an internationally known
soloist applauded to in Italy, France, England, Canada,
USA, Israel, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, the
Netherlands and elsewhere, will perform in LNO. The
programs of the soprano include almost all of the best
lyrical soprano parties in the classical Western European
repertoire. Music Concert Youth, adults
National Opera of
Latvia opera.lv opera.lv
17.05.2014. Road Map
Riga photo month 2014.
Urban Viewfinders
The program of 2014 will include 'Riga photo month
2014. Urban Viewfinders.' Its many-fold program
consists of exhibitions, projects in the city environment,
presentations of photographers and artists, discussions
and other activities, creating, collectively, a photo map
of a journey of a kind and allowing to express and
experience what is the most actual in modern
photography. Neighbors
Part of the project 'Riga photo month 2014 Urban
Viewfinders' to extend into the annual Night of the
Museums will be exhibition ‘Neighbors’ opened in the
various venues of Riga cityscape, presenting work of
several photographers revealing the likeness and diversity
in the features of different neighborhoods of Latvia’s
capital.
Visual art,
photopgraphy
Workshop,
festival, event Youth, adults Riga cityscape Free
17.05.14.–01.10.14. Survival kit Meet Me in the Museum!
The Museum of Naïve Art, Latvia will popularize naïve
art and the culture of Latvia in Europe with an
international collection. There is creative potential in
everybody needing an impulse to be expressed. The
slogan project to promote the creativity of the public
‘Meet Me in the Museum!’ will stir everyone to turn to
creativity or to return to long forgotten paint-brushes or
crayons. Meet Me in the Museum!
Project ‘Meet Me in the Museum!’ will re-open the basic
exposition of the Museum of Naïve Art Latvia for viewing.
The museum, which is found on the AB quay, will present
international collection. The activities of the museum will
join the professionals in arts with citizens and guests of
Riga in keeping with the initial principles of MNA as
public friendly and open artistic space.
Visual arts,
participation of
the public Exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
Floating galleries
'Noass' and
'Betanovuss' on AB
quay Free noass.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
17.05.14.–22.06.14. Survival kit Meet Me in the Museum!
The Museum of Naïve Art, Latvia will popularize naïve
art and the culture of Latvia in Europe with an
international collection. There is creative potential in
everybody needing an impulse to be expressed. The
slogan project to promote the creativity of the public
‘Meet Me in the Museum!’ will stir everyone to turn to
creativity or to return to long forgotten paint-brushes or
crayons. Meet Me in the Museum!
Within the project ‘Meet Me in the Museum!’ parallel to
the basic exposition of the Museum of Naïve Art, Latvia,
the venue will offer international exposition of artistic
outsiders and hold the festival of naïve art ‘Fest Naïve
Moscow-Riga’.
Visual arts,
participation of
the public Exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
Floating galleries
'Noass' and
'Betanovuss' on AB
quay Free noass.lv
18.05.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Three meetings. Versions
of Latvian composers’
works offered by world
choreographers
Three one act ballets set on music of composers Pēteris
Vasks, Rihards Dubra and Georgs Pelēcis will see their
world premieres in LNO. The music of Latvian
composers has truly inspired three of the most
outstanding guest choreographers - Demis Volpi, Mário
Radačovský and Tim Rushton.
Three meetings. Versions
of Latvian composers’
works offered by world
choreographers
Three new one act ballets will be offered to the viewers as
part of the program ‘Three meetings. Versions of Latvian
composers’ works offered by world choreographers’
created by a trio of guest choreographers – Argentinean
artist Demis Volpi who has studied in Stuttgart, but works,
both, in Europe and America; the superintendant of Ballet
Bratislava Mário Radačovský and the director of Dance
Theatre of Denmark Tim Rushton. The LNO orchestra and
ballet artists participate in these new productions. Music, dance Performance Youth, adults
Latvian National
Opera opera.lv opera.lv
18.05.2014. Freedom street Freedom Run
The Freedom Run is the most massively attended event
of the thematic division Freedom Street, expected to
host numerous foreign participants, The Freedom Street
is, at once, a symbolic stage, tale of history and wars,
which, we can say, finished just yesterday, although
perhaps a century has already passed. Freedom Run
In 2014, when Riga becomes European Capital of Culture,
the annual marathon will be opened by Freedom Run,
expected to take its route by the main street of Riga –
Brīvības or Freedom street. Sports, history Event
Children,
youth, adults Brīvības Street
Nordea Riga
Marathon nordearigasmaratons.lv
19.05.14.–25.05.14. Survival Kit En-rooters
The aim of the project ‘En-rooters’ is to create platform
of inter-generational communication by the use of
instruments of design and gardening. The project is
three-fold: 1. Involving senior citizens and children in
gardening. 2. Stimulation of inhabitants of Riga
neighbourhoods to cooperate by Big Get-together
initiatives. 3. Activities in the centre of Riga, on
Esplanade, involving participants of the first two stages.
The ‘Green Space’ will be created there for exhibitions,
concerts, lectures and thematic discussions.
En-rooters in the
neighbourhoods
Workshop ‘En-rooters in the neighbourhoods’ will be
organized within the project ‘En-rooters’ where senior
citizens and children will engage in gardening activities.
The greenery to be grown in this process will find place in
the neighbourhoods in Riga actualizing involvement of
public in improvement of living environment. The dates of
these events may change depending on weather conditions.
Design,
education,
participation of
the public Workshop
Children,
adults
The venue to be
announced Free
20.05.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
May, June, August, and September 2014 will be the
months of multigenerational readings on Esplanade
joining 24 European – and 12 writers from Latvia,
actualizing 150 jubilees of Rainis and Aspasia, which
will be celebrated in 2015. Essays dedicated to this
event will foreground the themes of exile, and one of the
discoveries of the audience will be unique
correspondence of both classic Latvian poets. The texts
in this event will be presented in Latvian and English,
and the collection of essays dedicated to it will be
published, both, in printed and electronic form.
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
Project ‘Readings dedicated to Rainis and Aspasia’ will
extend for 12 cultural events bringing together three guest
writers and one of Latvian writers on their stage. The event
will be far-ranging geographically: participants of
discussion, including literary translators, will include
guests from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway,
Great Britain – particularly highlighting Scotland and
Wales – Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, especially,
Catalonia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. The time of
readings will be between 17:00 till 19:00 in the afternoon. Literature
Discussion /
lecture, festival,
event Youth, adults Esplanade Free literature.lv
22.05.2014. Road Map
Riga photo month 2014.
Urban Viewfinders
The program of 2014 will include 'Riga photo month
2014. Urban Viewfinders.' Its many-fold program
consists of exhibitions, projects in the city environment,
presentations of photographers and artists, discussions
and other activities, creating, collectively, a photo map
of a journey of a kind and allowing to express and
experience what is the most actual in modern
photography. Films about photography
Project 'Riga photo month 2014 Urban Viewfinders' will
offer screenings of films about photographers and
evolvement and actualities of photography.
Cinema,
photography Festival, event Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced
20
Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
22.05.14.–20.07.14. Thirst for the Ocean In Search of the Horizon
The international exhibition ‘In Search of the Horizon’
centers on exploring nature of art determined by its
essential striving for the ideal and its drive to seek the
crossroads of the unknown. The exhibition assembles
from seven sections structurally creating a new ideal
world, which also reflects one of the search algorithms
complete with the joy of discovery, attendant errors, and
short-lived illusions of harmony.
International exposition
of contemporary art 'In
Search of the Horizon'
The search of the perspective actualized in the international
exhibition ‘In Search of the Horizon’ is more than just the
idealistic path of Latvian Dullais Dauka to physically
unattainable horizon, but also search of the individual
(microcosm) for balance in front of the vastness of the
Universe (macrocosm) and eagerness to understand the
order of the world. Curator of exhibition – Ieva Kulakova.
Music,
literature, visual
art Exhibition Youth, adults
Latvian Railway
Museum
Latvian Railway
Museum ica.lv
23.05.2014. Amber Vein
Mikhail and Mikhail play
chess
Performance of the unique opera ‘Mikhail and Mikhail
play chess’ will require 8 singers, 8 dancers, 14
musicians, and 2 conductors; the whole ensemble of 32
has not been casually selected as every artist involved
will represent a figure in a concrete championship game
of chess – and, to be more precise, the sixth round of the
duel of masters, which took place in Moscow in 1962
between Mikhail Tal and Mikhail Botvinnik. Chess is a
fascinating game with its own dramaturgy, heights of
psychological tension, and specific terms, which, co-
incidentally, relates it to theatre and music.
Mikhail and Mikhail play
chess
Riga is to see the world premiere of Kristaps Pētersons’
opera ‘Mikhail and Mikhail play chess’, dedicated to
Magus from Riga, world champion in chess Mikhail Tal.
The artists to form the creative team of the production are
conductor Ainārs Rubiķis, choreographer Kiril Burlovs
who resides in London, director Viesturs Meikšāns, set
designer Reinis Suhanovs, and French video artist Carlos
Franklin. Opera will be performed in Russian.
Music, theatre,
multimedia Show Youth, adults New Hall of LNO opera.lv opera.lv
23.05.14.–02.08.14. Amber Vein
International exhibition
'Amber in Contemporary
Designer Jewelry'
Inviting participation of Latvian and foreign artists,
gallery ‘Putti’ will organize international exposition of
contemporary designer jewelry. The main idea to
present it is to reflect amber as material of conceptual
and modern piece of adornment to fulfill the
professional criteria. The choice of contributors to this
exhibition was dictated by the historic Amber Land
Route.
International exhibition
'Amber in Contemporary
Designer Jewelry'
The idea to inspire the international exhibition 'Amber in
Contemporary Designer Jewelry' was to focus amber as
material of conceptual and modern, professionally created
adornment. Participants of the exhibition are Latvian and
foreign designers – contemporary jewelers from the states
along the historic Amber Route – Russia, Estonia,
Lithuania, Poland, Czech Republic, Austria, Slovenia,
Hungary, and Italy.
Visual art,
design Exhibition Youth, adults
Art gallery 'Putti'
Mārstaļu street 16 Free putti.lv
25.05.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
Opening of the program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The first concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Liepāja Trinity
church
The ticket office to be
announced
27.05.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
May, June, August, and September 2014 will be the
months of multigenerational readings on Esplanade
joining 24 European – and 12 writers from Latvia,
actualizing 150 jubilees of Rainis and Aspasia, which
will be celebrated in 2015. Essays dedicated to this
event will foreground the themes of exile, and one of the
discoveries of the audience will be unique
correspondence of both classic Latvian poets. The texts
in this event will be presented in Latvian and English,
and the collection of essays dedicated to it will be
published, both, in printed and electronic form.
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
Project ‘Readings dedicated to Rainis and Aspasia’ will
extend for 12 cultural events bringing together three guest
writers and one of Latvian writers on their stage. The event
will be far-ranging geographically: participants of
discussion, including literary translators, will include
guests from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway,
Great Britain – particularly highlighting Scotland and
Wales – Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, especially,
Catalonia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. The time of
readings will be between 17:00 till 19:00 in the afternoon. Literature
Discussion /
lecture, festival,
event Youth, adults Esplanade Free literature.lv
21
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29.05.2014. Road Map
Riga photo month 2014.
Urban Viewfinders
The program of 2014 will include 'Riga photo month
2014. Urban Viewfinders.' Its many-fold program
consists of exhibitions, projects in the city environment,
presentations of photographers and artists, discussions
and other activities, creating, collectively, a photo map
of a journey of a kind and allowing to express and
experience what is the most actual in modern
photography. Films about photography
Project 'Riga photo month 2014 Urban Viewfinders' will
offer screenings of films about photographers and
evolvement and actualities of photography.
Cinema,
photography Festival, event Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced
29.05.14.–29.06.14. Survival Kit Is Riga Ready Yet?
The town once serving as the center of artisanship and
industry, now concentrates the main part of Latvian
designers in its walls. Riga is eternal city never to stop
developing. It is proud of a rich history, energetic
present, and looks into a promising future. The young
designers of Latvian Academy of Art will use the
perspective of design to determine and reflect the
changes Riga has experienced. Design 2014
As part of the project ‘Is Riga Ready Yet?’ the diploma
student designers of Latvian Academy of Arts will open
exhibition Design 2014, offering a view of interrelation of
artisanship and innovation industries of Riga in creating of
new or perfecting the already existing products of design.
Design, science,
education Exhibition Youth, adults
Latvian Academy of
Art Free lma.lv
30.05.14.–05.10.14. Riga Carnival Esplanade 2014
The Ray of Riga has been kept alive even in the darkest
of times. The Esplanade is one of the particularly
significant places in Riga spiritual landscape. The older
citizens of Riga remember the National Song and Dance
festival of the first Independence, while others associate
it with the romantic open-air skating and others still –
with the sense of unity enjoyed in the annual Poetry
Days, which center around the monument of Rainis. Esplanade 2014
The open office of the foundation ‘Riga 2014’ will function
in the square in front of the monument of Rainis, in the
heart of the Esplanade park, which will offer news of Riga
as the European Capital of Culture and possibility to
observe and participate in diverse cultural activities. This
office will be the place where to share your vision of future
Riga with the like-minded and maybe make friends, a place
to feel at home and enjoy free wi-fi in. We can all become
citizens of Riga for a while in 2014! The Ray of Riga
shines stronger every day. The dates of events may change. All All
Children,
youth, adults Esplanade Free riga2014.org
01.06.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
Opening of the program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The first concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Evangelical Lutheran
church in Dubulti
The ticket office to be
announced
01.06.2014. Riga Carnival
Children's carnival of
Europe
The ‘Children's carnival of Europe’ will be entertaining
and educative event introducing children to diversity,
culture, and traditions of Europe to feature a wide
program, which, in engaging form, will allow to
experience the children’s Europe – games, traditions,
material culture, literature, cuisine, music etc. The event
will take over two parks of Riga inviting maximum of
guests.
Children's carnival of
Europe
‘Children's carnival of Europe’ will proceed in two central
parks of Riga, opening by a parade of masks around the
park of Vērmane, joining children and their parents as its
participants. The central stage of the park will host the
main program of the event featuring musical and dance
performances of young artists, puppet theatre sketches,
participation of a game master etc. The territory of the
park will be divided into the central stage of events,
surrounded by improvised ‘embassies’ of European
countries represented by their most prominent characters of
tales and children’s stories. The ‘Children's Europe’ will
have its own book fare offering not only to buy, but also –
to exchange the contents of the youngster’s personal
libraries.
Music, theatre,
literature,
education,
participation of
the public,
tradition
Concert,
festival, event Children
Vērmanes park and
Esplanade Free riga2014.org
22
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01.06.14. Riga Carnival Riga Festival
‘Riga Festival’ vividly affirms Riga as a city of
inspiration. Our capital is an everlasting festival of
sounds, aromas, tastes and poetry of reality inviting to
join everyone, for everyone – coming from near or afar
– to feel special, celebrating on the stage or amongst the
public. It is a joy, which we wish to share. The hallmark
‘Riga Festival’ is wide kaleidoscope of eras, genres, and
tastes in music – first and foremost, it is a limitless
musical festivity for the widest circles of Riga’s citizens
and guests.
Opening of the festival -
the Night of Music All
Around Town
Opening of ‘Riga Festival’ or ‘The Night of Music All
Around Town’ will engage concert halls and open air
stages around the town, presenting performances of
professional groups and ensembles of musicians in varied
programs. The participants of the event are Radio Quire
Latvia, the State Academic Quire ‘Latvia,’ the National
Symphony Orchestra, ‘Sinfonietta Riga,’ The Spīķeri
Quartet, the String Quartet of ‘Sinfonietta Riga,’ the vocal
group ‘Framest,’ Denis Paškevičs’ Jazz trio, trio ‘Opera’,
trio ‘Deco,’ tri ‘Art-i-shock’ and others. Music Concert, festival Youth, adults
Riga and its
neighborhoods bilesuparadize.lv rigasfestivals.lv
01.06.14.–21.06.14. Riga Carnival Riga Festival
‘Riga Festival’ vividly affirms Riga as a city of
inspiration. Our capital is an everlasting festival of
sounds, aromas, tastes and poetry of living, inviting to
join everyone, for everyone – coming from near or afar
– to feel special, celebrating on the stage or amongst the
public. It is a joy, which we wish to share. The hallmark
‘Riga Festival’ is wide kaleidoscope of eras, genres, and
tastes in music – first and foremost, it is a limitless
musical festivity for the widest circles of Riga’s citizens
and guests.
Kameropera „Rīgas
vēstules”
A camera-play ‘The Letters of Riga’ will be presented to
the audience as part of the ‘Riga Festival’ events. This
performance is a tale about youths on the swings of th
whole spectrum of emotions ranging from love and the
feeling of being drawn together to alienation, longing and
conscious choosing of exile. Composer Krists Auzenieks,
director Indra Roga, libretto by Inga Ābele, interprets –
vocal group ‘Framest,’ instrumental group and electronics.
The dates of event may change. Music
Concert,
performance Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced bilesuparadize.lv rigasfestivals.lv
01.06.14.–21.06.14. Riga Carnival Riga Festival
‘Riga Festival’ vividly affirms Riga as a city of
inspiration. Our capital is an everlasting festival of
sounds, aromas, tastes and poetry of reality inviting to
join everyone, for everyone – coming from near or afar
– to feel special, celebrating on the stage or amongst the
public. It is a joy, which we wish to share. The hallmark
‘Riga Festival’ is wide kaleidoscope of eras, genres, and
tastes in music – first and foremost, it is a limitless
musical festivity for the widest circles of Riga’s citizens
and guests. Mahler's 8th Symphony
A camera-play ‘The Letters of Riga’ will be presented to
the audience as part of the ‘Riga Festival’ events. This
performance is a tale about youths on the swings of the
whole spectrum of emotions ranging from love and the
feeling of being drawn together to alienation, longing and
conscious choosing of exile. Composer Krists Auzenieks,
director Indra Roga, libretto by Inga Ābele, interprets –
vocal group ‘Framest,’ instrumental group and electronics.
The dates of event may change. Music
Concert,
performance,
festival Youth, adults Spīķeri open air stage bilesuparadize.lv rigasfestivals.lv
01.06.14.–21.06.14. Riga Carnival Riga Festival
‘Riga Festival’ vividly affirms Riga as a city of
inspiration. Our capital is an everlasting festival of
sounds, aromas, tastes and poetry of living, inviting to
join everyone, for everyone – coming from near or afar
– to feel special, celebrating on the stage or amongst the
public. It is a joy, which we wish to share. The hallmark
‘Riga Festival’ is wide kaleidoscope of eras, genres, and
tastes in music – first and foremost, it is a limitless
musical festivity for the widest circles of Riga’s citizens
and guests.
Concerts of professional
quires and orchestras
from Estonia and
Lithuania
The ‘Riga Festival’ will offer concerts of professional
quires and orchestras from Estonia and Lithuania. The
audiences of these events will experience inter-play of the
talent of National Symphony Orchestra of Estonia, Estonia
Chamber Quire, National Symphony Orchestra of
Lithuania and Chamber Orchestra of Lithuania with
soloists and conductors from Latvia. The dates of event
may change. Music Concert, festival Adults
The venue to be
announced bilesuparadize.lv rigasfestivals.lv
03.06.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Production of multimedia
opera 'Rienzi. Triumph
and Defeat'
Composed in Riga in 1837-1839, Richard Wagner’s
opera ‘Rienzi’ is inextricably linked to this city. LNO
plans to world-premiere a multimedia production of this
opera early in 2014, to turn it into one of the European
level events to inaugurate Riga’s year in the status of
European Capital of Culture. Mora than just a staging,
this production will entail re-working of the operatic
material and integrating it according to directorial
vision.
Rienzi. Triumph and
Defeat
Opera ‘Rienzi’ presented by the National Opera of Latvia
in the program of the Riga Opera festival.
Music, theatre,
multimedia Show Adults
National Opera of
Latvia opera.lv opera.lv
03.06.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
May, June, August, and September 2014 will be the
months of multigenerational readings on Esplanade
joining 24 European – and 12 writers from Latvia,
actualizing 150 jubilees of Rainis and Aspasia, which
will be celebrated in 2015. Essays dedicated to this
event will foreground the themes of exile, and one of the
discoveries of the audience will be unique
correspondence of both classic Latvian poets. The texts
in this event will be presented in Latvian and English,
and the collection of essays dedicated to it will be
published, both, in printed and electronic form.
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
Project ‘Readings dedicated to Rainis and Aspasia’ will
extend for 12 cultural events bringing together three guest
writers and one of Latvian writers on their stage. The event
will be far-ranging geographically: participants of
discussion, including literary translators, will include
guests from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway,
Great Britain – particularly highlighting Scotland and
Wales – Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, especially,
Catalonia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. The time of
readings will be between 17:00 till 19:00 in the afternoon. Literature
Discussion /
lecture, festival,
event Youth, adults Esplanade Free literature.lv
23
Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
03.06.14.–26.06.14. Thirst for the Ocean
Exhibition of Sound Art
‘Skan II’
Exhibition ‘Skan II’ continues ‘Skan’ or Latvia’s first
exposition of sound art, which took place in 2007. The
venue will open in April 2014 and will be seen for entire
summer. The exhibition will feature the latest and most
interesting work of artists who are active in the genre of
sound.
Exhibition of Sound Art
‘Skan II’
The aim of the sound art exhibition "Skan II" is to offer the
audience an innovative contemporary art forms and remind
about the unique Riga architecture heritage. Several
Latvian and foreign artists will take part at "Skan II":
Evelīna Deičmane, Voldemārs Johansons, Leif Elggren and
Carl Michael Von Hauswolff, Anke Eckardt, Michael J.
Schumacher, Edwin van der Heide, Arnaud Jacobs, Signe
Liden, David Helbich, Thomas Rutgers and Jitske Blom,
Tommi Gronlund and Petteri Nisunen, Stefan Roigk,
Pascal Broccolichi, Max Eastley, Deadbeat.
Music, visual
art
Performance,
exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
Gallery at Kalnciems
quarter, Botanical
Garden of Latvia
University and
venues in Riga
cityscape Free skanumezs.lv
04.06.14.–02.07.14. Survival Kit En-rooters
The aim of the project ‘En-rooters’ is to create platform
of inter-generational communication by the use of
instruments of design and gardening. The project is
three-fold: 1. Involving senior citizens and children in
gardening. 2. Stimulation of inhabitants of Riga
neighbourhoods to cooperate by Big Get-together
initiatives. 3. Activities in the centre of Riga, on
Esplanade, involving participants of the first two stages.
The ‘Green Space’ will be created there for exhibitions,
concerts, lectures and thematic discussions. Exhibition 'The Past'
The project ‘En-rooters’ will present exhibition The Past –
series of informative, visual material - photography and
video depicting development of individual gardening in
Latvia and its aficionados, who still keep to this hobby and
also have chosen it for their way of life. Discussions and
concerts will make part of the exhibition.
Education,
tradition
Exhibition,
environment
object Youth, adults Esplanade Free
07.06.2014. Amber Vein
ChessMikhail and
Mikhail play chess
Performance of the unique opera ‘Mikhail and Mikhail
play chess’ will require 8 singers, 8 dancers, 14
musicians, and 2 conductors; the whole ensemble of 32
has not been casually selected as every artist involved
will represent a figure in a concrete championship game
of chess – and, to be more precise, the sixth round of the
duel of masters, which took place in Moscow in 1962
between Mikhail Tal and Mikhail Botvinnik. Chess is a
fascinating game with its own dramaturgy, heights of
psychological tension, and specific terms, which, co-
incidentally, relates it to theatre and music.
Mikhail and Mikhail play
chess
Riga is to see the world premiere of Kristaps Pētersons’
opera ‘Mikhail and Mikhail play chess’, dedicated to
Magus from Riga, world champion in chess Mikhail Tal.
The artists to form the creative team of the production are
conductor Ainārs Rubiķis, choreographer Kiril Burlovs
who resides in London, director Viesturs Meikšāns, set
designer Reinis Suhanovs, and French video artist Carlos
Franklin. Opera will be performed in Russian.
Music, theatre,
multimedia Show Youth, adults New Hall of LNO opera.lv opera.lv
06.06.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The second program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The second concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults Riga Dome cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
08.06.14 Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The second program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The second concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Liepāja Trinity
cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
24
Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
08.06.2014. Road Map The Milk festival
Interest generates energy. This simple truth took the
organizers out into the café courtyard in order to learn
what a festival is, three years ago. As it turns out, the
answers to this are many, bet, fundamentally, The Milk
festival is a summer Sunday spent with in company of
close friends, listening to good music, enjoying fine food
and different kind of attractions, surrounded by
laughter. In 2014, as part of ‘Riga2014’ events, this
event will expand into Vecmīlgrāvis and Lucavsala
districts. The Milk festival
Sunday is chosen for this festivity in order to allow the
numerous and varied public of Vecmīlgrāvis to come
together and get to know each other and celebrate Riga for
a whole enjoyable summer holiday. From 12 at noon till 23
at night, in the territory around renovated culture hall
‘Ziemeļblāzma,’ the festival will offer activities to young
as well as grown-ups in open air – theatre performance,
hair-dressers, masseurs, a chief’s cooking school and the
like, while children are engaged in drawing, pottery, get
creative in a sound laboratory and school for drummers.
The lovers of quieter atmosphere will be offered wine,
more temperate music, and their corners to give plenty of
time to conversation.
Music, theatre,
dance, cinema,
visual art,
photography,
science, sports,
participation of
the public, street
art
Concert,
performance,
presentation,
object in the the
city
environment,
festival, event
Children,
youth, adults
Vecmīlgrāvis,
Cultural hall
'Ziemeļblāzma' Free piens.nu
10.06.2014. Amber Vein
Mikhail and Mikhail play
chess
Performance of the unique opera ‘Mikhail and Mikhail
play chess’ will require 8 singers, 8 dancers, 14
musicians, and 2 conductors; the whole ensemble of 32
has not been casually selected as every artist involved
will represent a figure in a concrete championship game
of chess – and, to be more precise, the sixth round of the
duel of masters, which took place in Moscow in 1962
between Mikhail Tal and Mikhail Botvinnik. Chess is a
fascinating game with its own dramaturgy, heights of
psychological tension, and specific terms, which, co-
incidentally, relates it to theatre and music.
Mikhail and Mikhail play
chess
Riga is to see the world premiere of Kristaps Pētersons’
opera ‘Mikhail and Mikhail play chess’, dedicated to
Magus from Riga, world champion in chess Mikhail Tal.
The artists to form the creative team of the production are
conductor Ainārs Rubiķis, choreographer Kiril Burlovs
who resides in London, director Viesturs Meikšāns, set
designer Reinis Suhanovs, and French video artist Carlos
Franklin. Opera will be performed in Russian.
Music, theatre,
multimedia Show Youth, adults New Hall of LNO opera.lv opera.lv
10.06.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Production of multimedia
opera 'Rienzi'
Composed in Riga in 1837-1839, Richard Wagner’s
opera ‘Rienzi’ is inextricably linked to this city. LNO
plans to world-premiere a multimedia production of this
opera early in 2014, to turn it into one of the European
level events to inaugurate Riga’s year in the status of
European Capital of Culture. Mora than just a staging,
this production will entail re-working of the operatic
material and integrating it according to directorial
vision. Rienzi
Opera ‘Rienzi’ presented by the National Opera of Latvia
in the program of the Riga Opera festival.
Music, theatre,
multimedia Show Adults
National Opera of
Latvia opera.lv opera.lv
10.06.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
May, June, August, and September 2014 will be the
months of multigenerational readings on Esplanade
joining 24 European – and 12 writers from Latvia,
actualizing 150 jubilees of Rainis and Aspasia, which
will be celebrated in 2015. Essays dedicated to this
event will foreground the themes of exile, and one of the
discoveries of the audience will be unique
correspondence of both classic Latvian poets. The texts
in this event will be presented in Latvian and English,
and the collection of essays dedicated to it will be
published, both, in printed and electronic form.
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
Project ‘Readings dedicated to Rainis and Aspasia’ will
extend for 12 cultural events bringing together three guest
writers and one of Latvian writers on their stage. The event
will be far-ranging geographically: participants of
discussion, including literary translators, will include
guests from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway,
Great Britain – particularly highlighting Scotland and
Wales – Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, especially,
Catalonia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. The time of
readings will be between 17:00 till 19:00 in the afternoon. Literature
Discussion /
lecture, festival,
event Youth, adults Esplanade Free literature.lv
10.06.14.-06.07.14. Road Map
Dance Goes Out Into
Town
In 2014, Riga will become an action-site for the
recognized choreographers of contemporary dance, who
will engage the young artists of dance from Latvia in
process of search and creativity aimed at finding new
sites for dance and generating professional pieces of
contemporary dance outside their traditional studios,
theatre houses and platforms. The subject of the project
research will be potential of urban environment to
become the stage of contemporary dance.
Dance Goes Out Into
Town
Group of Japan street dance artists ‘Contact Gonzo’ will
visit Riga and work with 10-12 choreographers and
dancers from Latvia, developing performances in one of
Riga’s neighborhoods (which will be announced). The
creative process as well as performances will
predominantly take place in the cityscape, fusing with the
everyday life of the neighborhood and allowing the locals
and by-passers to become observers of creation of art
work.
Dance,
education, street
art
Performance,
event Youth, adults
Several venues in
Riga Free theatre.lv
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11.06.14.–15.06.14. Thirst for the Ocean
Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of an idea) is an
exhibition, visits, public talks, texts and art work
focusing on unearthing and visualization of the different
segments of thinking. It is a program posing the
question ‘What the public of Riga is interested in?’ –
and stirring the thinking about its confusion in the
moments of confronting and discussing contemporary
art.
In preparation for the
residencies of
international arts
curators - thinkers in
Riga, 'Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
Internationally active professionals of art and culture will
participate in the project ‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of
an idea) to reconsider and widen the discourse on artistic
themes actual in Riga. The curators of the visit programs
Anne Barlow, Courtenay Finn, Egija Inzule, Ainārs
Kamoliņš, Margarida Mendes, Zane Onckule, Chris Sharp,
Jānis Taurens, Alise Tīfentāle etc. The date of the event
may be subject to change.
Music, cinema,
literature, visual
art, design,
architecture,
photography,
history, science,
education,
multimedia,
tradition
Performance,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture,
conference,
workshop,
action, event
Children,
youth, adults
The venues to be
announced Free kim.lv
12.06.14.–28.09.14. Survival Kit
Riga 2014 and Mons
2015 'Transmedia Café
In 2014, RIXC and Mons 2015 (Belgium) in
partnership with a number of other towns will
implement a large-scale project of cultural and social
collaboration. Within this program, a modular public
space, a system of new information, communication and
energy technologies in the form of a mobile container
will be produced. The containers to be placed around
Riga and in other partner towns will join into a global
communications system throwing bridges of inter-
connection among these places, and, for the length of
2014, establishing Riga as the center of this relational
system.
Riga 2014 and Mons
2015 'Transmedia Café'
The idea of the Riga 2014 and Mons 2015 project
‘Transmedia Café’ is the image of a modern,
multifunctional social space in the city characterized by
dynamism and self-sufficiency in terms of the energy it
needs. Container will be placed, in summer 2014, in the
Spīķeri quarter to serve as a place of meeting, realizing
social and cultural function. It will be moved to different
neighborhoods of Riga in order to draw attention of the
widest public possible to the social practices supported by
the new technologies. RIXC will implement this project
collaborating with its main partner ‘Technocité’ and Mons
2015 (Beligium) as well as other members of the network
from Grenoble – France, Canada, Australia, Liepāja
University in Latvia and others.
Visual art,
design, science,
participation of
the public
Performance,
presentation,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop
Children,
youth, adults
Spīķeru creative
quarter on Maskavas
street 8/1 Free rixc.lv/14
15.06.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Production of multimedia
opera 'Rienzi. Triumph
and Defeat'
Composed in Riga in 1837-1839, Richard Wagner’s
opera ‘Rienzi’ is inextricably linked to this city. LNO
plans to world-premiere a multimedia production of this
opera early in 2014, to turn it into one of the European
level events to inaugurate Riga’s year in the status of
European Capital of Culture. Mora than just a staging,
this production will entail re-working of the operatic
material and integrating it according to directorial
vision.
Rienzi. Triumph and
Defeat
Opera ‘Rienzi’ presented by the National Opera of Latvia
in the program of the Riga Opera festival.
Music, theatre,
multimedia Show Adults
Latvian National
Opera opera.lv opera.lv
15.06.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The second program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The second concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Evangelical Lutheran
church in Dubulti
The ticket office to be
announced
17.06.14.–22.06.14. Survival kit Meet Me in the Museum!
The Museum of Naïve Art, Latvia will popularize naïve
art and the culture of Latvia in Europe with an
international collection. There is creative potential in
everybody needing an impulse to be expressed. The
slogan project to promote the creativity of the public
‘Meet Me in the Museum!’ will stir everyone to turn to
creativity or to return to long forgotten paint-brushes or
crayons. Meet Me in the Museum!
Autumn plain-air as part of the project ‘Meet Me in the
Museum!’ will invite everybody to discover their creative
potential, turn to creative activity or to return the paint-
brushes long since put away and to show their work aside
with productions of recognized Latvian naive genre artists.
Visual arts,
participation of
the public Exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
Floating galleries
'Noass' and
'Betanovuss' on AB
quay Free noass.lv
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21.06.14. Riga Carnival Riga Festival
‘Riga Festival’ vividly affirms Riga as a city of
inspiration. Our capital is an everlasting festival of
sounds, aromas, tastes and poetry of reality inviting to
join everyone, for everyone – coming from near or afar
– to feel special, celebrating on the stage or amongst the
public. It is a joy, which we wish to share. The hallmark
‘Riga Festival’ is wide kaleidoscope of eras, genres, and
tastes in music – first and foremost, it is a limitless
musical festivity for the widest circles of Riga’s citizens
and guests. Music, dance, adventure!
Within the program of ‘Riga Festival,’ the ‘children of the
street’ who come from problematic family environments
and belong to groups of risk will be involved in creation of
a professional musical show. The aim of the program is
development of performance uniting the National
Symphony Orchestra of Latvia and about 100 children
aged 8 to 18 who attend the Day Centers in Riga. The
show will be directed by Norwegian director Sigrid Strøm
Reibo, choreographer and dance pedagogue Agris
Daņiļēvičs and Swedish conductor Christian Lindberg. Its
musical score will blend material from ‘Westside Story’,
‘Candide’ and ‘On the Town’ and other opuses by Leonard
Bernstein. Music, dance
Concert,
performance,
festival
Children,
youth, adults
The venue to be
announced bilesuparadize.lv rigasfestivals.lv
21.06.2014. Riga Carnival Solstice Europe
Project Solstice Europe aims at re-discovery of still
persistent traditions of summer solstice celebrations in
Europe and to create impulse to their deeper
examination. The main trend of the event idea is to
establish cooperation with cultural bodies and
collectives of the towns in Europe, to perceive, both,
shared and diverging traditions, held in the continent, to
learn more about the rebirth culture and to offer an
interesting and original program of the event to the
audience, at the same time. Solstice Europe
Artists and collectives from many countries will participate
in the Solstice Europe program events aimed at reflecting
the variety and unity of European traditions of solstice
celebration. Quires and dance groups from Tartu, Rostock,
Hamburg, Veliky Novgorod, Tallinn, Kaunas, Norrköping,
Vilnius, and Bremen have already confirmed their
participation in this event to be accompanied also by a
solstice thoroughfare.
History,
tradition, music Event, concert
Children,
youth, adults
The Grand Forum of
Mežaparks
The ticket office to be
announced
21.06.14 Survival Kit Summer solstice
The shortest night of the year will light up in thousands
of bonfires inviting to experience the celebration as a
traditional ritual – with adorning of the year, making of
flower wreaths, making of Midsummer cheese, singing,
fare-well to the Sun by raising a bonfire on top of the
hill, dancing till the dawn and seeing the sun rise in the
morning. Summer solstice
Summer solstice in Sigulda will be celebrated together with
the folk-group ‘Senleja’. The Eve of grasses will be
hallowed in songs, the groups ‘Dandari’ and ‘Iļģi’ will
make your feet dance all night through. The evening will be
made more colorful by fire men Eduards and Audars
Klints, Indra Čekstere will teach you the language of the
flowers, woven into Midsummer night wreaths, the
traditions of cheese making will be passed over by wise
wives of More and rituals – led by folk-group ‘Silavoti’. Tradition Event
Children,
youth, adults
Turaida, on the hill of
Jānis Free www.marasloks.lv
22.06.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The third program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The third concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Liepāja Trinity
cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
22.06.14.–23.06.14. Riga Carnival
Mystery of Midsummer
Nights celebration 'Dance
the John's Night
Through!'
Drawing on the most ancient Latvian celebration
traditions, the Midsummer Night’s or John’s night’s
mystery is alive and contemporaneous ritual, affirmation
of nation’s vitality, realization of our deepest roots, an
authentic story, which, experienced by the guests of
Riga as European Capital of Culture will take them into
the circle of the celebration of light and the cyclic
experience of time. Conceptually, the performance will
tell the story of John’s night’s traditions in keeping with
the traditional ritual.
Mystery of Midsummer
Nights celebration
'Dance the John's Night
Through!'
Drawing on the most ancient Latvian celebration traditions,
the John’s night’s mystery is an alive and contemporaneous
ritual. The performance 'Dance the John's Night Through!'
will take place on the date of traditional Latvian
Midsummer Night’s celebration, involving several quires,
dance ensembles, brass orchestras, and folk groups, to
amount to estimated 4500 participants.
Music, dance,
tradition Concert
Children,
youth, adults
The Grand Forum of
Mežaparks
The ticket office to be
announced
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27.06.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The third program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The third concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults Riga Dome cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
29.06.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The third program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The third concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Evangelical Lutheran
church in Dubulti
The ticket office to be
announced
30.06.14.-09.07.14. Survival Kit
XI International master
course for young
musicians ‘Baroque
today’
International group of young musicians and music
pedagogues will meet in nine day master classes in
Sigulda School of art ‘White Piano,’ combining
lectures, seminars, discussions, individual and group
classes (orchestra, quires, ensembles, dance), classes of
choice and concerts for the public.
XI International master
course for young
musicians ‘Baroque
today’
The year 2014 master course will join young musicians
from Europe and wider world to be taught by creatively
experienced pedagogues and outstanding masters of their
art from Latvia and abroad. The courses will invite
students of music from music colleges and academy,
pedagogues of musical education and more. A series of free
concerts of participants and pedagogues of this summer
course will be held in the Sigulda concert hall every night
in July 1-8 where musicians will meet in warm, informal
atmosphere to play and enjoy their evenings together in an
atmosphere conducive to establishing further creative
relationships.
Music, dance,
education
Concert,
performance,
presentation,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop, event Youth, adults
Sigulda School of
arts and concert hall Free www.baltaisfligelis.lv
01.07.14.–31.07.14. Road Map Riga self | portraits
Inhabitants of all the districts of Riga will participate in
the workshop led by international group of artists Vesa
Aaltonen (FI), Vincent Beeckman (BE), Eva Voutsaki
(GR) and Latvian photographers Iveta Vaivode,
Kaspars Goba and Andris Kozlovskis, aimed at creating
their self-portraits. In May 2014, project ‘Riga photo
month 2014. Urban Viewfinders’ will bring Argentinean
photographer Marcos Lopez to Riga, who will create
pop-Latino style portraits in its neighborhoods. Riga self | portraits
The exhibition ‘Riga self | portraits’ will offer a view of the
self-portraits and portraits of the public of Riga
neighborhoods taking a contemporary look at the town and
its diversity. The self-portraits of our neighbors will be
produced in creative workshops held by Latvian and
foreign artists, bringing together the series of faces from
Bolderāja, Āgenskalns and Ķengarags districts along with
Argentinean artist Marcos Lopez’s portraits, made in the
vivid style of pop-Latino. During the exhibition, part of the
best portraits and self-portraits will step out into the
cityscape to generate more accompanying events –
presentations with activities of pop-up self-portraits.
Visual art,
photography,
participation of
the public
Exhibition,
event
Children,
youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free issp.lv
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01.07.14.–31.12.14. Thirst for the Ocean
500 years of the Book
1514-2014
Project ‘500 years of the Book 1514-2014’ aims at
creating interactive, modern, and informatively rich
exhibition centering on year 1514, when the explosion
of printing was registered and new habits of reading
came to be established. The books will take audience
into an exiting journey to 500 years distant past when
Erasmus of Rotterdam, Martin Luther, Leonardo,
Rafael, Michelangelo, Titian, Durer and other great men
lived, outstanding monarchs reigned, the world heard
about a continent of America, for the first time, and the
Renaissance saw its heyday.
Exhibition '500 years of
the Book 1514-2014' and
the cycle of lectures
given by leading literary
and cultural figures
Exhibition ‘500 years of the Book 1514-2014’ is intended
to coincide with academic readings ‘The Content of XXI
Century’ given by the world re-known literary and cultural
figures. Unique editions held in European libraries will
complement inter-active presentation methods to enhance
gaining not only a maximally wide view on publishing, but
history, geography, politics, religion, art, music 500 years
ago. The exhibition will offer experience of Renaissance
music, unique art work of such outstanding artists as
Albrecht Durer, and every month of the exhibition will be
dedicated to lectures where prominent thinkers – such as
Umberto Eco – will lecture on the significance of reading
and culture in individual and social life.
Music,
literature, visual
art, science,
education,
multimedia,
tradition
Presentation,
exhibition,
conference
Children,
youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia Free lnb.lv
02.07.14.–01.08.14. Survival Kit En-rooters
The aim of the project ‘En-rooters’ is to create platform
of inter-generational communication by the use of
instruments of design and gardening. The project is
three-fold: 1. Involving senior citizens and children in
gardening. 2. Stimulation of inhabitants of Riga
neighbourhoods to cooperate by Big Get-together
initiatives. 3. Activities in the centre of Riga, on
Esplanade, involving participants of the first two stages.
The ‘Green Space’ will be created there for exhibitions,
concerts, lectures and thematic discussions. Exhibition 'The Present'
Exhibition The Present as par of the project ‘En-rooters’
will tell a story of inter-generational solidarity and how it is
to be senior citizen in Riga and age, without losing activity
– titled Seniors talk and remain industrious! – to be
complemented by other public-oriented features of the
program such as discussions, concerts, and workshops.
Education,
participation of
the public,
tradition Exhibition Youth, adults Esplanade Free
02.07.2014. Thirst for the Ocean Born in Riga
Cycle of concerts ‘Born in Riga’ highlights Riga as a
uniting ground for many of contemporary stars of the
classical music, a place where these artists have begun
their musical careers, a place to give numerous excellent
musicians to Europe and wider world.
Concert of Gidon Kremer
and 'Kremerata Baltica'
Gidon Kremer and ‘Kremerata Baltica’ will give concert of
the Culture Hall ‘Ziemeļblāzma’ reproduced on video
screens in the surrounding park. The event is inspired by
the idea of bringing the forms of high art out of the
confines of the Old Town and to redraw the geographical
borders of musical Riga. Music Concert, event
Children,
youth, adults
Culture Hall
'Ziemeļblāzma' and
adjacent park bilesuparadize.lv kremeratabaltica.lv
03.07.2014. Thirst for the Ocean Born in Riga
Cycle of concerts ‘Born in Riga’ highlights Riga as a
uniting ground for many of contemporary stars of the
classical music, a place where these artists have begun
their musical careers, a place to give numerous excellent
musicians to Europe and wider world.
Film evening 'Gidon's
Riga' in film theatre
'Splendid Palace'
Program of the project ‘Born in Riga’ will feature a
cinematic evening ‘Gidon’s Riga,’ in the cinema ‘Splendid
Palace,’ reflecting the life and career of Gidon Kremer in
feature and documentary films; the program will focus the
famous musician in his work with ‘Kremerata Baltica,’ as
interpret of the role of Paganini and in other artistic feats. Music, cinema
Concert,
discussion /
lecture, action,
event
Children,
youth, adults Splendid Palace' Splendid Palace' kremeratabaltica.lv
03.07.14.-06.07.14. Amber Vein
XI 'Kremerata Baltica'
festival
XI ‘Kremerata Baltica’ festival is based on the analogy
of amber: the greatest of our treasures are skills
developed by people through the ages, excellence in
music, created in this land and known around the world.
‘Kremerata Baltica’ festivals are annual events aimed at
crystallizing the experience and creative contacts
established in festivals and to present the best
achievements to the guests of Riga 2014 – European
Capital of Culture.
XI 'Kremerata Baltica'
festival
Participants of XI ‘Kremerata Baltica’ festival will be the
orchestra ‘Kremerata Baltica’ conducted by Gidon Kremer
joined by other outstanding musicians from Latvia and
abroad. Music Concert, festival Adults
Concert hall 'Baltais
flīģelis'
bilesuparadize.lv,
"Baltais flīģelis" www.kremeratabaltica.lv
03.07.14.–23.07.14. Thirst for the Ocean
Exhibition of Sound Art
‘Skan II’
Exhibition ‘Skan II’ continues ‘Skan’ or Latvia’s first
exposition of sound art, which took place in 2007. The
venue will open in April 2014 and will be seen for entire
summer. The exhibition will feature the latest and most
interesting work of artists who are active in the genre of
sound.
Exhibition of Sound Art
‘Skan II’
The aim of the sound art exhibition "Skan II" is to offer the
audience an innovative contemporary art forms and remind
about the unique Riga architecture heritage. Several
Latvian and foreign artists will take part at "Skan II":
Evelīna Deičmane, Voldemārs Johansons, Leif Elggren and
Carl Michael Von Hauswolff, Anke Eckardt, Michael J.
Schumacher, Edwin van der Heide, Arnaud Jacobs, Signe
Liden, David Helbich, Thomas Rutgers and Jitske Blom,
Tommi Gronlund and Petteri Nisunen, Stefan Roigk,
Pascal Broccolichi, Max Eastley, Deadbeat.
Music, visual
art
Performance,
exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
Gallery at Kalnciems
quarter, Botanical
Garden of Latvia
University and
venues in Riga
cityscape Free skanumezs.lv
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04.07.2014. Freedom Street
Voices from the dark or
Žanis Lipke's squaring of
the circle
Realizing the project ‘Voices from the dark or Žanis
Lipke's squaring of the circle,’ composer Arturs
Maskats will create a new opus – dedication ‘Žanis and
Johanna’ to be interpreted by chamber orchestra
‘Kremerata Baltica,’ conducted by Gidon Kremer. The
program of the project also includes presentation of the
book for children aged 8 to 15 – an adventure story with
a twelve year old boy in the center ‘Boy with a Dog. A
Story of a Secret Well-kept’.
Love. Opus ‘Žanis and
Johanna’
The premier of the opus ‘Žanis and Johanna’ composed by
Arturs Maskats and interpreted by Gidon Kremer’s
chamber orchestra ‘Kremerata Baltica.’ Set designer and
director Reinis Suhanovs. Žanis and Johanna Lipke not
only gave an outstanding example of human value, but also
kept their love alive in the trying turns of their fate till the
final day of their lives… Music Concert Adults The Big Guildhall
The ticket office to be
announced lipke.lv
05.07.2014. Freedom Street Reunion of military bands
Celebrating the 10th
anniversary of Latvia as full-
fledged EU member state, Riga will invite numerous
military orchestras from all around Europe to
participate in a colorful parade and several concerts.
The reunion of military orchestras featuring a march
through the town, will symbolize basic values of
individuality within unit shared by the EU member
states.
Reunion of European
military bands
A march-parade through the Old Town of Riga and the
first concert of the celebration on the Dome Square will
open the Military Orchestra Reunion program. The date of
the event may change. Music
Concert,
performance,
event Youth, adults
Old City, Dome
square Free riga2014.org
06.07.2014. Freedom Street Reunion of military bands
Celebrating the 10th
anniversary of Latvia as full-
fledged EU member state, Riga will invite numerous
military orchestras from all around Europe to
participate in a colorful parade and several concerts.
The reunion of military orchestras featuring a march
through the town, will symbolize basic values of
individuality within unit shared by the EU member
states.
Reunion of military
bands
A range of guest concerts outside Riga is planned to be
part of Reunion of European military bands, and the whole
event will conclude with gala concert and orchestral defile
program in Riga ‘Skonto’ Stadium. The main participants
are the Central band of the Royal Air Force, the Aviation
Band of Spain and others. The date of the event may be
subject to change. Music
Concert,
performance,
event Youth, adults
Riga ‘Skonto’
Stadium and other
towns in Latvia Free riga2014.org
06.07.2014. Thirst for the Ocean Born in Riga
The cycle of concerts ‘Born in Riga’ highlights Riga as
connecting place – the unifying ground for the
contemporary great stars in the musical world, the place
where these outstanding artists have made their first
steps in music, the place, which has given so many
wonderful musicians to more than Europe alone. Born in Riga
The idea of this event is to unite a great constellation of the
stars of world music, born in Riga, to perform on the
natural stage presented by the square of the National
Opera. Music
Concert,
TV/radio Adults The Square of LNO Free
06.07.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The fourth program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The fourth concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Liepāja Trinity
cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
09.07.14.–19.07.14.
Without thematic
division World Choir Games
The World Choir Games is the largest international
quire singing event on the planet and, not without
reason, is known as the quire singing Games. The next
such event will take place in Riga as part of the program
of Riga – the European Capital of Culture. Ten years
ago, the board of the world quire Games was joined by
maestro Imants Kokars who has devoted great efforts to
bringing event of this cope to Latvia, which is known as
one of the quire singing giants. From 2008, his work
was taken over by conductor Romāns Vanags. 8th World Choir Games
The idea of the World Choir Games is to promote
understanding amongst nations and world peace, uniting
people from every corner of the planet in a friendly contest.
In July 2014, Riga will host about 20 000 singers from all
around the world and see quire music to take over its
biggest concert halls and venues. A grand international
range of choirs will make Riga a capital of choir music for
the duration of the Games.
Music,
education,
participation of
the piublic
Concert,
performance,
workshop,
festival, event
Children,
youth, adults
The venues to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced riga2014.org
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09.07.2014. Riga Carnival Early Music Festival
The Early Music festival will take the modern audience
back into Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque musical
atmospheres. The concerts of the festival will bring
listeners to the churches and concert halls in the Old
Town of Riga, but its central feature will be the
program in the exquisite Baroque castle of Rundāle.
This festival brings numerous early music from Europe
and other continents to Latvia every year. Particular
attention will be paid to composers who have lived and
worked in historic Riga. The Prodigal Son
In the week of Early Music Festival, a concert-performance
‘The Prodigal Son’ will be presented to the audience as an
attempt to restore and offer experience of the year 1527
tale by Burkhart Valdys to the audience. The former vocal
group Cosmos and group of ancient dance ‘Ballare’
collaborating with actors and renaissance music ensemble,
directed by Varis Klausītājs, will bring this idea to
realization. The date of the event may be subject to change. Music
Concert,
performance,
festival
Children,
youth, adults The Spīķeri courtyard bilesuparadize.lv smf.lv
10.07.2014. Riga Carnival Early Music Festival
The Early Music festival will take the modern audience
back into Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque musical
atmospheres. The concerts of the festival will bring
listeners to the churches and concert halls in the Old
Town of Riga, but its central feature will be the
program in the exquisite Baroque castle of Rundāle.
This festival brings numerous early music from Europe
and other continents to Latvia every year. Particular
attention will be paid to composers who have lived and
worked in historic Riga.
Concerts of Baroque
ensemble 'Barosica'
The Early Music Festival will offer concerts of Baroque
music presenting a new Latvian early music ensemble
‘Barosica’ – voice – mezzo soprano Ieva Parša, violin –
Agnese Kanniņa-Liepiņa, harpsichord – Ieva Saliete, and
contrabass – Jānis Stafeckis. The date of the event may be
subject to change. Music Concert, festival Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced bilesuparadize.lv smf.lv
10.07.2014. Riga Carnival Early Music Festival
The Early Music festival will take the modern audience
back into Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque musical
atmospheres. The concerts of the festival will bring
listeners to the churches and concert halls in the Old
Town of Riga, but its central feature will be the
program in the exquisite Baroque castle of Rundāle.
This festival brings numerous early music from Europe
and other continents to Latvia every year. Particular
attention will be paid to composers who have lived and
worked in historic Riga.
Music in Riga
1570–1800
The Early Music Festival introduces concert program
‘Music in Riga 1570-1800’ to feature compositions played
in the churches and concert halls of Riga in the 16th
to 19th
century – G. M. Telemann, J. W. Meder, and F. A.
Feihtner. Performers – Sergejs Jēgers, countertenor,
Kristīne Adamaite, organ, Agnese Kanniņa-Liepiņa,
baroque violin, Kristīne Stumbure, Travers flute, Danuta
Ločmele, baroque cello, the Boys’ Quire of Riga Dome
cathedral, conducted by Mārtiņš Klišāns, baroque quire
Collegium Choro Musici Riga, and baroque orchestra
Collegium Musicum Riga, conducted by Māris Kupčs. The
date of the event may be subject to change. Music Concert, festival Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced bilesuparadize.lv smf.lv
10.07.2014. Riga Carnival
Botanical Garden of the
University of Latvia - the
green heart of Riga
The project for the UL Botanical Garden is a corpus of
exhibitions, seminars, work-shops, concerts and other
cultural and educational events to acquaint the viewer
with the garden culture and richness of flora, to promote
understanding of biological diversity, complemented by
enjoyment of art – photography, sculpture, the art-work
of florists, poetry, music etc. – inspired by gardens and
nature, inviting the participation of everybody who is
open to creativity and learning.
The Ball of Flowers Riga
2014
The Ball of Flowers is the largest, the most diverse and the
most widely attended flower show in Latvia and the Baltic
states. This traditionally held event holds sway as the
highlight of the year for many inhabitants and guests of the
capital – for everyone interested in flowers and decorative
flora, everyone who values well-kept environment,
luscious gardens and enjoys the beauty of flowers.
Concerts of the artists of UL and other participants will
beautifully accompany the wonder of blossoming.
Music, visual
arts, design,
photography,
history, science,
tradition
Concert, object
in the city
environment,
creative work-
shop, action,
event
Children,
youth, adults
Botanical Garden of
the University of
Latvia
The ticket office to be
announced
11.07.2014. Riga Carnival Early Music Festival
The Early Music festival will take the modern audience
back into Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque musical
atmospheres. The concerts of the festival will bring
listeners to the churches and concert halls in the Old
Town of Riga, but its central feature will be the
program in the exquisite Baroque castle of Rundāle.
This festival brings numerous early music from Europe
and other continents to Latvia every year. Particular
attention will be paid to composers who have lived and
worked in historic Riga. Gregorian chant
One of the Early Music Festival events will be the concert
of Gregorian chant, presented by the only professional
interprets of this genre of music in Latvia – vocal ensemble
Schola Cantorum Riga and countertenor Sergejs Jēgers.
The date of the event may be subject to change. Music Concert, festival Youth, adults Riga Dome bilesuparadize.lv smf.lv
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11.07.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The fourth program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The fourth concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults Riga Dome cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
12.07.2014. Riga Carnival Early Music Festival
The Early Music festival will take the modern audience
back into Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque musical
atmospheres. The concerts of the festival will bring
listeners to the churches and concert halls in the Old
Town of Riga, but its central feature will be the
program in the exquisite Baroque castle of Rundāle.
This festival brings numerous early music from Europe
and other continents to Latvia every year. Particular
attention will be paid to composers who have lived and
worked in historic Riga. Orlando Furioso
The Early Music Festival will invite the public the first
night performance of ‘Orlando Furioso’ – the lost opera by
Antonio Vivaldi, which came to be unearthed in 2012.
Created in 1727 and not found until 270 years after the
death of its author, the opera will be performed by the
Radio Quire Latvia and baroque orchestra and ensemble
‘Collegium 1704’ from the Czech Republic. The date of
the event may be subject to change. Music
Concert,
performance,
festival Youth, adults
Riga and the Castle
of Rundāle bilesuparadize.lv smf.lv
13.07.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The fourth program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The fourth concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Evangelical Lutheran
church in Dubulti
The ticket office to be
announced
17.07.2014. Riga Carnival
Symphonic journey with
St. Petersburg Mariinsky
Theatre
Gala concert of St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre will be
held at Latvian National Opera.
St. Petersburg Mariinsky
Theatre gala concert
At gala concert of St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre, the
first symphonic part will be dedicated to works composed
by world classical and contemporary authors
(Tchaikovsky, Shchedrin, Wagner, Verdi), but several
subjects from famous opera performances (Verdi,
Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Puccini) will be performed by artists
from Mariinsky Theatre. Also The Symphony Orchestra of
St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre conducted by Valery
Gergiev will take part. The date of the event may be
subject to change. Music Concert Youth, adults
Latvian National
Opera bilesuparadize.lv artforte.lv
20.07.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The fifth program 'Organ
music in the sign of
BACH'
The fifth concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Liepāja Trinity
cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
20.07.14.-17.08.14. Road Map
Dance Goes Out Into
Town
In 2014, Riga will become an action-site for the
recognized choreographers of contemporary dance, who
will engage the young artists of dance from Latvia in
process of search and creativity aimed at finding new
sites for dance and generating professional pieces of
contemporary dance outside their traditional studios,
theatre houses and platforms. The subject of the project
research will be potential of urban environment to
become the stage of contemporary dance.
Dance Goes Out Into
Town
Austrian choreographer Willy Dorner will visit Riga and
work with 10-12 choreographers and dancers from Latvia,
developing performances in one of Riga’s neighborhoods
(which will be announced). The creative process as well as
performances will predominantly take place in the
cityscape, fusing with the everyday life of the neighborhood
and allowing the locals and by-passers to become observers
of creation of art work.
Dance,
education
Performance,
event
Children,
youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free theatre.lv
21.07.14.–03.08.14. Riga Carnival The Ladies' Paradise
Project ‘ten Movements of Fashion and Fashion on the
Stage’ reflects the history of fashion in Europe in the
period between years 1900 and 2000, popularly
introducing the most prominent brand names in fashion
and the social and cultural history of the continent in
this period. The set design of the project uses staged
frames of film archive material. The Ladies' Paradise
The Ladies’ Paradise will be five performances reflecting
two decades in fashion, starting from year 1900. The aim
of the project is to employ the genre of entertaining
performance in order to foreground a phenomenon as wide
as European fashion. Well-known fashion designers will
participate in the performance created and produced by
Ilona Brūvere, consulted, for style, Natālija Jansone.
Music, theatre,
dance, cinema,
literature, visual
art,
photography,
history,
education,
multimedia Show Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced ilonabruvere.com
25.07.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The fifth program 'Organ
music in the sign of
BACH'
The fifth concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults Riga Dome cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
26.07.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Events of ‘Be Here’ in the
festival of introvert art
‘Ad lucem’
‘Be Here’ is a range of the programs within the festival
of introvert art ‘Ad lucem’ specially dedicated to ‘Riga
2014’. They are a whole night event on Esplanade
‘Sunrise in town,’ readings ‘Lord of the Horizons’
participated by prominent experts of oriental music and
featuring interpretation of Koran by translator and poet
Uldis Bērziņš, as well as already legendary ‘Night
Meditation,’ made unforgettable by improvisations of
British cello player Matthew Barley. Your center is
where you are even in the humdrum of the city. Stop
and listen to the quiet heart beat of Riga, sense its
particular spiritual radiance and be present! Sunrise in the City
The festival of introvert art ‘Ad lucem’ will feature a whole
night program ‘Sunrise in the City,’ inviting presence on
the Esplanade shared with particular musicians, in order to
discover a unique, spiritual beat in the rhythm of breath of
the city. In an inviting tent set with cushions, the audience
of this event will be stirred into meditative vibrations of
introvert music and find a fresh sense of sunrise in the
urban heart of Riga. Be here! Music
Concert,
festival, event Youth, adults Esplanade bilesuserviss.lv adlucem.info
27.07.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The fifth program 'Organ
music in the sign of
BACH'
The fifth concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Evangelical Lutheran
church in Dubulti
The ticket office to be
announced
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30.07.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Events of ‘Be Here’ in the
festival of introvert art
‘Ad lucem’
‘Be Here’ is a range of the programs within the festival
of introvert art ‘Ad lucem’ specially dedicated to ‘Riga
2014’. The program ‘Sunrise in town,’ invites you to
Esplanade to share a beautifully cushioned night entirely
devoted to the meditative vibes of introvert music, to
hear your own heartbeat, in an unhurried experience of
the town embraced by night, and to discover its spiritual
dimension. Let us see sunrise in the very heart of Riga! Lord of Horizons
‘Lord of Horizons’ will be one of the highlights of the
festival of introvert art ‘Ad lucem.’ Its source was found
in the personality of the 17th
century translator, teacher and
composer Uli Afki whose outstanding life on the crossroads
of Eastern and Western cultures affirms the main value in
all times – humanism. Music performed by ensemble of
oriental music ‘Sarband’ will enliven this event. Artistic
director of this group Vladimir Ivanoff
(Bulgaria/Germany) is a prominent musicologist, specialist
of leute, baroque and oriental music. The theme of the
concert is inter-relation of Oriental and Western music,
reflection of Christianity and Islam in its scores, integrating
readings of Koran by poet and translator Uldis Bērziņš. Music, literature
Concert,
festival, event Youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia bilesuserviss.lv adlucem.info
30.07.14.–20.08.14. Thirst for the Ocean
Exhibition of Sound Art
‘Skan II’
Exhibition ‘Skan II’ continues ‘Skan’ or Latvia’s first
exposition of sound art, which took place in 2007. The
venue will open in April 2014 and will be seen for entire
summer. The exhibition will feature the latest and most
interesting work of artists who are active in the genre of
sound.
Exhibition of Sound Art
‘Skan II’
The aim of the sound art exhibition "Skan II" is to offer the
audience an innovative contemporary art forms and remind
about the unique Riga architecture heritage. Several
Latvian and foreign artists will take part at "Skan II":
Evelīna Deičmane, Voldemārs Johansons, Leif Elggren and
Carl Michael Von Hauswolff, Anke Eckardt, Michael J.
Schumacher, Edwin van der Heide, Arnaud Jacobs, Signe
Liden, David Helbich, Thomas Rutgers and Jitske Blom,
Tommi Gronlund and Petteri Nisunen, Stefan Roigk,
Pascal Broccolichi, Max Eastley, Deadbeat.
Music, visual
art
Performance,
exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
Gallery at Kalnciems
quarter, Botanical
Garden of Latvia
University and
venues in Riga
cityscape Free skanumezs.lv
01.08.14.–03.08.14. Amber Vein
The Amber Road
Towards Future of Latvia
in the World
Project involves generation and analysis of information,
scientific research, publishing of a book, guided by the
theme – The Amber Road Towards Future of Latvia in
the World. It will be the first such publication, focusing
on history of emergence Baltic amber, the processes of
its diagenesis by time, its role in human existence from
its tribal history to the present day. The edition will also
include the review of scientific research on amber and
descriptions of innovative products in the segment of its
appropriation.
The Amber Road
Towards Future of
Latvia in the World' -
book presentation
The significance of the book 'The Amber Road Towards
Future of Latvia in the World' lies in the provided
opportunity to step out of the usual hurried rhythm of life
and to approach amber from a different angle. The scientist
from Latvia Inga Ļašenko, who has dedicate years of
research to amber, wishes to present her vision of amber to
wider part of society, and the book and research will be her
independent work. Literature Presentation Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free jlutechnologies.lv
01.08.14.-03.08.14 Amber Vein
Sigulda International
Opera festival
Sigulda Opera fete is a unique musical event, when the
open-air concert hall in the Sigulda castle complex
comes more alive than ever. The audience is offered
premiere of concert-staging of a world class musical
piece interpreted by prominent artists, concerts chamber
music, sacral music and an impressive gala. To open the
world of opera music to the young audience, it is
already the fifth Sigulda Opera fete when performance
for children finds its place in its program.
Sigulda International
Opera festival
The hallmark of Sigulda Opera fete is opera chosen by the
organizer, which is adapted to be performed in the open.
The event comes to be realized as a project. Artistic team
gets assembled and original staging of opera is born in a
short period of work guaranteeing excellent quality and
artistic surprises. The aim of this entrepreneurship is
introduction of the most outstanding world artists of opera
and demonstration of the talent of soloists, conductors,
orchestras and quires working in Latvia. Music Festival
Children,
youth, adults
Sigulda castle open-
air concert hall bilesuparadize.lv www.opersvetki.lv
01.08.14.–30.09.14. Road Map Riga Films
„Riga Films” project is an event of „Riga – European
Capital of Culture” with the main aim to bring together
film professionals and school children in order to tell
stories about Riga suburbs. Children will be able to
learn filming basics with the help of professionals
during the workshop. Therefore, newly-made films will
be screened together with the best films about Riga from
the early years in 2014 when Riga becomes The
European Capital of Culture.
Screenings of the best
films and closing event of
the 'Riga Films'
Creative workshops of „Riga Films” will be curated in
Riga schools from October, 2013, until May, 2014. 240
children will shoot 48 short films about Riga during those
12 workshops. Such film professionals as Ilona Brūvere,
Ivars Zviedris, Dainis Kļava, Mārtiņš Grauds, Dzintars
Dreibergs will lead the workshops, but open-air public film
screenings will be offered in August and September, 2014,
together with the best Riga film selection from modern and
early days. On 30 September, the best film directors will
receive rewards at „Splendid Palace”. Cinema
Event,
performance Youth, adults
Film theatre 'Splendid
Palace' Free www.rigaskino.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
02.08.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Events of ‘Be Here’ in the
festival of introvert art
‘Ad lucem’
‘Be Here’ is a range of the programs within the festival
of introvert art ‘Ad lucem’ specially dedicated to ‘Riga
2014’. They are a whole night event on Esplanade
‘Sunrise in town,’ readings ‘Lord of the Horizons’
participated by prominent experts of oriental music and
featuring interpretation of Koran by translator and poet
Uldis Bērziņš, as well as already legendary ‘Night
Meditation,’ made unforgettable by improvisations of
British cello player Matthew Barley. Your center is
where you are even in the humdrum of the city. Stop
and listen to the quiet heart beat of Riga, sense its
particular spiritual radiance and be present! The Night Meditation
Concert ‘The Night Meditation’ will be part of the festival
program of introvert art ‘Ad lucem.’ This unique tradition
was established by the outstanding British cello musician
Matthew Barley, who is known for his creativity, daring,
openness to unbeaten ideas, and disregard of geographical,
social, and style-related limits. In an eight hour meditation,
the audience will follow improvisation, diving deep into
orchestral timbres of acoustic and electrical cello,
remaining seated, lying down on cushions, blankets or
sleeping bags – falling asleep, waking up, and entering a
dimension of perception eluding us in the everyday. Be
with us! Music
Concert,
festival, event Youth, adults
Culture Hall
'Ziemeļblāzma' bilesuserviss.lv adlucem.info
03.08.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The sixth program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
Thes sixth concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Liepāja Trinity
cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
03.08.2014. Road Map The Milk festival
Interest generates energy. This simple truth took the
organizers out into the café courtyard in order to learn
what a festival is, three years ago. As it turns out, the
answers to this are many, bet, fundamentally, The Milk
festival is a summer Sunday spent with in company of
close friends, listening to good music, enjoying fine food
and different kind of attractions, surrounded by
laughter. In 2014, as part of ‘Riga2014’ events, this
event will expand into Vecmīlgrāvis and Lucavsala
districts. The Milk festival
Daugava washes around a number of islands, to which the
inhabitants of Riga are never taken in their everyday
routes. The Milk festival in Lucavsala will reveal the
charm of this island, demonstrating how clean and open to
romantics, photographers and just people thirsty for new
urban experiences it is. In essence, this festival will be a
beautiful Sunday, spent amidst Daugava waters from 12 in
the afternoon till 23 at night. The main stage of the event
will be given to local and guest musicians, while its active
zone will be occupied by street artists, performances,
circus, attractions, a small fare, artisan workshops, offer
the services of hair-dresser and masseur and get advised on
cooking. A separate theatre stage will also be open, while
children will be entertained by drawing, pottery and sound
creating activities etc. Wine, more temperate music and
conversation will reign in the quieter zone of the event.
Music, theatre,
dance, cinema,
visual art,
photography,
science, sports,
participation of
the public, street
art
Concert,
performance,
presentation,
object in the city
environment,
festival, event
Children,
youth, adults
The renovated park
of Lucavsala Free piens.nu
06.08.14.–05.09.14. Survival Kit En-rooters
The aim of the project ‘En-rooters’ is to create platform
of inter-generational communication by the use of
instruments of design and gardening. The project is
three-fold: 1. Involving senior citizens and children in
gardening. 2. Stimulation of inhabitants of Riga
neighbourhoods to cooperate by Big Get-together
initiatives. 3. Activities in the centre of Riga, on
Esplanade, involving participants of the first two stages.
The ‘Green Space’ will be created there for exhibitions,
concerts, lectures and thematic discussions. Exhibition 'The Future'
Exhibition Future will open as a sequence in the project
‘En-rooters’ offering a view of innovative and surprising
local and foreign objects of art and designing of the city
environment and adjustment to needs of different groups of
inhabitants, also inviting the public to discussions,
concerts, workshops etc.
Design,
architecture,
science,
education,
participation of
the public Exhibition Youth, adults Esplanade Free
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06.08.14.–28.09.14. Amber Vein The Epoch of Amber
A national treasure, praised and belittled in our esteem
by turns, amber is considered to be a symbol of Latvian
nation. This exhibition aims to explore the changes in
how amber has been viewed in Latvia from early 20th
century till present day, approaching it, diversely, as an
object of art, decorative and design element, souvenir,
subject of scientific research, phenomenon to give birth
to a personal name and the like. The Epoch of Amber
Exhibition ‘The Epoch of Amber’ is a cultural
anthropological study of the phenomenon of amber in the
art, culture and cycles of the social of a single nation,
attempting to answer the question – what do we know
about amber? The author of the idea is head of department
of MDAD Inese Baranovsja. In partnership with other
museums in Latvia, the project of the exhibition is created
by the specialists of MDAD. Artists Ingrīda Zābere, Izolde
Cēsniece, Gints Gabrāns, Monika Pormale, Rūdolfs Bekičs
and others will be invited to participate in the project.
Music, cinema,
literature, visual
art, design,
photography,
history, science,
multimedia,
tradition Exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
Museum of
Deciorative Arts and
Design, Skārņu street
10/20 lnmm.lv lnmm.lv
08.08.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The sixth program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The sixth concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults Riga Dome cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
08.08.2014. Riga Carnival The Years of Wandering
‘The Years of Wandering’ highlight Riga as a cultural
crossroads of Europe. Many luminaries – thinkers,
musicians, singers – have met here. The project is
inspired by Franz Liszt’s fantasy ‘Wanderer’ – both, a
geographical and spiritual journey. Compositions joined
by this theme as well as newly commissioned work will
be presented in this cycle of concerts. Year 2014 will
bring together in Jūrmala the classics of musical
repertoire and re-known musicians, whose origins are
found in Riga and Latvia. The Years of Wandering
The range of ‘The Years of Wandering’ themes is varied
and will invite creative approach of the public. The
participants of these concerts are ‘Kremerata Baltica,’
Latvian National Symphony Orchestra, Ksenija Sidorova
(accordion), Gidon Kremer (violin), Elīna Bukša (violin),
Ramon Jaffe (cello), Inga Kalna (soprano), Egil Siliņš
(bass), Andrey Osokin (piano), and others.
Music,
education Concert Youth, adults
Dzintari Concert Hall
in Jūrmala hbf.lv hbf.lv
08.08.14.–09.08.14. Survival Kit
Artisan workshops 'The
Bridge'
The idea of the project is organization of artisan
workshops, in order to understand the range of their
representation in Latvia and offer a creative and
authentic space, in which to meet and perform in their
authentic environment, which is open for public
attendance. Based on the historic experience and skills,
the potential artisans will be incented to create new,
modern products, and the project will conclude with a
wide and diverse exhibition of the products of
contemporary artisanship.
Exhibition of the produce
of artisan workshops
Exhibition of the produce of artisan workshops 'The
Bridge' held in May 2014
Design,
education,
participation of
the public,
tradition
Exhibition,
workshop, event
Children,
youth, adults
The Ethnographic
Open-Air Museum of
Latvia
The Ethnographic
Open-Air Museum of
Latvia brivdabasmuzejs.lv
08.08.14.–10.08.14. Riga Carnival RE RE Rīga!
Street Art and World Music Festival "RE RE Rīga!"
will bring together more than 20 artist collectives: more
than 100 participants from 12 countries. Riga city
environment will be fulfilled with exciting new circus
shows, world music, dance and street art. Professional
emerging artists will take part at the festival gaining fast
popularity around the world. RE RE Rīga!
The aim of the festival is to bring excellent music and art
into spaces available to every citizen and guest of Riga.
Music, dance,
visual art, street
art
Concert, show,
object in the city
environment,
festival
Children,
youth, adults
AB quay, squares,
streets, parks, and
courtyards of Riga Free
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09.08.14 Survival Kit The Natural concert hall
The ‘Natural concert hall’ of art and science is
symbiosis of nature, music, science, video art and
dramaturgy, actualizing and strengthening inter-relation
of man and nature. Its audience will be able to take
hikes, join research laboratories and workshops, to
become participants of performance of nature, music
and video art. As the contemporary of the sandstone
rock, which walls in the Gauja ancient valley, the hero
of the Natural concert hall is armor fish.
The Natural concert hall
'Armour Fish'
The event Natural concert hall ‘Armour fish’ will be two
part fete consisting of research laboratories and workshops
as well as – performance of music, light and projections.
The scientific part of the project will be presented by
Latvian Association of Entomologists, The Nature
Protection Board, University of Latvia, Museum of
Natural History, Latvian Association of Ornithology and
researchers of bats. The concert will be given by Ingus
Ulmanis, Andris Sējāns, Valdis Muktupāvels, Aigars
Voitišķis, Kaspars Tobis, and Anrijs Grinbergs as well as
sound producer Gatis Zaķis and invited musicians of
different styles. The aim is to break boundaries between
science and culture, explaining the values of nature
innovatively and attractively, and to educate the public
about these issues.
Music, science,
education,
multimedia
Performance,
workshop
Children,
youth, adults
Sigulda, Gauja
ancient valley at
Gūtmaņala Free dabaskoncerts.lv
10.08.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The sixth program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The sixth concert program of the project ‘Organ music in
the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Evangelical Lutheran
church in Dubulti
The ticket office to be
announced
12.08.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
May, June, August, and September 2014 will be the
months of multigenerational readings on Esplanade
joining 24 European – and 12 writers from Latvia,
actualizing 150 jubilees of Rainis and Aspasia, which
will be celebrated in 2015. Essays dedicated to this
event will foreground the themes of exile, and one of the
discoveries of the audience will be unique
correspondence of both classic Latvian poets. The texts
in this event will be presented in Latvian and English,
and the collection of essays dedicated to it will be
published, both, in printed and electronic form.
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
Project ‘Readings dedicated to Rainis and Aspasia’ will
extend for 12 cultural events bringing together three guest
writers and one of Latvian writers on their stage. The event
will be far-ranging geographically: participants of
discussion, including literary translators, will include
guests from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway,
Great Britain – particularly highlighting Scotland and
Wales – Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, especially,
Catalonia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. The time of
readings will be between 17:00 till 19:00 in the afternoon. Literature
Discussion /
lecture, festival,
event Youth, adults Esplanade Free literature.lv
12.08.14.–12.09.14. Freedom Street
Cafe Spleen or August
1914
Action ‘Cafe Spleen or August 1914’ will feature the
figures of Latvian poet Jānis Akurāters and his
contemporaries revealing how year 1914 urged
development of the idea of Latvia as an independent
state and how the war changed the way of thinking.
Recordings of Akuraters, Skalbe, and Virza’s poetry
and songs composed with their lyrics as well as lectures,
discussions and a range of other events will be offered
to the audience within this program.
Cafe Spleen or August
1914
The ‘Cafe Spleen or August 1914’ aims to examine how
war laid basis for freedom and changed the way humans
thought or, in other words, created the modern man. ‘Cafe
Spleen or August 1914’ consists of action space as an
exhibition, a vocally instrumental oratorio with Akurāters,
Skalbe and Virza’s lyricis and inter-actional sessions:
-‘The Riflemen Theatre in the Black cabinet”
-‘My grand-father, my great-grand-father, my great-great-
grandfather – rifleman or the tales of the unmentioned’
-‘Two little doves…’
-‘The Field of Death’ – poetry of G. Trakl and story
‘Death’ by Jānis Akurāters
-‘My letter to another generation’
-reading of novel ‘Fiery Flowers’ by Jānis Akurāters.
Music, theatre,
literature,
multimedia
Performance,
exhibition,
action, event Youth, adults
Jānis Akurāters
Museum on Vācieša
street 6a and its
surroundings
The ticket office to be
announced
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
17.08.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The seventh program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The seventh concert program of the project ‘Organ music
in the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Liepāja Trinity
cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
18.08.14.–31.08.14. Road Map
The festival of urban art
'Urban Storytelling''
The festival of urban art ‘Urban Storytelling’ is a
project of contemporary art integrating the art processes
into urban environment, including its outskirts, degraded
or ‘wasted’ cultural space, the sleeping districts.
Program and forms of artistic expression in every of
these locations is dictated by its individual history and
the present outlook. By means of music, visual art,
spoken word and sound, the festival ‘Urban
Storytelling’ foregrounds the tradition of storytelling in
modern urban environment. The figures, main
characters and co-authors of stories to be told are the
neighborhood people as well as their surroundings,
architecture and cultural history of their environment
allowing for re-discovery of the ‘place’ in experience
offered by the festival. Urban Storytelling
The festival of urban art ‘Urban Storytelling’ will offer a
cultural program integrated in the town environment with
events taking place in different districts of Riga. Each of
them has its own, distinct urban and human heart, space
and center to concentrate the life of the neighborhood in it,
and, around this center, the main activities of the festival
will concentrate. In Purvciems, the festival will draw
viewers to Mēbeļu nams shopping spot, in Zolitūde – to a
12-story building in one of the inner courtyards, in
Sarkandaugava – to the open park of the Psycho-
neurological Clinic, while in Grīziņkalns, this center is
established in the region of Vārnu and Zvaigžņu streets.
Music, visual
art, literature
Festival,
concert,
performance Youth, adults
Purvciems, Zolitūde,
Sarkandaugava and
Grīziņkalns districts
in Riga Free
19.08.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
May, June, August, and September 2014 will be the
months of multigenerational readings on Esplanade
joining 24 European – and 12 writers from Latvia,
actualizing 150 jubilees of Rainis and Aspasia, which
will be celebrated in 2015. Essays dedicated to this
event will foreground the themes of exile, and one of the
discoveries of the audience will be unique
correspondence of both classic Latvian poets. The texts
in this event will be presented in Latvian and English,
and the collection of essays dedicated to it will be
published, both, in printed and electronic form.
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
Project ‘Readings dedicated to Rainis and Aspasia’ will
extend for 12 cultural events bringing together three guest
writers and one of Latvian writers on their stage. The event
will be far-ranging geographically: participants of
discussion, including literary translators, will include
guests from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway,
Great Britain – particularly highlighting Scotland and
Wales – Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, especially,
Catalonia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. The time of
readings will be between 17:00 till 19:00 in the afternoon. Literature
Discussion /
lecture, festival,
event Youth, adults Esplanade Free literature.lv
20.08.14.–24.08.14. Thirst for the Ocean
Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of an idea) is an
exhibition, visits, public talks, texts and art work
focusing on unearthing and visualization of the different
segments of thinking. It is a program posing the
question ‘What the public of Riga is interested in?’ –
and stirring the thinking about its confusion in the
moments of confronting and discussing contemporary
art.
In preparation for the
residencies of
international arts
curators - thinkers in
Riga, 'Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
Internationally active professionals of art and culture will
participate in the project ‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of
an idea) to reconsider and widen the discourse on artistic
themes actual in Riga. The curators of the visit programs
Anne Barlow, Courtenay Finn, Egija Inzule, Ainārs
Kamoliņš, Margarida Mendes, Zane Onckule, Chris Sharp,
Jānis Taurens, Alise Tīfentāle etc. The date of the event
may be subject to change.
Music, cinema,
literature, visual
art, design,
architecture,
photography,
history, science,
education,
multimedia,
tradition
Performance,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture,
conference,
workshop,
action, event
Children,
youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free kim.lv
22.08.14.–26.10.14. Freedom Street
Gustavs Klucis
(1895–1938). Anatomy
of an Experiment
‘Gustavs Klucis (1895–1938). Anatomy of an
Experiment’ will be the largest exhibition of work of
this world famous constructivist in Latvia so far,
representing more than 200 items of LNMA and other
museums in Europe. In a fully fleshed story of Gustavs
Klucis’ life and art, the fate of Latvians who remained
in Russia in the years of WWI; the exhibition will pose
the questions regarding the possibility of choosing the
sides for the individual in times of historic change and –
what side does art remain on in collisions, when the
power that be includes it in its arsenal?
Gustavs Klucis
(1895–1938). Anatomy
of an Experiment
Exhibition of the National Museum of Art and partnering
institutions ‘Gustavs Klucis (1895–1938) Anatomy of an
Experiment’ will be open for viewing for two months. It
will offer an in-depth focus on life and art of the
outstanding Latvian artist Gustavs Klucis.
Visual art,
photography,
history Exhition
Children,
youth, adults
Exhibition Hall
'Arsenāls' lnmm.lv lnmm.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
24.08.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The seventh program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The seventh concert program of the project ‘Organ music
in the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Evangelical Lutheran
church in Dubulti
The ticket office to be
announced
26.08.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
May, June, August, and September 2014 will be the
months of multigenerational readings on Esplanade
joining 24 European – and 12 writers from Latvia,
actualizing 150 jubilees of Rainis and Aspasia, which
will be celebrated in 2015. Essays dedicated to this
event will foreground the themes of exile, and one of the
discoveries of the audience will be unique
correspondence of both classic Latvian poets. The texts
in this event will be presented in Latvian and English,
and the collection of essays dedicated to it will be
published, both, in printed and electronic form.
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
Project ‘Readings dedicated to Rainis and Aspasia’ will
extend for 12 cultural events bringing together three guest
writers and one of Latvian writers on their stage. The event
will be far-ranging geographically: participants of
discussion, including literary translators, will include
guests from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway,
Great Britain – particularly highlighting Scotland and
Wales – Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, especially,
Catalonia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. The time of
readings will be between 17:00 till 19:00 in the afternoon. Literature
Discussion /
lecture, festival,
event Youth, adults Esplanade Free literature.lv
28.08.14.-24.09.14. Road Map
Dance Goes Out Into
Town
In 2014, Riga will become an action-site for the
recognized choreographers of contemporary dance, who
will engage the young artists of dance from Latvia in
process of search and creativity aimed at finding new
sites for dance and generating professional pieces of
contemporary dance outside their traditional studios,
theatre houses and platforms. The subject of the project
research will be potential of urban environment to
become the stage of contemporary dance.
Dance Goes Out Into
Town
Hollandaise artist Lotte van den Berg will visit Riga and
work with 10-12 choreographers and dancers from Latvia,
developing performances in one of Riga’s neighborhoods
(which will be announced). The creative process as well as
performances will predominantly take place in the
cityscape, fusing with the everyday life of the neighborhood
and allowing the locals and by-passers to become observers
of creation of art work. Theatre, dance
Performance,
workshop, event
Children,
youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free theatre.lv
29.08.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The seventh program
'Organ music in the sign
of BACH'
The seventh concert program of the project ‘Organ music
in the sign of BACH’ to be presented. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults Riga Dome cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
30.08.2014. Road Map
The Ancient bonfire night
action
The nations living around the Baltic Sea have always
revered their ‘big water’ – the symbol of prosperity or
just daily bread as well as the tales of far-away
countries and visits of friends and strangers alike.
Today the concern about its pollution is also added to
this range of meanings. What can we do to help the
Baltic Sea? Brining further the initiatives of two former
European Capitals of Culture Turku 2011, Finland, and
Tallinn 2011, Estonia, Riga 2014 invites every
inhabitant of the Baltic Sea region to join the chain of
the bonfires, which are to light along the seashore no
only to symbolize the unity between of the coastal
‘tribes’, but also to realize more fully our inseparable
relation to the fate of the Baltic Sea.
The Ancient bonfire
night action
The foundation ‘Riga 2014’ invites all the coastal
inhabitants of Latvia to light up the bonfires like one to be
born on the Vakarbuļļi beach. This action should draw
attention to the quality of environment and the saving of
resources for the future generations. Artists representing
various kinds of art and scientists are invited to join the
public in this initiative.
Music,
education,
tradition
Discussion /
lecture, event
Children,
youth, adults Vakarbuļļi beach Free riga2014.org
01.09.2014. Survival Kit En-rooters
The aim of the project ‘En-rooters’ is to create platform
of inter-generational communication by the use of
instruments of design and gardening. The project is
three-fold: 1. Involving senior citizens and children in
gardening. 2. Stimulation of inhabitants of Riga
neighbourhoods to cooperate by Big Get-together
initiatives. 3. Activities in the centre of Riga, on
Esplanade, involving participants of the first two stages.
The ‘Green Space’ will be created there for exhibitions,
concerts, lectures and thematic discussions. The Harvest festival
The project ‘En-rooters’ will feature a Harvest festival,
which will conclude its program.
Design,
participation of
the public Event
Children,
youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free
01.09.2014. Road Map The Power Jab
Project envisages a synthesis of artistic and educational
interests, inviting artists to create place-specific works
in several Riga secondary schools. The choice of these
participants will be limited by geographical
appurtenance to the region of the Baltic Sea states – the
commonwealth rink of Riga. Presence of artistic
produce realized in lasting forms of material will help to
create qualitative, personality-formative aesthetic
environment in the schools and widen the cultural
horizons of the learners.
Opening of the project
Power Jab
Several schools in Riga will host the creation and, later,
provide space for representation of place-specific artistic
works, created for their environment. Opening of
exhibitions will be a festive event, attended by guests of
these schools and their collectives alike.
Visual art,
education
Presenation,
object in the city
environment,
event
Children,
youth
Several schools in
Riga Free
01.09.14.-30.09.14. Survival Kit Stars of Design
Stars of Design will explain the view on the process,
achievements and novelties of design in Latvia and
abroad. The event will combine from two international
exhibitions and series of seminars and workshops. The Hidden Heroes
Exposition of Vitra Design Museum ‘The Hidden Heroes’
will open the view of the audience on wider context of
cultural and industrial development presenting 36 classical
objects of everyday use against the background of their
emergence and conceptual and economic significance even
today.
Design, history,
education
Exhibition,
dicussion /
lecture,
workshop
Children,
youth, adults
Xcelsior design
center, Raņķa dambis
1
The ticket office to be
announced
02.09.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
May, June, August, and September 2014 will be the
months of multigenerational readings on Esplanade
joining 24 European – and 12 writers from Latvia,
actualizing 150 jubilees of Rainis and Aspasia, which
will be celebrated in 2015. Essays dedicated to this
event will foreground the themes of exile, and one of the
discoveries of the audience will be unique
correspondence of both classic Latvian poets. The texts
in this event will be presented in Latvian and English,
and the collection of essays dedicated to it will be
published, both, in printed and electronic form.
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
Project ‘Readings dedicated to Rainis and Aspasia’ will
extend for 12 cultural events bringing together three guest
writers and one of Latvian writers on their stage. The event
will be far-ranging geographically: participants of
discussion, including literary translators, will include
guests from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway,
Great Britain – particularly highlighting Scotland and
Wales – Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, especially,
Catalonia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. The time of
readings will be between 17:00 till 19:00 in the afternoon. Literature
Discussion /
lecture, festival,
event Youth, adults Esplanade Free literature.lv
02.09.14.–16.09.14. Survival Kit Meet Me in the Museum!
The Museum of Naïve Art, Latvia will popularize naïve
art and the culture of Latvia in Europe with an
international collection. There is creative potential in
everybody needing an impulse to be expressed. The
slogan project to promote the creativity of the public
‘Meet Me in the Museum!’ will stir everyone to turn to
creativity or to return to long forgotten paint-brushes or
crayons. Meet Me in the Museum!
As part of the project ‘Meet Me in the Museum!’ the
Museum of Naïve Art – Latvia will open and invite to a
fortnight exhibition of the works created during the
museum’s autumn plain-air, which will, traditionally, invite
finding one’s own creativity and engage in creative work or
return to the paint brushes long since put aside.
Visual arts,
participation of
the public Exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
Floating galleries
'Noass' and
'Betanovuss' on AB
quay Free noass.lv
40
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03.09.2014. Road Map
Socio-anthropological
documentary ‘Force
Majeure. Riga’
The documentary ‘Force Majeure Riga’ is a story of the
city, which it has never seen itself before and we have
never perceived ourselves. Episodes about Riga, created
by seven classics of contemporary European
documentary cinema, are merged into a full-length feat,
whose stories are rooted in anthropological research on
neighborhoods and inhabitants of our capital.
Premiere of the socio-
anthropological
documentary ‘Force
Majeure. Riga’
Latvian premiere of the documentary ‘Force Majeure
Riga’, created by seven European classics of the genre, will
take place in the Splendid Palace, presenting Ivars
Seleckis, Latvia, Rainer Komers, Germany, Betina
Hanekele, Austria, Audrius Stonys, Lithuania, Jaak Kilmi,
Estonia, Jon Bang Carlsen, Denmark, Sergey Loznica,
Belorussia, and the co-authors of the film, anthropologists
from Latvia Ieva Raubiško, Baiba Bela-Krūmiņa, Agnese
Cimdiņa and Dace Dzenovska as well as invited guests.
Cinema, visual
art
Presentation,
event Youth, adults
Film theatre
'Splendid Palace' Free mistrusmedia.lv
04.09.14.–21.09.14. Survival Kit
Contemporary art festival
Survival Kit
Survival Kit is an international festival of contemporary
art organized by the center of Contemporary Art since
2009. Its events bring artists to Latvia, who are urged to
express themselves on publicly significant themes and to
imagine and offer their scenarios of survival. The
highlight of the festival is a show of contemporary art,
in 2013 and 2014 also to feature a theoretical seminar
and a wider program of festival events.
Contemporary art
festival Survival Kit
The exhibition of the festival of contemporary art ‘Survival
Kit’ and impressive city environment objects will invite to
take a look on urban conglomerate as a utopia. The
exposition will be three-fold – a historic reflection on
architectonic, social, and political urban utopias, ranging
from the work of French architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux,
to association ‘Archigram’ from UK, to representatives of
kinetic art in Latvia and other projects. The contemporary
segment of the exposition will feature local and foreign
artists playing with changes the modern city undergoes.
The largest part of the event will be art work placed in the
city environment represented by ‘Exyzt’ (FR),
‘Cardbordia’ (RU), Apollonia Schustershitz (SLO/NL)
and others.
Visual art,
architecture,
history,
education
Exhibition,
object in the city
environment,
conference,
festival Youth, adults Cityscape Free survivalkit.lv
05.09.14.–27.10.14. Amber Vein
In Search of the Future
Art. Voldemārs Matvejs
and non-European –
African, Northern Asian
and Oceanic – creation
The project aims to highlight the figure of Voldemārs
Matvejs (V. Markovs) whose books ‘The Art of Easter
Island’ (1914) and ‘African Art’ (1919) heightened the
perception of these cultures and their role in
development of modern art in the circles of Latvian and
Russian artistic avant-garde. The program envisages
exhibitions of Voldemārs Matvejs’ photography and
presentation of his book ‘The Negro Art and Latvian
Artists’ as well as collection of work brought to Riga
from Africa, Pacific and North Asia.
In Search of the Future
Art. Voldemārs Matvejs
and non-European –
African, Northern Asian
and Oceanic – creation
Joined by the National Museum of Art, the Institute of
France in Latvia, Branly Museum of Paris, the National
Ethnographic Museum – Leiden, the Kunstkamera of
Russia, and by Goethe Institute Riga, the project ‘In
Search of the Future Art. Voldemārs Matvejs and non-
European – African, Northern Asian and Oceanic –
creation’ will urge dialogue on diversity and inter-
dependence of the works representing world’s cultural
heritage.
Visual art,
photgraphy,
education
Concert,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture,
conference,
event
Children,
youth, adults
Art Museum Riga
Bourse
The ticket office to be
announced lnmm.lv
05.09.14.–18.09.14. Freedom street The Neighbors Are Noisy
Project ‘The Neighbors Are Noisy,’ lasting from 2012
till 2014, brings together 22 poets from various conflict
zones – states drawn into armed conflicts, sites of
cultural and values-based tension, places where cultural
intolerance, prejudice and discord between neighboring
countries prevails. ‘The Neighbors Are Noisy’ counters
this tension with readings of poetry, workshops and
public lectures and, in Riga, will be part of annual Days
of Poetry festival.
The Neighbors Are
Noisy
‘The Neighbors Are Noisy’ project as part of the annual
Days of Poetry will invite to poetry readings, workshops
and public lectures, which are to affirm literature as means
of social and cultural integration, a mode of leveling the
conflicts and a form of collaboration. Armenian /
Azerbaijan, Greek / Turkish, Algerian / French, Armenian /
Turkish, Russian / Chechen, Israeli / Arab, Kurdish /
Turkish, Israeli / Palestinian, Georgian / Abkhazian,
Georgian / Osetian, English / Irish, English / Scottish,
former Jugoslavian: Serbian / Croatian, Serbian / Bosnian,
German / Sudetian, German / French, Russian / Finnish,
Italian / Austrian writers and poets will make their artistic
contribution to this event. Literature
Discussion /
lecture,
workshop, event Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free dzejasdienas.lv
06.09.2014. Survival Kit Garden of Freedom
Garden of Freedom’ is an aesthetically ecological
research-oriented project aiming at creation of real
urban garden on a cornice and balcony of a building on
Brīvības street 90. Its main idea is to urge thinking
about the idea of urban garden in the centre of town and
returning to ground values, traditions and long-forgotten
skills such as ability to grow edible and medicinal
greens on window sills, balconies and terraces in the
city.
Closing of the Garden of
Freedom program
The program 'The Garden of Freedom' will close during the
White Night festival with a harvest of the greens the
project will have yielded, to be further prepared, in
workshops, for the table, storing for winter, or family
medical reserve. The review of the project in the form of
visual collages, videos etc is also envisaged; the event will
open the doors to its participants, guests of the cultural
forum and wider public.
Education,
participation of
the public,
tradition
Workshop,
event Youth, adults
Brīvības sreet 90, the
courtyard - the
territory of Vidzeme
inner city market Free serde.lv
41
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07.09.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The first night of the
Dubulti part of the
‘Organ music in the sign
of BACH’ program
trilogy
The ‘Organ music in the sign of BACH’ program will offer
the premiere of the Dubulti part of the trilogy, composed
by Rihards Dubra. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Evangelical Lutheran
church in Dubulti
The ticket office to be
announced
08.09.2014. Riga Carnival Books Go to Library
The carnival parade ‘I want to Go to Library’ will take
place on September 8 or International Day of Literacy,
presenting children aged 10 to 14, who participate in the
project ‘Children and Youth Jury’ and will choose their
favorite book in order to represent its characters in the
parade of the masks, to step out into the streets of the
city in the distance joining the City Hall square and the
building of the new National Library, ending the event
with performances and happenings. I Want to Go to Library
The mask parade ‘I want to Go to Library’ will start from
the Riga City Hall square where its participants will
receive their task to go to the Glass hill and wake up
Saulcerīte sleeping on the top of it. The Stone Bridge will
rise as an obstacle in their way guarded by seven magical
ravens, who guard the sleeper and are prejudiced to
children and reading; their prejudices will have to stand the
trial, challenged by the participants of the parade. In the
new building of national library, altogether 2000 children
and grown-ups from Latvia and Latvian diasporas from
around the world will try and wake up Saulcerīte.
Music, theatre,
dance, cinema,
literature, visual
art, education,
street art
Concert,
performance,
workshop, event
Children,
youth, adults
City Hall square,
Stone Bridge,
National Library of
Latvia and its interior Free lnb.lv
09.09.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
May, June, August, and September 2014 will be the
months of multigenerational readings on Esplanade
joining 24 European – and 12 writers from Latvia,
actualizing 150 jubilees of Rainis and Aspasia, which
will be celebrated in 2015. Essays dedicated to this
event will foreground the themes of exile, and one of the
discoveries of the audience will be unique
correspondence of both classic Latvian poets. The texts
in this event will be presented in Latvian and English,
and the collection of essays dedicated to it will be
published, both, in printed and electronic form.
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
Project ‘Readings dedicated to Rainis and Aspasia’ will
extend for 12 cultural events bringing together three guest
writers and one of Latvian writers on their stage. The event
will be far-ranging geographically: participants of
discussion, including literary translators, will include
guests from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway,
Great Britain – particularly highlighting Scotland and
Wales – Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, especially,
Catalonia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. The time of
readings will be between 17:00 till 19:00 in the afternoon. Literature
Discussion /
lecture, festival,
event Youth, adults Esplanade Free literature.lv
11.09.2014. survival Kit RigaDot
Drawing on cultural heritage as well as emerging
innovative elements in science and culture, Project
‘RigaDot’ is envisaged as a complex of events to inform
the audience, in engaging, attractive and practically
useful form, about Riga as creative center of culture
and science. This program will feature events like the
cycle ‘Science cafes,’ thematic exhibitions, concerts in
Nabaklab, thematic shows in radio Naba and Science
Festival. Science cafes
Science will be highlighted in such ‘RigaDot’ project
events as the cycle of discussions ‘Science cafés.’ They
will offer a chance to meet scientists in person and propose
questions they could address. ‘Science cafés’ discussions
are to evolve as free, informal exchanges of views on the
issues of science currently in the public eye.
Music, science,
education
Concert,
discussion /
lecture, event,
TV/radio Youth, adults
University of Latvia,
radio „Naba”,
„Nabaklab” Free rigapunkts.lv
12.09.2014. Amber Vein Amber Route
12 Latvian composers will turn to the verses of 12
prominent European authors treating the theme of
amber. The music created in this cycle will be recorded
and published as a CD, while the Poetry Days 2014 will
see the National Academic Quire Latvia and Māris
Sirmais present it, in a free concert, joined by the poets,
co-authors of the songs, to the audience. Amber Route
The concert Amber Route as part of the annual Days of
Poetry will bring to Riga prominent European poets and
Latvian composers, inspired to create globally resonant
new work. Participants of the project are the National
Academic Quire Latvia, conducted by Māris Sirmais, 12
Latvian composers and 12 European poets. Music, literature Concert Youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia Free koris.lv
42
Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
12.09.14.–31.12.14. Freedom Street
Riga - mine, yours, and
ours - a century ago
The project aims at exploring and understanding
Russian, German, Hebrew, Polack, Lithuanian
diasporas living in Riga of 1914, as well as ethnic
diversity of modern Riga. What was interpenetration of
national cultures then and what it is now? By learning
more about Rigans a century ago, we are bound to
understand the ethnic making of today’s city better. The
history will be approached through the prism of
documentary material, while the discussion events ‘Riga
stories’ and creative workshops promise to introduce us
to many nationalities living in Riga. A parallel virtual
version of the exposition is also planned.
Exhibition 'Riga - mine,
yours, and ours - a
century ago', circle of
discussions 'Riga stories'
The exhibition 'Riga - mine, yours, and ours - a century
ago' and the circle of discussions 'Riga stories' will promote
cultural communication between various ethnicities living
in Riga, their mutual understanding, learning about each
other and cultural enrichment. Participants of the project
are Igor Lensky, Vladislav Volkov, Svetlana
Bogoyavlenska, Valters Ščerbinskis, Ēriks Jēkabsons and
the representatives of the minority groups of Riga.
Photography,
history,
participation of
the public,
tradition
Concert,
exhibition,
workshop, event
Children,
youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia Free
14.09.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The first night of the
Liepāja part of the
‘Organ music in the sign
of BACH’ program
trilogy
The ‘Organ music in the sign of BACH’ program will offer
the premiere of the Liepāja part of the trilogy, composed by
Jānis Lūsēns. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults
Liepāja Trinity
cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
15.09.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Academic readings
'Content of XXI Century'
Academic readings 'Content of XXI Century' and
exhibition ‘500 years of the Book 1514-2014’ will
address the change in the habits of reading – from
poring over manuscripts in 1514 to present day boom of
the printed book – year 2014 and its forms of co-
existence of printed and digital literature. Content of XXI Century
Excellent world-known thinkers will take part at the
academic readings „21. gadsimta saturs” („The 21st
century content”) who will develop the understanding about
the diverse European culture improvement. The project will
be available to everyone around the world via virtual
exhibitions and regular on-line open lectures. The
exhibition is curated by The National Library of Latvia in
cooperation with greatest national libraries in Europe and
Latvian as well as EU embassies.
Literature,
multimedia
Discussion /
lecture
Children,
youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia Free lnb.lv
15.09.14.–25.12.14. Freedom Street
Voices from the dark or
Žanis Lipke's squaring of
the circle
Realizing the project ‘Voices from the dark or Žanis
Lipke's squaring of the circle,’ composer Arturs
Maskats will create a new opus – dedication ‘Žanis and
Johanna’ to be interpreted by chamber orchestra
‘Kremerata Baltica,’ conducted by Gidon Kremer. The
program of the project also includes presentation of the
book for children aged 8 to 15 – an adventure story with
a twelve year old boy in the center ‘Boy with a Dog. A
Story of a Secret Well-kept’.
Presentation of ‘Boy with
a Dog. A Story of a
Secret Well-kept’
Presentation of ‘Boy with a Dog A Story of a Secret Well-
kept’ will be a children’s event aiming to address the souls,
which are the least tainted by prejudice and myths, and
offering them an opportunity to take a look into the
complicated affairs of WWII. The book was written by
Inese Zandere and illustrated by Reinis Pētersons. Literature
Presentation,
object in the city
environment,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop Children
Society 'Žaņa Lipkes
memoriāls' adress
Mazais Balasta
dambis 8 Free lipke.lv
16.09.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
May, June, August, and September 2014 will be the
months of multigenerational readings on Esplanade
joining 24 European – and 12 writers from Latvia,
actualizing 150 jubilees of Rainis and Aspasia, which
will be celebrated in 2015. Essays dedicated to this
event will foreground the themes of exile, and one of the
discoveries of the audience will be unique
correspondence of both classic Latvian poets. The texts
in this event will be presented in Latvian and English,
and the collection of essays dedicated to it will be
published, both, in printed and electronic form.
Readings dedicated to
Rainis and Aspasia
Project ‘Readings dedicated to Rainis and Aspasia’ will
extend for 12 cultural events bringing together three guest
writers and one of Latvian writers on their stage. The event
will be far-ranging geographically: participants of
discussion, including literary translators, will include
guests from Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Sweden, Norway,
Great Britain – particularly highlighting Scotland and
Wales – Ireland, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, especially,
Catalonia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey. The time of
readings will be between 17:00 till 19:00 in the afternoon. Literature
Discussion /
lecture, festival,
event Youth, adults Esplanade Free literature.lv
43
Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
16.09.14–03.10.14. Survival Kit Meet Me in the Museum!
The Museum of Naïve Art, Latvia will popularize naïve
art and the culture of Latvia in Europe with an
international collection. There is creative potential in
everybody needing an impulse to be expressed. The
slogan project to promote the creativity of the public
‘Meet Me in the Museum!’ will stir everyone to turn to
creativity or to return to long forgotten paint-brushes or
crayons. Meet Me in the Museum!
As part of the project ‘Meet Me in the Museum!’ the
Museum of Naïve Art – Latvia will open and invite to a
fortnight exhibition of the works created during the
museum’s autumn plain-air, which will, traditionally, invite
finding one’s own creativity and engage in creative work or
return to the paint brushes long since put aside.
Visual arts,
participation of
the public Exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
Floating galleries
'Noass' and
'Betanovuss' on AB
quay Free noass.lv
19.09.14.–20.09.14. Amber Vein
International conference
‘Baltic amber across ages
and borders’
The project is set by a structure of six variously sized
thematic blocks, covering the theme of amber in pre-
history and history, as well as in ethnography and
folklore; drawing on findings in natural history and
variety of approaches to the research in the field
including conservation and restoration of amber. The
reports presented at the conference will be joined into a
conference edition to be published before September
2015.
Baltic amber across ages
and borders
Scientific conference ‘Baltic amber across ages and
borders’ will popularize amber as well as encourage
exchange of ideas and approaches amongst scientists
working in different fields surrounding the subject. The
world’s leading amber researchers from variety of related
fields will hold conference for two days.
History, science,
tradition Conference Youth, adults University of Latvia Free
22.09.14.–28.09.14. Freedom Street forte forte
The program of contemporary theatre ‘forte forte’
comprises five productions of the leading European
directors supplied by a parallel program, combining
theoretical, artistic and educational segments, and
developing the themes foregrounded in the performance.
The aim of the series of performances is to determine
the outlook of the European theatre in 2014. They are
united by a range of themes focusing on the relationship
between the individual and power, personality and
sociality, what is and what isn’t perceived as norm,
personality and masses norm, viewed, both, against the
background of historic events and – in everyday context.
Riga will enjoy five weeks of guest performances to
center around Freedom Street, with one week dedicated
to each of the artists.
forte forte. The Fourth
week of performances
The fourh week in the program of contemporary theatre
‘forte forte,’ director it is dedicated to and the program will
be announced. Theatre
Show,
performance,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop Youth, adults
Theatres or
experimental
locations for
performing around
Brīvības street bilesuparadize.lv theatre.lv
26.09.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Organ music in the sign
of BACH
J. S. Bach and music, which has enriched the world and
Latvia’s musical landscape, inspired by his personality
and artistic genius, is a boundless ocean. For the first
time in Latvia’s concert history, a unified concert cycle
is created to bring into one program events planned in
Riga Dome cathedral, Liepāja Trinity Church and the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Dubulti to host the
premieres of compositions dedicated to each of these
places of worship, which will be crowned off by the first
performance of the cycle ‘Latvian Organ Trilogy’ in the
Dome cathedral. The project will bring together more
than 20 organists, as well as quire, soloists, individual
musicians and Latvian National Symphony orchestra.
The Riga first night of
the trilogy ‘Organ music
in the sign of BACH’
The premiere of the trilogy will be presented in Riga as
part of the ‘Organ music in the sign of BACH’ project. The
Dubulti-part of the trilogy was composed by Rihards
Dubra, the Liepāja-part – by Jānis Lūsēns, and author of
Riga part is Ēriks Ešenvalds. Music, history Concert, festival Youth, adults Riga Dome cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced
26.09.14.–27.10.14. Survival Kit
Where is our dear
scientist?
"Where is our dear scientist?" project will be an
installation-film where "revived" animation characters
will act. A scientist from plastisine (a unique, new and
experimental material) will be the main detail: this
animated scientist will appear at the mirror reflection.
Myths about quantum theory and components of
cultural identity will be reflected with the help of the
animation projection.
Where is our dear
scientist?
The installation called "Kur ir mūsu mīļais zinātnieks?"
("Where is our dear scientist?") will be located in three
identical one-bedroom flats. It will be the meeting place,
lecture and reading room at one time and will function as a
space for communication. Students and everyone interested
in arts and science will be the main participants.
Cinema,
multimedia,
science
Performance,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture Youth, adults
Three identical one-
bedroom flats in Riga Free kurirzinatnieks.wordpress.com
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27.09.2014. Survival Kit RigaDot
Drawing on cultural heritage as well as emerging
innovative elements in science and culture, Project
‘RigaDot’ is envisaged as a complex of events to inform
the audience, in engaging, attractive and practically
useful form, about Riga as creative center of culture
and science. This program will feature events like the
cycle ‘Science cafes,’ thematic exhibitions, concerts in
Nabaklab, thematic shows in radio Naba and Science
Festival. Science festival
The science festival will offer a unique concert program to
result from joined efforts of independent musicians and
scientists working in Latvia, opening a creative territory to
scientific theories. Following a specially mapped route, the
audience of the event will be taken into an engaging
discovery of what is most interesting in the science at home
and abroad, both, in modern and historic aspects. The
leading Latvia University scientists and the best
representatives of the indie music in Latvia are engaged in
the preparation of the project.
Music, history,
science,
education,
participaton of
the public,
multimedia
Concert,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture, festival
Children,
youth, adults University of Latvia Free rigapunkts.lv
29.09.14.–05.10.14. Road Map
Latvian Academy of
Culture festival ‘The
Autumn of Patriarch
2014’
Latvian Academy of Culture festival ‘The Autumn of
Patriarch 2014’ will join the most momentous
performances, works of audio-visual art, documentaries
‘Riga neighborhood stories’ and guest performance,
guest lecture and master class evetns. The festival will
highlight the historic surroundings of Āgenskalns in the
map of Riga, peopled by the participants of the festival
creating new forms of perception and communication
between social and cultural environments of
Pārdaugava. The ideas of the festival will be oriented by
poets Rainis and Aspasia.
Latvian Academy of
Culture festival ‘The
Autumn of Patriarch
2014’
Latvian Academy of Culture festival ‘The Autumn of
Patriarch 2014’ will represent a marathon of events
introducing the public to aspiring artists in the field. The
tradition of the festival’s opening event remains steady – it
is a concert-performance in the pavilion of Āgenskalns
market followed by a walk to the Theatre Museum. The
week of the festival will invite to performances created by
student theatre and film directors, actors, film operators,
and choreographers. Guest lectures and performances as
well as master classes will enrich the program of the
festival.
Theatre, dance,
cinema,
literature,
history,
education
Performance,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop,
festival
Children,
youth, adults
Pārdaugava,
Āgenskalns, E.
Smiļģis' Theatre
Museum, Department
of theatre and audio-
visual art of LAC
„Zirgu pasts„ etc.
The ticket office to be
announced lka.edu.lv
30.09.14.–30.11.14. Thirst for the Ocean
„Force majeure” in the
National Theatre
The New Hall of the National Theatre Latvia will host a
series of four performances addressing the threat of
eradication of national identity and sovereignty, the
threat of assimilation in the process of increasing
unification of Europe determined by its economic and
territorial unity. The project will invite participation of
the theatre artists of younger generation from different
parts of Europe. The project aims to explore the newest
ideas and possibilities offered by European artistic
space.
Splendors and Miseries
in the Schengen Zone
‘The Splendors and Miseries in the Schengen Zone’ is a
festival slash series of performances treating the theme of
retaining the national identity and sovereignty in the unified
Europe. The concept of the project is created by Valters
Sīlis and dramatist Jānis Balodis in collaboration with
guest directors, driven by the idea of variation in the
approaches to the themes under discussion and using fresh
means of scenic expression. The series will explore
theatrical diversity, attempting to cross the limits of
dramatic theatre, creating work along the lines of
documentary theatre on one hand and foraying into the
space where theatre, modern dance and performance
overlap, on the other hand. Theatre Show, festival Youth, adults
Latvian National
Theatre bilesuparadize.lv teatris.lv
30.09.14.-01.12.14. Survival Kit Surprising Lace
‘Surprising Lace’ is a story of connection between the
traditional (folk art) and the contemporary (social
networks, architecture, design, and intercultural
dialogue). The lace can be admired in nature – in
ribbing of leaves and spider-webs, in frost-work on the
widow and intricate loops of the rivers as seen from the
birds view, as well as in creations of human art. The
strongest network connecting the nations is culture. Our
Surprising lace is an ornamental cultural bridge thrown
from Riga to Europe. Exhibitions, lectures,
workshops… Design Networks
Project ‘Surprising Lace’ will invite to exhibition ‘Design
Networks’ dedicated to ideas and solutions of design
offered by designers from Latvia and abroad collaborating
with scientists and researchers. The date of the event may
be subject to change.
Design,
architecture,
science,
multimedia Exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
The hall and
gateways of new
National Library Free
30.09.14.-01.12.14. Survival Kit Surprising Lace
‘Surprising Lace’ is a story of connection between the
traditional (folk art) and the contemporary (social
networks, architecture, design, and intercultural
dialogue). The lace can be admired in nature – in
ribbing of leaves and spider-webs, in frost-work on the
widow and intricate loops of the rivers as seen from the
birds view, as well as in creations of human art. The
strongest network connecting the nations is culture. Our
Surprising lace is an ornamental cultural bridge thrown
from Riga to Europe. Exhibitions, lectures,
workshops…
Exhibition 'Surprising
Lace'
Project ‘Surprising Lace’ will invite to exhibition of the
same title foregrounding the connection between traditional
or folk-art and contemporary culture – design, architecture,
visual art. The date of the event may be subject to change.
Design,
photography,
tradition Exhibition Youth, adults
The Railway
Museum
The ticket office to be
announced
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
01.10.14.-31.10.14. Survival Kit Surprising Lace
‘Surprising Lace’ is a story of connection between the
traditional (folk art) and the contemporary (social
networks, architecture, design, and intercultural
dialogue). The lace can be admired in nature – in
ribbing of leaves and spider-webs, in frost-work on the
widow and intricate loops of the rivers as seen from the
birds view, as well as in creations of human art. The
strongest network connecting the nations is culture. Our
Surprising lace is an ornamental cultural bridge thrown
from Riga to Europe. Exhibitions, lectures,
workshops… Kaņepe
‘Kaņepe’ is an exhibition of the project ‘Surprising Lace’
dedicated to hemp – unique natural resource opening
unlimited possibilities in textile, construction and
innovation since long in the history.
Design,
architecture,
science,
multimedia,
tradition Exhibition
Children,
youth, adults
Xcelsior design
center, Raņķa dambis
1 Free
01.10.14.-12.10.14. Road Map
Dance Goes Out Into
Town
In 2014, Riga will become an action-site for the
recognized choreographers of contemporary dance, who
will engage the young artists of dance from Latvia in
process of search and creativity aimed at finding new
sites for dance and generating professional pieces of
contemporary dance outside their traditional studios,
theatre houses and platforms. The subject of the project
research will be potential of urban environment to
become the stage of contemporary dance.
Dance Goes Out Into
Town
The project has received support of EU program ‘Culture’
and will simultaneously take place in three European cities
– in Riga, Terni (Italy), Krakow (Poland). All three cities
will host residences of re-known choreographers
collaborating with local artists examining inter-reaction of
dance and urban environment. The project will be
concluded in Riga in the form of extended creative
laboratory where young artists will apply the newly
acquired art to performances created directly in town
environment as mini-series of dance stage events offered to
the public. Dance
Performance,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop, event
Children,
youth, adults
The venue to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced www.theatre.lv
01.10.14.–30.11.14. Survival Kit
Hyperbolic planes and
networks of sustainability
In a visit and concerts in Riga, Mariss Jansons and
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra would celebrate
the centenarian jubilee of his father, conductor
RIXC, collaborating with mathematician Daina Taimiņa
(USA/Latvia), network researcher Valdis Krebs
(USA/Latvia), the Liepāja University Art Research
Laboratory (LiepU MPLab), E-Lab and the Network of
Public Libraries – Latvia will offer an innovative
project of social networks aiming at positioning Riga as
an innovative collaboration center of arts and science in
the Baltic Sea region and mapping in order to reveal
Riga’s cultural, economic, and social interconnection
with other towns in Latvia.
Hyperbolic planes and
networks of
sustainability
The project ‘Hyperbolic planes and networks of
sustainability’ will present 3D objects crocheted by Daina
Taimiņa and a group of handiwork artisans, the Program
of new media art of the LiepU MPLab, student-produced
digital visualizations and interactive interface of
sustainability networks. Expanded by lectures and
workshops, led by Daina Taimiņa,Valdis Kerbs and artists
Rasa Šmite and Raitis Šmits, the exhibition will be offered
in Riga and in several of Latvia’s public libraries.
Visual art,
design, science,
education,
participation of
the public,
multimedia
Presentation,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop,
action, event
Children,
youth, adults
Center of
Contemporary Art
„kim?”, Maskavas
street 12/1, „RIXC”
Media space on
Embankment - 11.
novembra krastmala
35 Free rixc.lv/14
07.10.14.-11.10.14. Road Map
Dance Goes Out Into
Town
In 2014, Riga will become an action-site for the
recognized choreographers of contemporary dance, who
will engage the young artists of dance from Latvia in
process of search and creativity aimed at finding new
sites for dance and generating professional pieces of
contemporary dance outside their traditional studios,
theatre houses and platforms. The subject of the project
research will be potential of urban environment to
become the stage of contemporary dance.
Dance Goes Out Into
Town
In preparation of the year 2014 project ‘Dance Goes Out
Into Town’, October 2013 will be given to Flemish
choreographer Koen Augustijnen’s – company Les Ballets
C da la B – five day collaboration with young dancers and
choreographers from Latvia researching the environment in
Riga, Vecmīlgrāvis. Dance Workshop
Children,
youth, adults
Culture Hall
'Ziemeļblāzma' Free www.theatre.lv
10.10.14.–12.10.14. Thirst for the Ocean
The festival of music in
wilderness ‘Skaņu mežs’
October 10 to 12 will be given to the Festival of music
in wilderness ‘Skaņu mežs.’ Traditionally, its audience
will be offered novel music and premieres of
compositions. The festival will also feature a conference
of the organizers of the festivals of experimental music.
The festival of music in
wilderness ‘Skaņu mežs’
Festival ‘Skaņu mežs’ is organized in order to introduce the
public to and to reflect the most recent events in the music
world. Music Concert Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced skanumezs.lv
15.10.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Academic readings
'Content of XXI Century'
Academic readings 'Content of XXI Century' and
exhibition ‘500 years of the Book 1514-2014’ will
address the change in the habits of reading – from
poring over manuscripts in 1514 to present day boom of
the printed book – year 2014 and its forms of co-
existence of printed and digital literature. Content of XXI Century
Excellent world-known thinkers will take part at the
academic readings „21. gadsimta saturs” („The 21st
century content”) who will develop the understanding about
the diverse European culture improvement. The project will
be available to everyone around the world via virtual
exhibitions and regular on-line open lectures. The
exhibition is curated by The National Library of Latvia in
cooperation with greatest national libraries in Europe and
Latvian as well as EU embassies.
Literature,
multimedia
Discussion /
lecture
Children,
youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia Free lnb.lv
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
16.10.2014. Amber Vein Tenso Days in Riga
The Tenso Network Europe unites the European choirs
since 2003. One of the four founders of the network and
its driving force in terms of ideas is Latvian Radio
Choir, which will host the international choir festival
‘Tenso Days in Riga’ in October 2014, when Riga will
become the capital of European professional choirs,
organizing masterclasses for young composers, meetings
of professionals, and concerts. ‘Tenso Days in Riga’
will see the Latvian Radio Choir and other leading
European professional choirs offering programs to the
audiences never presented before. Fairy-tale
In the first concert of ‘Tenso Days in Riga’ ‘Fairy-tale,’
Latvian Radio Choir, conducted by Sigvards Kļava, will
take its audience to the fairy-tale worlds of Kārlis Skalbe,
Hans Christian Andersen and brothers Grimm, as
American composer David Lang’s ‘Girl with Matches’ will
be premiered together with the first presentations of Ēriks
Ešenvalds and Līga Celma’s musical mystique. Video
projections and visual production by director Roberts
Rubīns will add an extra value to the mystical sound art
mood. Therefore, it will become a complete contemporary
art experience. Music
Concert,
workshop,
festival, event Youth, adults St. Peter's church
The ticket office to be
announced www.tensonetwork.eu
18.10.2014. Amber Vein Tenso Days in Riga
The Tenso Network Europe unites the European choirs
since 2003. One of the four founders of the network and
its driving force in terms of ideas is Latvian Radio
Choir, which will host the international choir festival
‘Tenso Days in Riga’ in October 2014, when Riga will
become the capital of European professional choirs,
organizing masterclasses for young composers, meetings
of professionals, and concerts. ‘Tenso Days in Riga’
will see the Latvian Radio Choir and other leading
European professional choirs offering programs to the
audiences never presented before. Choirs: Symphonies
The guidelines of the ‘Tenso Days in Riga’ program are:
the mystical, the profane, and the sacred are crossroads, on
which different era in music will meet the uniqueness of
national choir culture, the novelties of choir music – with
the modes of traditional singing, creatively synthesizing the
components of vocal and other forms of art. The concert
will be given by RIAS ‘Kammerchor’ (Germany), ‘Eric
Ericsons Kammarkör’ (Sweden), Philharmonic Chamber
Choir Estonia and the National Symphony Orchestra of
Latvia, conducted by Kaspars Putniņš. Together they will
perform the „Symphony of Psalms” composed by Igor
Stravinsky. It is one of the brightest and most difficult
choir music opuses of the 20th century. Music
Concert,
workshop,
festival, event Youth, adults The Big Guildhall
The ticket office to be
announced www.tensonetwork.eu
20.10.14.–26.10.14. Freedom Street forte forte
The program of contemporary theatre ‘forte forte’
comprises five productions of the leading European
directors supplied by a parallel program, combining
theoretical, artistic and educational segments, and
developing the themes foregrounded in the performance.
The aim of the series of performances is to determine
the outlook of the European theatre in 2014. They are
united by a range of themes focusing on the relationship
between the individual and power, personality and
sociality, what is and what isn’t perceived as norm,
personality and masses norm, viewed, both, against the
background of historic events and – in everyday context.
Riga will enjoy five weeks of guest performances to
center around Freedom Street, with one week dedicated
to each of the artists.
forte forte. Fifth week of
performances
The fifth week in the program of contemporary theatre
‘forte forte,’ director it is dedicated to and the program will
be announced. Theatre
Show,
performance,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop Youth, adults
Theatres or
experimental
locations for
performing around
Brīvības street
The ticket office to be
announced theatre.lv
21.10.2014. Amber Vein Tenso Days in Riga
The Tenso Network Europe unites the European choirs
since 2003. One of the four founders of the network and
its driving force in terms of ideas is Latvian Radio
Choir, which will host the international choir festival
‘Tenso Days in Riga’ in October 2014, when Riga will
become the capital of European professional choirs,
organizing masterclasses for young composers, meetings
of professionals, and concerts. ‘Tenso Days in Riga’
will see the Latvian Radio Choir and other leading
European professional choirs offering programs to the
audiences never presented before.
Open masterclasses of
Tenso composers
Open masterclasses of Tenso composers will offer yet
unexplored singing forms. Singers from Latvian Radio
Choir will offer a brand new programme they prepared at
the sound laboratory together with eight composers from
various countries and „Sarband” musicians. The
background of the new material is gonna be the ancient
texts from The Song of Solomon. The programme is a mix
of creativity and archaic cultural fields, therefore, it will be
a new discovery in Western choir music demonstrating a
high-end quality of professional choir music. Music
Workshop,
concert Youth, adults
The Spīķeri concert
hall Free www.tensonetwork.eu
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Date Thematic division Project Project description Event Description of event Category Type Audience Venue Tickets Internet
22.10.2014. Amber Vein Tenso Days in Riga
The Tenso Network Europe unites the European choirs
since 2003. One of the four founders of the network and
its driving force in terms of ideas is Latvian Radio
Choir, which will host the international choir festival
‘Tenso Days in Riga’ in October 2014, when Riga will
become the capital of European professional choirs,
organizing masterclasses for young composers, meetings
of professionals, and concerts. ‘Tenso Days in Riga’
will see the Latvian Radio Choir and other leading
European professional choirs offering programs to the
audiences never presented before. Gala concert
At „Tenso dienas” gala concert, examples of French and
Flemish baroque polyphony will be presented as well as
Norvegian folk songs, music composed by Pēteris Vasks
and Arvo Pärt, and the new compositions made at the
sound laboratory of The Latvian Radio Choir – Latvian
Byzantine singings. Sigvards Kļava will be the creative
director of this concert who will transform those early-age
singings into a brand new musical art form together with
composer Andrejs Selickis. „Nederlands Kamerkoor” (the
Netherlands), „Musicatreize” (France), „Det Norske
Solistkor” (Norway), Latvian Radio Choir and The Latvian
National Symphony Orchestra and solists will also join the
concert. Music
Concert,
workshop,
festival, event Youth, adults Riga Dome cathedral
The ticket office to be
announced www.tensonetwork.eu
23.10.2014. Survival Kit Potato Opera
Project 'Potato Opera' invites to take a closer look at
and learn a lot of new about this well known staple
vegetable. Project includes
-a colorful performance for the family;
-action for young and not so young Friend in a pot or
Potato Diaries;
-Internet resource www.kartupelis.lv to be launched in
January 1, 2014 to provide exhaustive popular science
view on potato. Potato Opera
‘Potato Opera’ will be colorful, entertaining and witty
performance for family audience telling the story of
potato’s journey from South America to Latvia and its life
in this region afterwards. Composer – Valts Pūce, libretto
– Inese Zandere, director – Jan Villem van den Bosch (the
Netherlands), participants – actors of National Theatre,
Girls’ Quire of Riga Dome, conducted by Aira Birziņa,
chamber orchestra and the most gifted singers and dancers
from Latvia’s school. The godfather of the project is
Andrejs Hansons.
Music, theatre,
dance,
multimedia Show
Children,
youth, adults
Nathional Theatre of
Latvia bilesuparadize.lv kartupelis.lv
24.10.2014. Amber Vein
Tenso Europe Chamber
Choir
Initiated by the conductor of Latvian Radio Choir,
Kaspars Putniņš and Tenso Europe Association of
Professional Choirs, the formation of the first European
professional choir is under way and Riga is proud to be
its cradle. The choir unites the most outstanding young
singers in Europe and opens new paths in the field of
choir music. In 2013-2014, Riga will host the summer
school of Tenso Europe Chamber Quire crowned off by
the premiere of performance ‘The Series’ as part of the
program of Tenso Days in Riga.
Tenso Night of the
Young
In conclusion of Tenso Europe Chamber Choir summer
workshop, on October 24, the Tenso Night of the Young
will offer the premier of the first large-scale collaboration
of the group – multimedia performance ‘The Series.’ In an
entertaining, interactive nocturnal journey through spaces,
themes like manipulation of the society by the media will
be addressed – a process art becomes part of. Creative
team of the staging: conductor and musical director
Kaspars Putniņš, composer Kristaps Pētersons, director
Zane Kreicberga, guitarist Kaspars Zemītis, and DJ
Monsta (Uldis Cīrulis).
Music, visual
art, multimedia
Concert,
performance Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced www.tensonetwork.eu
27.10.14.–02.11.14.
Without thematic
division
Euroradio project 'Riga -
Europan Capital of
Culture 2014'
The Euroradio project will take a week to transmit eight
concerts of the leading professional ensembles of Latvia,
presenting a panoramic and generically diverse
landscape of the musical life in Latvia. The participants
of the project are soloists, chamber orchestras
‘Kremerata Baltica’ and ‘Sinfonietta Riga,’ Latvian
Radio Choir, the Academic Choir ‘Latvia,’ the Big band
of Radio Latvia, the Nathional Symphony Orchestra
and National Opera of Latvia with a premier of original
opera created by a Latvian composer.
Series of Euroradio
concerts 'Riga - Europan
Capital of Culture 2014'
The Series of Euroradio concerts 'Riga - Europan Capital
of Culture 2014' aim at focusing the attention of the 78
Euroradio states on the rich musical life of Latvia, offering
a sense of presence in a number of unique concerts. Music
Concert,
performance,
TV/radio Youth, adults
The Big Guildhall,
Riga Dome cathedral,
National Opera of
Latvia, Studio 1 of
the National radio
station, Spīķeri
concert hall, St.
John's church Free klasika.latvijasradio.lv
01.11.14.-31.12.14. Survival Kit Stars of Design
Stars of Design will explain the view on the process,
achievements and novelties of design in Latvia and
abroad. The event will combine from two international
exhibitions and series of seminars and workshops. Connecting Ideas
The exposition of Vitra Design Museum will open the view
on wider context of cultural and industrial development.
Along with already created kernel of exhibition, the
international art show ‘Connecting Ideas’ will offer work
of designers from Latvia. It will be an excellent chance to
present our art in the context of experimental world design. Design, science Exhibition Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced
The ticket office to be
announced
05.11.14.–09.11.14. Thirst for the Ocean
Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of an idea) is an
exhibition, visits, public talks, texts and art work
focusing on unearthing and visualization of the different
segments of thinking. It is a program posing the
question ‘What the public of Riga is interested in?’ –
and stirring the thinking about its confusion in the
moments of confronting and discussing contemporary
art.
In preparation for the
residencies of
international arts
curators - thinkers in
Riga, 'Waiting for...'
(Archeology of an idea)
Internationally active professionals of art and culture will
participate in the project ‘Waiting for…’ (Archeology of
an idea) to reconsider and widen the discourse on artistic
themes actual in Riga. The curators of the visit programs
Anne Barlow, Courtenay Finn, Egija Inzule, Ainārs
Kamoliņš, Margarida Mendes, Zane Onckule, Chris Sharp,
Jānis Taurens, Alise Tīfentāle etc. The date of the event
may be subject to change.
Music, cinema,
literature, visual
art, design,
architecture,
photography,
history, science,
education,
multimedia,
tradition
Performance,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture,
conference,
workshop,
action, event
Children,
youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free kim.lv
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09.11.14.–15.11.14. Road Map Poetry Map of Riga
Within the project ‘Poetry Map of Riga,’ a non-
traditional virtual map of Riga will be created,
distributing certain checkpoints throughout its streets,
center, and districts marking the routes of poetry. The
information of the map will be driven by the
documentation of these places in poetry and visual art
forms. The participants of the project are Latvian and
guest artists, poets, musicians, photographers who will
take draws to choose the places to be attended and
documented in the poetic format. Poetry Map of Riga
Participants of the project ‘Poetry Map of Riga’ are poets
Olga Seredyuk, Yelena Glazova, Sergey Moreino,
Alexander Menshikov, Lena Skakur, Artūrs Punte, Sergey
Timofejev, Semyon Hanin, George Uallik, Vladimir
Svetlov, musicians
Andrey Elgus (aka Selfish), Jevgeny Droomoff (aka
Choop), multimedia artists Vladimir Leibgam, Katrīna
Neiburga, Pēteris Ķimelis, Alexander Yegunov, Alexander
Yakovlev, translators Pēteris Dragūns, Inga Gaile, Jānis
Elsbergs, Kārlis Vērdiņš and Ingmāra Balode as well as
visiting poets and artists.
Music, dance,
literature,
multimedia
Performance,
presentation,
event Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced Free orbita.lv
14.11.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Concerts of Mariss
Jansons and Bavarian
Radio Symphony
Orchestra
Bringing two concert programs, presented in the
National Opera of Latvia, in November 2014, Riga will
be visited by world-famous Latvian conductor Māris
Jansons and the excellent Bavarian Radio Symphony
Orchestra. One of these concerts is Mariss Jansons’
centenarian dedication to his father, the outstanding
conductor Arvīds Jansons.
Concert of Mariss
Jansons and Bavarian
Radio Symphony
Orchestra
In a visit and concerts in Riga, Mariss Jansons and
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra would celebrate the
centenarian jubilee of his father, conductor Arvīds Jansons. Music Concert Youth, adults
National Opera of
Latvia
The ticket office to be
announced opera.lv
14.11.14.–31.12.14. Amber Vein
The Amber of
Tutankhamun
An international exhibition will be organized, dedicates
to the culture of Ancient Egypt, which, presented as an
inter-play of modern technologies and arte facts, will
follow the amber trade route through Italy in the South
of Europe till its destination in Egypt. Its content will be
various objects of the cult of the under-world deposited
from a range of museums as well as rich informative
material on ancient cultural traditions and findings of
nationally varied scientific expeditions. The center piece
of the exposition will be amber from Baltic region,
found in the crypts of Ancient Egypt.
Art exhibition and
conference 'The Amber
of Tutankhamun'
An art exhibition and a conference will be organized as
parts of the project ‘Amber of Tutankhamun.’ This is a
project of the National Museum of Art completed in
collaboration with the National Museum of Cairo, the
Museum of The Museum of Mediterranean and Near
Eastern Antiquities – Stockholm, the Kaunas Ciurlionis
National Museum of Art, the National Museum of Art of
Lithuania and the Regional Archeological Museum –
Potenza (Italy). The conference will be organized in
partnership with the University of Latvia; the Louvre
Department of Ancient Egypt contributes to the project as
scientific consultant. Visual art
Performance,
exhibition,
discussion /
lecture,
workshop
Children,
youth, adults
Art Museum Riga
Bourse
Art Museum Riga
Bourse lnmm.lv
14.11.14.–18.11.14. Riga Carnival Shine, Riga!
In the context of the festival of lights, the cityscape is a
space of contemporary art addressing every inhabitant
of Riga. For artists, it is a dialogue with the viewer and
a challenge to offer a modern, visually engaging
message reaching a possibly wide range of people.
Various creative groups and technicians participate in
the light festival. The program of festival competition
and partners in collaboration is wide-ranging and open
to local and international initiatives. The guests of the
festival are also invited to enjoy its particular
atmosphere in the taverns and restaurants of the Route
of Light. Shine, Riga!
During the festival of light ‘Shine, Riga!’ 100 objects are
designed to light up to be viewed up close, from afar and as
part of the cityscape. The facades, bridges, monuments and
parks of Riga become the objects of the art of light
installation and light and video technology, often
complemented by theatrical elements. The viewers of
‘Shine, Riga!’ – already the sixth such festival in the
capital – are more than just observers, becoming
participants of the processes of playing with light as active
involvement of the public is frequently pre-requisite of the
realization of the festival projects.
Visual art,
multimedia,
participation of
the public
Festival, object
in the city
environment
Children,
youth, adults Riga cityscape Free riga2014.org
15.11.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Academic readings
'Content of XXI Century'
Academic readings 'Content of XXI Century' and
exhibition ‘500 years of the Book 1514-2014’ will
address the change in the habits of reading – from
poring over manuscripts in 1514 to present day boom of
the printed book – year 2014 and its forms of co-
existence of printed and digital literature. Content of XXI Century
Excellent world-known thinkers will take part at the
academic readings „21. gadsimta saturs” („The 21st
century content”) who will develop the understanding about
the diverse European culture improvement. The project will
be available to everyone around the world via virtual
exhibitions and regular on-line open lectures. The
exhibition is curated by The National Library of Latvia in
cooperation with greatest national libraries in Europe and
Latvian as well as EU embassies.
Literature,
multimedia
Discussion /
lecture
Children,
youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia Free lnb.lv
27.11.14.-28.11.14. Thirst for the Ocean Mare Balticum
‘Mare Balticum’ is a project uniting the Big band of
Radio Latvia and a group of interprets who will
present Latvian sea songs arranged in the rhythms of
jazz. Mare Balticum
A new musical project featuring the Big band of Radio
Latvia ‘Mare Balticum’ will be presented. It will interpret
the sea-themed songs of Latvia.
Music,
education,
tradition
Concert,
workshop,
festival
Children,
youth, adults Congress Hall bilesuserviss.lv rigasritmi.lv
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28.11.14.–31.01.15. Thirst for the Ocean Riga - six versions
Project ‘Riga - six versions ’ includes six sci-fi short
films in stereoscopic 3D format. Their stories take place
in Riga in near or farther removed future, playing with
the themes of time-travel, virtual reality, single world
government, and stealing of dreams. Riga - six versions
Riga will be the first in Europe to present a short film
collection reflecting the cityscape in 3D technique. Cinema Event Youth, adults
Forum Cinemas,
Splendid Palace, film
theatre k. Suns,
Cinnamon,
Multikino,
Silverscreen theatre
in Daugavpils,
Gaisma theatre in
Valmiera and more
The ticket office to be
announced 2annas.lv
01.12.14.–31.12.14. Riga Carnival
Festival 'European
Christmas'
A new festival tradition ‘European Christmas’ was
established in 2005 by the association ‘Latvia’s
Concerts’ offering the uplifting part of the repertoire of
Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Vivaldi and other classic
composers as well as their contemporary counterparts
and even jazz artists, in the beautiful fortnight around
Advent, Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, in the
most prominent places of worship around Riga. The
festival joins the circulation of Christmas concerts in
European states and promises enjoyment of
professionally exquisite music.
Christmas Oratorio by J.
S. Bach
The listeners will be offered well-known classical music,
which audiences are traditionally invited to at the end of the
year – ‘Christmas Oratorio’ by J. S. Bach presented by
soloists, Boys’ Quire of Riga Dome, and chamber
orchestra ‘Sinfonietta Riga’, conducted by Sigvards Kļava.
The dates of the event may change. Music Concert, festival Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced bilesuparadize.lv eiropasziemassvetki.lv
01.12.14.–31.12.14. Riga Carnival
Festival 'European
Christmas'
A new festival tradition ‘European Christmas’ was
established in 2005 by the association ‘Latvia’s
Concerts’ offering the uplifting part of the repertoire of
Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Vivaldi and other classic
composers as well as their contemporary counterparts
and even jazz artists, in the beautiful fortnight around
Advent, Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, in the
most prominent places of worship around Riga. The
festival joins the circulation of Christmas concerts in
European states and promises enjoyment of
professionally exquisite music. Messiah' by G. F. Hendel
The listeners will be offered well-known classical music,
traditionally invited to at the end of the year – ‘Messiah’ by
G. F. Hendel, presented by soloists, Boys’ Quire of Riga
Dome, and ‘Collegium Musicum Rīga,’ conducted by
Māris Kupčs. The date of the event may change. Music Concert, festival Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced bilesuparadize.lv eiropasziemassvetki.lv
01.12.14 – 31.12.14 Riga Carnival
Festival 'European
Christmas'
A new festival tradition ‘European Christmas’ was
established in 2005 by the association ‘Latvia’s
Concerts’ offering the uplifting part of the repertoire of
Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Vivaldi and other classic
composers as well as their contemporary counterparts
and even jazz artists, in the beautiful fortnight around
Advent, Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, in the
most prominent places of worship around Riga. The
festival joins the circulation of Christmas concerts in
European states and promises enjoyment of
professionally exquisite music.
Sinfonietta Rīga' and
Vivaldi
The listeners will be offered well-known classical music,
traditionally invited to at the end of the year, and it will be
Vivaldi for this concert, presented by soloists and the
chamber orchestra ‘Sinfonietta Rīga,’ conducted by
Normunds Šnē. The date of the event may change. Music Concert, festival Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced bilesuparadize.lv eiropasziemassvetki.lv
05.12.2014. Freedom Street
Opera 'Valentina' by
Arturs Maskats
The creative team of the new opera ha striven to reflect
the dramatic pages of Latvian history written in the
years 1939-1944, which are significant for the record,
culture and the spectrum of nations who lived in the
territory of Latvia at the time. The inspiration of this
opera was the legendary theatre and film critic and
historian Valentīna Freimane. The personal story of the
central character of the opera inseparably interweaves
with the significant events of Latvian and European
history and opens the panorama of the era in all its
fullness of color and controversy.
Opera 'Valentina' by
Arturs Maskats New opera written by Latvian composer. Music, theatre Show Youth, adults
National Opera of
Latvia opera.lv opera.lv
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06.12.2014. Freedom Street
Opera 'Valentina' by
Arturs Maskats
The creative team of the new opera ha striven to reflect
the dramatic pages of Latvian history written in the
years 1939-1944, which are significant for the record,
culture and the spectrum of nations who lived in the
territory of Latvia at the time. The inspiration of this
opera was the legendary theatre and film critic and
historian Valentīna Freimane. The personal story of the
central character of the opera inseparably interweaves
with the significant events of Latvian and European
history and opens the panorama of the era in all its
fullness of color and controversy.
Opera 'Valentina' by
Arturs Maskats New opera written by Latvian composer. Music, theatre Show Youth, adults
National Opera of
Latvia opera.lv opera.lv
13.12.2014.
Without thematic
division
European Film Academy
awards
The ceremony of European Film Academy awards will
be one of the highlights of Riga’s year as the European
Capital of Culture. The venue for this event was chosen
particularly. Riga’s role as European Capital of Culture
has served as the reason to choose the capital of Latvia
as the host of this ceremony. European Film Academy
organizes also a children’s jury to choose the best
between the films presented around Europe, in the cities,
which Riga will join in 2013.
The ceremony of
European Film Academy
awards
Riga will host the ceremony of European Film Academy
awards in 2014, which brings together around one and a
half thousand world class cinematographic professionals
and where the highest achievements in film and the most
outstanding screen personalities are celebrated. Cinema Event Youth, adults
National Opera of
Latvia
The ticket office to be
announced europeanfilmacademy.org
15.12.2014. Thirst for the Ocean
Academic readings
'Content of XXI Century'
Academic readings 'Content of XXI Century' and
exhibition ‘500 years of the Book 1514-2014’ will
address the change in the habits of reading – from
poring over manuscripts in 1514 to present day boom of
the printed book – year 2014 and its forms of co-
existence of printed and digital literature. Content of XXI Century
Excellent world-known thinkers will take part at the
academic readings „21. gadsimta saturs” („The 21st
century content”) who will develop the understanding about
the diverse European culture improvement. The project will
be available to everyone around the world via virtual
exhibitions and regular on-line open lectures. The
exhibition is curated by The National Library of Latvia in
cooperation with greatest national libraries in Europe and
Latvian as well as EU embassies.
Literature,
multimedia
Discussion /
lecture
Children,
youth, adults
National Library of
Latvia Free lnb.lv
25.12.14.–26.12.14. Riga Carnival
Festival 'European
Christmas'
A new festival tradition ‘European Christmas’ was
established in 2005 by the association ‘Latvia’s
Concerts’ offering the uplifting part of the repertoire of
Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Vivaldi and other classic
composers as well as their contemporary counterparts
and even jazz artists, in the beautiful fortnight around
Advent, Christmas and New Year’s celebrations, in the
most prominent places of worship around Riga. The
festival joins the circulation of Christmas concerts in
European states and promises enjoyment of
professionally exquisite music. Crown Europe concerts
The Crown Europe concerts will premier Christmas music
arrangements by European composers, presented by
soloists and ensembles of the countries represented in the
program. Radio Quire Latvia, vocal group ‘Framest,’
Hilliard Ensemble and others have already confirmed their
participation in this event. The date of the event may
change. Music Concert, festival Youth, adults
The venue to be
announced bilesuparadize.lv eiropasziemassvetki.lv
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