The Lithuanian National Museum has selected exhibits to be displayed at a memorial museum of Kristijonas Donelaitis, a Lutheran pastor and poet who wrote the first classic Lithuanian-language poem, in Chistye Prudy, a village in the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad, for the next ten years, the daily Lietuvos Žinios reported on Tuesday. […]
A group of Lithuanian conservative lawmakers on Monday called on Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Culture Minister Liana Ruokyte-Jonsson to look at whether the Lithuanian Radio and Television Commission (LRTK) could perform the function of a feature film watchdog. […]
Heroes’ Square, a production of the Lithuanian National Drama Theater (LNDT), has been named by French critics as the best foreign production presented in France this year, the theater said on Wednesday. […]
Decorative signs in the Lithuanian and Tibetan languages will be unveiled in Tibeto Skveras, a small public garden in Vilnius’ Uzupis neighborhood, on Tuesday. […]
Ruta Sepetys, a US writer of Lithuanian decent, was presented on Monday with the Carnegie Medal, a British literary award that annually recognizes one outstanding new book for children or young adults, the Lithuanian Culture Institute said. […]
Sigitas Zutautas, a banking and project management specialist, will temporarily head the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT) after its long-standing director general was fired on Monday. […]
Liudas Mazylis, a professor at Vytautas Magnus University who earlier this year found an original copy of Lithuania’s Act of Independence of Feb. 16, 1918 in a German archive, on Monday received a Lithuania’s Progress Award. […]
Gintautas Kevisas, the long-standing director general of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT), is being dismissed from his post, the Culture Ministry said. […]
Content in the official languages of the European Union (EU) should make at least 90 percent of rebroadcast television content offered in every package of programs, according to a bill approved by the Lithuanian parliament on Thursday. […]
On 22 May, 2017, during the 70th Cannes International Film Festival, representatives of the Polish Film Institute and the Lithuanian Film Centre – director Magdalena Sroka and director Rolandas Kvietkauskas – signed an agreement to strengthen cooperation between the two national institutions in the field of cinematography and the implementation of joint film projects. […]
The anniversary 70th Cannes Film Festival will be opened today with Lithuanian elements in its programme. Representatives of the Lithuanian film industry will also attend the “Marché du Film” film market organised by the festival on May 17–26. […]
Gintautas Kevišas is to step down as director of the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theater (LNOBT) in July after Culture Minister Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson on Wednesday signed an order to cancel the results of last August’s competition for the position. […]
The international Lithuanian-Norwegian project Making and Growing – Traditions between Fibre & Fabric has reached its goal of breathing new life into the old crafts. “We’ve helped the modern human to reconnect with the undeservingly forgotten craft of processing linen and wool which provided food and warmth for our ancestors. Weaving is encoded in the genes of Lithuanians; I was assured of this when I saw how remarkably modern fellow-countrymen were using a spinning wheel at the live exhibition, even though it was the first attempt in their lives,” cheers the project’s implementer and President of the Fine Crafts Association of Vilnius Indrė Rutkauskaitė. […]
Small wooden eggs brought by Bishop Matulionis to his nieces as souvenirs from abroad, Christmas decorations cut out from paper by him, an intricate double altar also made by the bishop, his embroidered initials on the surplices and the jacket lining. […]
The rich diverse past of Vilnius and many new, contemporary architectural marvels were all part of this weekend’s third edition of Open House Vilnius. With seldom-accessible buildings, cutting-edge building technologies, even concealed vaults and hiding […]
Frost, a film by Lithuanian director Šarūnas Bartas, will be featured in the Cannes Film Festival in May, the Lithuanian Film Centre said. […]
Lithuania’s Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius says that conversations with Germany’s government over handover of the February 16 1918 Independence Act to Lithuania are going well, downplaying the opinion stated by Germany’s head archivist who said that the document could only be lend on temporary basis. […]
The president of the German Federal Archives says that Germany could lend Lithuania the original copy of its 1918 declaration of independence recently found in Berlin for a year, but it should not hand the document over to the country. […]
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