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BALTIC NETWORK OF CULTURAL CENTRES (BNCCA) LAUNCHES

BALTIC NETWORK OF CULTURAL CENTRES (BNCCA) LAUNCHES

On 16-17 October 2025, the Forum of Associations of Cultural Centres of the three Baltic States - Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia - took place in Riga (Latvia). This was the first meeting of the ongoing project "The Power of Culture", partly funded by the Nordic Council...

Janina Valančiūtė’s Drawings Exhibition “Kaleidoscope of Being”

Janina Valančiūtė’s Drawings Exhibition “Kaleidoscope of Being”

Each of us chooses the closest and most accessible way and means of expressing ourselves. I mostly use words and images. Sounds are also a big influence, music inspires me.
I started drawing as a child and never stopped, but I did draw with shorter or longer pauses. I tried different techniques, I went to a ceramics studio, I made linen prints.
The first solo exhibition of drawings and linen carvings was held at the Lithuanian Medical Library in 1998,
I have also held exhibitions in libraries, sanatoriums and cultural centres in Klaipėda, Joniškis, Varėna, Druskininkai.
For this exhibition, I have selected works in charcoal and pastel from the series “Fragile Existence” and “Grey Cloud”.
We live in an excess of things, feelings, emotions. We are confused in our values, we don’t know what we want anymore, we don’t understand not only others but also ourselves. Where will this lead?
The exhibition invites you to pause and, first of all, to look through the kaleidoscope of your emotions.

Janina Valančiūtė

Development of shelter infrastructure in Vilnius City

Development of shelter infrastructure in Vilnius City

Vilnius City Municipality is launching a new project “Development of Shelter Infrastructure in Vilnius City”, which aims to ensure greater safety of the population during emergencies. 32 shelters will be installed/refurbished in Vilnius City to help protect people in the event of air raid, indirect shelling or other threats.