The weekend is here once again, drawing you in with classical music, operettas, starlight festivals, dancing, and more, helping you get used to the finer things in life.
The time after New Year is spent in a cultural vacuum that starts filling up again about mid-January. However, as everyone in Latvia, or at least one of their relatives, has a story about the bravery of the 700,000 people who took part in the barricades, LSM's culture editors chose to dedicate this events guide to the history crossroads on which the Baltics stood 25 years ago.
Latvia will probably see no snow during the holidays, but it doesn't mean that things will stop. Here's our weekly events guide focusing on what to do - where to buy unique Christmas presents and listen to music - if you've found yourself in Latvia in this quiet time, as seen by LSM's culture editors.
The weekend is nigh, and while Rīga is lit up during the annual festival of lights, other equally bright cosmic phenomena - like ballet and music stars - will illuminate the country, which recently turned 97, in another weekend for which LSM's Latvian-language culture section has prepared a list of must-sees and must-hears.
The spookiest weekend of the year is not that spooky in Latvia - although many do celebrate it, Latvians aren't really keen on Halloween. It's dark and depressing enough as it is. Still there is some secret fright in the numerous manors of Latvia, along with quite some history found in this weekend, so without further ado let's look at how to make your Latvian weekend more interesting.
While officials are pondering what's decent and what's not, artists continue seeing the world with voluptuous overtones, musicians continue creating equally untamed soundscapes, and schoolchildren refuse to stay at home. Our weekend events guide will testify to just that.
This weekend, a dazzling array of cultural events will take over Rīga and the regions of Latvia. There's no way of seeing everything, even though the capital will be illuminated both with very real light as well as the spark of the written word (in spoken form), while theater performances will bring back vitality to the bodies worn out from traversing across Rīga's bridges and cobblestone streets.