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Latvia Weekend Events: Classical Conditioning
Latvia Weekend Events: Classical Conditioning

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. 

Latvia Weekend Events: What season is it?
Latvia Weekend Events: What season is it?

Nature is undecided whether it should be winter or spring, so too are we wavering or perhaps oscillating between modern tunes and classics, improvisation and heavily scripted stuff... and more, all within this weekend's event guide.

Latvia Weekend Events: Remembering the barricades
Latvia Weekend Events: Remembering the barricades

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 Weekend Events: Christmas of course
Latvia Weekend Events: Christmas of course

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.

Latvia Weekend Events: Memory Music
Latvia Weekend Events: Memory Music

This week's weekend event guide has everything to do with music and memory. It seems the alliteration makes the two somehow more connected than they perhaps are, but no matter - this weekend will be all about remembering musicians and their wonderful, sometimes commemorative music.

Latvia weekend events: Starlight Express
Latvia weekend events: Starlight Express

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.

Latvia weekend events: Not that spooky after all
Latvia weekend events: Not that spooky after all

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. 

Latvia weekend events: Days of mischief
Latvia weekend events: Days of mischief

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. 

Weekend Events: Movie nights, acoustic delights
Weekend Events: Movie nights, acoustic delights

Summer's gone, autumn's come, and with it a host of events that mark the new entertainment season in Latvia. This weekend invites you to sit and listen, sit and watch, and to touch and discover. 

Weekend Events: truth in fiction, light amidst darkness, old but not grown up
Weekend Events: truth in fiction, light amidst darkness, old but not grown up

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.

Weekend events guide: A capital few days
Weekend events guide: A capital few days

To make the most of Latvia this weeekend you'll need to be in a travelling mood. Taking in the cities of Rīga, Cēsis, Rēzekne, Liepāja (and back to Rīga) will give you experiences to remember. Here are five of the best!

Weekend Events Guide: Festivals lay waste to Latvia
Weekend Events Guide: Festivals lay waste to Latvia

The grass is greener on the other side, but not at festivals as it's stomped and trampled on repeatedly, leaving brown, puddly remains where exuberant green was before. This year there are more 'festivals' than ever, though the precise number remains elusive as it's too tedious to count them all.

Events guide – garden of earthly delights
Events guide – garden of earthly delights

LSM’s culture editor Aija Eriņa has picked the cream of the crop for this weekend’s events cravers, especially of the outdoor variety, as the weather seems to be shaping up for summer, finally.