For the 11th year, the social enterprise Angel's Post (Eņģeļa pasts) implements the project "Santa's Workshop". Within it, you can make a gift or a greeting card for the people living in social care centers, Latvian Radio reported on December 2.
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Six years ago, film director Kārlis Lesiņš started following the construction of the Rail Baltica project. He felt it was important to capture the making of the so-called "project of the century" in a documentary. The film "Nord Express" will premiere at the end of November, Latvian Radio reported Thursday.
The mixed Latvian-Ukrainian choir of the charity association "Tavi draugi/Your Friends" prepares for its first concert, Latvian Radio reported on November 19.
A bilingual book "Witches" has just been published in Latvian and English, launching a new series of books "Latvian Legend Type and Motif Index", Latvian Radio reported on October 17.
Renovation of the building which originally housed Rīga's first theater – and later became associated with the German composer Richard Wagner, who briefly worked there – has turned up several remarkable finds, but none are more remarkable than a 130-year old menu, reports Latvian Radio.
Last week new environmental art objects began to appear in the Old Town environment. They are the result of the Riga City Council's call for proposals launched in March for the creation of environmental objects to attract more attention to the Old Town, Latvian Radio reported on July 29.
This year, the Operetta Theater will celebrate its 10th anniversary with a particularly rich program of the Operetta Festival in Ikšķile. The prelude to the festival - the concert "Vivat!" - will take place this Sunday, July 28, at the Ikšķile Lutheran Church, and the following week, for three days, the festival events will take place at the Ikšķile Open Air Stage.
On Friday, July 19, an open-air installation will be unveiled in the center of Tukums, called "Mr Tukums". The piece consists of many mirrors stamped with "inspirational" writings encouraging visitors to look at their own reflection in a positive light, Latvian Radio reported.
For many years now, the beginning of July in Riga has been filled with jazz rhythms, as the Riga Rhythms (Rīgas ritmi) festival is always present. This year, the 24th edition of the festival will also see both foreign stars and local musicians shine, offering a wide range of music.
Individual concerts attract more audiences than festivals– this is one of the trends in the global popular music market in recent years. Audiences also increasingly prefer comfort and convenience and are not so keen to enjoy music under the open sky. What trends are organizers of Latvia's big summer festivals observing? Latvian Radio sought answers June 19.
Rīga could have a new-look concert hall ready by 2029 or 2030 if everything goes as planned – which is a fairly large 'if' – in a major overhaul of the existing Congress House venue.
A rather unusual book was launched last weekend. It is an album of historical photographs, entitled "A Walk Through Beautiful Riga/ Pastaiga pa skaisto Rīgu". The author is Kaspars Migla, co-author Andris Ivanovs.
Summer flower planting will begin this week in Riga parks and streets. Winter plants have survived well, and the recent spring cold and snow have not hurt them much. Only the large Sakura garden in Pārdaugava did not blossom as glamorous this spring because of the cold, Latvian Radio reported May 12.
On April 18, a new exhibition dedicated to the resistance movement "National Guard/Nacionālā sardze" and its leader Jūlijs Bračs will open at the Occupation museum's branch in the former KGB building ('Corner House'), Latvian Radio reports.
Ukrainian musician Oksana Nikitiuk, who has been away from her homeland for two years, calls music, the friends she has made in Latvia and like-minded people her sources of strength. Latvian Radio spoke to the accomplished artist February 23 about her life and music in Latvia.
There was sad news January 24 with confirmation of the death of animator Māris Putniņš.
As of November 10, in the Likteņdārzs park in Koknese, a performance of the Latvian epic poem 'Lāčplēsis' (The Bear Slayer) will be displayed as an installation of light, music, actor voices, and the overall atmosphere of the garden, Latvian Radio reports.
American Latvian Ieva Auziņa-Sentivanī has been adapting Latvian folksongs – dainas – into English for years now. Another translated volume, the third, will join the first two on October 20, Latvian Radio reports.
For the seventh year in Latvia, the Ukrainian community will mark Vyshyvanka Day on May 18, Latvian Radio reported.
Russia's attack on Ukraine has topicalized refugee issues in Latvia once again. In the past, many Latvians were also forced to flee their homes due to hostilities. The exhibition "Refugee Paths" opened in March displays items Latvians had taken with them when fleeing and tells the stories of Latvian refugees from 1944 onward, Latvian Radio reported on March 25.
A new, large-scale exhibition tells the story of currency in the Baltic states.
Residents of two adjacent buildings on Krišjāņa Valdemāra Street were promptly evacuated on Saturday due to cracks in the walls. The buildings were declared hazardous and the street closed. The residents are confused about the suddenness of the evacuation as the cracks have been there for years, Latvian Radio and Latvian Television reported on February 19.
Latvia's musical heritage is broad, and on February 2-3 one of the country's more unexpected major musical figures will be celebrated at a conference held at the Jāzeps Vītols Latvian Academy of Music.
An eagerly-anticipated new historical exhibition opens to the public January 30, and its subject is one that always sparks fierce debate among Latvians: Kārlis Ulmanis.
In a month's time, the Latvian National Ballet will turn one hundred years old, with a grand concert planned to mark the anniversary at the Opera House.
As of January 13, two large-format photo exhibitions are displayed in the urban environment of Riga, dedicated to commemorating the barricades of 1991.
On November 16, Dirty Deal Teatro will premiere the "Sēņošanas čempionāts 2021" (Mushrooming championship 2021) play centering around the mushroom world so dear to Latvians, Latvian Radio reported.
Cultural events are gradually resuming. The new safety rules bring new challenges to the organizers and spectators of events, but sometimes they also create unpleasant surprises that overshadow the whole process, Latvian Radio reported July 6.
Between Thursday, June 10, and Sunday, June 13, pilot projects will take place in four cultural venues aimed at trying in practice different scenarios for the safest possible visit to cultural events, Latvian Radio reported.
On April 6, an exhibition by Latvian photographer Andris Zēgners opened in Tokyo, Bunkyo University, Latvian Radio reported April 13.
Photographer Jānis Deinats in cooperation with the Latvian Association of Event Venues has captured the cultural venues - concert halls, theaters, museums - emptied by the constraints of the pandemic, Latvian Radio reported March 23.
In January 1991, when the Baltic states were caught in crossfire between the Soviet Union and the independence fighters, a crucial role was played by foreign media. LSM spoke to some of the media representatives at the time who helped foreign journalists acquire the information.
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