It's the long Easter (Lieldienas, literally "big day") weekend in Latvia and as ever there are myriad things to occupy your time.
Music festival Rigas Ritmi (Riga Rhythms), featuring improvisation, jazz and world music, will be happening in Latvia again at the beginning of July, organizers have announced. It is the 19th year of the festival and this time it will celebrate 100 years of jazz in Europe.
Photography, trance music, and the art of Alex Grey are among this weekend's major events curated for a younger audience.
In March the American jazz piano virtuoso Justin Kauflin and his trio performed at Dzintari Concert hall in Jūrmala and then enjoyed the weekend in Latvia before heading to their next concert on a completely different continent. During his stay, LSM's Aiga Leitholde met Justin for an interview and talked about life on the road, the importance of having an artistic mentor and the influence of jazz greats like Clark Terry and Quincy Jones.
LSM continues its English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code, selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV).
LSM is pleased to continue its English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code, selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV).
Edgars Katajs, who did much to bridge Latvian culture with that of China and Japan, has died at the age of 96, LTV reported April 8.
LSM is pleased to continue its English-subtitled series of documentary films entitled Latvian Code, selected in an annual contest held by Latvian Public Television (LTV).
Among this weekend's featured events is the moonshine museum, as well as a musical adventure and a chance for real learning.
Kaņepes Culture Center, one of the hippest places in Rīga, will become even more so with the opening of an art-house cinema on April 2.
The hugely popular online streams from birds' nests, which amassed around 3.5 million views last year, are returning this season with live streaming starting from goshawk, osprey, black stork and lesser spotted eagle nests.
Each week we suggest three things to do at the weekend. So here you are.
A project has been started to explore the distinguished Grosvalds family and its contributions to Latvian culture and foreign policy after the First World War.
Our regular three suggestions for things to do this weekend in Latvia. But spring is here: there are a million things to do!
Next week sees the start of the month-long "Windstream" music festival from the Orchestra RĪGA.
This weekend it's all about light and art.
This weekend it's all about cinema,
Andra Neiburga, a literary icon who was able to put humane feeling into literature touching upon the turbulence of the 1990s, passed away on March 2, reported LSM's Latvian-language service.
The weekend is bearing down upon us again, so here are three more things you might like to do with it.
Actor, director, former Rīga councilor and head of the Latvian National Opera Andrejs Žagars (1958-2019) has passed away after a long illness, according to LTV.
The Culture House of the Aizkraukle parish, central Latvia, has unveiled the largest exhibition on the Soviet era in the Baltics. Spanning three stories, it covers all the areas of Soviet life. Curators of the Padomju gadi (Soviet Years) exhibition stress that life went on during the Soviet era despite all the bleakness and pain.
The final of Latvia's Eurovision qualifying contest, Supernova, reached its climax February 16 with the group Carousel emerging victorious.
A selection of events for this weekend in Latvia includes art and music in the capital and at your home.
Latvia's infamous introverted writers are quaking in their suede loafers at the news that the most terrifying of existential concepts - change - is taking place at one of their favorite literary publications.
It is already well known that Mark Rothko was born in the Latvian city of Daugavpils (then known as Dvinsk in the Russian Empire), left at a young age and conquered the world in his chosen field, namely abstract art.
Orchestral conductor Andris Nelsons added to his already extensive collection of Grammy Awards February 10.
Every week we suggest three things you might like to get up to over the weekend. And this weekend is no exception with plenty of options both indoors and out.
In 2018, the popularity of locally-made films nearly tripled in the country, with the market share of Latvian movies reaching 22.07% of total, up from 7.84% in 2017, the National Film Centre reported February 4.
As part of Latvia's centenary celebrations, the Latvian Institute produced a book called Latvia 100 Snapshot Stories. We are reproducing a selection of the entries to give you a few flavors of the country. If you would like to read the whole thing, a free downloadable PDF is available at the Latvian Institute website.
It's the greatest complex of masonry buildings outside central Rīga. For close to 200 years, they treated wounded soldiers here.