On 25 January, the Lithuanian capital Vilnius finally started celebrating its 700th anniversary and got the jam-packed cultural programme going for the entire year.
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Three Lithuanian classical music performers have been announced winners of the International Classical Music Awards for 2022, the Lithuanian Musicians Union said.
January102023
On Tuesday, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) will officially open its Lithuanian office staffed with 18 journalists who fled the Minsk regime.
January072023
Ukrainian refugees and other members of the Orthodox community in Lithuania who do not want to pray in the Moscow Patriarchate on Orthodox Christmas Day are invited to do so in alternative places with a Ukrainian priest.
January032023
Celebrating the exact day of Vilnius’s 700th anniversary, the 1st Vilnius Performance Art Biennial presents the opening event of the festival—a new work by artist Emilia Škarnulytė, Aphotia, which will take place on 23 January at 7 pm at the Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre.
January032023
Mourners can pay tribute to Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI at the Apostolic Nunciature in Vilnius on Tuesday and Wednesday.
December272022
A group of parliamentarians propose to recognize the Armenian Apostolic Church as a traditional religious community in Lithuania.
December232022
Lithuanian opera singer Vaidas Vysniauskas says he went to Belarus at the invitation of a bishop of evangelical churches in Belarus and took part in pre-Christmas events to support his friends suffering from the regime.
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Opera singer Vaidas Vyšniauskas has posted an apology on his Facebook for his performance in Minsk, Belarus, on Sunday.
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Lithuanian Culture Minister Simonas Kairys says he's shocked by Lithuanian opera singer Vaidas Vysniauskas' decision to perform in the Belarusian capital over the weekend.
December182022
The Office of the Chief Archivist of Lithuania in early December returned the original copy of Lithuania's Act of Independence of February 16, 1918 to the German Foreign Ministry's Political Archive.
December172022
A building permit has been issued for the National Concert Hall project in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital's municipality said on Tuesday.
December162022
The producers of the Mariupol 2 documentary hope to resolve the authorship dispute with Hana Bilobrova, the fiancée of Mantas Kvedaravicius, the documentary's Lithuanian director killed in Ukraine, soon.
December152022
Vilnius City Municipal Council has confirmed that a statue commemorating Antanas Smetona (1874-1944), the first president of Lithuania who held office in 1919-1920 and 1926-1940, will be erected in a square adjacent to the Old Theatre of Vilnius, the Jonas Basanavičius Street.
December122022
The Ministry of Culture held a press conference on Monday to announce the laureates of the 2022 Lithuanian National Prize for Culture and Art.
December122022
Mariupol 2, a film by Mantas Kvedaravičius, won the Best Documentary Film award at the European Film Awards in Reykjavik on Saturday, reports the Office of the Government.
December122022
Composer Mikalojus Novikas, one of the founders of the Lithuanian pop song school, has passed away at the age of 82, LRT Radio reported late Sunday.
December062022
Workers on Tuesday started dismantling the monument to Soviet World War Two soldiers in Vilnius' Antakalnis Cemetery, despite interim measures imposed by the United Nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC).
December062022
The president has expressed his sincere condolences to the family, friends and the entire Lithuanian cultural community for the loss of sculptor Dalia Ona Zubovaitė-Palukaitienė who passed away on Monday, the Office of the President said.
December062022
The Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize Commission has announced the nominee list of the 2022 Lithuanian National Culture and Art Prize, the Ministry of Culture said on Monday.