16 November 2023, from 16:30 till 17:30 | Leescafe Belcampo in OBA De Hallen, Hannie Dankbaarpassage 10, 1053RT Amsterdam
The Revival of DE BALTISCHE MIDDAG
Join us for vibrant performances from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania!
The Estonian mezzo-sopraan, Kadri Tegelmann, will take us to her colorful musical journey. As a performer Kadri feels at home in opera as well as chamber and folk music. She has found a way for dissolving borders between different art forms and genres. As an advocate for contemporary music she has worked with theater SILBERSEE; a production centre for unorthodox music and experimental opera where she was part of the award-winning production "Wij gaan op Berenjacht" (with theater Sonnevanck) composed by David Dramm. Kadri Tegelman has performed "Laika" at the Dutch National Opera, worked together with the Dutch ensemble La Sfera Armoniosa and the Estonian Early Music Ensemble Floridante.
Amid the authentic music sound the three “flash” book presentations – Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian - recently translated into Dutch, will illustrate some historic and cultural background of the Baltic countries. We will hear about “De dood van de perfecte zin” (by Rein Raud), “Moedermelk”(by Nora Ikstena) and “Peters keizerin“ (by Kristina Sabaliauskaitė). The three books will be introduced by the literary translators (respectively) Frans van Nes, Brenda Lelie and Anita van der Molen.
Let us celebrate the Baltic vibes together!
Admission is free.
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This event is initiated by the Estonian Embassy in the Hague and organised together with the Embassies of Latvia and Lithuania in the Hague and Litouws Cultureel Centrum.
]]>EUNIC Netherlands, The European Commission and OBA are delighted to invite you to a Speak-Dating evening to mark the European Day of Languages 2023 - DATING WITH EUROPE
Entrance is FREE
Native speakers of a multitude of European languages prepare face-to-face sessions for attendees, introducing them to fun idioms, simple phrases or facts about their native language, all contributing to give an insight into Europe's vast cultural and linguistic diversity. This year’s Speak-Dating evening will feature Lithuanian, Slovenian, Georgian, Ukranian, Esperanto and many more.
Join us for an exciting linguistic and cultural adventure!
Don't miss this chance to broaden your horizons, make new friends, and discover the beauty of Europe's languages and cultures. We can't wait to see you there!We're delighted to welcome you at the 'speak-dating' event, organized by the EUNIC Netherlands to celebrate the European Day of Languages.
Organized by Eunic Netherlands
]]>Europe has a long tradition of utopian and dystopical novelists. 'Utopia' from the sixteenth century by Thomas More or 'Brave New World' from the twentieth century by Aldous Huxley. But what future do contemporary authors envision? Should literature alert us, congratulate us, or inspire us with hope?
At the invitation of the Litouws Cultureel Centrum, this year Lithuanian literature will be presented by Indrė Valantinaitė an acclaimed poet with many literary prizes to her name. European Literature Night is part of this year's festival Forum on European Culture.
Indrė Valantinaitė (b 1984, Kaunas) is a Lithuanian poet. After graduating from a Jesuit Gymnasium, she studied art management at Vilnius University and Vilnius Art Academy. She published poems in many magazines and debuted her first book of poetry in 2006. Her first book Of Fish and Lilies (Žuvim ir lelijom") won the First Book Competition in 2006. Her second book Tales about Love and Other Beasts ("Pasakos apie meilę ir kitus žvėris" (2011) won the Young Yotvingian Prize in 2012. In her third book Shorts (Trumpametražiai 2017) Indre invites the reader to an imaginary cinema where one can watch the characters from the side on the screen of the imagination. She calls her fourth book, Lined by the Sun ("Apsisiautusios saule" 2020), her most personal work, with many intimate confessions. Her poetry has been translated into 20 foreign languages: English, German, French, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, Croatian, Polish, Dutch, Chinese, Irish, Macedonian, Norwegian, Slovenian, Russian, Canadian, Estonian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Swedish, Besides writing poetry, Indrė is a singer, winner of several singing festivals and also a TV journalist, presenter and producer. Since 2012 Indrė is a member of the Lithuanian Writers' Union.
During the European Literature Night 2023, Indrė Valantinaitė will explore the power of utopian literature and together with Romen poet Iuliana Alexa and read the poems. The authors will be featured in the second part of the event - "Part II | Against apocalypse: Finding hope in utopian poetry”.
The conversation will be moderated by Isabel Sheridan, programmer of the De Balie debate centre.
All participating authors: Berit Glanz (Germany), Dalilla Hermans (Belgium), Indrė Valantinaitė (Lithuania), Carmelo Rodríguez & Willy Lomana (Spain), Iuliana Alexa (Romania), Meelis Friedenthal (Estonia), Franco Tirletti (Italy), Klára Vlasáková (Chech Republic), Haska Shyyan (Ukrain), Aafke Romeijn (The Netherlands).
Thanks to Eunic Netherlands, Goethe-Institut, De Brakke Grond, Litouws Cultureel Centrum, Lithuanian Embassy, Instituto Cervantes, Institutul Cultural Român, Estonian Embassy, Istituto Italiano, Check Centre, Embassy of Ukrain and Dutch Culture.
Photo: M.Penkutė.
]]>With Gabrielė Žemaitytė - piano, Lithuania, Sterre Kooi - mezzo-soprano, Netherlands, Rolfe Dauz - baritone, USA
The program includes songs and arias by G. Donizetti and G. Puccini, J. Sibelius, M. Biltzstein, E. Grieg, J. Gaižauskas, H. Duparc and R. Schumann, among others, as well as two freshly written works by young Lithuanian composers J. Šiksnelytė and D. Digimas. Love, dreams, water, stars, sorrow and many other, joyful, romantic elements touch the silence. The inspired and sympathetic interplay of the three internationally working artists Gabrielė Žemaitytė, Sterre Kooi and Rolfe Dauz promises us a sparkling concert!
Filipino-American baritone Rolfe Dauz has garnered international acclaim for his "focused baritone, perfect diction, and dramatic acting” (Calgary Herald). This summer Rolfe will perform recitals curated by internationally acclaimed soprano Dawn Upshaw at the Tanglewood Music Center and will join Detroit Opera’s 2023/24 Resident Artist Program under the leadership of Christine Goerke and Nathalie Doucet. In the summer of 2022, Rolfe joined the Chautauqua Opera Company, performing roles in Virgil Thomson’s The Mother Of Us All and a contemporary opera by Kamala Sankaram entitled Thumbprint. During the 2021-22 season, Rolfe Dauz performed in Yadi Nursalim Anugerah’s opera Ine Ay’, at the Holland Festival and reprised this role in a touring production through Indonesia. His duo with Gabrielė Žemaitytė was awarded 2nd prize at the 2021 Copenhagen Lied-Duo Competition, and he also performed a recital in the Muziekgebouw under the auspices of the Grote Zangers.
Lithuanian pianist Gabriele Žemaitytė took her master’s degree at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague in the class of Naum Grubert, after she had started her studies at the National M. K. Čiurlionis Art School in Vilnius. Gabrielė performs in various festivals throughout The Netherlands including Kamermuziekfestival in The Hague, Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam and played in venues such as De Doelen and Het Concertgebouw. In 2019 Gabriele toured China, where she performed in more than twenty different theatres. She took master classes with renowned performers such as Dmitry Bashkirov, Stefan Vladar, Armen Babakhanian, David Breitman, Nina Seriogina, Johannes Meissl and Stephan Picard. Passionate chamber musician, Gabriele actively performs in various chamber music settings. In 2020 she appeared in the TV program Podium Witteman.
Dutch mezzo-soprano Sterre Kooi completed her studies at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. She sang numerous operatic roles, including Romeo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e I Montecchi and Madame de Croissy in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites. A few years ago she made her debut at the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ during a specially curated recital in honor of Louis Andriessen’s 80th birthday. She also co-created an improvisation opera at the Dutch National Opera during the second edition of the Opera Forward Festival.
Next to her performing career Sterre is very active as a vocal teacher in her own teaching studio and at children opera choir Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam. She also teaches contemporary singing in several music schools throughout the...
Spring concert
With Gabrielė Žemaitytė (piano, Lithuania), Sterre Kooi (mezzo-soprano, Netherlands) and Rolfe Dauz (baritone, USA)
The program includes songs and arias by G. Donizetti and G. Puccini, J. Sibelius, M. Biltzstein, E. Grieg, J. Gaižauskas, H. Duparc and R. Schumann, among others, as well as two freshly written works by young Lithuanian composers J. Šiksnelytė and D. Digimas. Love, dreams, water, stars, sorrow and many other, joyful, romantic elements touch the silence. The inspired and sympathetic interplay of the three internationally working artists Gabrielė Žemaitytė, Sterre Kooi and Rolfe Dauz promises us a sparkling concert!
Filipino-American baritone Rolfe Dauz has garnered international acclaim for his "focused baritone, perfect diction, and dramatic acting” (Calgary Herald). This summer Rolfe will perform recitals curated by internationally acclaimed soprano Dawn Upshaw at the Tanglewood Music Center and will join Detroit Opera’s 2023/24 Resident Artist Program under the leadership of Christine Goerke and Nathalie Doucet. In the summer of 2022, Rolfe joined the Chautauqua Opera Company, performing roles in Virgil Thomson’s The Mother Of Us All and a contemporary opera by Kamala Sankaram entitled Thumbprint. During the 2021-22 season, Rolfe Dauz performed in Yadi Nursalim Anugerah’s opera Ine Ay’, at the Holland Festival and reprised this role in a touring production through Indonesia. His duo with Gabrielė Žemaitytė was awarded 2nd prize at the 2021 Copenhagen Lied-Duo Competition, and he also performed a recital in the Muziekgebouw under the auspices of the Grote Zangers.
Lithuanian pianist Gabriele Žemaitytė took her master’s degree at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague in the class of Naum Grubert, after she had started her studies at the National M. K. Čiurlionis Art School in Vilnius. Gabrielė performs in various festivals throughout The Netherlands including Kamermuziekfestival in The Hague, Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam and played in venues such as De Doelen and Het Concertgebouw. In 2019 Gabriele toured China, where she performed in more than twenty different theatres. She took master classes with renowned performers such as Dmitry Bashkirov, Stefan Vladar, Armen Babakhanian, David Breitman, Nina Seriogina, Johannes Meissl and Stephan Picard. Passionate chamber musician, Gabriele actively performs in various chamber music settings. In 2020 she appeared in the TV program Podium Witteman.
Dutch mezzo-soprano Sterre Kooi completed her studies at the Amsterdam Conservatoire. She sang numerous operatic roles, including Romeo in Bellini’s I Capuleti e I Montecchi and Madame de Croissy in Poulenc’s Dialogues des Carmélites. A few years ago she made her debut at the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ during a specially curated recital in honor of Louis Andriessen’s 80th birthday. She also co-created an improvisation opera at the Dutch National Opera during the second edition of the Opera Forward Festival.
Next to her performing career Sterre is very active as a vocal teacher in her own teaching studio and at children opera choir Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam. She also teaches contemporary singing in several music schools throughout...
September 29, from 19:00 to 20:45 OBA Oosterdoc, Oba Café
Also this year the Litouws Cultureel Centrum will be a part of the Speak-dating event, organised by EUNIC Netherlands and the European Commission. This event will take place in the cosy OBA café of The Public library of Amsterdam (Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam). Native speakers of European languages prepare simple face-to-face sessions for attendees, introducing fun idioms or simple phrases, all contributing to give an insight into European cultural and linguistic diversity. Would you like to try out a new language and prepare for your next holiday by learning some phrases? Short one-on-one lessons with native speakers in a variety of European Languages will include a.a. Lithuanian, German, French, Ukrainian, Esperanto, Slovenian and even Dutch Sign Language (NGT). Lithuanian native speaker will welcome you too. Take your mobile phone with you, open a Google translate programme and join us at our table, marked by the Lithuanian flag. We will practice Lithuanian with you, will give you some usefull tips of how to start a friendly conversation in Lithuanian and how to say your name. Yes, your name sounds different in Lithuanian!
Grab your chance and come join our ‘speak-dating’ event!
The annual European Day of Languages celebrates Europe’s enormous linguistic diversity, in relation to both national and regional languages, helping to stimulate an awareness of the importance of learning languages both inside and outside academic environments.
Organised by: EUNIC Netherlands, as cooperation of European cultural institutes, the European Commission and the OBA.
]]>Baltic Film Weekend will take place On-line, from Januay 28 to 30, 2022 and will focus on a unique treasure that Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia have to offer – vivid cultural traditions framed by pure and untouched nature with lots of personal space and expression. A delightful mix of influences from east and west, that characterize the people and culture.
Lithuania will be represented by the documentary of Mindaugas Survila - The Ancient Woods / SENGIRĖ (doc. 85 min. 2017, Lt)
Please read for more about this festival and Register after opening this link: https://balticfilmweekend.nl/
Litouws Cultureel Centrum in cooperation with The Lithuanian Film Centre presents the three most original films of famous Lithuanian cineast Algimantas PUIPA - The Devil's Seed 1979, A Woman and Her Four Men 1983 (earlier presented at EUNIC filmdagen) and The Internal Light 1987 - films that have stood the test of time and avoided ideological and artistic clichés and belong to the "Golden Fund" of Lithuanian cinema, and despite the time they were created, may inadvertently resonate with the realities of today.
December 9 - 12, 2021.
ON LINE,
For free
On Vimeo.
The link naar Vimeo
Or you can copy this link on to your browser: (https://vimeo.com/showcase/algimantaspuipa
Password: Puipa
The films will be available until December 12th, 23:00 h.
All three films in this retrospective take a deeper look at the history of Lithuania, albeit at different periods of time. However, it is not the historical, social or political realities that are most important in Puipa's films. That background of the past forms an abutment for his cinema, in order to create a peculiar reality with the features of near-allegory. Universal, philosophical, films of Puipa are understandable even for those who do not boast much historical knowledge of Lithuania. (N. Kažukauskaitė)
]]>With the Lithuanian violinist Novile Maceinaitė, Lithuanian pianist Gabrielė Žemaitytė and American baritone Rolfe Dauz
The programme includes works by Lithuanian and Italian composers Konstancija BRUNDZAITE, Jurgis GAIŽAUSKAS, Ruggero LEONCAVALLO, Francesco SANTOLIQUIDO, Paolo TOSTI but also woks by John ADAMS, Steven Mark KOHN, Max RICHTER and Wolfgang Amadeus MOZART. Novilė Maceinaitė's elegant and esprit violin playing, warm piano solos by Gabrielė Žemaitytė and colorful baritone sounds by Rolfe Dauz take us on a journey from contemporary minimalism to romantic songs and Italian arias.
About the performers:
Lithuanian violinist Novilė Maceinaitė received her master’s degree at the Royal Conservatory of the Hague, where she studied with Janet Krause and Philippe Graffin. By then she had already won several first prizes at national and international competitions, as a student with Monika Vasiliauskaitė and Dainius Puodžiukas at the National M.K. Čiurlionis Art School of Vilnius. During the final years of her studies Novilė toured Lithuania as one of three selected soloists, playing the Violin Concerto in g-minor by Max Bruch. Novilė has taken part in masterclasses with Andras Keller, Vera Beths, Stephan Picard and Wilfred Strehle. She started playing with Het Residentie Orkest of The Hague when she was still a student. Being a member of several ensembles Novilė performed in the Concertgebouw Amsterdam, the Muziekgebouw, De Doelen and Tivoli Vredenburg. In 2019 she received a scholarship from the Stichting Eigen Muziekinstrument. The fund assisted her in purchasing a new instrument, an extraordinary violin by Camillo Mandelli “da Calco” from 1923, Novilė is playing today.
The American baritone Rolfe Dauz studied at the Bard College Conservatory Vocal Arts Program in New York and came to the Netherlands to continue his studies at the Dutch National Opera Academy. He is a recipient of the Holland Scholarship and the Non-EU Talent Grant. Outside of the DNOA Rolfe has been a soloist singing Bach Cantatas with the Bach Collegium ’s-Hertogenbosch. He covered Leporello in the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century production of Don Giovanni and has been on tour with Opera2Day’s production of Philip Glass’s The Fall of the House of Usher as the Medic and William. Recently Rolfe performed at the live-streamed concert, Grote Zangers, at the Amsterdam Muziekgebouw and was seen at the 2021 Holland Festival performing the role of Wotan/Hingaan Jann in a new opera entitled Ine Aya’ by Indonesian composer Yadi Nursalim Anugerah.
The Lithuanian pianist Gabriele Žemaitytė took her master’s degree at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague in the class of Prof Naum Grubert, after she had started her studies at the National M. K. Čiurlionis Art School in Vilnius. Gabrielė performs in various festivals throughout The Netherlands including Kammermuziekfestival in The Hague, Gergiev Festival in Rotterdam and played in de venues such as De Doelen, Het Concertgebouw. In 2019 Gabriele toured China, where she performed in more than twenty different theatres....
]]>October 28-31, 2021 On line, for free.
Discovering the Archaeology of Love in the mosaic of European films
Registration has started on Eunic Filmdagen
Litouws Cultureel Centrum, together with EUNIC Netherlands invites you to Eunic's own film festival, EUNIC Filmdagen, taking place Online from Thursday 28 – Sunday 31 October 2021.
After you receive the pasword, the following eight movies will be accessible for you:
HISTORY OF LOVE (2018, Slovenia) A WOMAN AND HER FOUR MEN (1983 Lithuania) LEOPARDI / IL GIOVANE FAVOLOSO (2014, Italy) SHIRLEY – VISIONS OF REALITY (2013, Austria) ETERNAL WINTER (2018, Hungary) – (30 October from 15:00 until 31 October at 15:00) THE EXECUTIONER (1963, Spain) SOVIET HIPPIES (2017, Estonia) LADIES DAY (2018, United Kingdom)
All non-English films are with English subtitles
Litouws Cultureel Centrum presents the Lithuanian classic, A WOMAN AND HER FOUR MEN (1983), coinciding with the 70th birthday of Algimantas Puipa (1951), one of the most distinguished directors in the history of Lithuanian cinema.
*Discovering the Archaeology of Love in the mosaic of European films EUNIC Netherlands Filmdays focus on the archaeology of love in film. The films of the programme, made in different European countries and during different historical times – show love in all its many shapes and forms. In these cinematographic productions the power of love, that has a creative and destructive energy (sometimes both), manifests itself in complex political, social or cultural contexts.
The Estonian documentary “Soviet Hippies” (2017) looks at the 1970s and ’80s when the hippie movement took place in the Soviet Union. The ‘Red Hippies’ were a colourful crowd. They wore long hair, jeans, listened to Western music, they flocked to each other across a vast country, believed in the ideas of peace, freedom, and love. However, this movement was completely unacceptable to the Soviet authorities. This film, by director Terje Toomistu is a journey with the former hippies, from the present day to the years of their youth, through their memories, music, drawings, photos and animation. Free love and sex were an integral part of the hippie existence. For them, love was one of the most important expressions of freedom. At least, when they loved and while making love one could feel free, even in a system in which both soul and body were strictly constrained.
A love story can even become a story of grieving, with denial of loss, a desire to escape from reality, a haunting guilt, even a desire for revenge. Such love is depicted in the film “History of Love” (2018) by Slovenian director Sonja Prosenc. She uses a unique cinematic poetics, free narration, subtle hints, eloquent details. The film amazes with its visual beauty; for his work several times Mitja Licen was awarded as the best cameraman. The protagonist, Iva, cannot come to terms with the death of her mother, who is killed in a car accident. Mourning is further aggravated by the perception of how little is known about the mother’s life. Although considered by critics to be an...
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