Latvia will host a variety of cultural events this week, including a unique “Loneliness Festival” and performances by Latvian metal bands. The Liepāja Symphony Orchestra will also present a program featuring Beethoven and Bartók.
Loneliness Festival
Four Latvian print magazines – “Strāva”, “Tvērums”, “Avīzes Nosakums” and “Asalwaysunknown” (“AAU”) – are organizing the first-ever Loneliness Festival on February 14th. The event will offer publications and merchandise related to literature, art, and thought, alongside literary readings, opening ceremonies for new magazine issues, performances, a “Loneliness Cafe”, a poetry disco, a printing workshop, a psycho-performance titled “Session with Publishers. Dirty Laundry”, and concerts.
The festival will be open and free to the public throughout the day at the K.K. Fon Stricka Villa. More details can be found here.
Latvian Metal Award
The Latvian Metal Music Awards ceremony and concert will take place on February 13th at the club “Melnā Piektdiena” (Black Friday), located at Brīvības gatve 193c, at 7:00 PM.
UGUNS, MORPHIDE, NETTLETIE, and EREMOS-IX are scheduled to perform. The awards, now in their fifteenth year, are presented by representatives of the association “Zobens un Lemess” and the music club “Melnā piektdiena,” which have been organizing metal music events since 1996.
More information is available on Facebook.
Beethoven and Bartok: Dialogues for Orchestra
The Liepāja Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Estonian maestro Risto Joost, will perform Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 and Béla Bartók’s “Concerto for Orchestra” on Saturday at 6:00 PM at the “Great Amber” concert hall.
Ukrainian pianist Nikita Burzanitsa will join the orchestra and conductor Risto Joost for the performance. Further information can be found here.
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