Daugavpils City Council together with sixteen regions, towns and Civil Society Organisations from eleven EU countries and with the coordination of Lodzkie Region (Poland) have created a project proposal in the framework of the Europe for Citizens Programme.
The aim of this programme is to:
ü Contribute to citizens' understanding of the EU, its history and
I decided to write this text about José Manuel Ciria as the words flashed back to me from memories. As the ideas emerged. In a kind of verbal abstract expressionism. It is totally surreal, because this has nothing to do with his work or the unconscious, nor unconsciousness. Expressing it in legal terms, as it were.
I am sitting in front of a window from which all I can see is the
24.09.2015
Continuing the Latvian contemporary art exhibition cycle started by Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center in 2014, this year viewers are offered the opportunity to acquaint themselves with Latvian contemporary ceramics. The choice of ceramics as this year’s art medium is, most likely, a natural occurrence – in 2015 the Daugavpils Ceramics association marks its 35th
24.09.2015
Through making logical judgments an individual can predict the consequences of one’s own and other people’s actions, building different models of thoughts which depict the real world in the past, present and future. Man always thinks in the language he knows best of all! Is the artist’s language art? What is art?
It seems that the question about what art is has never
24.09.2015
The international symposium “Mark Rothko 2015” is a meeting place for masters of painting in Daugavpils - in the city where Mark Rothko was born. They meet for the eleventh time already to create works of painting to commemorate the master of painting and add to the collection of contemporary painting of Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre.
This year, the closing exhibition of
Daugavpils City Council implements a strategic partnership project of Erasmus+ project program "Effective media literacy for healthy generation" (project no.2014-1-TR01-KA201-013137), which is co-financed by the EU and coordinated by the municipality of Samsun city, Turkey.
The target audience of the project is primary school teachers, who work with students on a daily basis on these
“CHANGE YOUR HABITS” in TURKEY from 10 to 17th of October 2015.
Youth exchange will be organized in city Sivas. Participate can youth from Latvia in age from 18 – 25 years old. In project will participate 30 youth. Partner countries will be Spain, Poland, Italy, Latvia and Turkey. To participate in a project you must fill application form. .For more detailed
According to the data of the Central Statistical Bureau (CSB) of Latvia, Daugavpils is the second largest city in Latvia – at the beginning of 2015 there were 86 435 residents. As the number of population in Latvia reduced, also the number of resident population in Daugavpils decreased – by 968 residents as compared to the beginning of 2014. During the last 10 years, the
On the occasion of the 182nd Anniversary of the Consecration of the Daugavpils (Dinaburg, Dwinsk) Fortress, the following events will take place in the Fortress on June 2:
9:00 – Hoisting the historical flag of the Dinaburg Fortress (near the Nicholas Gate)
10:00 – Guided tour around by the rampart of the Daugavpils Fortress (in Latvian, Russian, English). Free of
In April 24th Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center will open doors for the participants of III International Tourism Conference to introduce tourism professional the new marketing concept, a variety of tourism opportunities, to promote cooperation between Latvian and foreign tourism professionals. More than 150 participants from Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Belarus and Russia have already
25.02.2015
Embassy of Sweden, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, TeliaSonera and CONNECT Latvia invites you to join the Entrepreneurship Training Course in Daugavpils in spring of 2015
In brief
The objective of the course is to inspire
III International Tourism Conference
“Daugavpils – 740. New Identity of the City”
April 23rd - 24th 2015, Daugavpils, Latvia
Daugavpils - the city rich with its cultural and historical traditions in 2015 will
A photography installation from Slovakia arrives at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils after a worldwide tour of both sides of the Atlantic to cities such as Cambridge, Brussels, New York, Ottawa, Vienna and Rome. The exhibition opens on January 17 in Daugavpils.
Dojc, a successful commercial photographer, living in Canada since 1969,
The society “ERFOLG” organizes together with the German Federal Ministry of the Interior an autumn children school.
In the holidays, children will have the possibility to participate in the diversified program. They will get to know autumn traditions like Thanksgiving and St. Martin and make handicraft workshops which are related to the season. We also plan to visit the
01.09.2014
These were some of the questions young writers and artists from Vilani, Karsava and Slisselburg attempted to ask and answer while participating in a camp “Art Has No Borders” in Karsava. The camp was organised within the Latvia – Russia Cross Border Cooperation Project “Forget a Hurry” and lasted from August 18 to August 22, 2014. The participants of the
In short time Daugavpils is to host the 17th Baltic Song and Dance Festival “Gaudeamus”, taking place June 27-29. According to the tradition, the Baltic States host the festival in turns. Latvia has hosted the festival five times already, the host cities being not only Rīga, but also Ogre, Liepāja, and Cēsis. Daugavpils – the biggest city of the Latgale
From June 2 till June 8, the traditional city festival will take place in Daugavpils; its motto this year is “Daugavpils – city with a sense of home”.
“Ancient stones of the fortress and splendid art nouveau in the heart of the city, low-rise wooden houses with finely carved bluish-grey shutters and geraniums on the windowsills in the
Daugavpils valstspilsētas pašvaldība neuzņemas atbildību par tulkojuma precizitāti!
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