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Meeting with artist Paul Huxley, for artist personal reasons, will take place today, 15 JULY AFTER EXHIBITION SEASON opening, at artists' exhibition.

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Daugavpils Mark Rothko art

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On June 21^st, 2016 at 15:00 Daugavpils Regional Studies and Art Museum (Rigas Street 8, Daugavpils) invites to meet holiday of the summer solstice together and visit an exhibition of beer glasses “Serebristaya pena, zolotoy napitok” from the private collection of local historian, firefighter Oleg Denisov.

Oleg Denisov was born in Daugavpils. After graduating

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On June 16, the exhibition „Peteris Martinsons. Porcelain Drawings” has been opened in Daugavpils Park Hotel Latgola to commemorate Peteris Martinsons, the greatest Latvian ceramist, and to introduce the events of the 1st Latvia International Ceramics Biennale.

The 1st Latvia International Ceramics Biennale will begin with July 15, 2016, with an opening of ‘Martinsons

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Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre is thrilled to announce a very special event – an arrival of much-awaited new original works of Mark Rothko which will be presented for all art lovers as from 24 April 2016!

The originals of the world-famous painter as well as a number of domestic and international exhibitions will be on display to mark the third anniversary of Daugavpils Mark

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Multilingual children afternoon is a great opportunity to develop language skills in a relaxing atmosphere. This activity is organized by our Spanish volunteer Javier Porras. He is a primary school teacher in Spain and he has a long experience in working with kids. Besides that, children will discover Spanish and English language, applying different methods to learn and enjoy at the

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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

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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 35^th

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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

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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In short time Daugavpils is to host the 17^th 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

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During traditional Latgalian Potters’ Days (22-27.04.2014.) in the Daugavpils Ceramic Art Centre are planned to build new raku ceramic kiln and to organise ‘Baltic Raku’ symposium (23.-27.04.2014.) supported by the Latvian State Culture Capital  Foundation, Daugavpils Municipality, Daugavpils Clay Art Centre and Daugavpils Regional and Art Museum. We are waiting twelve

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Every Wednesday, at 17 in Erfolg

So, what about leaning a new language with a native speaker?

Society “Erfolg” offers you open Portuguese classes,

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ERFOLG” Society, with the support of the Ministry of the Interior from the Federal Republic of Germany provides you with Autumn Children’s School! 28.10.2013 – 01.11.2013

In the last week of October, takes place „ERFOLG”’s Autumn School, for children between the ages of 7 and 13.

The topic will be

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Society „ERFOLG” together with societies Ida-Virumaa noorte sakslaste uhing (Estonia), Stowarzyszenie Młodzieżowych Inicjatyw Twórczych “CREATOR” (Poland) and Youth Access Association (Turkey) with the support of  „Youth in action” programm calls young people to take a participation in youth exchange project „EUROVISION – youth

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Daugavpils Clay Art Centre and Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre invite you to visit the

events of the 1st International Ceramic Art Symposium ‘LANDescape’ which will take place in

Daugavpils, Latvia from 12th till 25th of August, 2013.

The Symposium opening will take place on Monday, August 12th with the exhibition

“LANDescape. FOREWORD”.

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Next year, on June 27 and 29, Daugavpils will host 17th Baltic Students' Song and Dance Festival "Gaudeamus". Such a decision was made by the Ministry of Education and Science in early June after receiving Jelgava’s, Liepaja’s, Rezekne’s and Daugavpils proposal.

On Wednesday, June 24, working group created by the Ministry of Education and Science visited Daugavpils.

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