Art and Culture Fair
The Art and Culture Fair is back! During the fair, organised on 10–11 April at the Exhibition Hall of the Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre (KCCC), Didžioji Vandens g. 2, artists and representatives of culture and art organisations will be able to present their work, activities or services, while the public will be able to get to know Klaipėda’s art and culture scene more closely and to buy works of art.
Taking part in the fair will be artists from the city and region of Klaipėda — painters, printmakers, photographers, sculptors, jewellers, interdisciplinary artists and designers — as well as culture and art organisations, institutions and associations: theatres, galleries, museums, creative workshops, independent publishers and creators’ unions. And visitors to the Art and Culture Fair can look forward not only to works of art, activities and services but also to an educational and cultural programme.
With the fair we seek to create a space for dialogue between creative work and the city’s community. The event is being organised for the second year in a row; last year it attracted over a thousand visitors.
PROGRAMME
PARTICIPANTS’ STANDS
10–11 April
11.00–19.00
Theatre workshops await visitors at the Klaipėda Puppet Theatre stand.
At Ingaja’s stand visitors will be able to listen to her newly released vinyl record.
At Lidija Kuklienė’s stand it will be possible to watch calligraphy being written live.
In Audronius Žemgulis’s space, the nineteenth-century photographic technique of the wet collodion process will be presented.
Portraits will be photographed using the wet collodion technique. A live demonstration of the wet collodion process will take place in the workshops of the KCCC Art Yard; visitors will have a chance to learn about the particularities of this historical photographic technique and will be able to order their own unique portrait made in the old way.
At Ugnė Pužaitė’s stand, a presentation of the exhibition “Fodder”.
Audrius Lukauskas will invite visitors to become acquainted with amber and literature. Amber from the archaic to the modern. Visitors will be able to try turning amber into a piece of jewellery themselves, both in the archaic way (using a pump drill) and in a modern one.
At the Lithuanian Sea Museum stand, visitors can look forward to “2050 Baltic. Dystopia or Reality?” and “Saga of the Sea”. It will be possible to try out the Lithuanian Sea Museum’s educational sessions:
• Immerse yourself in a dystopian future scenario for the Baltic and watch the virtual reality film “The Future Baltic: dystopia or reality?” Using virtual reality goggles, participants will experience an immersive audiovisual journey based on scientific insights into climate change, environmental pollution and possible future scenarios for the Baltic Sea.
• Set out on a sound journey around the museum ship M52 “Sūduvis” and hear authentic accounts by members of the crew.
Pepe Colors will draw portraits in dry pastel of everyone who wishes at their stand.
Valentinas Gamtonis Dirgilas will invite you to painting lessons at his stand, “Living Watercolour”.
Žaneta Jasaitytė-Bessonova — MUMEI will invite visitors to print a graphic work.
11.00–17.00 At the Pranas Domšaitis Gallery stand, visitors will be able to become better acquainted with the linocut printmaking technique. They will print pre-prepared linoleum blocks on a printing press and will be able to take small minimalist works of art home with them.
12.00–13.00, 14.00–15.00, 16.00–17.00, 18.00–19.00 At Simas Žaltauskas’s stand, visitors will be able to create their own plaster sculpture and watch painting live.
16.00–18.00, 13.00–16.00 At the stand of the Klaipėda branch of the Lithuanian Writers’ Union, visitors will be able to get “A Poem for a Euro”. Your intention — my energy.
Say three words, come back in 15 minutes and collect the poem written for you!
The poet’s creative response and the customer’s sincerity are the two conditions needed for this mutually enjoyable game.
No ID, only an authentic connection!
10th 11.00–19.00 The Immanuel Kant Public Library of Klaipėda City Municipality will invite visitors to make their own mirror and to try their luck by spinning the wheel of fortune.
10th 17.00 Open creative workshop with the artist Arūnė Baronaitė, “Living Structures: natural stamps and printing experiments” (KCCC Art Yard, Daržų g. 10).
During the workshop we invite visitors to the KCCC ART YARD, where together with the artist you will work with found materials: tree bark, fragments of soil, plants and other surfaces. During printing, their traces will be transferred onto paper through direct contact and pressure. Unexpected patterns and forms will emerge.
10th 19.00 Performance by Benas Šarka (in the courtyard of the KCCC Exhibition Hall).
11th. 11.00–16.00 The “Amber Quay” Education Centre will invite you to a session at its stand, “From the blacksmith to the baker: the craftspeople of Klaipėda”. Visitors can look forward to a crossword about the city’s craftspeople, a chance to learn to recognise the coats of arms of the craft guilds and to draw their own master’s mark.
11th 11.00–19.00 At the Baroti Gallery you can visit the exhibition “Pink Pilled”, which will feature works by women artists from Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Ukraine. The exhibition is curated by the “Young Painter Prize”.
EVENTS AND EDUCATION SPACE
10 April
12.00–13.00, 14.00–15.00, 16.00–17.00 ARTYN Theatre invites you to the theatre session “CLOSER to the human being”. Registration link here.
13.00–14.00, 15.00–16.00, 17.00–19.00 You can visit Simona Agota Martinkus’s art installation “White. And then salad”.
11 April
11.30 and 17.00 Musical performances by the artist Ingaja.
12.00–13.30 Lidija Kuklienė’s creative frottage session “Stories of Surfaces”. Registration link here.
14.30–16.00 Birutė Bernotienė McCarthy invites you to a lesson in needle-felting a toy. Registration link here.
16.00 presentation “Book Art Festival: how is an artist’s book made?”
16.00–17.00 You can visit Simona Agota Martinkus’s art installation “White. And then salad”.
18.00 Performance “by my house” by the actress Adolfina Kunčiūtė.
Admission to the Art and Culture Fair is free. Please note that participants may appear in photographs and video recordings of the event published in various media.