Proem Co-funded by the Latvian State Satori Internet Magazine Editorial Staff Centenary Programme Ilmārs Šlāpins, Elizabete Lukšo-Ražinska, Anna Andersone Being Together Translator Lauris Veips with Your Country English Editor Suzanne McQuade With the decision to celebrate our country’s centenary not just for a Project Management single day but for an entire year, we have afforded ourselves a great Elizabete Lukšo-Ražinska, Zaiga Pūce, opportunity – to notice something more than just a symbol on a Latvian Centenary Paula Jansone calendar, a flag, or the map of the world representing the idea of a Information Centre country. Latvian National Library Typefaces We have found the time to think about what exactly happens Mūkusalas iela 3, 1st floor, Rīga Freight, Lapture to a country when we observe it in a temporal perspective. Thus it becomes clearer that a state – even such a small and shy little coun- +371 673 303 50 Paper try like Latvia – is a changing entity that cannot be concealed behind +371 220 138 89 Maestro print 190 g/m2, Maestro print 90 g/m2 the frame of a definition. Yes, it is much harder to love. It has good and bad days. It has its own characteristic features, some that might [email protected] Design make an honest person ashamed. Not only does it have dreams of lv100.lv Kārlis Dovnorovičs, “You Made My Day” the future, but also its grey everyday routine and dark spots in its his- tory. It is difficult for us to capture and describe it, because a pressed Publisher flower is but a dried plant, ready to crumble between our fingers. “Ascendum” Association We are supposed to be proud of our country and defend it when August 2018 talking to our friends and neighbours, but sometimes we lack the strength for it, or we want to use less forgiving words. UDK 930.85(474.3)(051) We are used to thinking of relationships as certain codes of Ce565 conduct – we adhere to one set of rules with our spouse, and to a dif- ISSN 2592-8473 ferent one with our parents. There are certain rules among friends and others among colleagues. In order to get on with others, we are used to submitting to them and to developing ourselves. I think the case is slightly different with countries. As with a growing child, you cannot “settle scores’” with a state. You have to “sustain a relationship”, grow along with it, remain in constant turmoil and worry, sacrifice yourself and ask for the impos- sible from the other. And, what is more, you should want to be with a country – tomorrow, the day after, and beyond that. A state is what we want to experience, rather than what we remember just from the happier times together. And in this sense it is silly and useless to cel- ebrate the past hundred years without considering the hundred years to come. Draugiem.lv Facebook Flickr Instagram Twitter Youtube Latvija100 Latvija100 Latvia100 LatvijaiSimts LatvijaiSimts LV100 Ilmārs Šlāpins 3 Calendar Latvia’s Centenary Events Latvia International Ceramics Biennale Through 9 * Exhibition of the International Ceramics Competition Martinsons September from August to October Award. Daugavpils, Rīga, Sigulda, Ogre, Rēzekne, Latvia; Panevežys, Lithuania Tradition & Innovation Through 16 th Paradise ‘89 From February The 6 Rīga International Textile and Fibre Art Triennial. Latvian Na- September Feature film. “Latvian Films for the Latvian Centenary” programme. tional Museum of Art; Arsenāls Exhibition Hall; the Art Museum Riga On screens across Latvia Bourse; Museum of Decorative Arts and Design; etc., Rīga and Latvia To Be Continued From March A Collection of Contemporary Tapestries from Mobilier Through 16 Documentary film. “Latvian Films for the Latvian Centenary” National (France) September programme. On screens across Latvia A visiting exhibition. Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Rīga Bille From April Finnish Jaegers in Latvia Through 28 Feature film. “Latvian Films for the Latvian Centenary” programme. Documentary exhibition. Jaeger Museum of Finland, Kauhava, Finland September On screens across Latvia Imants Tillers. Journey to Nowhere Through 30 Mērija’s Journey From May Exhibition. Latvian National Museum of Art, Rīga September Documentary film. “Latvian Films for the Latvian Centenary” programme. On screens across Latvia To be Banned. Baltic Books 1918–1940 Through 30 Travelling exhibition. National Library of Estonia, Tallinn, Estonia October The Song Festival: An Ideal Latvia From June Documentary film. On screens across Latvia Anatomy of a street. Maskavas Street Through 31 An alley of photos. October Art Nouveau. Its Beginnings, Influences and Through 5 August Spīķeri quarter and the square on Mazā Kalna Street, Rīga Original Nature Exhibition. The Art Museum Riga Bourse, Rīga Freedom Street Stories Through 18 A series of events. Daugavpils, Jelgava, Jēkabpils, Jūrmala, Liepāja, November Portable Landscapes Through 5 August Rēzekne, Rīga, Valmiera, Ventspils International contemporary art exhibition. Körsbärsgården Exhibition Hall, Gotland Over the Threshold Through 30 The first exhibition dedicated to the Centenary of the Latgale Congress. December The XIII Baltic Triennial: GIVE UP THE GHOST Through 12 Museum of Cultural History of Latgale, Rēzekne Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania August Valmiera Summer Theatre Festival 3 – 5 August The State Before Statehood Through 19 Valmiera Exhibition. National Library of Latvia, Rīga August Gosti 3 – 5 August I (TOO) AM A LATVIAN Through 22 IX International Ethno Festival. Rēzekne Exhibition. National Library of Latvia, Rīga August The Coronet of Latgale 4 August The XIII Baltic Triennial: GIVE UP THE GHOST Through 2 Latvian ethnic minority music festival. Krāslava Municipality, Baltic Art triennial. Tallinn Art Hall, Tallinn, Estonia September Indra Parish 4 5 Calendar Calendar Simple Summer Session 2018 4 – 5 August Baltic Sea Festival: Dedication to Eric Ericson 28 August International skateboarding and BMX event. The Latvian Radio Choir, the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Barona Street skate park, Rīga and the Eric Ericson Chamber Choir in concert at the Baltic Sea Festi- val. Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden World Orienteering Championships and the Footpath Ori- 4 – 11 August enteering Championship for People with Disabilities Lustrum From 29 August Rīga, Sigulda, Turaida, Daugavpils Documentary film. “Latvian Films for the Latvian Centenary” pro- gramme. On screens across Latvia The Wonder Bird 5 August A musical for young people and their parents. The Latvian School Bag From 1 September Daugavpils Theatre, Daugavpils Interdisciplinary training programme, Latvia’s biggest centenary gift to over 200,000 children and youth in the country. Latvia Fire Safety, Fire Rescue, and Civil Protection 8 – 10 August Baltic States’ Firefighter Games, Valka Planet No. 85 From 1 September A play for children and their parents. Winner of the contest for original The Centenary Open-Air Dance Party 11 August plays, titled “The East Arrives in Latvia. Shelter and a meeting (or lack th A get-together and celebration one hundred days before Latvia’s 100 thereof).” Daile Theatre, Rīga anniversary. Latvia and around the world Seaside Clean-up 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 Theatre of Latvia Celebrates 200 11 August An initiative for cleaning up Latvia’s seaside. September Neikenkalns Open Air Concert Hall, Zunda Threshing Barn, Dikļi Latvia’s seaside municipalities Latvian Garden of Destiny. 11 August Quantasonic: data modulation and 2 other works 1 September to 31 The Opening Concert. Artist Voldemārs Johansons’ exhibition “Bozar” in the Bozar Electronic October The Garden of Destiny, Koknese Municipality Arts Festival. BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels Baltic Guards 2018 – Latvian Youth Guard Camp 13 – 17 August Vidzeme’s Talents for the Latvian Centenary 2 September International youth guard camp with participants from Latvia, Lithua- The most talented students and contest laureates from Vidzeme’s mu- nia, Estonia, Poland, Ukraine, and Great Britain. Mārupe Municipality sic schools in concert. Vidzeme Concert Hall “Cēsis”, Cēsis The Riga City Festival 17 – 19 August The Invisible Effect 3 September Rīga Contemporary dance performance. The Pleasance Theatre, London th 150 Anniversary of the Riga Latvian Society House 17 – 19 August Emotional States 4 – 23 September Vērmane Garden, Rīga Variant Studio exhibition in the London Design Biennale. Somerset House, London Exhibition “Burning Conscience” From 23 August History exhibition, Pils Street 12, Cēsis Bridges of Time From 5 September Documentary film. “Latvian Films for the Latvian Centenary” pro- Ancient Bonfire Night 25 August gramme. On screens across Latvia Bonfire event and night of ancient fire. Latvia’s seaside Municipalities. Special musical programme. The European Law Institute’s Annual General Assembly 5 – 7 September Liepāja, Jūrmala, Roja, Saulkrasti, and Salacgrīva The University of Latvia Great Hall, Rīga 6 7 Calendar The Latvian School Bag - Opening Event 6 September Opening event. Arēna Rīga, Rīga Survival Kit 10 6 – 27 September A Contemporary Art Festival. Riga Circus, Rīga Kurts Fridrihsons From 7 September Documentary film. “Latvian Films for the Latvian Centenary” pro- gramme. On screens across Latvia Liepāja: Latvia’s Capital From 8 September A play. Liepāja Theatre, Liepāja Countryside Entering the City 8 September Series of events about the role of the countryside and agriculture in Latvia’s history, the present day, and future. 11 November Embank- ment, Rīga White Night 2018 8 – 9 September Contemporary culture forum, Rīga The Latvian Red Cross Celebrates 100 8 September to 21 An exhibition. Pauls Stradiņš Museum for History of Medicine, Rīga January, 2019 Global Control 13 – 15 September RIXC Art Science Festival conference about art and the digital society. National Library of Latvia, Rīga Join us to celeberate! From one Dream to Anothre 14 September A multimedia 3D performance. Lielupe River, Jelgava Wear a pair of colourful mittens The Big Clean-up 15 September on 18 November 2018! World Cleanup Day 2018. Let’s do it. Latvia and around the world Pick or make a pair of your own and join us to The Glass Mountain.