Programme of the “Path of Freedom” Event Series Commemorating the Baltic Way and Freedom Days

23 August

12 p.m. Holy Mass
Cathedral of St Apostles Peter and Paul, Aušros tak. 3

12:45 p.m. Ceremonial Baltic Way Day Procession
Route: Cathedral of St Apostles Peter and Paul – Sundial Square
Organised by Šiauliai Culture Centre

1 p.m. Concert programme “Songs That Were Never Written Down”
Featuring: Raminta Naujanytė-Bjelle and the Lithuanian Symphonic Wind Orchestra (Artistic Director Prof. Dr Antanas Kučinskas). Conductor – Maestro Karolis Variakojis
Sundial Square
Organised by Šiauliai Culture Centre

7 p.m. Opening of the exhibition featuring works created during the international sculpture creative workshop “Baltic Nights” and a concert of original music by Antanas Jasenka
Garden of the P. Bugailiškis Ethnology Centre of Šiauliai Culture Centre, Žemaitės St. 83

EXHIBITIONS AND INITIATIVES

18–30 August

Literary exhibition “Freedom Joined by Hands”
Children’s Literature Department of Šiauliai City Municipality Public Library, Gvazdikų tak. 8

21 August

4 p.m. Event commemorating Black Ribbon Day at the exhibition “Stories from the Deportation Wagon”
Programme: presentations by historians Gintautas Urbietis – “Deportations of the Intelligentsia of Šiauliai City and County During the Soviet Occupation”, and Antanas Jankūnas – “Integration of Deportees into Soviet Lithuanian Society in the 1950s–1960s”; a guided tour of the exhibition “Stories from the Deportation Wagon” displayed in the museum courtyard.
Šiauliai “Aušra” Museum, Museum of History, Aušros al. 47

4–6 p.m. Event “The Baltic Way. An Unbroken Connection”
Programme: educational activities, challenges, orienteering, artistic and other activities
Zubovai Park, Aušros al. 50
Organised by: Šiauliai School of Arts, AJC
Partners: Border Guard Unit, Lithuanian Scouts, Lithuanian Amateur Radio Society

24 August – 13 September

Artistic initiative “Avenue of Thoughts on Freedom”
Kaštonų Avenue
Organised by Šiauliai Culture Centre

Presented by Šiauliai City Municipality. Organised by Šiauliai Culture Centre.

Dear visitors, by attending these events, you agree that you may be filmed or photographed and that photographs or recordings featuring you may be published on the Šiauliai Culture Centre website, in the media or on social media.