Minister of Culture Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson took part in the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Culture of the European Union in Brussels on the 23rd of May. 

The President of the Republic of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė opened the Lithuanian art festival “FLUX festival Lituano delle arti” in Rome on Friday, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the restoration of Lithuania. Minister of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson attended the opening ceremony.

The Ministry of Culture allocated EUR 10,000 to the Martynas Mažvydas National Library of Lithuania to continue the digitization of the activities of the Institute for Jewish Research (Yidisher visnshaftlekher institut) (YIVO) archive.

Minister for Culture Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson, on a working visit in London, met with the leaders of one of the largest museums and art centers in the United Kingdom. 

Today, April 10, Minister for Culture Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson along with the colleagues Dace Melbarde, Latvian Minister for Culture and Saaru Indreku, Estonian Minister for Culture, Jacks Thomas, London Book Fair director, Sue Owen, United Kingdom Secretary for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, Stephen Lotinga, chief executive of the UK Publishers ...

On 12 March journalist Gražina Michnevičiūtė starts to work as Lithuanian Culture Attaché in the Lithuanian Consulate General in New York, USA.

Minister of Culture Liana Ruokytė-Jonsson met with Shen Zhifei who has just begun working as an ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in Lithuania. The meeting included discussions on bilateral co-operation of the culture and art organisations, as well as the upcoming visit of Chinese Minister of Culture Luo Shugang to Lithuania.

Taking into account expert recommendations, more than EUR 2.38 m of EU structural investment was allocated to cultural sites.

Between 28 February and 1 March the Vice-Minister of Culture Gytis Andrulionis is on a visit in Sofia, Bulgaria where an informal meeting of EU ministers of culture and the 8th meeting of Asian–European (ASEM) ministers of culture are taking place. 

The British Council, in partnership with the London Book Fair, the Estonian Literature Centre, Writers’ and Translators’ House, Latvia and the Lithuanian Culture Institute, announce today the Baltic Countries Market Focus Cultural Programme for The London Book Fair 2018, taking place 10–12 April.  

In the discussion-forum ‘European Cultural Heritage: saving it, making it relevant, and passing it on to the next generations’ held in the Vilnius Book Fair, a start of the European Year of Cultural Heritage in Lithuania was announced.

The 19th Vilnius Book Far has started in the Congress and Exhibition Centre Litexpo, which will last four days.