Minister of Culture Mindaugas Kvietkauskas met with the delegation of Shanghai International Arts Festival and discussed presentation of the Lithuanian culture at the festival in the next year as a guest.

Intensive cooperation between Lithuania and Ukraine has been successful in many areas of culture and art - the Minister of Culture Mindaugas Kvietkauskas noted on Tuesday at the meeting with Mykola Kniazhytskyi, Chairman of the Committee on Culture and Spirituality of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine.

The new head of the Lithuanian Art Museum Arūnas Gelūnas was presented to his colleagues and is starting work today.

Minister of Culture Mindaugas Kvietkauskas National Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis Museum of Art presented the employees of the new director of the museum, Doc. Dr. Ina Pukelytė. 

On Tuesday, Minister of Culture Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, who is on a working visit to Israel, welcomed guests, participants and organizers of the Lithuanian Contemporary Culture Festival “Lietuviškas pasakojimas (Lithuanian Story). Culture Festival in Tel Aviv 2019”.

Today the European Parliament adopted the Copyright Directive, regulating copyright law in the Digital Single Market.

For the first time in Israel: chamber music, poetry night, performance art, contemporary indie and electronic music, contemporary dance and film from Lithuania.

The issues of strengthening of cultural links, development of joined projects in various cultural and artistic areas, and cooperation in training of media and information literacy were discussed in the meeting of Mr. Mindaugas Kvietkauskas, Minister of Culture, with Mrs. Anne Hall, ambassador of the United States of America.

The annual meeting of the cultural attaché of the Republic of Lithuania was held in the Ministry of Culture and in the Lithuanian Culture Institute this week.

The public competition for the idea of the project for National Concert Hall was announced on Monday in Vilnius Town Hall. 

The Board of the financial mechanism of the European Economic Area (EEA) approved the programme “Culture” prepared on the ground of the Memorandum of Understanding between Lithuania and sponsoring countries – Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein – for support to reduce social and economic isolation. 

The National Commission for Cultural Heritage completed the first stage of creation of U-HERITAGE database in 2018 and invites to learn about the Lithuanian cultural heritage abroad.