Until August 15, applications are open for the twelfth festival of creative excellence «Adwards» that will conclude with the awards ceremony on August 25 at the National Library of Latvia. Markus Rožkalns is a member of the festival’s jury, founder and creative director at the digital design studio «Graftik».
From July 21 until April 5, professionals in art and other creative fields can submit applications for mobility grants for travelling in the Baltic and Nordic countries.
On July 29 and July 30, MAD International Summer School of Design invites to public lectures and workshop in Sigulda.
Music, art, and fashion magazine «Veto» has released issue Nº40, this time exploring the topic of «Do It Yoursef» (DIY) culture.
The publishing house «Liels un mazs» has released a new book «Sveiks, Vali!», written by Lauris Gundars and illustrated by Anete Melece.
«Riga TechGirls» is the first community in Latvia dedicated to educating and inspiring girls and women about technology. An advice from its o–founder Alina Karpelceva.
At the end of the Master's degree program in Fashion Design at the Department of Design at the Art Academy of Latvia Santa Aulmane has created a clothing collection «Oenomel».
Ten years ago David Schilter founded «kuš!», which is still the only comic book publishing house in Latvia. On July 14 the anniversary celebration will take place at the art space «D27».
The Asia–Europe Foundation has launched a new initiative to support mobility of artists and cultural professionals from Europe and Asia for cross–border activities.
Dāvis Suneps is Managing Director of «TechHub Riga», a co–working space for around 30 new technology start–ups and an active organisation that hosts various events.
Ezera Skaņas (Lake Sounds) Festival announces the application for summer camps from August 19 to 25.
Zīmola «Collar» un fotogrāfes Vikas Anisko kopīgi radītā peldkostīmu kapsulkolekcija «Vika Anisko x Collar», kurā zīmola askētiskos peldkostīmus papildina Vikas akvareļi.
In a new collaboration between «Tilde», a language technology company, and FOLD, the accumulated content of the website will become a language corpus that will help to improve the machine translation technology.
The fifth plate by Madara Krieviņa with the word «Paldies» («Thank You» in Latvian) and a gold rim is out. It is complemented with a story by Luīze Pastore.
Today and tomorrow, on July 1, the third Conversation festival «Lampa» takes place in Cēsis Castle Park. The team of the festival’s organisers is led by Ieva Morica.
The Master’s work by a new contemporary jewellery artist Alise Tālberga in Art Academy of Latvia is a finely crafted jewellery collection called «Stepping Into The Same River. Rerun».
An interview with Beto Fernandez, the creative director whose works have won over 200 international awards, including dozens of Cannes Lions and D&AD pencils.