In August, a new urban object, Monument to the Taste of Lemon, commissioned and created by children, was unveiled in front of Andrejs Pumpurs Riga Primary School No. 11. It was inspired by the Riga Book, an urban guide published last year that reveals the city from a child’s point of view.

On September 23, the Palladium Concert Hall will host a forum for the creative industries related to stage design, Culture. Industry. Technology, organised by Company NA, one of the most experienced Latvian businesses in the field. Normunds Bļasāns, one of the founders of Company NA, talks about a talisman that helps events run smoothly. 

As the animation studio Panic marks their tenth anniversary, they have brought home seven Collision Awards for the Berthold Gone Wild clip. In Panic’s anniversary clip, grumpy Berthold looks back at the studio’s ten years of work.

On Wednesday, September 18, the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design (MDAD) in Riga, in collaboration with Design Export Alliance, will open the exhibition Autumn, continuing the pop-up exhibition series The Close up of Design Processe

Latvian animation studio Panic celebrates its 10th anniversary this year! During this time, Panic has created numerous international projects and won many awards. Rita Šteimane, the CEO of Panic, talks about what helps her work productively.

Visitors pass through a backdoor of an improvised laundromat to enter the pop-up space of the streetwear brand Backdoor Market and the coffee roastery Kalve. But the focus here is not on commerce — it’s on the community, with the store doubling as a café, skate park, co-working space, and a venue for various events.

The Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture invites practitioners from cultural and creative sectors from Latvia, Estonia, and Finland to apply for the CreativeGPS training programme, which will take place from late October to December.

Zane Veldre is an illustrator and painter, and in the section Cool feature, Zane talks about how she combines painting and illustration, using the work of one field in the other.

Set designer, costume designer and painter Kristīne Abika finds her way to design ideas through eclecticism.

Designer Dace Sūna is fascinated by space and light in her work, creating both unusual light objects and conceptual installations. In the Nice Touch section, Dace talks about an unusual modelling tool that has been useful in their creation.

Until the end of August, thethe exhibition Life after Death. Remembrance Practices and the Museum is on view at the Pauls Stradiņš Medicine History Museum. Through a thorough self-analysis (or even dissection), the museum critically examines its collection and its formation.

From August 23 to September 26, Zane Priede’s exhibition Marmoleum Real 2mm will be on view at the ISSP Gallery. The series of works are based on the artist’s personal experience growing up in the 1990s environment and aesthetics.