The word and music festival "And the lake has ears" returns to Šiauliai
The organizer is the Šiauliai Cultural Center. Financed by: Lithuanian Culture Council and Šiauliai City Municipality. Friends - Hotel-Restaurant "Žvejų užeiga" and "Šiauliai Deaf Center". Image of Eglė Narbutaitė. Events are free.
The aim of the word and music festival "And the lake has ears" is for residents of Šiauliai and city guests to see and get to know the most diverse, professional types of art and to expand their cultural horizons and encourage artistic self-expression. The organizers are happy that this year the festival will be held for three days in different spaces: on the shores of Rękyva Lake, Talkša Lake and Prudelis Pond. Each of these places has its own character and beauty, as if reflecting the entire diversity of lakes in the Šiauliai region.
"For the fourth time, we invite everyone to discover the joy of art surrounded by nature - by the lakes. Why lakes? Because Šiauliai is a city where water has always played a special role. The lakes here are not only a decoration of nature, but also a source of life, witnesses of history, sources of inspiration for artists and poets. They keep many secrets and legends, which this summer the participants of the festival will be able to hear through music, words and other arts", says the director of Šiauliai Culture Center Deimantė Bačiulė.
The festival will start on July 18. on the shore of Lake Rêkyva, where at 7:30 p.m. the project "Waters" will take place, in which the creator and performer "nim" is participating. It has long been known that water symbolizes our desires, fears and is a symbol of the subconscious. The project "Waters" created especially for this festival is a sound session and a short ritual that invites you to wander through the non-existent labyrinths of 2000 memories and culture. It is a sound experience that "hangs" in the eras of listening, when there are no more coordinates, the body seems to swim, dive into the waters.
Immediately after the "Waters" project at 9 p.m. the participants of the event will have a unique opportunity to see the performance "Jonvabalii sonatas". It is a unique joint work of three creators (lyricist and performer - actress Lina Jankauskaitė-Peleckienė, electronics, saxophonist - Nedas Latovinas, cellist - Ilona Butkutė-Gasickienė), in which the art of words and music merge into a harmonious whole. In the performance, the artists analyze the themes of self-awareness, meaning and self-realization. The creators promise that the show will be like a refreshing sip of the electronic lake for the audience, allowing you to see the beetles in their entire spectrum of flashing. Electronically led saxophone and cello, which are rarely heard in their authentic voice, will reveal themselves here in new colors and sounds, creating a unique and memorable experience, the sounding texts will invite the audience to reflect on the meaning of their own lives and their place in the world.
The second day of the festival "And the lake has ears" will take residents of Šiauliai and city guests to the coast of Lake Talkša, where at 7:30 p.m. actor and dramatist Raimondas Klezys will present the one-man play "Aries". The one-man performance invites the audience to explore sensitive topics that connect each of us childhood, adolescence and adult life together with the actor, and also analyzes topics that are usually not discussed among peers.
July 19 the evening will be continued by music performer and creator Remis Rančys, who will present the "Green Concert". The program will feature songs about the world, people, relationships, beauty and nature. The topic of ecology and sustainability is important here, we are looking for answers on how we can create a more harmonious relationship between human needs and nature. "In this program, I talk with love about the things that make us green, and I look with irony at the things that make us develop. Music is a great way to feel and reflect on things that words cannot define. I would like the listener, who came to my concert, to discover new territories, to expand the boundaries of his perception", says R. Rančys about the event.
On the last day of the festival, the organizers invite you to the shore of the Prudel pond, which at 7:30 p.m. will start with the concert of the Kopanugaris group. Performing "Rock", "Indie" / "Alternative" music, "Kopanugaris" is a group of people who met in Klaipėda and decided to create together. Just like this strange, unheard-of new creation, the members of the Kopanugaris group, wherever they travel, always carry with them "on the hump" not only instruments, but also a handful of seaside dunes, where the bond of friendship, music and the desire to share was born. Just as the wind lifts the sand from the ground, so "Kopanugaris" raises a real whirlwind of dances and the warmest feelings, inviting everyone who is indifferent to love, the sea and music to spin in it.
On the evening of July 20, the "And the lake has ears" festival will be crowned by the solo post-electro-flamenco music and dance performance "Human, Lost & Found" by the French artist Phil Von. The performance aims to tell about a person who tries to find a way to the outside world from within himself. The narrative of the music and dance performance is poetic short haiku-style sentences pronounced in Spanish, French and English. Loneliness, anger, despair, joy and bliss will be expressed acoustically against a background of electronic music. Phil Von invites the audience to stop, to be here and now, and while watching the transformation on stage, to think about their life choices.
All three days of the festival from 7:30 p.m. it will be possible to immerse yourself in the magic of the word in the poetry exhibition "Mintys bangose". In the open-air exhibition, the works of young authors will be exhibited, among which you will also see the ranks of the Šiauliai Deaf Center community. Each poem is like a separate world, full of feelings, thoughts and experiences. Festival participants will have a great opportunity to discover new authors, enjoy beautiful Lithuanian poetry and find inspiration for their own creations.
The entire program of the speech and music festival "And the lake has ears" can be found on the website of the Šiauliai Culture Center (www.siauliukc.lt).
The information is provided by cultural event organizer Erika Novikovė of the Šiauliai Cultural Center Event Organization Department, mobile. +370 678 46 145, e-mail erika.novikove@siauliukc.lt.
Photo of R. Parafinavičiaus, L. Yarmoshenko, G. Zaltauskaitė, V. Dranginis, S. Baturas and personal archive.
Atnaujinta: 2024-07-25 10:46