The center of the holiday cycle will be Mount Urbos and the Nida lighthouse standing there, and the events will be spread over various parts of Neringa: in Nida there will be a fair, concerts, hiking, education, etc., in Pervalka – an excursion dedicated to the theme of lighthouses. Preila to the program of events for August 13-18. will be involved with the screenings of the Užupis Film Festival.
“A few years ago, we conceived it as the Lighthouse weekend, this year the cycle of events has grown significantly,” said Dr. Lina Motuzienė, director of Neringa museums. – The program was heavily attended by local cultists and guest forces. It is clear that the Nida lighthouse shines brightly not only as a maritime navigation device, but also as an object of community gathering and creative inspiration.”
A fair of folk artists and tradesmen will be located in the neighborhood of the port of Nida, traditional educations led by artists and guests from other cultural institutions of Western Lithuania will invite visitors to visit the Nida fisherman’s ethnographic homestead. The musical program of the cycle will open on Thursday with a concert by the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Chamber Music Ensemble “Musica Humana” (conductor Robertas Beinaris) at Nida’s St. In the Church of the Christian Help of Virgin Mary.
The Nida lighthouse will host education participants during its access days, and in the evenings it will emit the nostalgic light of crystal Fresnel lenses, which will be lit on the occasion of the anniversary, and will become an open-air event space. On the first evening, August 15, the traditional lighthouse lighting ceremony will be interpreted by Donatas Bielkauskas, an artist working in Klaipėda, composer of “ambient” music. He will present the newly created installation of industrial and natural sounds and lights “Heart of the Lighthouse”.
August 16 in the evening, the “EUSA/NIDA” concert of Vilnius pianist, journalist and social activist Šarūnas Meškis will be held at the lighthouse. A series of piano works about lighthouses by the French composer Yann Tiersen, who made the world-famous soundtrack for the film “Amelie of Montmartre”, will be played here. Another unique highlight of the evening will be the convocation of the lighthouses of Nida and Vente Horn.
August 17 the highlight will be the Night of the Lighthouses of Freedom – the presentation of the results of the archaeological explorations of the site of the old Nida lighthouse and the exhibition of findings in the resort’s municipal building, the concert of the group “Los Secretos De Pablo”, the musical procession of candles, lanterns and rhythm that crowns them, and the presentation and opening of the archaeological exploration site on Urbo Hill. The archeological explorations are initiated by the Ministry of Light of the Public Enterprise and the municipality of Neringa.
August 18 the cultural program will be framed by a recital by pianist Viktor Paukštelis in the memorial museum of writer Thomos Mann in Nida.
Built in 1874, the Nida lighthouse was an important navigational object of the Curonian Spit. It was needed in order to increase the safety of shipping in the Baltic Sea, especially due to difficult navigation conditions and frequent fogs. To build a stable structure almost 30 m high on the hill of Urbas, an impressive dune that was built in the 19th century. at the end it was just starting to be greened, it was a challenge. This was solved by placing a solid foundation – blocks of crushed stone – at a depth of 3 m.
The towering red brick octagonal lighthouse was a favorite of local residents and guests, and in the interwar period it even acquired a name: audiences from Germany and East Prussia called it Red Christopher. The structure was destroyed at the end of World War II as a strategic object. The current lighthouse is its “descendant”, built after the war.
The lighthouse days are organized by Neringa museums, Thomos Mann cultural center, Neringa municipality, Nida culture and tourism information center “Agila”, VšĮ “Šviesos ministerija”.
Full program – online on the website.
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2024-08-12 09:31:48
