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European Capital of Culture 2027
European Capital of Culture 2027
The Liepāja Theatre has been operating as a professional theatre in the same building since 1907. That makes it the oldest continuously functioning professional theatre in Latvia — a claim it holds by a significant margin. The building is Art…
The European Capital of Culture designation does a lot of things. It generates press releases. It announces programme concepts. What it rarely explains is where things actually happen — the specific physical character of a city, what its stages are…
The Greek word for amber is ἤλεκτρον — elektron. When ancient Greeks rubbed amber and noticed it attracted dust and feathers, they named the effect after the stone. Two thousand years later, that effect became electricity. The stone and the…
The Great Amber Concert Hall opened in 2015. Liepāja had been trying to build it since 1896. That gap — 119 years between the city council’s decision and the ribbon-cutting — tells you something about both the ambition of the…
The command “At Ease!” tells soldiers to stop moving. To hold position. To stand still in the middle of whatever was about to happen next. It is an odd title for an art exhibition. That’s the point. “At Ease!” —…
