What we were up to in 2024
Hi! In case you’ve been wondering what we were busy with in 2024 - we prepared a neat little list for you. Would you like to see yourself in such a list for 2025? Write us a letter at hello@vilnia.com on how you would like to join - we welcome all kinds of projects that benefit local communities.
And so, on to the thing…
THE 2024 REPORT
Exhibitions
- Christmas exhibition on what and how Belarusians celebrated in Vilnius in winter over the past hundred years “The Waiting for Christmas Remains”
- A memorial photo exhibition by photographer Uladzimir Parfianok in Vilnius
- A one-day graphic exhibition by Uladzimir Rakitski “Leonardo Profano”
- An exhibition of book graphics by illustrator Kaciaryna Dubovik
- An exhibition about Chornobyl from photos of 90s protests and children’s drawings “The Zone”
- An exhibition of early graphics by Aleh Ablažej
- An exhibition of white paper about archives and heritage “Hefker”
- An art exhibition of Belarusian women-political prisoners, “Prison from the Outside, Not from the Inside” (from the Belarusian Museum in Warsaw)
- An ethnographic photography exhibition “Gender Aspect of the Old Believer Culture of Northern Belarus”
- An exhibition documenting the Holocaust in Belarus “Places and Memory”.
Events
- 21 concert of Belarusian musicians
- 44 meetings with Belarusian intellectuals / lectures / book presentations
- A museum night festival in May
- A Belarusian culture festival in September
- All Saint’s Day festival in October
- Christmas festival in December
Educational activities
- Weekly Belarusian language classes with a linguist Vintsuk Viačorka
- Weekly women craft and support meetings “Women’s club”
- 4 groups of Lithuanian language classes
- 4 groups of Polish language classes
- Library of fiction, non-fiction, and children literature.
- Last but not least - a Belarusian Weekend school, a weekly non-formal educational program for Belarusian kids in Vilnius from ages 5 to 16.