The Nida Art Colony recently welcomed 4 new residents. Pawel Mendrek(PL), Helen Acosta Iglesias(SP/DE), Carolina Aponte(CAN), and Judit Hettema(NL) will be joining our resident from February, Juha Pekka Matias Laakkonen (FIN).

Photo by IP 2011 participant Stefan Asafti

Contemporary Past: tracking a postcard

www.contemporarypast.com

10-24 June 2012

Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts

www.nidacolony.lt

Vilnius Academy of Arts is organizing the third intensive summer course Contemporary Past. This year it will concentrate on the issue of message transfer in visual arts...

Welcome to Open Artist Studios on 28th of April (Saturday), 2012

Programme:

18.00-20.00h Open studios

19.00h Guided tour with artists in the studios

20.00h Presentation of Abandoned Mystery Project material (photo, video, sound, etc., www.abandonedmystery.info)

20.30-21.30h Collective food making

21.30 Linas Kutavičius presents solar energy lamps-mushrooms "Foxfire" in the forest next to the Colony (www.lightforms.lt)

21.30-... Music programme by LiNas NeringaFM

Participating...

Nida Art Colony will be holding its next open studios on April 28th. The work of three new residents for the month of April will also be presented. Max Hattler (DE/UK) Karima Klasen (DE) and Karin Karlsson (SE) will be joining our residents from March: Marianna La Rosa (US/IT/JP), and Juha Pekka Matias Laakkonen (FI).

A first camp of Abandoned Mystery project started on 15th of April 2012 at the Nida Art Colony. Participants from Russia, Finland, Sweden Latvia and Lithuania are invited to take part in a month-long camp consisting of a set of expeditions dedicated to phenomenon and anomalies of abandoned places.

"During the planned expeditions we will concentrate on the research of the abandoned military objects, though throughout the project we will try to think also of other kind of heritage: abandoned internet websites, unfinished films or...

This Earth Day, we invite you to a free global screening event of the first One Day on Earth Motion Picture. Watch this unique film created from over 3000 hours of footage, and shot by our community in every country of the world on October 10th 2010. Together, we have created a picture of interconnected humanity never before possible. We invite you on Sunday (22.04.2012) 4 pm in Nida Art Colony with other hundreds of places worldwide to watch the movie "One Day on Earth".

More information http://www.onedayonearth.org/screening

Exhibition runs from 4th to 11th of April, 2012 in KKKC Exhibition hall – www.kulturpolis.lt. Opening at 6pm on 4th of April.

Curators: Yulia Starsteva (Canada) and Vytautas Michelkevičius (Lithuania)

Artists: Quentin Armand (FR), Liddy Scheffknecht (AT), Lena Dobrowolska (PL/UK), Juha Pekka Matias Laakkonen (FIN), Bjargey Ólafsdóttir (IS), Justin Tyler Tate (CAN/EE), Aistė Goda Viršulytė (LT), Gwenn-Ael Lynn (USA/FR), Milda Laužikaitė and Eglė Eigirdaitė (LT), Marianna La Rosa (JP/IT/JAV),Yulia Starstev...

During the first year we have hosted 50 artists-in-residency and over 600 project participants and now it is the time to meet all of the best friends of Nida Art Colony in Nida.
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Nida Art Colony Birthday Programme:
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March 24th
sea, dunes, wind and audio-visuals

14.00-17.00  Open Artist Studios (Artists-in-residency Marianna La Rosa...