Voting for the Latvian Public Media of the Year Award in Culture “Kilograms of Culture 2021” in the category “My Cultural Place” starts on Monday, the representative of Latvian Television (LTV) Anita Jansone informed.
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LTV informs that 36 cultural venues have been entered in the category and put to the vote of the audience – larger and smaller, both recently discovered and with decades-long traditions. The list also includes cultural places that are not physically accessible, but offer to spend time and experience culture in the digital world.
Also, from today until January 26, it is possible to vote for the finalists in the other categories, in which three finalists are nominated each.
The “Kilograms of Culture” award ceremony will take place at the end of February.
Nominees and listeners nominate the nominees in a total of three votes.
In the third or “winter vote” earlier this year, a jury of social media culture professionals nominated candidates in eight categories. Only one of the works that will receive the most public support will be put to the final vote.
“Amao Omi” nominated for the “Music” category on September 3 at Riga Lutheran Church, Mozart’s “Little Night Music” and Haydn’s Violin Concerto on September 25 at the Grand Guild, Egils Siliņš anniversary concert – Sergei Rachmaninov’s “Aleko”, Schubert’s and Mahler’s Song in the concert hall “Cēsis” and on December 11 in the Latgale embassy “Gors”, Imants Kalniņš opera “Matīss, kauss bajārs” on December 5 in the concert hall “Lielais dzintars” and the festival “Windstream” closing concert “Cathedral and Rock” on October 10 in the Grand Guild.
The category “Theater” includes the Daile Theater performance “Degunradži”, the Latvian National Theater performance “Ferdinands un Luīze”, the Latvian National Theater performance “Strangers on the Train”, the Latvian National Theater performance “Dream of a Summer Night” and the Daile Theater performance “Greetings, Sadness” .
Meanwhile, Barbara Gaile’s solo exhibition “Colors”, “RIXC Art and Science Festival” exhibition “PostSensorium”, Sandra Krastiņa’s solo exhibition “One Single Unit”, Aivars Vilipsons tab “Here lives Chuck” and Rolands Krutov’s “.
Inga Žolude’s novel “Lotus Flower of Vendene”, Henrik Elias Zegner’s collection of poems “Paradise”, Arvis Vigula’s collection of poems “Flea Circus”, Aivars Klavis’ collection of memories “Source Time”, as well as Žeber’s poetry collection were nominated for the award “.
Nominated for the award in the “Cinema” category are the feature film “Emilija. Queen of the Latvian Press”, the feature film “Pit”, the feature film “In the Mirror”, the documentary “I Was Born Rosellini” and the feature film “Wild East.
In the category “Heritage” the edition “Memories and Diaries of Mary Greenberg. My Land of Fairy Tales”, exhibition “Centaur. Jānis Pauluks / LNMM Collection”, Milda Palēviča’s “Diaries. 1911-1972”, exhibition “Fragile Memories. Daguerreotypes, Ambrotypes” In Latvia “and the exhibition” Riga Artists’ Group – 100 “.
The category “Surprise” nominated the publication “Hidden Life. Homosexual Diary 1927-1949”, audiovisual exhibition “Self-Noises”, opera platform “Banuta”, digital platform of the documentary exhibition “Museum of Applied Evidence” and operetta – biographical story “Three Stars. Siegfried”.
Andris Nelsons and the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra’s concerts at the Riga National Opera Festival on September 3 and 4 at the Latvian National Opera, the Riga International Film Festival (Riga IFF) from October 14 to 24 and the lighting of the Freedom Monument were nominated for the award in the “Event” category.
“Kilograms of Culture” is an award for public media in the field of culture, which confirms the active participation of public media in the processes of Latvian cultural life. The award is given by LTV, Latvian Radio and the Latvian public media portal LSM. The tradition began in 2012, when the awards were presented for the brightest cultural events of 2011.
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