Each year "Gaudeamus" choir invites and warmly welcomes students from foreign countries who come to study to Vilnius University (VU) via exchange programs.

On the 22nd of February, Veronica Luna, a professional tango dancer from Argentina will visit VU Tango studio (Vilnius University Tango Society (Tango studija)) and will teach a class for the Vilnius university Tango society. The meeting will take place at 18:15 in VU Business School Hall, Saulėtekio ave. 22.

Vilnius University (VU) Culture Centre jazz choir "VU Jazz Voices" invites all VU community for a cozy and warm festive musical afternoon on 15th of December, 15:00. The concert will be held near "Caif Cafe" at VU Law/Communication Faculties, Saulėtekio al. 9.

Vilnius University (VU) Culture Centre presents repertoire of the holiday season! All December university cultural spaces will be full of festive concerts.

Vilnius University (VU) Culture Centre jazz choir "VU Jazz Voices" invites all freshmen for a cozy and warm musical afternoon on 8th of September, 14:30. The concert will be held near "Caif Cafe" at VU Law/Communication Faculties, Saulėtekio al. 9.

Artists have created a method for observation practice for each participant via an audioguide that invites us to take the time to learn attentively how to observe and explore objects and the environment. The creative team encourages us to develop the habit of observing and to apply it to our everyday lives.

Would you like to learn how to dance the passionate dance of Argentinian Tango? From 27^th of April Argentinian Tango Association of Lithuania invites you to three intro lessons of this dance, which will be held at Vilnius University Business Scholl hall.

Vilnius University (VU) Culture Centre invites international students to participate in a Storytelling Open Stage Night! Come on 27th of April, at 7 PM to VU Confucius Institute, where you will be able not only listen, but also tell a story about HOME, since this is the theme of this Open Stage Night. The hostess of the evening is VU Culture Centre Storyteller Milda Varnauskaitė.

Artists have created a method for observation practice for each participant via an audioguide that invites us to take the time to learn attentively how to observe and explore objects and the environment. The creative team encourages us to develop the habit of observing and to apply it to our everyday lives.

The drama-based science popularization project - "Alice in the Wonderland of Science" organized by the Culture Center of Vilnius University participated in the Falling Walls Engage contest and has been chosen as a Finalist in the Science Engagement category.

Open House Vilnius opens up the city spaces for the seventh time and invites everyone to explore the unique architecture of Vilnius.

First Vilnius University Organ Studio Unda Maris Online Recital starts on May 29th, 12 PM no YouTube.

Unda Maris Organ Studio unites members of Vilnius University community who love organ music and pipe organs. For a number of years they have been practicing at Vilnius University St John's church which has the largest pipe organ in Lithuania. At the end of the academic year members of studio usually play a joint recital at this church.

But last year in 2020, when COVID pandemic hit the world, Unda Maris were in quarantine and the church was inaccessible so they couldn't practice and perform. Luckily this year we decided to do virtual rehearsals on the instruments that our members have at home. You might have seen these virtual rehearsals on their YouTube channel. Some play on a virtual organs such as Hauptwerk and GrandOrgue, some use electronic instruments or even a piano. The most important thing is that members can continue to practice and develop their organ playing skills.

Therefore this year members are able to present  this recital. You will hear four of Unda Maris organists - Benas Matuzevičius, Audrė Dudėnienė, Karolina Indrulytė and Diana Danilova.

In the program - works by Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Ludwig Krebs, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johann Pachelbel, Eric Satie, Cesar Franck and Vidas Pinkevicius.

9th May is the Day of Europe, a day to celebrate the European Union and that, once upon a time, 71 years ago, Robert Schuman, the French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs at that time, gave a speech that would mean the beginning of Europe as we know it today.

Three choirs from Vilnius University, Lithuania — Pro Musica, Virgo, and Gaudeamus — welcome you all to this new cooperation initiative of sharing music and preparing joint programmes among the choirs of Arqus University Alliance.

WAITING ON AN ISLAND (or 7 days Training for your imagination)

1st. group will start from 28th of August

2nd. group will start from 7th of September

The root of the word isolation derives from the Latin word insula, meaning an island. We are inviting you together with artist Saule Norkute to imagine a time of your quarantine as if being stranded on an unfamiliar island. An island which you can not actively explore but can observe from a safe distance. Due to your organism getting used to this unfamiliar weather conditions and new type of nature you must stay inside for long periods of time and limit intake of unfamiliar air. During this waiting period you will become an explorer and document your everyday life under these new conditions. How do we observe and collect information when we have restricted access? What name would you give to this island? What are the particularities of the inhabitants? What does the new language sound like?

Daily you will be receiving various fun, strange and engaging tasks and suggestions for exploration. You will be documenting your daily observations and exploration through creating text, videos, recording sound, drawing (no drawing skills necessary), collecting samples of the surrounding. Main aim is to turn this period of waiting into observation and exploration, which would leave traces of this period otherwise filled with uncertainty.  

This is an invitation to familiarize yourself with the new country in an imaginative way.

Imagination is wrongly attributed only to children, according to various researchers training and using imagination daily improves our abilities to find unexpected solutions in difficult or mundane situations. Most importantly trained imagination can create and think of completely new scenarios of existing.

Reclaim your imagination and train imagination muscle for a week!

FILL THE FORM AND START YOUR 7 DAYS TRAINING: https://forms.gle/g5PFrgWUA9JFDJ1CA

DISCLAIMER: A few days after submitting please check your email and the spam folder.

ONLINE STORYTELLING WORKSHOP WITH MILDA VARNAUSKAITE (LT/NL)

7th of September and 8th of September. From 10 AM till 3 PM with a lunch break

We are inviting you to join a 2-day storytelling workshop for all English speaking students in VU and have fun during isolation time. We can invite only 14 participants, so be quick!

REGISTRATION HERE: https://forms.gle/Vpkj87HJba1FKCuc6

During the workshop:

• You will learn how to tell true life stories in an interesting and engaging way;
• You will learn what are the main components of the stories and how to craft them well;
• You will get some useful tips about the rhythm of the story and the rule of “less is more”;
• Do you think you have nothing to tell? Everyone does! During the storytelling workshop you will learn a technique of how to find the stories in your life and tell them in a way that everyone will want to listen!
• You will get a real public speaking experience while in a safe environment. Only 12 people can join the workshop, thus every participant will have access to focussed individual attention, along with group exercises;
• You will have FUN TIME with your peers, will exercise your creativity and will find new friends.

The online workshop is led by Lithuanian storyteller Milda Varnauskaite (@StorytellerMilda). Milda is based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands where she finished Mezrab storytelling school and now works as a storyteller at Mezrab Cultural Centre and other various places. Milda is a practitioner of storytelling, thus she is always striving to carry the practical knowledge to her students. Milda is also an alumnus of Vilnius University and a founder of Baltic Storytelling Centre.

STORYTELLING OPEN STAGE NIGHT!

1^st of September, 7 p.m.

Open Stage Night: an online storytelling event, where you can listen to stories told by others, share your own story, meet and mingle with new people!

REGISTRATION HERE: https://forms.gle/CJnknkVQ15U3Mux6A

If you want to tell a story drop us a line at

An open air concert by the Vilnius University Wind Orchestra “Oktava” for people who miss evenings filled with the sounds of music.

On July 13th at 7 PM, the Grand Courtyard of Vilnius University (Šv. Jono st. 12) will become a musical fiesta of wind instruments. After a break because of the quarantine and remote concerts, the orchestra is very happy to invite its fans to an evening of live music and the closing of the 69th season of #oktava.

Having rested, recovered and missing live music - we will perform for you.

You can experience the massive sound of wind instruments and carefully selected repertoire in the free-of-charge concert for everyone, in the heart of Vilnius Old Town - the Grand Courtyard of Vilnius University!

The Art Director of the orchestra, Albinas Kučinskas is delighted to close this special season full of challenges with a live performance: “After a long time of performing only in the virtual space, we are happy to play live music again - to experience that feeling of true emotion and close connection between the members of the orchestra and the audience”

We will hear the music from the Phil Collins Collection, commemorate the queen of soul - Aretha Franklin, travel to the world of jazz music with the piece by Chuck Mangione called “Land of Make Believe”, cut the cake of funk with Mike Tomaro’s “Cut the Cake”. We will be immersed in Phillip Sparke’s “Almshouse Street Blues” - a synthesis of folk music, jazz and even bhangra! We will start the powerful brass engine of trumpets in the orchestral piece “Brass Machine”. We must not forget the legends of rock music as well - Pink Floyd and the arrangement of their song “Another Brick in the Wall” for a wind orchestra. Not to mention the jazz standards and the music of animated movies sung by vocalists Martyna Kučytė, Julija Šturo, Paulius Noreika.

You can expect that and so many more musical surprises in this concert.
The youth musicians from the bigband of Balys Dvarionas school of music will perform alongside the orchestra.
The Art Director of the orchestra: Albinas Kučinskas.
Conductors: Albinas Kučinskas, Kristijonas Sakalauskas.
Concert for the whole family, free admission.
The duration of the concert, 1 hour 30 minutes.

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