Tuesday, 18. august, 2026
Event Info
From 17 to 21 August, Jaunmoku Palace will host the 3rd International Doctoral Summer School, jointly organised by the Latvian Academy of Culture (LAC) and the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA). Through lectures, workshops and individual mentoring sessions, doctoral students from 7 countries and 9 higher education institutions will engage with international lecturers. In the evenings, the summer school’s public cultural programme – featuring a concert, film screenings and accompanying discussions – will be open to anyone interested, free of charge, at Jaunmoku Palace.
To encourage the exchange of experiences between summer school participants and teaching staff, as well as discussions on creative works and research, a cultural programme will be organised over three evenings, which is also open free of charge to anyone interested. All events are scheduled to take place in the Palace’s Stable Hall (Column Hall):
On Tuesday, August 18 at 19.00, there will be a screening of thedocumentary film “Score Diggers” (2026) by Andrejs Verhoustinskis, a lecturer and doctoral student at the LAC, with commentary by the director. The film follows two young internationally recognized Latvian contemporary composers, Anna Fišere and Platons Buravickis, who are also Andrejs’s fellow doctoral students. Anna, once a successful lawyer, has exchanged stability for solitude, seeking inspiration in nature and spending months crafting a single piece. Platons, who spent ten years working as a welder before turning fully to composition, embraces abstraction and technology to construct dynamic, high-energy urban soundscapes. Documentary filmmaker Andrejs Verhoustinskis, recognized for his intimate portrait films, spent two years observing and closely engaging with his protagonists, giving them participatory and performative tasks that let audiences enter the space of their creative process. In a world shaped by speed and pressure, their choices remain steady and demonstrate that finding inner freedom is still possible. The film is the author’s final creative project for his doctoral studies. The film is in Latvian with English subtitles.