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The Finns Speak Latvian: Finnish-Latvian cooperation project “Acting in a foreign language”

On August 11-26, 2021, the co-operation project “Acting in a Foreign Language” of the Tampere University (TU) Degree Program of Theatre Art and the Latvian Academy of Culture (LAC) Performing Arts Department and is carried out in Latvia – Stameriena and Riga. It is a special methodology of actors’ training developed by TU professors in Theatre Art, which envisages staging a performance in a language unknown to the actors, thus activating other – outside the text – means of expression.

An International Conference on the Impact of Arts and Cultural Education Will Take Place Online on November 3

On November 3 at 11.00–17.00 (EEST time) the international day of the international scientific conference “Culture Crossroads” will be dedicated to the topic “The Impact of Arts and Cultural Education: Arguments and Evidence”. The conference will be streamed online on the Youtube and Facebook profiles of the Latvian Academy of Culture. This will be a shortened and more focused online version of the conference scheduled for March 19, 2020 at the Riga Latvian Society House.

6th International Conference on Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language

On October 17 and 18 the 6th International Conference on Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language will be held at the Latvian Academy of Culture (Zirgu Pasts). The event is organized by the Department of Cross-cultural Communication and Modern Languages with the aim to offer a multicultural environment to promote the research on language acquisition and the exchange of innovative teaching proposals. This year the Conference program joins together professors from the University of Bergamo (Italy), University of Alicante (Spain), University of Barcelona (Spain), University of Harvard (United States) and the Latvian Academy of Culture among others.

The annual international research conference “Culture Crossroads XIV” taking place for a whole week this year: call for applications for the break-out sessions of the conference

If you are interested in researching culture and art phenomena, you are kindly invited to apply for participation at the Latvian Academy of Culture (LAC) International Research Conference “Culture Crossroads XIV”, which will take place for a whole week: 02.11.-06.11., 2020. November 6 will be a Section Day, which will take place on November 6 at the LAC Theatre House Zirgu pasts to share research results, conclusions and suggestions. The deadline for applications to participate is October 11, 2020.

Teachers of general education invited to apply for the online professional development conference ‘Film and Media for Education’

From September 17 to September 22, 2020 the Latvian Academy of Culture together with partners from Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are organizing a professional development conference ‘Film and Media for Education. Take 2’, and for the first time it will take place online with live webinars and digital hands-on workshops. The target audience of the conference are teachers of general education representing all disciplines and fields of study, as the information and materials offered within the seminar are universal and can be integrated into any subject, be it history, literature, math or sciences.