Date and time: 2018-09-05 18:30 - 2018-08-05 21:30
Location: Salonas Jaukūs Namai, Juozapavičiaus pr. 21, Kaunas

Personal exhibition by Rima Balniene “Silk Symphony”. Artist Rima Balniene currently lives in Zurich (Switzerland). In Lithuania she attended Kaunas Old Town art studio, where she learned abstract acrylic painting on canvas and Shibori fabric coloring.In Switzerland she learned watercolor and acrylic painting from Peter Leutwyler and Erwin Eggimann. Painting on silk she learned from Gitte Bachman. Rima is a member of the Silk Painting Association (SPIN) and also of Artist Association of Switzerland. Since 2010 she has been participating in exhibitions in Switzerland and also had solo exhibitions in Lithuania. More…

Date and time: 2018-09-06 17:30 - 2018-09-06 20:00
Location: HOF HOTEL, Maironio g. 21 A, Kaunas

A countries cuisine is undoubtedly an essential part of one’s culture. Therefore, Thursday evening of Sugihara Week we invite you to relax and dive into the world of Japanese tastes.

Our guests will be offered a unique opportunity to learn about several types of Japanese rice wine sake, coming from the town of Yaotsu which has a friendly connection with Kaunas. We will be able to taste sake together with Japanese style snacks otsumami. For a dessert, we will serve Japanese plum wine Choya, and our evening will More…

Date and time: 2018-09-06 10:00 - 2018-09-06 16:00
Location: Kauno Menininkų Namai, V. Putvinskio g. 56, Kaunas

For Sugihara Week the Extraordinary Japanese culture festival “nowJapan” is moving to Kaunas Artists’ House and is inviting everyone to engage in Japanese creative workshops on 6-7 September with the artists of the Land of the Rising Sun: Shota Kotake, Keiko Kikkawa and Tatsuo Horiuchi. The young festival-goers will be invited to Japanese kite-making creative sessions before the workshops held by Japanese artists. More…

Date and time: 2018-09-06 16:00 - 2018-09-06 18:00
Location: Sugiharos namai, Vaižganto g. 30, Kaunas

We kindly invite to the lecture of Mr. Krichely Yossi about the Yaotsu Town and Museum. Yaotsu is a small town that took upon itself the great task of educating Japan and the world about Mr. Ch. Sugihara and his magnificent humanistic achievement. Presenter introduces the town, and the process that led to the creation of the Sugihara Memorial and the effects on the town ever since.

The lecture will be 45 minutes long and will be followed with a special screening of the Sugihara Story Film which More…

Date and time: 2018-09-07 17:30 - 2018-09-07 19:00
Location: Amatų ir menų centras-galerija „Sirena“, S. Dariaus ir S. Girėno g. 24, Kaunas

The Crafts and Arts Center Gallery “Sirena” will host an open-label creative leather workshop about leather and its history, lectured by Irena Serapinienė, a leather designer with a long-standing experience in leather work. In this workshop she will introduce you to Lithuanian leather crafts, the variety of articles and the old technologies. Participants of the creative workshop will be able to observe the process of creating a leather pouch and even create their own leather bracelet. More…

Date and time: 2018-09-08 09:15 - 2018-09-08 10:00
Location: VDU Biblioteka, II aukštas, K. Donelaičio g. 58, Kaunas.

Books Donation Ceremony for Vytautas Magnus University. This year NPO “Cherry Blossoms Association (Japan)” is not only enriching Kaunas with young sakura trees that will be become a part of Kaunas – Japan friendship park. To contribute to Lithuanian youth education and future, the association will kindly donate books about Japan in English language. These books will find their new home in VMU library and fill up the space dedicated to Asian literature – one of the biggest collections for Asian societies and culture among Baltic More…

Date and time: 2018-09-07 13:30 - 2018-09-07 14:30
Location: MRU Azijos centras, Ateities g. 20, Vilnius

2018-09-07 Mykolas Romeris University together with Korean Association of Lithuania would like to invite you to Korean Calligraphy exhibition opening ceremony, which is organized in order to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Lithuania’s independence.

The team of calligraphers hope that exhibition will help to see the beauty of Hangul calligraphy. The exhibition includes authentic works of 28 different calligraphers. 10 of them you will be able meet at the opening ceremony. More…

Date and time: 2018-09-08 14:00 - 2018-09-08 16:00
Location: Nemono sala, Kaunas

“Kaunas-Japan Friendship Park” Planting Ceremony
Saturday is dedicated for perhaps the most abundant event of Sugihara Week, a Japanese cherry trees planting ceremony in Nemunas Island that will embody the friendship between Kaunas and Japan. We gladly hope that within couple of years we will be able to enjoy blooming cherry trees.

Kaunas Dance Theater “Aura” and Japanese Drums Team “Waon” will participate in the ceremony. More…

Date and time: 2018-09-07 09:00 - 2018-09-07 23:00
Location: Skalvijos kino centras, Goštauto g. 2/15, Vilnius.

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Date and time: 2018-09-12 08:30 - 2018-09-15- 14:00
Location: VDU Mažoji salė, S. Daukanto g. 28, Kaunas

On September 12-15, 2018 VMU Centre for Asian studies together with the Global Japan Office invites you not to miss the 29^th international EAJRS (European Association of Japanese Recourse Specialists) conference. This year the topic is “(G)localizing Japanese Studies Resources”.

The Conference will attract 97 participants from such countries as Japan, China, USA, More…