The creativity of Gargžda’s birthday is just like the stream of a river

The residents of Gargždi and their visitors will have a good time for even 4 days

This system of town’s 771st birthday “4 Waters Land – River” was introduced on the Gargžda Park Amphitheater on Tuesday. Numerous occasions will delight metropolis residents and visitors from Might 30 to June 2. June 1 the Little Music and Dance Pageant will happen within the valley of the Minija River.
The Mayor of Klaipėda District Municipality, Bronius Markauskas, delivered a congratulatory speech to these gathered on the presentation and expressed his pleasure on the upcoming birthday of town and the anticipation of it. “Yearly, Gargžda will get youthful and extra lovely, and it is good to have a good time a birthday. Perhaps somebody missed a well-known artist in this system, however I feel that people tune and dance are essential to many people, this 12 months is phenomenal – the centenary of the Lithuanian Music Pageant. We should additionally do what we should do – we should shield our nation’s heritage, tune and dance,” stated the mayor.
Vice Mayor Violeta Riaukienė thanked the organizers of town’s birthday. “The theme of the birthday is ‘Land of 4 Waters – River’, and the river is right here and it carries so much: each historical past, and hopes, and joys. Since it’s the Little Dance and Music Pageant, the birthday won’t go with out songs, with out dances, with out pleasure, with out lovely fellowship”, stated V. Riaukienė.
Within the amphitheater, the Klaipėda District Municipality Jonas Lankutis Public Library, Gargždai Regional Museum, Gargždai Metropolis Neighborhood, Gargždai Sports activities Heart, Auto Sports activities Membership “Žaibas”, Gargždai Tradition Heart, contributing to the abundance of town’s birthday occasions, introduced what sort of occasions Klaipėda district can count on for even 4 days residents.
The birthday of town of Gargždai shall be opened by the exhibition “Music Pageant in Gargždai” of the Jonas Lankutis Public Library of Klaipėda District Municipality. Performing director Aurelija Butkutė-Norkevičienė stated that because the birthday of town of Gargžda is impressed by the custom of the Music Pageant, the library will invite you on Might 30. to the exhibition. “Already in early spring, we invited folks to share photographs of the Music Pageant, which has an extended custom in Gargždai, and we created an exquisite exhibition from them,” stated A. Butkutė-Norkevičienė.
Sigita Bučnytė, director of the Gargždai Regional Museum, additionally invited to an fascinating exhibition: “The museum, working in Gargždai for 19 years, gathers historical past lovers, researchers, and collectors round it. We’re very joyful that this 12 months we persuaded two collectors – Raimondas Juciu and Algirdas Aužbikavičius – to open their non-public collections. We’re making a cell exhibition from them, the place you will notice unseen Gargždis. Pictures from the outdated Gargžda and Klaipėda area: how folks lived, how they celebrated. I’ll reveal a secret that in a single assortment now we have an exhibit that would have belonged to the Gargžda church, which burned down in 1941, its inside.”
Vida Anužienė, the chairwoman of the board of the Gargžda group, introduced the initiative “Letter to Gargždiškiam” organized by the group on the event of the birthday of town of Gargžda for the third 12 months, along with the graduates of the Gargžda “Rainbow” highschool. “Graduate college students write an essay for Gargždas with needs or ideas, what’s their angle in the direction of Gargždas. These are fascinating and helpful letters for the folks of Gargžd, what sort of future would the youngsters who returned to town need to see”, stated V. Anužienė. The town group may even arrange an occasion devoted to the cultivation of the Žemaitian language.

Vaidas Liutikas, director of the Gargždų sports activities middle, launched the group to the upcoming sports activities occasions. “Sports activities are all the time an integral a part of birthdays in Gargždai. And we all the time provide you with one thing new, so this 12 months 3 new sports activities shall be launched: crusing within the Clear Quarry, paddle and pickleball. There may even be volleyball, basketball, desk tennis, outside tennis, disc golf, and biking competitions,” shared V. Liutikas.
Dovydas Čeliauskas, the consultant of the auto sports activities membership “Žaibas”, invited to different sports activities competitions as nicely: “I invite everybody on June 2. to maneuver not solely to the Minija valley, but additionally to the Skaidiajos karier, the place the automotive sports activities pageant “Žemaitija Stage II Autocross Championship” will happen.
Vaida Skuodienė, director of the Gargždai Cultural Heart, was proud of the expansion of Gargždai: “Gargždai and our complete Klaipėda district are actually beautifying, new mandatory and particular buildings are being in-built Gargždai, which enhance the standard of our life, opening up numerous alternatives.”
Nomeda Jokubaitienė, head of the youngsters’s artwork studio of the Gargžda Cultural Heart, introduced the exhibition that can happen on the Gargžda bus station. “Might 31 with the youngsters’s artwork studio, after all of the occasions, invite to the opening of the exhibition “Metropolis Pigeons” in a non-traditional area – the Gargžda bus station. In any case, what’s a metropolis with out pigeons? Solely our pigeons are just a little confused, fascinating, that is the youngsters’s angle in the direction of our gargoyle pigeons. There may even be a pigeon fancier from Gargžd, Rimvydas Leonauskas, who will current sporting pigeons which have gained laurels everywhere in the world”, stated N. Jokubaitienė.
Birutė Oželienė, head of the dance and tune ensemble “Minija” of the Gargžda Cultural Heart, was joyful that the Small Dance and Music Pageant is returning to the Minija valley this 12 months: “Along with the collectives from our district, teams from Nida, Klaipėda, Palanga, Žemaičiai Kalvarija, Telšiai, Kintos are coming to Gargžda , Šilutė. 28 teams of dancers and as many as 457 dancers will take part.”
The primary organizer and director of the Gargžda metropolis birthday, the pinnacle of the Artwork Division of the Gargžda cultural middle Vaidas Kvedaras reminded the phrases of the mayor that essentially the most enjoyable is ready for the celebration. “For administrators, essentially the most enjoyable ending is when the whole lot ends, the lights exit and also you surprise if the whole lot went nicely. The occasion is the form of factor the place you simply need to see, pay attention together with your coronary heart, thoughts and soul. Within the western half, performers from Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia will come collectively, that is how we’ll have a good time the twentieth anniversary of becoming a member of the European Union. We’ll proceed the custom of the Land of 4 Waters and subsequent 12 months the theme shall be “The Land of 4 Waters – Lake”, V. Kvedaras launched.
Gabriele ČIUNKAITĖ
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