Approaching Valentīna Skulme’s birthday and the opening of the “Skulme” house season, on Sunday, March 20, at 17.33 An exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Valentīna Skulme “In the Sign of Skulme” will be opened at the Mālpils Culture Center.
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According to the information of Sigulda municipality, the exhibition will feature paintings by Valentīna Skulme, as well as various props and costumes for theater performances, information on the artist’s work and life. On the day of the opening of the exhibition, Artūrs Dimiters, the grandson of Džemma Skulme, will visit the Mālpils Culture Center, talks on the family, culture and art of Skulme are expected. The exhibition will be open at Mālpils Culture Center until May 12.
The opening of the exhibition is one of the events with which events dedicated to the Skulme family will be launched in Mālpils and Mālpils Culture Center, the main event of which is expected on April 22 and 23, when everyone is invited to attend the concert performance “Valentīns Skulme in 100 Letters”. In the concert performance, you will be able to experience the story of the search for the ideal of a theater and film actor in yourself, in art, in the world, which the viewer will be able to get to know through letters written by Valentīna Skulme and written to him, the municipality informed.
Actors Katrīne Pasternaka and Juris Kalniņš, mimes Andris Apinis, dancers Egija Abaroviča and Reinis Rešetins, pianists Roksana Tarvide and Kaspars Bumbišs, as well as the amateur theater “Vēji” of Mālpils Culture Center will tell the story of Valentīna Skulme in 100 letters. The creative team of the concert performance consists of director Kārlis Anitens, artist Anitra Bērziņa and lighting artist Oskars Pauliņš.
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