Oslo, the capital of Norway, is creating a new cultural environment with a new National Museum, the Munch Museum, a new library and an opera house. Information on the new cultural buildings Culture Rondo conversation with the architect Jānis Drip, the art scholar Ines Baranovska and the head of the National Library Support Society Karina Pēterson.
Latvian amateur theaters from the diaspora also met in Oslo this year at the “Laipa” festival.
For some time now, you can come across Oslo’s name in conversations or posts on social networks. Of course, the Oslo Opera House and the Ballet Company. Then the new Munch Museum next to the opera house. The still new National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, which only opened this summer. And then also the new municipal library, which is located on the other side of the opera house.
In the first part of the program, a conversation with three experts in their field: the art scholar Ines Baranovska, the head of the National Library Support Society Kārins Pēterson and the architect Jānis Drip. We take a “walk” through Oslo, stopping at places that are important for experts.
In Oslo, the new National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture is presented by its representative, Simon Joachim Helsvig.
Another motivation for going to Oslo was the 8th Latvian Amateur Theater Festival of the Diaspora “Laipa”. The Latvians of Oslo also sing in the choir and act in the theater, but of this in the final part of the program. 8. The Latvian amateur theater festival of the diaspora “Laipa”, whose motto was “A new point of view for you and me”, brought eight Latvian theaters from seven countries to Oslo – England, USA, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Latvia and Belgium.
It took place for three days from 21st to 23rd October. Together with Latvian experts, he reasoned and argued creatively. Actress Dina Kristīne Bitēna, actor Jurģis Spulenieks and director and animator Dzintars Krūmiņš played the role of experts.
Another conversation with the director of the amateur theater in Oslo “Ō Latte”, Ieva Melbārdi, who this time played the role of a housewife, and Gita Robaldi, the director of the Bradford theater “Saulespuķe”.
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