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The workshop of painter and set designer Otto Skulme and sculptor Marta Liepiņa-Skulme with a small collection of works by artists has been open in “Skulme” since 1982, but after Valentīna Skulme’s death in 1989 his private room and painter’s workshop-veranda on the second floor , which offers a wonderful view of the Mergupe landscape.
Skulmes is located on the ground floor of the picturesque shores of Mergupe. They are surrounded by old oaks and elm trees, and a well-kept garden by Valentīna and Ināra once spread around the house, the planning and restoration of which will require several seasons of work, the representatives of Mālpils municipality report.
In the following years, it is planned to arrange a room in Skulme for the writer Ivande Kaija (real name – Antonija Lukina), who has described the surroundings of this house in several novels. Felix Lukin, the husband of Ivande Kaija, has also spent his childhood and school years here. It is also planned that the kitchen of “Skulme” will be dedicated to Ināra Skulme, who has taken care of the warmth of the hearth of this house for many years, but on the second floor of the small room – Valentis and Inara’s son Atim, who is now resting next to his father in Mālpils cemetery.
Until February 23, 2021, Ināra Skulme, the wife of the actor Valentīna Skulme, managed the home of the Skulme family. Before leaving for his life, he bequeathed his home to the then Mālpils municipality. As a result of the administrative-territorial reform, the inherited liabilities were taken over by the newly established Sigulda municipality.
This year, “Skulmes” will especially welcome visitors on April 22 and 23, when the concert performance “Valentīns Skulme in 100 Letters” and a special exhibition will be shown at the Mālpils Culture Center.
The concert performance “Valentine Skulme in 100 Letters” will be a story of feelings about the theater and film actor’s search for ideals in himself, in art, in the world, which the viewer will be able to get to know through the letters written by Valentin Skulme and written to him.
Actors Katrīne Pasternaka and Juris Kalniņš, mime 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.
In turn, before the performance, there will be an opportunity to see the exhibition – Valentīns Skulme in the artists’ paintings, as well as various props and costumes of theater performances, looking at information about the artist’s work and life.
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