The Chuck Memorial tab will be opened in Riga
Riga, October 7, LETA. Celebrating the 120th birthday of Aleksandrs Čaks, the Čaka Memorial Tab will be opened on October 14 at 2 pm in Lāčplēša Street, Riga, Vineta Žilinska, Media and Communication Project Manager of the Association of Cultural Institutions of Riga Municipality, informed LETA.
Chuck was born on October 27, 1901, but according to the old style – on October 14, therefore this date has been chosen. The house at 48 Lāčplēša Street is the poet’s last place of residence, where he lived from 1937 to 1950 and where the Alexander Chuck Museum has been operating for more than twenty years.
Chak’s memorial tab, the guiding motif of which is the poet’s lines from the poem “City Boy”, was created by the artist Aivars Vilipsons.
The memorial tab was created with the financial support of the “Boris and Inara Teterev Foundation”.
There is already a monument dedicated to Chaka in Riga, which has been located in Ziedondarza since 1981, near A. Čaka Street. It was created by sculptor Lūcija Žurgina and architect Oļģerts Ostenbergs.
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