A unique collection of ceramics by Pēteris’ Martinsons, one of the greatest contemporary ceramists, has arrived to DMRAC on March 5th. Within a short time we are expecting PeterisMartinsons and his curator ZandaZīvina to start mount the collection in the Expositional Sector. The exposition opening will match the ceremonial opening of the DMRAC on 24th of April.
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On March 12 inDaugavpilsfor the first time there will be a friendly hockey match between a student team from theUSA"Liberty Flames" and a team ofDaugavpils. Game will begin at 19:00.
The game inDaugavpilsand “Liberty Flames” tour inLatviais organized by association “Athletes in Action”, which aim is to popularize sport in different countries. Thanks to the
05.03.2013
Latvia’s best wrestler Anastasija Grigorjeva got instant achievement in the international tournament. At this time in “Grand Prix” stage inBelarusshe got the first place.
A. Medveds Freestyle Wrestling Tournament brought together participants from 16 different countries around the world. It is worth noting that before the start of tournament, athletes had
04.03.2013
Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Center is organizing the International residences for art critics in between June 17 – 21, 2013.
The point of residences is to providethe Art Center’scollection with the scientific research, as well as to promote interest in Daugavpils as a creative space, connected with arts.
Professional artists and art critics are welcome to apply for
You are kindly invited to the weekly conversation clubs at Erfolg! Take this opportunity to practice your foreign languages with our volunteers! We propose 3 different conversation clubs:
French conversation club on Tuesday from 17:30 to 19:00.
From March 1, 2013 in the hall of the periodical press of Latgale Central Library the exhibition of artwork by students of Vabole group of the department of Visually Plastic Arts of Špoģi Music and Art school ‘Spring in the Glass’ will be presented.
Glass is a wonderful material! In ancient times talented masters drew household sketches or compositions of flowers on
During the meeting at the mayor’s office the agreement have been made that the festival’s motto will be “My City Daugavpils. The City ofOpportunities.” The Festival will take place on June 8 – 9, but will start already from June 4 with the traditional events in the residential areas of the city.
Žanna Kulakova emphasized that this year the festival will be
Marion Kahan, the manager of the collection of Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, visited Daugavpils for three days. The aim of her visit was to make sure that the premises of the Mark Rothko Art Centre where will be displayed six original works of Mark Rothko comply the requirements of the all international standards of art museums. The preparation of the visit took long time due to
Tourism Conference in Daugavpils will be held on May 16-17. On 19th of February the first meeting of work group was held. The Deputy Chairperson of Daugavpils city council Līvija Jankovska leads the organizing team.
The aim of Tourism Conference is to improve the quality of tourism services, to popularize tourism objects. Līvija Jankovska emphasized that main accent should
19.02.2013
Continuing the tradition, the Family Day will be held at the Daugavpils Regional and Art Museum. We invite families to come on Sunday and to visit expositions and exhibitions for the favourable price – only 1Ls, irrespective of the number of people and, at 13.00, to take part in the interactive program ““The Nature is Dyeing” which will open the secrets of dyeing yarn,
15 years ago German company “Zieglera Mašīnbūve” started to work in Daugavpils. Owner Martin Ziegler substantiates that the main determinants for his choice for Daugavpils were close range of Russia and CIS, quantity of needed specialists. On the 1st of December, 1997 the limited liability company “Zieglera Mašīnbūve” was founded. On the
Daugavpils county Tourism Information Centre together with other tourism sphere specialists of Latgale region will participate in International tourism Fair-Exhibition “Tourest 2013” which will be held inTallinnfrom February 15-17 and will present tourism offers 2013 ofDaugavpilsandDaugavpilscounty.
Participation in exhibition is ensured due to the activities of the project
Industry
The amount of production in 2012, compared with 2011, increased by 11% and it is 159 497 thousands lats.
The amount of realized production is even higher which suggest that managed to realize also a lot of production which were in stock.
11.5% improvement observed in the food industry. Limited liability company
“Shadow Day”, which this year was held on February 13, is a career education event organized by Junior Achievement – Young Enterprise Latvia.
This year entrepreneurs of Daugavpils, municipalities and state institutions and organizations were offered to register at portal www.enudiena.lv. The interest and
12.02.2013
For 19th time Latvian Youth Winter Olympics was held in Ērgļi from 8th till 9th of February. Each year it is organized by the Latvian Olympic Committee in cooperation with Ērgļi county council. In overall ranking of school teams winner isSecondary school ofAlūksnes County – they took home six gold and three silver medals. At least
11.02.2013
Monitoring indicates that despite the high level of illness, the flu slowly reduces, but it doesn’t indicate that epidemic ends. Last week there were 635 ill people, the week before last – 976 ill people.
This year a lot of children are ill. Head of Regional Hospital Aivars Zdanovskis informed that flu is heavy this year, with many complications. Most common complication is
07.02.2013
Daugavpils county Tourism Information Centre participated in the 20th International Trade Fair ‘Balttour 2013’, which was held from February 8-10 February at Kipsala International Exhibition Centre. The centre took part at holding a presentation on variety of tourism opportunities of Latgale at stand of Latgale region ‘Latgale unites’ in cooperation with 18
The state joint-stock company ‘State Real Estate’ in cooperation with Daugavpils City Council and the State Inspection for Heritage Protection organized a discussion on “Development perspectives of the Daugavpils fortress” on February 7 at Mark Rothko Art centre. The objective of the discussion was to summarize ideas,
On 31st of January administration of Latgale Planning Region and Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development organized presentation of movie “Latgale. Three stories” The presentation was opened by State Secretary of Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development Aleksandrs Antonovs, administration of Latgale Planning Region and
28.01.2013
On 1st February at 12.00 in the exhibition hall of Daugavpils Regional and Art Museum will be opened exhibition “The Nature is Dyeing”. The exhibition will be devoted to in Latvia commonly found herbs which can be easily collected and used in yarn dyeing. There will be available informational material, dried herbs as well as samples of dyed yarn. In the exhibition
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