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Congress will bring together the information and communication professional community from the Baltic and Nordic countries to discus SDG goals implementation, accessibility, impact of libraries on society measuring, today’s librarian’s roles.

'GRIMM'asos' is an innovative performance reinterpreting the raw Grimm tales through a blend of theatre and contemporary circus. Highlighting Baltic-Nordic collaboration it fosters creative exchange and strengthens contemporary circus development across the region, uniting diverse artistic practices

Experiments' Platform - an alternative education and mentorship program for emerging researchers and developers working in architecture and closely related applied arts fields. It is a creative incubator where participants get tools to develop and present their work nationally and internationally.

1. To pass the knowledge and work methods. The developed method that is being passed serves as a package of artistic tools helping to raise and discuss social issues with youth across borders and nations;
2. To organize seminars and workshops in Norway, Lithuania, and Iceland;
3. To create a dance performance with a cast of Lithuanian and Norwegian young dancers and present it in Bodø 2024 European Capital of Culture Youth program;
4. To organize discussions and debates with the audience.

To empower deaf people and their artistic expression;
To dispel myths that deaf people have no relationship with music and cannot create or perform musical works;
To reduce the dominance of the hearing person in creative processes;
To exchange knowledge with Deaf artists living in the Nordic countries;
To create a musical stage programme that can be enjoyed by deaf people;
To introduce Deaf culture to hearing people;
To meet the Deaf community’s need for original cultural events in Lithuania.

The online platform, publishing visual and audio stories of Nordic and Baltic artists about rejection in the creative field, inner struggle, growth, discoveries, and coping with criticism. Thus inspiring the creative community and public to reevaluate uncertainty, rejection in a positive manner.

Ilzenberg Manor’s Small Festival for Kids brings a professional high quality culture to the residents of the smallest townships and settlements surrounding the manor. The festival embraces various genres of performing arts (theatre, dance, puppets, circus) for kids and children from 0 to 10 years.

Developing a storytelling model and method application for Lithuanian libraries with the help of Swedish and Norwegian partners, testing and mastering it as an educational service for users of all ages and social groups; organizing reflection events on good practice in the partner countries.

“Shared Habitats” seeks to develop contemporary artistic practices with an emphasis on the mutual exchange between actors in a shared environment. Artists, designers, scientists and lay people will explore DIY-Bio and DIWO techniques in a space that emerges from physical and virtual environments.