The 5th International Creative Summer Camp "Summer with M. K. Čiurlionis" is an ongoing project, a component of the ongoing educational cultural programme "Look Out from the High Towers" run by the Plungė Mykolas Oginskis Art School, which promotes the work of composer and artist M. K. Čiurlionis, and highlights the significant moments in his life associated with Plungė.

With 2025 declared the Year of Čiurlionis by the Seimas of the Republic of Lithuania, it is of particular importance to know, understand, feel, respect, and cherish his creative legacy. This camp will continue the unquestionable necessity of such a campaign for the young generation of Lithuania.

Plungė Mykolas Oginskis Art School will take a leading role in the project, which will be implemented in Palanga, Liepāja, and Vilnius. The project will involve students, teachers, ensembles, directors, and concertmasters from Latvia, Ukraine, Klaipėda, Plungė, Palanga, Gargždai, Mažeikiai, Rietavas, Telšiai, Akmenė district, Kretinga, and Šilutė music school communities.

The project's educational activities and dissemination will take place for more than half a year in the above-mentioned schools in Lithuania and abroad, and the pupils will work with their teachers to prepare the camp's concert repertoire, collaborate and consult with conductors, and prepare for joint rehearsals of the camp orchestra. During the Creative Summer Camp, the joint children's and youth string orchestra will develop an innovative orchestral concert design, i.e. they will explore new creative forms by performing orchestral music with movement and a distinctive Čiurlionis-like artistic sensibility. For this occasion, 3 new arrangements will also be created, linked to the musical material of M. K. Čiurlionis, tastefully adapted to the performance possibilities of the students.

The rehearsals will be led and the concerts will be conducted by two highly qualified and enthusiastic conductors of the younger generation – Paulius Lygnugaris (Plungė) and Egidijus Kaveckas (Vilnius). The creative musical thinking of the young performers will be developed and stage rhythmic education will be conducted by Nijolė Sinkevičiūtė, composer and associate professor at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (LMTA), and Jonas Viršilas, actor and lecturer at LMTA, who will teach stage language and movement in theatre workshops. During the camp, an active recreation and health-improvement programme will be implemented, which will be organised and conducted by a professional trainer.

The project will culminate with concerts for the public, which will take place in Liepāja, Latvia and Vilnius Algirdas Music School.

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EVENT INFORMATION

Date: 18 – 24 August, 2025

Locations: Palanga, Liepāja, Vilnius.

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Plungė Mykolas Oginskis Art School

Contact: menomok@gmail.com / +370 448 72470

Program

Fifth International Summer Camp "Summer with M. K. Čiurlionis"

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