PUTVINSKIS STREET DAY | Other Side of the Street

• V. Putvinskis Day at P. Mažylis Maternity Home

13:30 – 15:00 | P. Mažylis Maternity Home

Drawings on the asphalt “From HERE to the World”. P. Mažylis Maternity Home – the starting point of the journey to the world for many generations. Let's all draw together, both big and small, the journey from V. Putvinskis Street to the world, to see if the grass is truly greener THERE...

• Creative Workshop “Bags for Your Items”

14:00 – 16:00 | A. Žmuidzinavičius Creations and Collections Museum Garden

We know you have many items, and your items have many unruly legs. We have a solution for you! We invite you to the garden of artist Antanas Žmuidzinavičius, where we will decorate canvas bags and create your own designed bag for your items. Perhaps, inspired, you will decide to adorn your bag with a favorite quote, poem verse, or haiku, as we must not forget that our neighbors, the long-time organizers of Putvinskis Street Days, master the word skillfully, and we still hope that “Slemo Ragučiai” will visit the green Antanas Žmuidzinavičius garden!

Attention! In case of bad weather, the creative workshops will be held in the museum lobby.

• Stained Glass Creative Workshop

14:00 – 17:00 | E. Levin Center

A creative education inspired by the uniqueness of Putvinskis Street, its architecture, and the neighborhood across the street – the Čiurlionis Museum. We will create stained glass pieces inspired by the Art Deco fragments of Kaunas and Putvinskis Street architecture. The artworks will be miniature stained glass or mosaics inspired by architectural fragments found on this street.

• Collective Manicure Workshop “Listening to the Palm”

14:00 – 17:00 | R. Antinis Square

What do you think your grandparents and great-grandparents think while looking out the window at the vast horizon? What experiences shaped their contemplative gaze? Perhaps a shadow of guilt visits your mind, urging you to remember the last time you called your grandmother? Or maybe you lack the time and will to better understand your roots, annoyed by the arguments and disputes sparked by generational differences? We invite you to pause the fast pace of life for a moment and join a collective manicure session. Bring your elders along and dedicate a few hours to the careful “archaeology” of hands, during which you can explore hands adorned with a rich past and find celebration in conflicts.

• Creative Linocut Workshop

14:00 – 17:00 | M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum Lawn

We invite you to a linocut workshop! Together we will create a communal neighborhood map – let’s see old places anew by engraving locations from our residential or favorite neighborhoods onto a piece of linoleum. The artworks of all workshop participants will be printed on a large map of Kaunas neighborhoods, revealing the soul of each micro-district. The activity is suitable for everyone, but children under 6 should be supervised by parents. Let’s try to fill the map with our unique stories.

• Creative Workshop “Green Senses”

14:00 – 17:00 | E. Levin Center

In these interactive interdisciplinary workshops, the author invites participants to explore the senses – to experience green through smell and touch. Participants will mold clay and play with green scent notes, discussing the green zones of Putvinskis Street, past and present. The workshop is suitable for participants of all age groups.

• Guerrilla Gardening Workshop “Between the Paving Stones”

14:00 – 17:00 | R. Antinis Square

If you haven’t awakened your inner child for a while, you will have the opportunity to do so at Agata and Marijonas' guerrilla gardening workshop “Between the Paving Stones”. Guerrilla gardening is an initiative by urbanists tired of the greyness and dullness, encouraging everyone to break boundaries and actively contribute to enriching the city's greenery. With Agata, we will mold seed bombs that burst with life when thrown, and with Marijonas, we will make slingshots to ensure the seeds travel far! Let’s blur the boundaries and encourage nature together!

• Lecture “Settling on V. Putvinskis Street: Professor P. Mažylis' Activities and the History of the Maternity Home”

14:00 | P. Mažylis Maternity Home

From 2 PM, we welcome you to the lecture “Settling on V. Putvinskis Street: Professor P. Mažylis' Activities and the History of the Maternity Home” (by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Tomas Biržietis). We can invite about 15 people, so please register here.

• Tours at the Leonidas Donskis Library and Office

14:00, 15:00, 16:00 | VMU Leonidas Donskis library (entrance from the courtyard)

The multifunctional science and study center building stands out with its green concept, and the library is the central part of the building. Visit the Leonidas Donskis Library and office, which houses a unique collection of his personal books and creative legacy.

• Tour on the Duality of Facades in Kaunas Interwar Modernist Architecture

14:00, 16:00 | Starting point Kaunas Artists' House

A tour on the duality of the facades (street and courtyard) in Kaunas interwar modernist architecture. The “formal” and everyday (“functional”) sides of the building owners' lives.

• Interactive Education “Listen and Guess the Book”

14:00 – 17:00 | R. Antinis Square

Interactive education “Listen and Guess the Book”. Listen to an audio excerpt and guess which book it is from. The Kaunas Vincas Kudirka Public Library invites you to test your literary knowledge and discover other inventions created in the library.

• “Museum on Wheels”

14:00 – 17:00 | Bus parking spot in front of the M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum (King's Sculpture)

The “Museum on Wheels” project by the Lithuanian Museum of Education – a city bus turned into a mobile exhibition. Using the latest technologies, the bus features an interactive exhibition illustrating the development of education in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the 16th-17th centuries. Virtual journey participants, through a strategic game, learn about the expansion of schools, printing houses, and churches, as well as the influence battles in the ruling circles of the GDL. More than six thousand residents of Lithuanian regions have already seen this unique interactive traveling exhibition “Museum on Wheels”.

• KAH Arts Biennial “Margins Festival”

14:00 – 17:00 | M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum (at the Three Kings)

The M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, together with Queen Morta School students, will present artworks created for the 2024 Children's Art Biennial, dedicated to the modernist architecture and details of Putvinskis Street.

• Tour “V. Putvinskis Street History” (led by historian, Dr. Mindaugas Balkus)

15:00 | Tour begins at the corner of V. Putvinskis and Gediminas streets

During the tour, you will get acquainted with the history of V. Putvinskis Street from the end of the 19th century, hear many historical facts about the buildings on this street and the people who lived in them. The tour can accommodate up to 40 people, no registration required. Duration of the tour is 1 hour and 15 minutes.

• Exhibition “Ki|r|timai. A Glimpse into the Kirtimai Microdistrict” Lecture and Exhibition Visit

15:30 | Kaunas Artists' House

Lecture/tour of Ieva Austinskaitė's photography exhibition “Ki|r|timai. A Glimpse into the Kirtimai Microdistrict”. Albertas Kazlauskas will invite you to walk through the Kirtimai microdistrict. In the context of the photography exhibition, he will present the district and the history and present perspectives of the objects captured in Ieva's photographs. The route through Kirtimai includes places such as Vilnius Airport, the Lithuanian Artists' Association Sculpture and Stained Glass Center, and residential houses built during the interwar period in the Kirtimai district. If you want to visit the industrial Kirtimai district without leaving Kaunas, come to Albert's lecture!

Albertas Kazlauskas is the founder and guide of the “Gatvės Gyvos” initiative and the author of books on the history of Vilnius' peripheries: “Vilniaus gatvės gyvos. Gidas po miesto periferiją”, “Vilniaus gatvės gyvos. Atgal į periferiją”, and “Vilniaus gatvės gyvos. Iš pietų į šiaurę”. He is also an author of travel articles and routes across Lithuania.

• Performance “Wallenberg Caramels”

14:00 – 17:00 | Throughout V. Putvinskis Street

Swedish artist Mattias Hellberg, dressed in the costume of the Wallenberg family, will invite participants of Putvinskis Street Day to sweetly and ironically contemplate a serious topic – Swedish financial imperialism in Lithuania. “The Wallenberg family is one of the richest Swedish capitalists, owning almost 50% of the Swedish stock market. This family also controls SEB Bank, the largest bank in Lithuania, and is the most prominent symbol of current Swedish financial imperialism”, says the artist. During the performance, the artist hands out caramel candies named after a psychiatric hospital in Sweden, linking the historical use of these candies in unethical patient studies to Sweden's imperial ambitions in the Baltic States.

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• Performative Intervention “Ripples” by Samuels Ozolins

14:00 – 17:0 | Throughout V. Putvinskis Street

An interactive and playful performative action moving along Putvinskis Street from one end to the other, back and forth. This action is based on a simple movement exercise – mimicking. The artist usually creates relationships with “non-dancing” objects such as the sun or the natural environment in his performances. During Putvinskis Street Day, this performative action will involve dancing with the entire street and all its elements – buildings, greenery, sidewalks, and, of course, people. The artist invites you to join and rhetorically asks – perhaps this movement performance can become a duet?

• Presentation of Dance Performance Sketch by 3rd Year Students of LMTA Dance and Movement Department

15:30 | Foot of the “Pompeii” (aka “Šilelis”) Stairs

The world is closing in

And did you ever think

That we could be so close like brothers?

The future's in the air,

I can feel it everywhere

Take me to the magic of the moment

On a glory night

Where the children of tomorrow dream away - The Scorpions

Rave and Riot, harmoniously complementary social environments where authentic individuality – the feeling of “I am - I” – transforms into unity. Through mutually embodied behavior, individual existence enters a collective zone where one becomes part of the whole.

We are thrown into freedom. Sentenced to freedom. We can choose freely, but we cannot choose not to choose. We unanimously understand that our existence in the rave is based on free choice. Can we argue that existence in riot is also a free choice, not a psychological and social inevitability? Both of these social phenomena are unequivocally united by a collective desire for liberation. To sweat, move rhythmically, direct our bodies in one direction. To expand, shout, chant, and scream. To repetitively echo the beats of hearts, drums, bass, and breaking glass.

With this performance, the creator Agnietė Lisičkinaitė continues her characteristic exploration of how to embody protest through means of scenic expression. Together with the 3rd-year students specializing in contemporary dance at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, she aims to create an uninterrupted collective journey of movement towards liberation.

Idea and choreography by: Agnietė Lisičkinaitė

Choreography authors and performers: Aura Šriubšaitė, Alina Pilecka, Beatričė Mažintaitė, Ugnė Lučauskaitė, Robertas Vinik, Aistė Kulevičiūtė, Aurelija Jakimavičiūtė, Aretas Piaseckas, Urtė Siniauskaitė, Kristina Klioštoraitytė, Miglė Keblaitytė.

Music consultants: Agnė Matulevičiūtė and Gediminas Rimeika

Costume designer: Rūta Kyguolytė

Producer: Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Dance and Movement Cathedral.

• VOLT&VIBE | Last 2 Brain Cells | Contemporary Electroacoustic and Experimental Electronic Music Concert Series

14:30 | BLC rooftop terrace (entrance B1)

Last 2 Brain Cells is a duo consisting of Matas Samulionis and Klaudija Indriliūnaitė. How many cells are in the last brain cells? Are they two separate cells? Or are they living cell communities full of cells? It sounds similar to drumsticks, but the group has no percussion. A performance that won't overload your brain, intended to warm up the audience for composer and comedian Arma Agharta. Although this is our audience. You are our audience. Constantly changing and always the same harmonies, mostly encouraging you to lose track of time, an electroacoustic (junk, not a word) experiential (the same) performance. Improvised improvisation with improvised improvisation tools. Here is what awaits. What will be, no one knows yet.

16:30 – 20:00 | Kaunas Artists' House

Have you ever heard of the Kaunas Artists' House Amphitheater? That's because it has never existed before, but now it does! On the evening of Putvinskis Street Day, we invite you to the opening of the Kaunas Artists' House Amphitheater.

After a day filled with creative activities, performances, and artistic bustle, we invite you to the backyard of Kaunas Artists' House, where a concert by three bands will take place. The amphitheater will be opened loudly but cozily with musical performances by Kaunas Zoo, dargana, and the Lapkričio Dvidešimtosios Orkestras. Attendees will be refreshed by a bar set up temporarily in the amphitheater by Godo.

16:30 | Kaunas Zoo
18:00 | dargana
19:00 | Lapkričio Dvidešimtosios Orkestras

The concert is free!

For more information about the concert and the performers, click here.

• Clothing Swap and Giveaway

14:00 – 16:00 | E. Levin Square (near the Žaliakalnis Funicular)

Clothing swap and giveaway with “GiverTag”. Whether your size, style, or sense of beauty has changed—if a piece of clothing no longer serves you, it needs a new owner! We invite all residents of Kaunas to the clothing swap and giveaway organized by “GiverTag”.

• Guests at Gediminas Šibonis'

14:00 – 17:00 | V. Putvinskis Street, 42-10

The owner of one of the most impressive apartments on V. Putvinskis Street will open the doors to neighbors and event guests. Ceramic artist Gediminas Šibonis, residing in the building at number 42, invites visitors to explore the apartment built around 1900, featuring original interior details and ceilings over 4 meters high, along with a terrace above the sidewalk. The artist, a resident of V. Putvinskis Street since birth, will also showcase an impressive collection of artworks, some of which are integrated not only within the apartment but also in the stairwell spaces.