From 6 to 10 July 2022, more than 250 folklore sets and ethnographic ensembles will meet at the international folklore festival “Baltica”. The festival program will be wide-ranging and diverse – concerts, singing, dancers, masters and workshops, folklore set dates, evening, meeting with storytellers and other exciting events.
On July 8 the festival will rotate in Riga. In the course of the day, on two scenes in the Garden of Vermane and in the area of freedom, clusters from all Latvia will show the diversity of our people's local singing traditions and the listeners will be given the opportunity to explore the specificities of local traditions, singing and musicisation.
On the way from the Garden of Vermane to the area of freedom, visitors and participants of the festival will have the opportunity to turn into various living cultural heritage workshops – to try to learn a word in the libbery, to extend the suiti baked bread and the white butter of the ructsmen, to compare gloves from various Latvian provinces, to see the legendary Livani glass, etc.
At Riga Latvian Society House on July 8. 12.00 will be able to explore traditional musical instruments from the Intangible Cultural Heritage List – Introduction, Bubyte, Far Tank, Dour Tank and Petersburg – 17.00 is the beginning of the festival “Baltica” zolite tournament, at 21.00 is a festival club with dancers and a song room. The games and dancers will show 14 folklore sets from Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
9 July, the festival will continue in Alsunga, Dundaga, Kuldīga, Skrunda, Poppy, Talsi and Ventspils. On the other hand, the Latvian Etnography Museum will meet all Latvian provinces – the exhibition of the culinary heritage of the municipality, the individual concerts of the clusters, the dates of folklore sets.
Entry into the international folklore festival “Baltica” events free of charge. Latvian Etnographic Museum of Museum and Turaida Museum Reserve in accordance with the museum price list.
A full festival program can be found on the website festivalbaltica.com.
In 2022, the theme of the international folklore festival is “game” and the motto “come with me”. “Baltica” has been held in one of the Baltic States since 1987, in cooperation with state and local government institutions, as well as non-governmental organisations. The festival is organised by the Latvian National Cultural Centre in collaboration with Latvian ethnography museum, Turaida museum reserve, Kuldīga municipality, Riga City Council, Sigulda municipality, Talsi municipality, Ventspils municipality and Ventspils cultural centre.