traveller: Margarida

• name: Margarida;
• she is from: Lisbon (Portugal);
• she has spent 4 day in Lithuania already;
• place we met: Aušros str. (near Philharmonia);
• place she enjoyed: Trakai (a town near Vilnius);
• she likes: jazz, and reads: “Travels in the Scriptorium“
   by Paul Auster (who says: “Writing is no longer an act of free will for me, it’s a matter of survival”)

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Yaga: Ieva

• name: Ieva;
• place we met: “french-park”
  (a park near Ambassade de France in Vilnius);
• her soundscape: from reggae to trance music;
• she studies in London, and came to Lithuania for Yaga gathering;
• at the moment we met she was about going to freedom-festival (Portugal)

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Giedrė & Andrej

• place we met: Užupis;
• names: Giedrė & Andrej (Gomel, Belarus);
• he plays: electro-bass (hardcore) and sings: a cappella;
• places & time they like in Vilnius: sunsets on Gediminas hill (Andrej), Galera (Giedrė), The Republic of Užupis (both);
• their music: depends on the mood; old rock, reggae, the Cranberries;
• web-places: facebook.com

 

Vilius & his ritual

• name: Vilius;
• place we met: Skalvia cinema (left, on the top);
• he has just: returned from Morocco;
• he is: an editor of the most informative page on philosophy in lithuanian;
• sometimes he: rubs the nose of Mykolas Šleževičius
  (on the corner of Gediminas ave & Vilnius str), for luck.
• recent music: Tiny dancers, New Young Pony Club;

click to see Vilius participating in a special ritual:

 

Jonas from Sweden

• name: Jonas;
• place we met: ŠMC (contemporary art center);
• he came from: Sweden, for a work; at the time we met
  he has been living in Vilnius for about two months;
• he spends his free-time: on the streets,
  especially on Cathedral sq., skateboarding;
• he listens: all kind of underground music, punk;
• lithuanian people? it’s easy to make contacts with them;

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guests from Australia

• names: Earl & Danise [and Cindy on a small photo];
• place we met (for several times): Pilies str.;
• they are performers from Australia, and came here with
  Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander dance theatre “Descendance”
  to participate in several festivals, that take place in Lithuania:
  Christopher summer festival and more;
• Places they like in Vilnius: barbacan & the yard near
  Vilnius Teachers House (Vilnius str.);
• web: descendance

 

Nikita and his head

On the South of Lithuania,
in cozy & quiet Druskininkai
we have met Nikita with two heads

• He came from Belarus with his mother;
• Music he listens: Linkin Park; He attends
  karate school and has already got his yellow belt;
• Also, he plays football - and his number is 13;
• Place they like in Druskininkai: aqua park and the town itself;

 

traveller: Agnieška

• name: Agnieshka
• we met at: Institute of Lithuanian Literature and Folklore;
• Agnieshka is couchsurfing.com ambassador; also she
  writes her PhD on chinese art and philosophy & learns Chinese;
• She has just returned: from China, where she had spent 7 month;
• the dress she wears was sewed in China for her (according to her,
  it appeared to be inexpensive to order individual clothers there);
• Chinese beer? Very good. She would recommend “Tsingtao”;
• Places to visit in Vilnius: Pilies menė (bar), ŠMC and 
  Vilnius horse riding centre;

Two weeks before we met in “french-park”
(a park near Ambassade de France in Vilnius):