Movie nights

 On Wednesdays and Sundays evenings we invite you to the movie night in our common room. Central Hostel offers free popcorn, Coco-Cola, Fanta, Sprite and cider.  
Movie will be voted from the list.

                   Sunday Healthy Breakfast

Dear Guests,
For excellent week-start (or after heavy party weekend) on Sundays Riga Hostel offers you our Healthy Breakfast! In addition to our usual breakfast, we offer you fruits and vegetables too.

Riga Hostel recommends:

Every day at 12:00 Riga Free Tour –

from Saint Peter’s church - 3 hour alternative walking tour to discover the real Riga. 

August 26-28: Festival of Experimental Theatre Homo Alibi, (www.theatre.lv)

Homo Alibi 2010 will focus on lecture-performance genre, presenting a number of local and international artists in evening performances and a special day-long event. Homo Alibi is an international festival of experimental theatre taking place in between Homo Novus festivals since 2000. Homo Alibi takes as its task to provide a platform and room for introduction of a special issue through performances, lectures, presentations and workshops. The last festival edition in 2008 was dedicated to object and puppet theatre.

More information about culture events in Latvia you can find in kultura.lv

23.08. Monday

Riga Dome Church 12:00 Concerto Piccolo Organ music concert "Concerto Piccolo" at Riga Dome Cathedral. Soloist: Diāna Jaunze,e.

State Museum of Art 24/07/2010 - 22/08/2010 Exhibit "Lithography". At the National Museum of Art (White Hall), a retrospective of works from 1970 to 2010 by the outstanding Latvian graphic artist Maija Dragūne.

24.08. Tuesday

Riga Dome Church 12:00 Concerto Piccolo Organ music concert "Concerto Piccolo" at Riga Dome Cathedral. Soloist: Aigars Reinis.

Spikeri Concert Hal 20:00 Concert "The Brightly Radiant Latvian Grey". Concert at Spīķeri Concert Hall, Riga, featuring Ieva Parša (mezzo-soprano), Aldis Liepiņš (piano), Orests Silabriedis (storyteller) and Uģis Brikmanis (video). Programme includes music by Emīls Dārziņš, Maija Einfelde, Alfrēds Kalniņš, Emilis Melngailis, Pēteris Plakidis and others.

St Peter’s Church 18:00 "EMO Ensemble" in concert. "EMO Ensemble" in concer. Part of the 13th International Sacred Music Festival. The Finnish ensemble will perform at St. Peter's Church in Riga on August 24, and in Dubulti, Jūrmala on August 25. Programme - works by Finnish composers. Entry free.

House of Blackheads 27/07/2010 - 22/08/2010  Exhibit "Summer Rhapsodies". Riga's House of Blackheads presents an exhibit from the "Fotodraugi" group of photographers.

25.08. Wednesday

Riga Dome Church 12:00 Concerto Piccolo Organ music concert "Concerto Piccolo" at Riga Dome Cathedral. Inese Paiča playing organ at Riga Dome Cathedral.

Riga, Great Guild, 6 Amatu street 19:00 The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra with cellist Mischa Maisky.

The Latvian National Symphony Orchestra will give a concert at Riga's Great Guild on August 25 together with cellist Mischa Maisky prior to setting of on a concert tour of Japan. The conductor will be one of the rising stars of Japanese music – Tomomi Nishimoto. The programme will features Dvorak's “Concert for cello and orchestra in C minor” and Profokiev's "1st Symphony". Tickets from the Great Guild and from “Biļešu paradīze”. Spikeri Concert Hall, Spikeri warehouses, Maskavas Street 4/1 20:00 "Stars of Percussion" ("Sitaminstrumentu zvaigznes")

"Stars of Percussion" concert at Spīķeri Concert Hall, with performances by percussionists Ivo Krūskops, Elīna Endzele, Uģis Krūskops, Edgars Saksons, Rihards Zaļupe and flautist Ilona Meija. Concert introduced by Edgars Raginskis. Programme - music by George Crumb, Frederic Macarez, Steve Reich, and Julia Wolfe. Tickets - LVL 5/7 from "Biļešu paradīze" outlets.

State Museum of Art 13/08/2010 - 03/10/2010 Exhibition "Eternal Beauty"

The exhibition "Eternal Beauty" at the Latvian National Museum of Art. From August 13 until October 3, visitors to the museum can become acquainted with a selection of the best works of Latvian sculptor Laimonis Blumbergs. The artist's works are dominated by universalized female forms, which indicate a deep respect held towards women. These stone women associate themselves with ancient symbols of fruit and personifications of nature. The exhibition also features biographical materials and photos from the artist's life.

26.08. Thursday

Riga Dome Church 12:00 Concerto Piccolo Organ music concert "Concerto Piccolo" at Riga Dome Cathedral. Liene Andreta Kalnciema plays the Riga Dome Church pipe organ.

New Riga Theater, 25 Lāčplēša Street, Riga 19:00 Performance "An Anthology of Optimism"

„An Anthology of Optimism" at the New Riga Theatre - part of the "Homo Alibi" festival of experimental theatre. "An Anthology of Optimism" is a dialogue between writers and theatre-makers Pieter De Buysser and Jacob Wren in which they go in search of the definition of optimism for the twenty-first century. In between, they present a selection of the many contributions they received from a number of thinkers, artists, scientists, politicians and businessmen in answer to their letter about the meaning of optimism. In English with subtitles in Latvian. Tickets - LVL 7 full price, LVL 5 for schoolkids, students and pensioners. Available from "Biļešu serviss".

Spikeri Concert Hall, Spikeri warehouses, Maskavas Street 4/1 20:00 "American Icons" concert at Spīķeri Concert Hall, featuring Ilona Meija (flute), Guntis Kuzma (clarinet), Jānis Semjonovs (bassoon), Edgars Švembergs (trumpet), Arturs Bērziņš (trombone), Kristiāna Širante (violin), Agnese Kanniņa-Liepiņa (violin), Liene Kļava (viola), Kārlis Klotiņš (cello), Ēriks Kiršfelds (cello), Jānis Stafeckis (double bass), Artūrs Gailis (guitar), Ivo Krūskops (percussion), Herta Hansena (piano). Programme - works by Michael Docherty, George Crumb, Steve Reich. Tickets - LVL 5/7 from "Biļešu paradīze" outlets.

Gallery "LMS", 11 Novembra Krastmala Street 35, 05/08/2010 - 27/08/2010  Paintings by Inta Dobrāja. Retrospective of paintings by Inta Dobrāja at the gallery of the Latvian Artists' Union, featuring works from 1968 to the present. Inta Dobrāja graduated from the Painting Department of the Art Academy of Latvia. Her works feature figurative images, portraits, and still lifes, displaying practical values which have remained important through all the ages.

27.08. Friday

Gertrudes Street Theatre 20:00 "Cheap Lecture/The Cow Piece"

"Cheap Lecture/The Cow Piece" at the Gertrudes Street Theatre - part of the "Homo Alibi" festival. A collaboration between British dancer/choreographer Jonathan Burrows and Italian musician Matteo Fargion. "Cheap Lecture" is a rhythmic spoken performance set to music. Veering from the philosophical to the humorous and back again, the piece gently reveals how the two artists work while drawing us into ever more unexpected digressions. It is accompanied by "The Cow Piece", a chaotic meditation upon dance, music and mortality. In English. Tickets - LVL 7, LVL 5 (concessions), from "Biļešu serviss".

New Riga Theater, 25 Lāčplēša Street, Riga 19:00 Performance "An Anthology of Optimism"

„An Anthology of Optimism" at the New Riga Theatre - part of the "Homo Alibi" festival of experimental theatre. In English with subtitles in Latvian. Tickets - LVL 7 full price, LVL 5 for schoolkids, students and pensioners. Available from "Biļešu serviss".

Spikeri Concert Hall, Spikeri warehouses, Maskavas Street 4/1 20:00 "Electric Dreams" ("Elektriskie sapņi")

"Electric Dreams" concert at Spīķeri Concert Hall, featuring the Latvian Radio Choir (musical director - Kaspars Putniņš) and Rolands Kronlaks (electronica). Programme - works by William Brooks, Ēriks Ešenvalds, Rolands Kronlaks, Kaija Saariaho. Tickets - LVL 5/7 from "Biļešu paradīze" outlets.

Jūrmala, Jūrmala city museum, Majori 13/08/2010 - 05/09/2010  Exhibition "Cobble flowers" The Jūrmala City Museum presents sculptor Zigmunds Bielis' personal exhibition "Cobble flowers". Zigmunds Bielis creates his works from bronze, ice, wood, stone, glass and other traditional and untraditional materials. Each of his artworks tells a separate story. Bielis is a free artist; he lives and works in Riga. Since 1980 he has participated in more than 100 exhibitions, among them 7 personal exhibitions. He has also taken part in special symposiums in Latvia, Lithuania, and France, where he has been awarded many times. Bielis' works now are part of private collections in Latvia and abroad, as well as museum collections.

28.08. Saturday

Riga, Andrejsala 12:00 "Marathon of Thinking"

A day-long 'performance happening' at Andrejsala - part of the "Homo Alibi" festival. Featuring a series of one-hour performances/lectures by national and international guests focusing on the interaction between artistic and sociopolitical discourse. How do artists react to sociopolitical events? How do aesthetic categories work in politics and how are political mechanisms reflected in the arts? The participating artists and thinkers are given the freedom to invent the form of their contribution, stepping away from the usual forms of lecture or presentation. In Latvian, Russian and English. Tickets - LVL 7 (LVL 5 concessions) from "Biļešu serviss". Entrance only on the hour!

Riga Dome Church 19:00 Sacred music concert

The State Academic Choir "Latvia" and the Latvian National Symphony Orchestra perform Verdi's “Quattro Pezzi Sacri” and Rossini's “Stabat Mater” at St. Peter's Church, Riga. Part of the 13th International Sacred Music Festival. Begins 7pm. Tickets - LVL 5-20 from "Biļešu paradīze".

Nabaklab 21:00 Modest Midget (Neatherlands), Mono de Bo (Latvia).

 „KIM?” 07/08/2010 - 29/08/2010 Exhibition "A Thing Spins a Leaf on the Wind". Exhibition "A Thing Spins a Leaf on the Wind" ("Lieta virpina lapu vējā") at kim?. A group exhibition by four Lithuanian artists: Liudvikas Buklys (1984), Gintaras Didžiapetris (1985), Antanas Gerlikas (1978) and Elena Narbutaitė (1984), as well as one American artist Nicolas Matranga (1983).

Eight railway stations on the railway line between Riga and Dubulti 14/08/2010 - 01/11/2010 Exhibition/event “The train hasn't left yet”

From August 14 to November 1, the art exhibition “The train hasn't left yet” will be presented in eight railway stations on the railway line between Riga and Dubulti. Each of these stations will display one artwork by one artist, created especially for this project.

The project is carried out in collaboration with the company Latvijas Dzelzceļš with the intention of reminding people of the important social and cultural role that stations had in the past. This was once the venue for shopping, enjoying a coffee, and reading the latest magazines and advertisements at special stalls. Now trains are chosen as a means of transport less often and the role of stations has been reduced.

29.08. Sunday

kim? VKN gallery 07/08/2010 - 29/08/2010  Exhibition "Three-legged event"

The exhibition "Three-legged event" ("Trīskājains gadījums") by Latvian artist Maija Kurševa at kim?. Open to the public at the kim? VKN gallery from August 7-29. This exhibition is taking place in three different places simultaneously – at kim? in Spīķeri, at 22 Bruņinieku Street and in Andrejsala.

kim? VKN gallery 07/08/2010 - 29/08/2010 Exhibition "Back Flow"

The exhibition "Back Flow" ("Svešpieplūde") by Dutch artist Aldo Kroesa, open to the public at the kim? RIXC gallery from August 7-29. The exhibition will showcase ten sculptures and a video created especially for the exhibition.

30.08. Monday

Museum of Cinema  28/06/2008 - 31/08/2010 Exhibit "Riga boy Sergei Eisenstein"

Riga Cinema Museum presents an exhibition devoted to Russian film giant "Riga boy Sergei Eisenstein". With this, the museum marks its 20th year and Eisenstein's 110th birthday.

Exhibition centre "Riga Art Space", entrance from 3 Kungu Street. Exhibition "Commutator" at Riga Art Space from August 4 till September 5, featuring an unusual collection of sculptures and objects in silver by artist Kārlis Ādmiņš.

Museum of Applied Arts and Design, 10/20 Skarnu street   04/08/2010 - 31/10/2010 Exhibition "Art Deco style - fashion of the inter-war period" at the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, featuring 250 items of clothing and accessories collected by fashion historian Aleksandrs Vasiļjevs from Europe and the United States. On display from August 4 until October 31.