Evening of short movies. Beer fest

The begining of June was not so active. But we had some activities.

On the 11th of June we had an Evening of short movies. People could see different movies of russian and lithuanian directors. All movies were showing in different time on Russian Movie Festival "Message to human". The programme of Evening was very interesting:

1. Kat and kasha (animation) 2010, Russia, director Vyacheslav Kaminsky, duration 5 min

    Animation story about a cat. Cat is eating kasha and kasha is eating a kat.

2. Hunger (fiction) 2008, Lithuania, director Julia Zubavičienė, duration 10 min

    The movie is about love and humanity.

3. 1937 (fiction) 2011, Russia, director  Svetozar Golovlev, duration 18 min

     It happened in 1937. A young couple takes a train to the outskirs of Moscow in order to     secretly baptize their child.

4. Fly under Lithuania or 510 seconds of silent (documental) 2000, Lithuania, directors Arūnas Matelis and Audrius Stotis, duration 10 min

    The movie is showing Lithuania from the plane. It was present on the international exhibition "EXPO 2000", where it received a lot of good reviews and awards

5. Away (fiction) 2012, Russia, director Anna Sarukhanova, duration 17 min

    The story is about a boy. He is invited to go abroad, and must resolve to abondon his ordinary life, friends, family and his girlfriend for a vague future.

6. Tomato story (animation) 2010, Russia, directors Olga and Tatiana Poliektovy, duration 4 min

    Animation humoristic story about two ladies who decided to grow tomatoes.

As you could see on that Evening was shown six different short movies. 

I hope people had interesting, unusual and  not boring evening )))

We created that Evening as a part of our new every week summer activity - Summer Cinema Club. That Evening was a begining of the Club. The main idea of this Club is showing for lockals  the best movies from library‘s video collection. So, this Club will be every Wednesday during all summer season. For example, on 18th of June everybody could see exellent movie "Slumdog millionaire", on 26th of June - "Impossible".

Also it will be a part of our summer programme - Summer Reading for Kids. During this summer programme kids could come to the library on each Thursday and have different activities with librarians like crafts and reading books by different ways.

 Summer reading programme for kids

On the 14th of June we were on the Beer Festival in Vasaknos. 
Vasaknos is very small and beautiful vilage near small town Dusetos in Zarasai's region. We were there together with my sister. She came from Moscow to visit me. Also our mentor Virginija and two other volunteers Martin and Max were there too. Martin (from Spain) is working with me in the library and Max (from France) is working in Grazhute Regional Park were there.

So, we were on a fest together.

We tried a lot of sorts of lockal beer, listerned music from few lockal bands.

Generally I can say we spent nice time together. The fest was very funny, interesting and memorable.

Vasaknos. Place of Beer festival

Poetry Spring. Open touristic season

The end of May was very active.

At 22th of May the library had a big event - Poetry Spring. This year the event is celebrating an anniversary - 50 years!
Difference poets and singers was coming to the library that evening. All of them read their poems and novels. At the end of the evening all guests could eat tasty cake! 

At 23th and 24th of May Zarasai had another big event - open touristic season!
First day, on 23th of May our library organized a "Library Outside". We organized some tents on the ground in front of the library. There were 7 places with different activities. 1 tent was with drawing for kids. 2 was also for kids where they could guess crossword about music and tryed to make some basic misician instruments. 3 was a cinema for a kids where they could watch 4 different cartoons. 4 was for us - volunteers. We created also one craft activity for kids. We made a baloons with rise. Our activity was very popular among kids and their parents. Some kids asked us to make a baloons for them and some parents also asked make the same but for them as an adult! So, I could say our activity was very funny and interesting! In 5 tent you could drink a cold tea and eat a tasty sweets. 6 was for an adults where each person could seat and read a book. And in the last 7 place you could make a funny pic like you're Shrek from famous cartoon! To add to this 7 tents we organized bowling and soap football. That games also were very popular among kids, especially football. It was funny!

Next day at 24th of May was a big music festival all day. The day began with open of new high-board on a city beach. The kids liked it very much. They started to jump immediately. Then after lunch the festival started. There were presenting folk lockal songs and dances,Latvian, Italian and Malta's tradition dances and songs, electronic and rock music. So, fest was international. I think all people who came really enjoed it! That day finished with big firework.
I enjoyed this event very much. I'll wait next fest cause it'll be regular during all summer season!

Library outside. Craft activity with volunteers