{"id":36637,"date":"2025-08-05T09:46:43","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/event\/international-senior-citizens-dance-festival-baltija-is-waking-up\/"},"modified":"2025-08-05T09:46:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T06:46:43","slug":"international-senior-citizens-dance-festival-baltija-is-waking-up","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/event\/international-senior-citizens-dance-festival-baltija-is-waking-up\/","title":{"rendered":"International Senior Citizens Dance Festival “Baltija is Waking Up”"},"content":{"rendered":"
23 August (Saturday) 14:00
During the festival you can expect a rich programme, great mood and performances of 16 groups from three Baltic countries. The event will feature:
LATVIA
Jaunolain\u0117 Culture House European Dance Senior Collective “VELDZE” (director Reg\u012bna Grebe\u017eniece)
Salaspils Culture House Senior Citizens Dance Group “MADARAS”
(director Reg\u012bna Grebe\u017eniece)
Riga Senior Citizens’ Dance Collective “ASPAZIJA” (director Antra Z\u016bkere)
Riga Senior Citizens Dance Group “MAGDALENA” (director Antra Z\u016bkere)
Sigulda senior citizens’ dance group “PREILENE” (director Antra Z\u016bkere)
Sigulda senior citizens’ dance group “SNIEGAROZE” (director Antra Z\u016bkere)
ESTONIA
Kanepi Senior Citizens Dance Group “P\u00c4RIPIDI” (director Maria Drenkhan)
P\u00f5lva senior citizens’ dance group “P\u00d5LVA MEMMED” (director Helje P\u00f5vvat)
P\u00f5lva senior citizens’ dance group HOELBEOLG (director Helje P\u00f5vvat)
LITHUANIA
Garg\u017edai seniors’ dance group “SKINIJA” (director Giedr\u0117 Malunavi\u010dien\u0117)
\u0160ilut\u0117 seniors’ dance group “\u0160Y\u0160A” (director Alina Minderyt\u0117-Urbonien\u0117)
\u0160ilut\u0117 seniors’ dance group “AUK\u0160TUMALA” (director Alina Minderyt\u0117-Urbonien\u0117)
Palanga seniors’ dance group “J\u016aR\u0116” (leader Tomas \u017dilys)
Kretinga seniors’ dance group “GAJA” (director Guoda Endru\u0161aityt\u0117)
Tel\u0161iai Art and Self-Education Space women’s dance group “PINAVIJA”
(leader Genovait\u0117 Lukauskyt\u0117)
Klaip\u0117da seniors dance group “KLAIP\u0116DOS ZUNDA”
(director Irena Toliu\u0161ien\u0117, dance teacher Valdas Marcinkus)
Klaip\u0117da Jeronimas Ka\u010dinskas Music School Boys’ and Young Men’s Choir “GINTAR\u0116LIS” (directors Asta Kontautien\u0117 and Regina Vind\u017eigalskien\u0117)<\/div>\n
Festival hosts Loreta Liutkut\u0117 and Ignas Kazbaras<\/div>\n
The event is organised within the framework of the project “International Festival of Senior Dance Groups “Waking up the Baltics”, implemented by the Senior Dance Group “Klaip\u0117dos zunda” and partially financed by Klaip\u0117da City Municipality.
The organisers of the event are the Klaip\u0117da Zunda Senior Dance Collective and the Klaip\u0117da City Municipal Cultural Centre, Fishermen’s Palace.
The Baltic Way is one of the most important historical events in the history of the Baltic States, symbolising unity, freedom and strength of spirit. LET’S CELEBRATE TOGETHER!
THE EVENT IS FREE. It will be filmed, photographed and publicised. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

23 August (Saturday) 14:00 During the festival you can expect a rich programme, great mood and performances of 16 groups from three Baltic countries. The event will feature: LATVIAJaunolain\u0117 Culture House European Dance Senior Collective “VELDZE” (director Reg\u012bna Grebe\u017eniece)Salaspils Culture House Senior Citizens Dance Group “MADARAS”(director Reg\u012bna Grebe\u017eniece)Riga Senior Citizens’ Dance Collective “ASPAZIJA” (director Antra […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":36585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"mec_category":[562],"class_list":["post-36637","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","mec_category-holidays"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/36637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36637"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klaipedatravel.lt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=36637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}