10 June 2025

“Culture Night” at the National Library

On 13 June, Vilnius will be kept awake by the annual culture and art festival “Culture Night 2025”. This year’s festival slogan “Explore the darkness” will invite Vilnius residents and visitors to look at Vilnius at night as a catalogue of events and choose what they find most interesting. And there will be plenty to choose from, with more than 100 music, theatre, visual and interdisciplinary art events on the announced programme.

During Culture Night, the National Library will host eight very different events from 6pm to 9pm.

This year, children and their parents are invited to the creative afternoon “Pepe Ilgakojinei – 80!” (Peppe Longstocking turns 80!). More about this event ›

Those who want to participate in the “Pabėk nuo tamsos” (Escape from the Darkness) series of events “Ateik ir žaisk” (Come and Play) will have the opportunity to take part in an exclusive board game evening. We will offer you the chance to get acquainted with and learn how to play games in the social, communication, storytelling, deduction and detective mystery genres. Read more ›

For the first time in our library, you will be able to experience radio theatre. We invite you to listen to Vaiva Grainytė’s radio play “Dvidešimt keturi” (Twenty-Four). Sound director and composer Arturas Bumšteinas. Read more ›

This evening in the library you will enjoy the musical performance “Trikampis” (Triangle). Lithuanian jazz coryphées percussionist Arkadijus Gotesmanas and pianist and composer Tomas Kutavičius will take the audience on a unique journey of sounds in a special meditative, almost hypnotic atmosphere. The idea was conceived by Lara Lempertienė and Arkadijus Gotesmanas. Read more ›

We also invite you to visit our exhibitions.

The Rare Books and Manuscripts Division of the Documentary Heritage Research Department of the National Library has prepared for you a guided tour of the exhibition “„Klajojančio entuziasto“ stabtelėjimas Lietuvoje” (A Stop in Lithuania by a Wandering Enthusiast) about the artist Mstislav Dobuzhinsky.

You will be able to see the work of young artists at the exhibition of the final works of the postgraduate students of the Department of Photography, Animation and Media Arts of the Vilnius Academy of Arts.

The Vilnius Short Film Festival invites you to spend Culture Night watching Lithuanian short films! In the programme “Short but Films: family (melo)dramas”, the audience will be able to immerse themselves in the tragicomic stories of different families in three works by Lithuanian filmmakers: “Motinos” (Mothers) (dir. Birutė Kapustinskaitė, 2021, fiction, 15 min.), “Uogos” (Berries) (dir. Vytautas Katkus, 2022, fiction, 15 min.), and “Tėtušis” (Papa) (dir. Justas Ramanauskas, 2021, feature, 14 min).

Tomasz Jankowski, the author of the project and the publisher of the double album “Yiddish Tango in Poland”, will talk about the interwar Polish-Lithuanian flourishing of Jewish popular music, especially the tango, which was contributed by Kaunas residents Danielius Pomerantz, Moishe Hoffmekler and Danielius Dolskis. So we invite you to listen to “Yiddish Tango. History through the gramophone”. Important – this event will be held in English.

All events are free of charge, some require registration. You are cordially invited!

Programme and links to register:

Full festival PROGRAMME – www.kulturosnaktis.lt, as well as on the festival’s Instagram and Facebook accounts.