FEBRUARY 14th, Tuesday
FREE VISITS TO THE MUSEUM AND GUIDED TOURS IN TRANSFORMATION HALL. Pre-registration required. Guided tours will be held in Lithuanian.
10.15 | Energy Production, Energy Accumulation and Transmission, Energy Consumption
11.45 | Full Guided Tour in Transformation Hall
13.30 | Energy Production, Energy Accumulation and Transmission, Energy Consumption
15.00 | Full Guided Tour in Transformation Hall
16.45 | Energy Production, Energy Accumulation and Transmission, Energy Consumption
OPEN TESLA
On the occasion of two birthdays, the Transofrmation Hall will host exclusive energy transfers – Tesla coils will be played by sound artists, researchers and performers who will experiment and combine lightning music with their creations.
13.00 | Audrius Šimkūnas-Sala – sound artist, researcher of spatial sounds, phonography and acoustic ecology.
14.30 | Vytautas Juozėnas-Škicas – photographer, media artist, creator of experimental electronic music and also a nature lover.
16.15 | Jan Glöckner – artist, doctoral candidate in arts, artistic biotechnology researcher working with radio art.
18.00 | Tata Frenkel and Vitalis Vitaleus – a duo of ETM guide-educator, creator of interdisciplinary (performative) art and doctor of arts, experimental sound artist. Both creators work on various educational projects, often incorporating sound art.
BOOK FAIR
The books of the “Baltos lankos” publishing house at the publisher’s prices. All day in the main, Boiler Hall. On the occasion of the birthday of the power plant and the museum, “Baltos lankos” will present literary gifts to ETM visitors.
TASTING DINNER BY DEIVYDAS PRASPALIAUSKAS AND JONOS LINGYS
In the special program of the evening of February 14th (from 7 PM) – the tasting dinner by Deivydas Praspaliauskas and Jonas Lingys will take place at the Energy and Technology Museum. There is no greater love than the love of food. Registration.
FEBRUARY 15th, Wednesday
Guided tours are free with the purchase of a museum visitor’s ticket. Registration is required. Guided tours will be held in Lithuanian.
11.00 | “Lighten Up! This is How a Power Station Works” and “A Day at a Power Plant”
14.00 | “Made in Vilnius: the History of Urban Technology and Industry” and “Traditional & Alternative Energy”
17.00 | Overview tour of the museum and “100 Years of History”
GUIDER TOURS and Tesla shows will take place as usual in TRANFORMATION HALL. Registration and tickets are here.
MONIKAZE. LAWS OF TESLA
At the Tesla coil panel in the Transformation Hall, virtuoso of sharp electronic music combined with gentle vocals Monikaze will perform. She is a well-known and highly regarded name among listeners, having appeared alongside acts such as “Dopplereffekt” (at Gaida), “Algiers” and “First Hate” on her debut album “Chicken Wings”.
In January, Monikaze returned from a performance at the prestigious Eurosonic Noorderslag festival of emerging European music talents in the Netherlands. The event features the Music Moves Europe Awards, which aim to spotlight Europe’s brightest rising music stars.
The second album “Waste of Space” of the fast-growing artist was released by the British record company “Moshi Moshi Records”, which releases the work of such well-known artists as “Hot Chip”, “Moscoman”, “Invisible Minds” or “Hercules & Love Affair”.
The duration of the event is 1 hour. Start – 8 PM
The event price is 20 EUR.
Tickets are distributed by Paysera.
The number of places is limited.
FEBRUARY 16th, Thursday
“SCANORAMA” – LITHUANIAN CINEMA CHRONICLES
On the day of the restoration of the state of Lithuania, ETM will be visited by the film forum of European countries “Scanorama”. The organizers of the festival will invite you to get involved in a cinematic adventure and feel like discoverers, detectives and time travelers – the program “Interwar Lithuania Through the Lens of Film Chronicles (1938)” will be shown all day in the Boiler Hall.
Programmer, film restorer, archivist Aleksas Gilaitis: “This is an eloquent historical document that reveals a living connection between the past and the present. Dates and political circumstances change, but a person’s view of himself and the environment around him does not change. It is a cinematic adventure that denies that chronicles are only the territory of historians and archivists.”
BOOK FAIR
The books of the “Baltos lankos” publishing house at the publisher’s prices. All day in the main, Boiler Hall. On the occasion of the birthday of the power plant and the museum, “Baltos lankos” will present literary gifts to ETM visitors.
Guided tours are free with the purchase of a museum visitor’s ticket. Registration is required. Guided tours will be held in Lithuanian.
10.00 | Overview tour of the museum and “Illusions – Science, Mysticism or Deception?”
11.45 | “Lighten Up! This is How a Power Station Works” and “Inventing the Battery”
12.45 | “Made in Vilnius: the History of Urban Technology and Industry”
14.00 | Thematic guided tour in interactive exhibition “Science & Technology for Kids” and “How Did Thomas Light Up a Light Bulb?”
16.00 | “Traditional & Alternative Energy”
17.00 | “100 Years of History” and “3D Printing – From Idea to Thing”
EVENING GUIDED TOURS
19.30 | “The Smell of Industrial Shadows”; “History of Vilnius Modernization” (in ETM roof terrace, with hot drinks and snacks)
20.30 | “The Smell of Industrial Shadows”; “History of Vilnius Modernization” (in ETM roof terrace, with hot drinks and snacks)
GUIDER TOURS and Tesla shows will take place as usual in TRANFORMATION HALL. Registration and tickets are here.
FEBRUARY 17th, Friday
Guided tours and educational programmes are free with the purchase of a museum visitor’s ticket. Registration is required. Activities will be held in Lithuanian.
11.45 | “Inventing the Battery” and “Photography: a World in a Matchbox”
13.30 | “How Did Thomas Light Up a Light Bulb?” and “Skaryna Press Workshop”
15.15 | “Faraday Movement” and “Illusions – Science, Mysticism or Deception?”
17.00 | “3D Printing – From Idea to Thing”
AUDIOVISUAL PERFORMANCE ON THE OLD BOILERS “SOCIAL CONNECTIONS”
On February 17th, at 8 PM “Vilkta svetainė”, which unites artists from various fields, presents an audiovisual performance on the historical boilers of the old power plant, “Social Connections”. Performers, dancers, actors, creators of the modern circus will perform the staged performance. The author and curator of the idea is Povilas Bastys.
“Social Connections”. With this performance, the community of creators searches for and analyzes the changing, established boundaries and frameworks of social existence in society. How we speak, greet, move, dress and appreciate is a constantly changing reflection not only of culture, but also of time. These social norms (or tendencies) are like the engine of society, the components of which, working together, create a certain energy.
Performance artists will explore the boundaries between past and present societal norms. It will also look for new forms of expression, possible future social codes and clichés. The authors of the performance will combine various creative directions: circus, modern dance, acting, electronic music, voice performance and others. During the event, the audience will be invited to watch the action on any of the three floors, as the performance will take place on the old steam boilers located in the center of the museum.
The duration of the event is 1.30 hours.
The price is 15.50 Eur.
Tickets are distributed by Paysera.
FEBRUARY 18th, Saturday
ETM SCIENCE FAIR
The Science Fair will be bustling all day in the ETM Boiler Hall. It includes scientific experiments in chemistry and mechanics fields, we will build a light bulb, battery or generator, get acquainted with 3D printing, mobile ETM interactive exhibits, including a Tesla coil. In addition, there are new augmented reality exhibits in the museum exposition. ETM guides-educators accompanying you will answer all scientific questions.
HAPPYENDLESS. TESLA OPERA
Electronic duo “Happyendless” (Andrius Kauklys and Marius Narbutis) will play with Tesla coils – lightning bolts – in ETM’s new Transformation Hall. The program includes works from the albums “Utopia” and “Kinetika”, arranged for a new instrument, Tesla coils, and an electrifying spectacle – electric energy discharges reaching millions of volts.
“Happyendless” will transform the imagination of the listeners into electrons, with the help of which they will color an electronic journey through the viewers’ subconscious.
“The obsession with creating something new, using different tools, solutions and syntheses, left no doubt for a second that Tesla coils and their discharges need to be “harnessed” for a new performance,” said Kauklys, a member of “Happyendless”.
19.00 – Doors
19.15-20.00 – DJ Benua
20.00 – “Happyendless. Tesla Opera”
20.45-21.30 – DJ Benua
The price is 20 Eur.
Tickets are distributed by Paysera.
The number of places is limited.
FEBRUARY 19th, Sunday
“SCANORAMA” – PREMIERE OF THE FILM “DE HUMANI CORPORIS FABRICA”
On February 19th, at 7 PM European film forum “Scanorama” will invite you to experience physical beauty and horror – the premiere of the documentary “De Humani Corporis Fabrica” by French directors Verena Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor will take place in the Boiler Hall. The audience will be accompanied by music created by the brain impulses by sound artist Aistė Noreikaitė.
Five centuries ago, the anatomist André Vésale opened the human body to science for the first time in history. This year, a pair of intrepid documentarians, looking over the shoulder of surgeons, traumatologists and other doctors, opens the human body to cinema.
Aistė Noreikaitė is a sound artist who creates interactive sound installations and performances using brainwave, EEG, technology. The artist will present the sound experience “Inner Worlds”, during which it will be possible to hear how the brain waves of different people sound. By consciously changing one’s states, A. Noreikaitė suggests reviewing the structure of a person’s inner world and immersing oneself in a journey that requires inner concentration.
The screening will be presented by film critic Narius Kairys.
After the premiere, the birthday program closing will take place.
The price of the event is 10.50 Eur.
Tickets are distributed by Paysera.
The final exhibition “Salve, Vilnius’DCC” of the continuous project “Salve, Vilnius” is dedicated to immortalizing the uniqueness of the city of Vilnius on the occasion of its 700th anniversary.
For the program of cultural events and cooperation we sincerely thank:
Vilnius City Municipality, the initiative “Vilnius 700”, the film forum of European countries “Scanorama”, the band “Happyendless”, tje artist Monikaze, LRT Opus, “Baltos lankos” publishing house, restaurant “Amandus”, artists “Vilkta svetainė”, “Open Tesla” performers and Aistė Noreikaitė.