Tomas sent me a link to this poster advertising Vilnius European Capital of Culture 2009 at a bus stop in London. It impressed me that they are making some attempts to reach out to the British audience and it the first piece of marketing I've seen aimed at us. Great!
Thanks to Jo'nas for letting me use the photo.
Created: 2008-06-21 12:29, Tags: Capital of Culture, England, Lithuania, Vilnius, Comments: 0
Today I received an e-mail from the Ambassador Programme for Vilnius European Capital of Culture 2009 offering me a 10% discount for flights with FlyLAL (Lithuanian Airlines). It's a nice offer despite it being purely an advertising campaign for the airline, but not very practical at all. I decided to let the organisers know how I felt about it. I replied to the e-mail I received to the address info@culturelive.lt and it bounced back. Later I tried the address given on the official website (info@vilnius2009.lt) and it bounced back again. It doesn't give a good impression of the event at all. Anyway, here's what I wrote to them:
Dear all
I just want to raise a small point about the little piece of advertising you sent me.
I live in the North of England close to Manchester and Liverpool airport. Flylal will be beginning a Manchester-Vilnius route (via Amsterdam) next year. These tickets cost £400 (£360 when I get the discount). Extremely expensive and out of the question for the type of people you want to attract to Vilnius European Capital of Culture. Moreover, the route via Amsterdam is simply inconvenient.
My proposal to you is to advertise convenient and affordable ways to get to Vilnius from the North of England and Scotland. Such a route would be Liverpool-Kaunas which I regularly take with Ryanair. However, as I discussed in my blog, people have trouble pin pointing Vilnius on a map nevermind Kaunas! Plus, transport connections between Vilnius and Kaunas are not great from the airport.
I hope you can understand where I'm coming from on this. I'm simply very enthusiatic about Lithuania and Vilnius and want the year of culture to be as successful as possible.
Regards
Anna Ward
Created: 2008-05-27 19:19, Tags: Capital of Culture, Lithuania, Vilnius, Comments: 2
I can't believe it! HEL LOOKS is exhibiting in Vilnius from 25th January until 20th February. Asta (my Lithuanian friend/penpal) and I were discussing how cool this would be in August last year. She said she wanted to persuade the creators of HEL LOOKS to come over to Vilnius and exhibit their photos. I really want to know if they came of their own accord or whether she had a hand in it. Well, either way, I'm pleased because she will be happy. I'm a little bit disappointed though because I won't get to see it. The next surprise I'm waiting for is for Asta to start her VIL LOOKS :)
Also some other great news: Alina Orlova has released her first album. Go here for a sample. I can't really tell you anything more about her music. My words won't be able to describe her talent well enough.
I'm still fighting my one woman battle against the Lithuanian language. Taking it one step at a time. Came across a Lithuanian scientific, literary and cultural journal called Lituanus and this article about participles. Scary!! If you want to find out about Lithuania in more detail then they have a comprehensive back catalogue of articles covering all sorts of weird and wonderful topics.
Created: 2008-01-28 18:53, Tags: art, fashion, Lithuania, Lithuanian, music, Vilnius, Comments: 0
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