Annual awards of Kaunas Art Creators’ Association

On the 21st of December, 2009, the Council of Kaunas Art Creators’ Association decided to allocate prizes of 1000 LTL and diplomas to:

Composer Algimantas Kubiliūnas for professional musical activity and lively expression. 

Writer Dovilė Zelčiūtė for the book “Misleading Moves” and relation between word and view in the recent works of Lithuanian art photographs. 

Actor and reader Petras Venslovas for reader’s programmes dedicated to the millennium of Lithuania’s name and lasting professional cherishing of native artistic word.

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In 2009 the Council of Kaunas Art Creators’ Association decided to allocate prizes of 1000 LTL and diplomas to:

Romas Juškelis – art photographer for the album of photography "Stories of Kaunas" and the original look to the city in it;

Aleksandras Rubinovas – actor of Kaunas Chamber Theatre for the main parts in the performances "Lisistrate" and "Hitler and Hitler";

Group of authors (Rymantė Gudienė, Liuda Marija Perevičienė and Laimutei Adomavičienė) – architects for the project of reconstruction of Kaunas State Philharmonic.

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During its meeting on December 30, 2007, the Council of Kaunas Art Creators’ Association decided to grant the awards of Kaunas Art Creators’ Association (1000 LTL and diploma) to the following persons:

Dr. Marija Matušakaitė – art researcher, for consistent and authoritative research of Lithuanian art and the book Lithuanian Sculpture to the Middle of the 17^th Century published in 2007.

Birutė Letukaitė – director and art director of Kaunas dance theatre Aura, for creative achievements in Lithuania and abroad in 2007.

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During its meeting on May 9, 2007, the Council of Kaunas Art Creators’ Association decided to grant the awards of Kaunas Art Creators’ Association (1000 LTL and diploma) to the following persons:

Vladas Vaitkevičius – writer, for the selection of poems Stars Falling in Shadow, 2006.

Liudas Gustainis – writer, for the novel Like Then, 2006.

Aleksas Dabulskis – writer, for the book of epigrams Three Hundred or Three Ninety-Ninths, 2006.

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During the meeting of February 2006, the Council of Kaunas Art Creators’ Association supported by Kaunas municipality allocated prizes of 1000 LTL and diplomas to:

Vidmantas Bartulis – composer, for the concert for two violins and symphony orchestra, oratory Road and symphony Garden.  

Jurgis Gimberis – writer, for the selection of humour stories Love and other Fundamental Sciences.

Romualdas Požerskis – art photographer for the album of photography Gardens of Memory.  

Rita Preikšaitė – soloist of the Musical Theatre, for the part of Carmen in G.Bizet opera Carmen staged at Kaunas Musical Theatre.  

Algimantas Sprindis – architect, for the project of the Resurrection Church reconstruction.

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During the meeting of December 30, 2004, the Council of Kaunas Art Creators’ Association supported by Kaunas municipality allocated prizes of 1000 LTL to:

Gražina Janulytė-Bernotienė – architect, for the reconstruction of the National M.K.Čiurlionis Art Museum;

Antanas Jusevičius – sculptor, for the most prominent works of 2004;

Gintaras Varnas – director, for the performance Crime and Punishment according to F. Dostoyevsky.

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During the meeting of January 12, 2004, the Council of Kaunas Art Creators’ Association allocated the first prizes of 1000 LTL to:

The collective of authors (Dalia Draugelienė, Nijolė Lukšionytė-Tolvaišienė, Raimonda Kogelytė-Simanaitienė) for the book Kaunas Artists. Traces in Time, 2003.

Aleksandras Macijauskas – art photographer, for the book Selection of Photography, 2003.

Viktoras Rudžianskas – writer, journalist, for the book of conversations and essays about the priest and poet Ričardas Mikutavičius The One who Also Lived our Lives, 2003.

*) information prepared according to data presented by the Art Creators’ Association