Kaunas 2022

We are happy to announce that Kaunas has officially been designated the European Capital of Culture 2022. Kaunas of Lithuania seeks to become a changing force for a local community as well as for the communities with similar problems and issues all over Europe. The official slogan for the city is: KAUNAS 2022: FROM TEMPORARY TO CONTEMPORARY. The concept of an artistic and overall community program is based on three CONs: To become CONTEMPORARY we need to overcome CONfusion in our fragmented and censored history and mentality, to understand that we are a CONfluence not only of two biggest Lithuanian rivers, but of very different and sometimes conflicting people and ideas, and, finally, we have to create CONsciousness which can productively lead us to become a more successful community in Europe and for Europe. By CONTEMPORARY, we mean being CONnected with the rest of Europe, to be in CONtext and to create a new CONtent for our city, our country and our Europe. Therefore, from now...