Kaunas Full of Culture

April in Kaunas: Full of Music

Evaldas Šemiotas. Sports Anchor for Life

A football club founded in 1933 in Kaunas at the Inkaras rubber factory survived several political systems and even the factory itself. A few decades later, in a family of new Kaunas residents, the father of which used to say when watching ice hockey on TV, “Don’t you dear supporting USSR, choose anything else: Czechs, Germans or Swedes,” (but who himself supported the USSR national basketball team composed mainly of Lithuanian players), Evaldas Šemiotas was born.

For the Balance of Body and Mind

We met with Kaunas 2022 Ambassador Mindaugas for a walk on the freezing Laisvės Avenue on the fourth anniversary of Šešios trim. We covered about five thousand steps, that is, half the recommended daily amount while talking about the relationship (or unity) between body and mind, sport and culture. If you decide to read the interview while walking, don’t do it on a busy street!

Basketball 24/7, for Sixteen Years

We talked about the never-stopping basketball train with the project’s editor-in-chief Jonas Miklovas and Karolis Tiškevičius, who prefers to be called a commentator rather than a journalist.

Steponas Darius. The Athlete of Athletes

One team had a player who embodied both sides of the era. A participant in Lithuanian Wars of Independence, who became a significant promoter of other, peaceful struggles. It was Steponas Darius, a man who left a prominent mark on the early development of sports in the country.

Collective Consciousness of Maccabi. Meeting Gercas Žakas

“If a match is between a weaker and a stronger team, I always secretly hope that the weaker one will win.”

Football in the Backyard. Meeting FC Kiemas

Members of the football team FC Kiemas - Agnė Smolienė, who works at Kaunas Artists’ House, Laura Savickė, who creates leather products, and Sigita Žemaitytė-Strazdė, a member of the Kaunas City Museum team - talk about their experiences running in football boots on a greenfield chasing the ball

Kaunas Full of Culture. The Sports Issue

You won’t find one answer to the question of what sport is in a magazine, but you will find many amazing personal experiences.

Cutting Corners in Downtown Kaunas

A Twelve-year Search by Andrius Aleksandravičius

Andrius Aleksandravičius has been documenting it every day for the last twelve years. When going on his daily walks and searches for new places, he always takes a drone with him to capture the most picturesque routes in Kaunas.

Modernist Brothers of Kaunas

Many weekend tourists know that you can find Paris, Switzerland, and London right next to Kaunas. But you may not have heard of the fact that our city contains traces of such distant cities as Mumbai or Mexico City, or more precisely, their modernist architecture.

Route Number Seven

Currently, even that normally invisible border between the city and the district is now more real than the Schengen border. All the streets and parks have been “strolled out” and none of us dare to look at screens anymore. How to change your point of view?