When the fire is blazing, the herbs are talking and the water is keeping secrets, this is where the real magic of summer is born. It’s a time when you want to stop, be in nature and just enjoy this special time.
The shortest night for the longest summer memories.
PROGRAMME
12:00 p.m. Folk Art and Craft Fair, children’s activities
12:00–5:00 p.m. Interactive session on the project “Challenges of Cooperation and Partnership in SP Projects.”
Interactive games, the band “Ant kabliuko,” a discussion tent, inspiring talks about smart villages and community-based businesses, textile workshops, handmade cosmetics, and commemorative gifts for active participants (Public Institution “Pažangūs sprendimai”)
5:00 p.m. Old Crafts and Herbs Courtyard, educational activities.
Pottery with artist Nomeda Marčėnaitė, “The Art of Woodcarving” (Virginijus Vilmantas Varanavičius), “The Art of Blacksmithing” (Saulius Kronis), “Ancient Board Games” (Pasvalys Regional Museum), creative workshop “Light from the Meadows” (Eglė Račkauskienė), “Secrets of Herbs” with Adele Karaliūnaitė, “Sviestmušio Courtyard” (Ratkevičius Dairy Farm), “Secrets of the Stones” and “The Lithuanian Linen Bird” (Panevėžys Elena Mezginaitė Public Library), “Midsummer Discovery Meadow” (Panevėžys Cultural Center), children’s playground (Panevėžys Regional Museum), and others.
5:00 p.m. Puppet theater performance based on J. Kazakaitis’s fairy tale “The Three Bears” (directed by A. Markuckis)
At the “Pragiedruliai” Creative Center,
, 5:00 p.m. Documentary film “Zitai” (dir. Vytautas V. Landsbergis, Lithuania, 2026, V)
6:00 p.m. Theatrical ritual program.
Featuring groups from the Panevėžys Cultural Center: the “Pulkelis” folk ensemble (dir. A. Mulevičius), the “Grandinėlė” children’s and youth folk dance ensemble (led by Z. Rimkuvienė and Aurelija Sakalauskaitė), the senior folk dance group “Miestelėnai” (led by J. Nagrockis), the senior folk dance group “Verdenė” (led by V. Murauskas), the “Gija” senior folk dance group (led by D. Venslovienė), the “Linas” senior folk dance ensemble (led by Z. Rimkuvienė), the senior folk dance group “Sidabra” and the women’s dance group “Saulėgrąžos” (dir. K. Nainienė), the mixed choir “Čiūto” and the vocal ensemble “Smiltelė” (led by D. Gaspariūnienė), the folk music band “Nevėžis” (led by V. Rutkauskas) and the folk dance group of Panevėžys 5th Gymnasium (led by J. Nagrockis), the kanklė ensemble “Ašarėlė” (conducted by R. Mureikienė)
7 pm. Folk music band “Nevėžis”
7:15 p.m. Greetings from the godparents
8 pm. Group “Sutartronica”
9:00 p.m. The “Svirtis” Folk Group
SUNFLOWER PLANTING CEREMONY. FIRE CEREMONY
10 p.m. The band “Saulės kliošas”
Hosts: ethnologist Vitalija Vasiliauskaitė and actor Laimutis Sėdžius
The event will be filmed and photographed
Organisers
Panevėžys City Municipality
Panevėžys Cultural Centre
Sponsors
UAB “Milersa”
Kapučino Coffee and Šimtalapiai House
UAB “Vilniaus duona”
UAB “Joalda”
“Akordai” Restaurant
Partners
Panevėžys Cinema Center “Garsas”
Panevėžys Puppet Theater
Regional History Museum
Panevėžys Bronius Vaidutis Kutavičius Music School
Panevėžys Elena Mezginaitė Public Library
