We invite you to submit applications by filling out the application form at the Aleksandrs Čaks memorial apartment-museum in Riga, Lāčplēša Street 48 – 8 until September 15, 2023 (inclusive).
The Department of Education, Culture and Sports of Riga City Council, the Aleksandara Čaka Museum of the Association of Cultural Institutions of the Riga Municipality, in cooperation with the Aleksandara Čaka Society, invites applicants to apply for the Aleksandara Čaka Award for contributions in the past two years in two nominations:
– for an artistically high-quality, innovative interpretation of Riga in literature, music, architecture, bookselling, design, film, theater or visual arts
– for a significant achievements in research, preserving, popularization or translation of the works of Aleksandars Čaks.
The Aleksandars Čaks Award was presented for the first time in 2001 - on the poet's 100th birthday. Once every two years, the awards are presented for the contribution to the research and popularization of the personality and works of Aleksandrs Čaks, as well as for the high-quality artistic interpretation of the image of the city of Riga. The author of the Aleksandrs Čaka Award is sculptor Andris Vārpa. The award ceremony gathers interested parties and attracts more and more new people to learn about the personality and works of the poet Aleksandrs Čaks.
Many prominent cultural workers have become laureates of the award - poets Jānis Rokpelnis and Uldis Bērziņš, actors Imants Skrastiņš and Artis Robežnieks, photographer Māra Brašmane, artist Pāvels Šēnhofs, composer Uldis Stabulnieks, artist and poet Andris Breže, writers Zigmunds Skujiņš, Valdis Rūmnieks and Andrejs Migla, literary scholars Andra Konste and Antra Medne, translators Rauls Čilačava and Aksinija Mihailova and others.
We invite you to submit applications by filling out the application form at the Aleksandrs Čaks memorial apartment-museum in Riga, Lāčplēša Street 48 – 8 until September 15, 2023 (inclusive). Museum opening hours: Tuesday - Saturday 11.00 - 17.00, Sunday, Monday - closed. Phone for inquiries: 67105942 or e-mail: caks@riga.lv