From September 21 to December 10, 2022, an exhibition from the riches of the museum's collection - "’Čaka Paradise" - will be on display at the Alexander Čaks Museum.
The exhibition is based on the poet's active and creative year of 1932. The year 2022 is a special anniversary year in the context of the work of the poet Alexander Čaks - the famous poetry collection "My Paradise" turns 90, while the collection "Mirrors of Imagination" turns 85.
1932 was a very productive year in the poet's life, as the poem "Umurkumurs" was published in the book, "Anthology of Latvian Modern Poetry", the play "Nail, Tomato and Plum" and the poetry collection "My Paradise" were published after several years of work.
The poems of the poetry collection "My Paradise" were written in the period from 1925 to 1931, and a large part of them were included in A. Čaka first, small poetry collections. The book "My Paradise" mentions 1932 as the year of publication, but in fact the book was published on Christmas 1931.
The illustrations of the poem "Umurkumurs" were created by the artist Niklavs Strunke. The thirty published copies of the book had hand-colored drawings by N. Strunke. N. Strunke and A. Čaks were united by the theme of Riga - the city and colorful people prototypes.
A. Čaks and E. Adamsons together translated Bertolt Brecht's play "The Opera of Three Grasses" for the needs of the repertoire of the Daile's Theater, at the request of its director Eduards Smilgis. Satisfied with the work done by both poets, E. Smilgis asked them to write a play for children. This is how the commissioned work "Nail, Tomato and Plum" was created, which premiered on November 20, 1932 at the Daile's Theater.