Globali kategorija: Layer

Gabrielė: Holding firmly my mother’s hand, I walk in somewhat weak step towards a large building. There is a music playing from where it is located, soap bubbles and balloons are flowing to the sky. In my other hand, I hold a tall flower that my mom is calling gladiolus. The flower is not for […]

Gabrielė: Early morning. Two-storey building. Unlocked door. So many lights. Corridors decorated with unclear pictures and all sorts of crafts on the windowsills. Little doors of lockers. Lessons, tasks, questions. The most delicious food, or maybe the most disgusting one. Women substituting for mothers. A hall with music, dances, concerts, plays and sometimes even exercises. […]

Gabrielė: Street, yard, house. I still remember where a turn should be taken in order to find myself next to the nine-store house, which was my most favourite place in my childhood. Now I am waiting for Fridays to get more sleep and to rest from lectures the following week, but in those days I […]

Rimvydas: Youth! The ice rink in front of the State Institute of Physical Education was a favourite place for the youth of Žaliakalnis to spend their free time and exercise sports. I feel nostalgic about it, even though it no longer exists.

Rimvydas: Youth! Petras Vileišis Square (or Smėlynė, as it was called by the residents of Kaunas) was a place famous for horse racing. Back then, I lived in M. Jankaus Street in front of Petro Vileišio Square. It was a place in Žaliakalnis the youth of Kaunas liked very much. It was always full of […]

Eglė: Hens running across the yard, pigs being farmed behind the house and the old horse of Kaunas silently sitting in the garage… It is a description of a casual rural household after World War II, of one of the buildings located in Nemunas Street.Described as the Red-light district during the interwar period, the street […]

Writer Markas Zingeris: for me as a child, Laisvės Avenue (Lithuanian: Laisvės alėja) was both freedom and a promise. Freedom from classes or concerns, and a promise of dreams and exotic places. There was a book store there, in which I bought The Severed Hand by W. Hauff, and a cinema near the city garden, […]

Video by students of Vytautas Magnus University: Justė Balytaitė, Monika Žekaitė, Agnė Muškietaitė, Kristina Jazdauskaitė, Natalija Žėkaitė.

Memories about Oakwood Park by people of Kaunas. Video by students of Vytautas Magnus University: Justė Balytaitė, Monika Žekaitė, Agnė Muškietaitė, Kristina Jazdauskaitė, Natalija Žėkaitė.