100th anniversary of the Archives of Latvian Folklore

On December 2, the centenary of the Archives of Latvian Folklore, as well as the tenth anniversary of the digital archive garamantas.lv, was celebrated at the Latvian National Library's Ziedonis Hall.

At the event, the archive were welcomed by Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, President of the Republic of Latvia (1999-2007), folk song researcher and Honorary Patron of the 100th Anniversary of the Archives of Latvian Folklore, Anda Čakša, Minister of Education and Science, Agnese Lāce, Minister of Culture, Dagnija Baltiņa, Director of the National Library of Latvia, and many other guests.

During the event, there was an opportunity to look into the history of the Archives of Latvian Folklore, to unite in songs, and a new award was established and presented for the first time in history – the "Golden Drawer" (Zelta atvilktnīte) of the Archives of Latvian Folklore. The prize will be given to special personalities – people outside the Archives of Latvian Folklore who have made a great contribution to the development of the archive. The first three prizes were awarded – for a lifetime of kindness, inspiration, humour, encouragement and support of folklorists to Ieva Jansone, long-time editor and former director of the publishing house "Zinātne"; for fundamental and selfless contribution to the digitization of Latvian folklore and the creation of the digital archive garamantas.lv to entrepreneur, lawyer and philanthropist Ainars Brūvelis; for long-standing creative collaboration, conceptual design solutions and contribution to strengthening the visual identity of the Archives of Latvian Folklore to artist Krišs Salmanis.

After the official part, there was a part with informal conversations and songs, and the official part of the evening was closed with a concert by the musical group Black Rooster Kapelye.

The Archives would like to thank everyone who joined the celebrations and who has worked with the archive over the past 100 years.

Saules mūžu krātuvei!

Photo (c) Didzis Grodzs

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