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Lithuanian season: over 950,000 spectators throughout France
Published on 8 April 2025
After three months of rich and varied programming in France, the Season of Lithuania in France came to a close on December 12, 2024 at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. This major diplomatic and cultural project, decided upon by Presidents Emmanuel Macron and Gitanas Nausėda, introduced the French public to Lithuania's rich art scene and intensified artistic and intellectual exchanges between the two countries.
The Season of Lithuania in France was conceived as a multidisciplinary project around major contemporary issues: European identity and its international neighbors, diversity and inclusion, imagination in the service of desirable, democratic and ecological futures.
It has seen the birth of hundreds of collaborations between Lithuanian and French institutions and creators, many of which are destined to extend and develop beyond the season's event time.
As Virginija Vitkienė, general curator of the Season of Lithuania in France 2024, sums it up, "Seeing oneself in the other, that's how we titled the Season of Lithuania in France 2024, which, together with L'Écho français en Lituanie, offered hundreds of opportunities to see, hear and learn about our histories, cultures, contemporary art, current values and shared European identity, and to dialogue together about our visions for the future."
Echoing the Lithuanian Season in France, the Institut français de Lituanie has designed a mirror program designed to raise the profile of French culture in Lithuania. It will have initiated and consolidated school and university cooperation between France and Lithuania, strengthening academic and artistic collaborations between the two countries.
The Season of Lithuania in France was implemented by the Lithuanian Cultural Institute and the French Institute, in close collaboration with the Lithuanian Embassy in France, the French Embassy in Lithuania and the French Institute of Lithuania, under the supervision of the French Ministries of Europe and Foreign Affairs and Culture and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
Discover the digital review as well as the video recounting the Season's finest moments.
Lithuanian Season in figures
- More than 650 events;
- 11
- More than 80 cities in France;
- More than 950,000 spectators.
About the Season
The Season of Lithuania in France was implemented by the Lithuanian Cultural Institute and the French Institute, in close collaboration with the Lithuanian Embassy in France, the French Embassy in Lithuania and the French Institute of Lithuania, under the aegis of the French Ministries of Europe and Foreign Affairs and Culture and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
The French Institute
The Institut français is the pivotal operator of the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs in the implementation of France's foreign cultural policy.
Its missions are to support French creators and cultural and creative industries in their international development; to strengthen dialogue between cultures and societies; to promote the French language and plurilingualism; and finally to support and lead the French cooperation and cultural action network abroad.
Network space
Lʼespace réseau provides members of the French cultural network abroad with personalized tools and offers.