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19/12/11
Sundance Film Festival announced its lineup for the 2012 competition. The news was good for Los Angeles-Lithuanian, Marius Markevicius, and his directed & produced documentary film “The Other Dream Team”. Congratulations, Mariau!
13/07/11
On 5 July, a session of the 15th World Lithuanian Symposium on Arts and Sciences took place at the Vytautas Magnus University’s Aula Magna. The symposium sought to strengthen relations and establish useful ties between Lithuanian and Lithuanian-origin scientists, businessmen, cultural figures and students living abroad. During the discussion at the university, honourable guests and…
1/03/11
Resolved, that the Congress:
1. Requires publication of organization updates and news on the PLJS website
2. Encourages the Board to take an active interest in the Lithuanian dual citizenship debate, and to create a formal PLJS position on the subject
3. Urges PLJS to promote the regrowth of inactive PLJS chapters
4. Calls…
1/03/11
The World Lithuanian Youth Association (PLJS) was officially founded in 1966. This was the year of the first World Lithuanian Youth Congress, where a new board was elected and the goals, mission, and vision of the organization were created. At this time the primary goal of the organization was to protest the Soviet occupation of…
21/02/11
If you are a student or willing to be one, your heritage is Lithuanian but you live abroad, and you wish to forge closer ties to Lithuania either by improving your language skills or by learning more about Lithuanian culture and history, as well as social, economic, and political conditions, then this VMU Summer…
1/02/11
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Volunteers in Youth Organisations Building Europe! from European Youth Forum on Vimeo.
22/01/11
Lithuanian Youth Council (LiJOT) – the biggest non-governmental, non-profit umbrella structure for Lithuanian national youth organizations and regional unions of youth organizations. LiJOT was founded on the 19th of September, 1992. At present LiJOT has 62 members (non-governmental youth organisations), that means more than 200 000 young people in all Lithuania.
LiJOT is a…
11/01/11
Following the Soviet occupation in 1940, and again after their return in 1944, thousands of Lithuanians, as well as Latvians and Estonians, were sent into the depths of the USSR. Over the past several years the Council of Lithuanian Youth Organisations (Lietuvos jaunimo organizacijų taryba – LiJOT) has organized expeditions to places in Siberia…
