In March and April of this year, the traveling exhibition of the “Children of Siberia” Foundation visited several schools and museums in Latvia.
From March 22 to April 2 in Jūrmala museum, Liveta Sprūde-Kalme met with school students, deportees, interested parties, told about the history of her family, expeditions to Siberia and gave lectures to students about deportations.
March 11 at 13:00 – meeting in Valmiera library with Dzintra Geka-Vaska, discussion about the book “Mothers in Siberia”
March 14 to March 28 – traveling exhibition 1949 in the Bauska cultural center
March 20 to March 28 – traveling exhibition 1949 at Olaine 2nd Secondary School
March 21 to March 26 – 429 students visited the exhibition “Children of Siberia” in the Ventspils Museum, Livonian Order Palace. Pupils watched the film “Siberia, a distant land. Why March 25, 1949?”
On March 21, director Dzintra Geka-Vaska and composer Pēteris Vasks visited Ēbelmuiža elementary school.
On the evening of March 21, director Dzintra Geka-Vaska and cameraman Aivars Lubānietis showed the film “The distant land of Siberia. Why did we drive?” in the women’s prison in Iļguciems.
March 23 at 8:00 – Liveta Sprūde-Kalme and pastor Guntis Kalme gave a lecture on the deportation of 1949 at the Bauska State Gymnasium.
March 24 at 17:00 – a meeting of the film crew at the Ventspils museum with school students and the management of the city council, the film “The distant land of Siberia. Why did we drive?”
April 3 at 12:45-13:25 – Liveta Sprūde-Kalme gave a lecture on deportation in 1949 in Jūrmala, Pumpuri High School.
Photo – Liveta Sprūde-Kalme and Guntis Kalme perform at the Bauska State Gymnasium.
