Seniors’ Thursdays at KKKC

Klaipėda Cultural Communications Center (KKKC) led by Liuda Liaudanskaite, a renowned watercolor artist known throughout Western Lithuania, organizes Seniors’ Thursdays for (non)artistic seniors. On the last Thursdays of each month, active seniors travel to experience culture at Klaipėda’s art institutions and beyond. Exhibitions, events, educational activities, meetings with famous people, excursions to neighboring cities, gatherings in cafés and sincere human relationships – all of this happens at Seniors’ Thursdays in Klaipėda. Watercolor artist Liuda Liaudanskaite, who founded this initiative, says that when she retired she thought she would enjoy complete freedom and endless leisure time, but once that happened she missed precisely the commitment to people and especially socializing. Eventually, urged by friends, she ended up at KKKC administration and started gathering seniors for joint cultural activities. “We’ve been buzzing around Klaipėda’s cultural life since autumn 2023 without breaks. After all, exhibitions don’t take holidays!” says Liuda. According to her, exhibitions grow into educational activities and often into conversations in cafés. “Some people dropped out, but a core group of about 10 people remained. We all became close, know a lot about each other, and bring our friends.” Mostly women join, but there are also seniors accompanying their ladies, or coming alone. People participate from various walks of life: not only artists, but also a pharmacist, an accountant, a sailor’s wife who started painting after retirement, a poet’s widow. Seniors share recommendations about cinema, theater, and literature, exchange plants, celebrate birthdays – traditions are being born. There will be no summer breaks and seniors will continue to gather on the last Thursday of each month at around 11–12 a.m. at the KKKC Exhibition Halls (the time is coordinated each time by mutual agreement). For more information, you can contact Liuda Liaudanskaite at tel. 060030156 or by email [email protected] Please note that participants may be featured in photographs and videos of the event published in various media. The post Seniors’ Thursdays at KKKC appeared first on Klaipėda Cultural Communications Center.