On September 9, as part of the annual White Night contemporary culture forum, the Skaņu Mežs festival will host its traditional experimental music evening. The free entry event will take place at concert hall Ave Sol (Citadeles street 7); it will start at 20:00.

Read more about the event here.

The sequence of performances will be as follows:

20:00 Alise Rancāne 

21:00 Christine Abdelnour

21:50 Jackson-Pratt 

22:40 Nancy Mounir performed by Alīna Vižine (violin), Marta Rācene (viola), Magdalēna Ceple (cello), Māris Evelons (French horn), Raimonds Gulbis (bassoon)

23:40 Ale Hop 

00:25 Robert Schwarz 

01:20 Sarma Gabrēna, Nils Jumītis 

Indicated performance start times are approximate.

White Night is a modern urban culture forum – one night a year locals and tourists are invited to enjoy a vigil creativity aimed to change their perception of environment and cultural life. This is a chance to purposefully experience something extraordinary and be involved in various activities offered by artists. White Night tradition was started in 2002 in Paris and it spread like a positive epidemic to Brussels, Rome and Madrid, with Riga as one of the early adopters too. Later on, Amsterdam, Bucharest, Porto and Valetta joined the White Night movement in Europe, while Toronto, Tokyo, Montreal and other cities joined it globally.

Robert Schwarz is a participating artist of the SHAPE+ platform for innovative music, co-funded by the EU.

The event’s supporters are Riga City Council and the Trust for Mutual Understanding.