START OVER festival

START OVER festival

VEF KVARTĀLS, the pearl of industrial heritage, at Ūnijas iela 8K7, Riga, will ring in the summer months with a new tradition - celebrating START OVER Day 5 June from 18:00.

End the school year with an energetic start to the summer - VEF QUARTAL will celebrate the international "Start over" day, where we will encourage everyone not to get discouraged by failures and losses, but to remember that every setback makes us stronger.

On this day we will invite entrepreneurs, influencers, musicians, active personalities to talk about their stools and how they have shaped their path to success. We will encourage young people to get up, go and do, despite the difficulties, setbacks and stumbles on the way to their goals. Well-known personalities will share their stories, such as the artist FINKIS, the creators of the Bourzma project, the content creator and singer Intrisha, the ambassador of The Spot Centre Artūrs Bogdanovičs aka Mr Boga, the creator of the Drum School, the drummer Andrzej Graud, and others.

During the Start Over Day, the musical group "Viedais fonografs" will present their new album, which seeks a new beginning for Latvian folk melodies by dressing them up in slightly different sound shades. The indie folk style of the songs on the album, accents of Latvian folk romanticism create the sound of the summer solstice and invite you to sing or dance along. The founder of the band Arnis Veisbārdis believes that it is in Latvian folklore that we can still draw the basic knowledge of life and search for the true Latvian cultural code, which is why the name of the duo is appropriately ironic.

In the evening, we will recharge ourselves with the hottest news in the Latvian pop music world in recent years - the band Other Boys. Self-proclaimed rap princes and 21st-century pop divas whose explosive live performance energy and eccentric image will move and recharge audiences.

Come and enjoy the atmosphere, delicious drinks and food from the food court participants and the specially created VEF Bar. Tickets will be available at the door.

Timing of the event:

18:00 - Opening of the site

18:30 - Start over stories from the evening's host Kalvis Troska, THE SPOT Centre's Arturas Bigdanovics, Drum School's founder Andrzej Graud

19:00 - VIEDAI FONOGRAPH - starts with a short story about the troubles

20:00 - 20:30 - Technical break

20:30 - Start over stories from singer and influencer INTRISHA, artist FINK and representatives of the BOURZMA project

21:00 - OTHER SONS - start with a short story about their troubles

 

VEF QUARTAL summer events programme is implemented with the support of the Riga City Municipality Department of Education, Culture and Sport funding for Project No DIKS-24-24-nos 'Co-financing to support the core activities of creative quarters and territories and professional non-governmental cultural organisations