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The ceremonial opening of the large-scale Beethoven. Orbits exhibition will be broadcast live from the Latvian National Library (NLL) at 16.00 on 16 June and can be viewed on the NLL's website, as well as on its Facebook and YouTube sites. The exhibition was originally intended to host visitors at the end of 2020, when the 250th anniversary of the great German composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) was celebrated widely around the world. However, because of the Covid-19 pandemic, the opening event has had to be postponed a number of times. As the epidemiological situation improves, the Library will re-open to readers from 12.00 on 16 June, after a break of more than six months, in particular inviting visitors to the new exhibition. The exhibition will remain open until 28 November. Entrance is free.

On 1 May 2021 at 18.00 vocal chamber music cycles by Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Daniel Lesur will be broadcasted from the Latvian National Library. Refined masterpieces of French music will be interpreted by Marie Elisabeth Seager (mezzo soprano, France) and Toms Ostrovskis (piano, Latvia). The programme will be broadcasted on EPTA Latvia YouTube channel, as well as on the Facebook page and homepage of the National Library of Latvia.

November 2020 saw the launch of intensive online training in the art of debate in the partner countries of the Erasmus+  youth debate project Debate Your Issue. Young people in Serbia will soon join their peers in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. Project partners received applications from more than 300 young Europeans, half of whom have been accorded the opportunity to acquire the knowledge and skills needed by debaters taking on diverse and socio-political issues. The training is scheduled to run until spring 2021, and will be followed by an international competition and a closing conference*.