Closing concert

16 July 2022

7 pm

Former Summer Stage

Parking lot 

Pamario g. 54

Nida 

Nida's version of Chicago Boys comes to an end with an open-air concert on 16 July at 7pm in the parking lot next to Nida’s former Summer Stage.

The recently formed cover band of Lithuania-based activists and artists will perform adapted versions of songs which marked apparent historical neoliberalist developments during the post-soviet period in Lithuania, and especially Neringa. The songs were selected during a process of meetings and discussions reflecting on how neoliberalism was implemented and has played out in this region throughout the past 30 years since the reinstatement of independence in 1991.

The ruins of what was once the public Summer Stage in Nida will form the backdrop of the concert. Originally built in the late 1960s it was used for various types of local cultural activities until late 1990s when it deteriorated due to neglect in its upkeep. NAC has made a proposal to the Neringa Municipality to rebuild the timber stage acknowledging the disappearance and lack of non-commercial public spaces in Nida, and is therefore hosting the concert to activate this site once again for the local community.

Initiated by Kurdish artist and musician Hiwa K in 2010, Chicago Boys: While We Were Singing, They Were Dreaming is an ongoing, collective and transnational project that attempts to practice an alternative model for exploring the globalisation process and its impact on our daily culture through songs, first-hand experiences and lived-through, informal knowledge.  

Technical support: Dovilė Lapinskaitė

Graphic design: Jonas Žukauskas and Anna Tomczyk

Coordinated and facilitated by Vika Matuzaitė and Egija Inzule  

The Nida version ofChicago Boys: While We Were Singing, They Were Dreaming is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. The first phase of the Nida edition was presented at the 2020 NU Performance Festival in Tallinn, Estonia.