Went to the Rothko Center yesterday for the LAMPA society festival, where several speakers told us about pressing social issues.
The crowd was nice, hipsters of all sorts, mostly photographic ones, they poured us cool craft lemonade, fed us handmade cake.
The first one was an art director from Russia, and for a long time he made everyone draw various unexpected things with a marker on A4, but due to the terrible acoustics, nothing he said (in Russian) could be heard, so I didn't glean much use for myself. Especially since I can't draw at all. The point there, of course, was not in that, but no matter how you look at it, if I even struggle to draw a stick figure, it's unclear why waste paper.
Next up, I think, was the former Minister of Education of Latvia, and she talked about the need for innovations, dialogue, and a bit about the future. That was already more lively, but by this time I had gotten somewhat tired and was getting distracted.
The last lecturer was Oleg Ignatyev, who hosts the show “Dotting the i's” on the Russian broadcast of LTV. I don't watch TV, so I hadn't heard anything about the show or Oleg before.
I watched the episode about euthanasia, interesting stuff. Although I'm always for euthanasia, and don't see any serious arguments against it unless you're a believer, so I watched the show mostly out of curiosity about what TV in Latvia is like, what Russian-language TV is like, and what the host is famous for. Overall, the studio guests were also more for it than against it, except for a randomly strayed-in fan of Jesus.
I downloaded the show for myself, if anyone wants to watch it, well, or on the LTV website(which is pretty glitchy, frankly speaking)
Download mp4 video