Vilnius Ethnic Culture Center

Would you like to learn authentic Lithuanian multipart songs called sutartinės? Sutartinės are inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity since 2010 and have a meditative character.

According to the old Lithuanian worldview, spirits - the souls of relatives who have left us - always live here, among us. Late fall was considered the time of the spirits, when those who are gone get closer to the living. Although the dead were not only remembered between October and November, they were the focus of attention at that time, when the fieldwork is done, the days are shortened and ...