Education, Culture and Sports Department of Riga City Council (RD IKSD) announces a projects and ideas grant competition of Light festival “Staro Rīga 2017” to provide a diverse programme of the festival and to organise exhibition of environmental light objects.

This year, the Light festival "Staro Rīga" celebrates its ten-year anniversary. Time of the festival will be from 17th to 20th November – during the period, when anniversary of proclamation of the Republic of Latvia is celebrated. The festival keeps on the tradition to enhance light and the joyful feeling of togetherness in the birthday of Latvia, illuminating the streets, squares, buildings, parks and areas of Riga. The theme of the year 2017 festival is "To the stars".

Funding will be awarded in the competition for creation of light objects, and any legal person registered in the Republic of Latvia or abroad, a municipal or public body, an individual operators as well as a natural person is invited to participate in the competition.

Applications of a project and/or idea should be submitted until 31 March 2017, 12:00 P.M., in the customer service centre of RD IKSD, Kr.Valdemāra iela 5, Riga, Latvia. If the application is sent by post, the postmark must be no later than on 28 March 2017. At the same time the application should be also sent electronically to the
E-mail staroriga@riga.lv.

Additional information regarding the contest is available by phone +371 26496644.

•  Festival of Light “Staro Rīga 2017” Projects and Ideas Grant Competition documentation

 Regulations 

 Annex 1 – Job Assignment 

 Annex 2 – Project’s Application form 

 Annex 3 – Project’s Estimate of Expenditures form 

 Annex 4 – Confirmation form 

 Example of Financing Contract 

 Annex 5.1. – Estimate of Expenditures form 

 Annex 5.2. – Financial report's form 

 

 Annex 5.3. - Project's report form