Opera soloist Evita Zālīte sung Russian romances in Stelpe School. Guitar accompaniment - Ivars Hermanis.
Children's dance festival. Young dancers from nearly all the schools of District Vecumnieki took part.
Easter celebration together with our friends from South Yorkshire, England - Jean, Ian and their daughter Debbie, for whom this was the first time in Latvia. Also Ilya, a volunteer worker from Ukraina was taking part. He taught us to make an origami frog.
As for Ilya, he is a very determined young man who has learned to play violin to quite impressive level having practiced only for a year and a half. On a later occasion, he played the lead piece from Pirates of Caribbean at a fast pace without a single uncertain note!
Popular children characters - dwarfs from a TV program played by celebrated artists Dina Bitēna -Sirmā, Atvars Sirmais and Dace Skadiņa. They were our guests in Stelpe School on the occasion of Mother's Day celebration.
Mother's Day concert by Stelpe schoolchildren
Ēriks Balodis is a well-known one man show artist for children. This time he had brought to Stelpe his puppet show about healthy living 'Little Onion, Little Radish and Their Friends'
Brit Sønsterud (right), head teacher of Kjeldås School in Norway visited Stelpe School together with teachers Bente Høydahl and Hanne Marie Ruud. They held a presentation about their school.
Together with our guests from Norway, we went to see tulips blooming by Rundale Palace
Zbigņevs Stankevičs is the Head of Roman Catholic Church of Latvia. He had come to Stelpe to meet with local people. There were also many guests from neighboring communities having come to meet with the archbishop.
Unlike many other Catholic clergymen we have met so far, he spoke about real problems, did not pronounce a single slogan or cliche. He faced even some difficult topics, but his answers were bold and honest. We are happy to know that the second largest Christian congregation in Latvia is being now led by such an outstanding personality as is Zbigņevs Stankevičs.
A jolly children's party together with popular cartoon characters
Commemoration of the Siberia exile day when shortly after Soviet occupation in 1941, thousands of Latvians were sent to death camps in Siberia. For many of them, their way of suffering began here in the railway station of Vecumnieki.
Aloida Baķe, teacher of history, made a presentation about the Siberian exile in Vecumnieki museum.
Jānis Kurševs sings popular songs in a classical manner. He came to Stelpe School together with Ingmārs Zemzaris, composer and pianist. They together gave a beautiful concert dedicated to women.
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