Conference Programme, Social Events

The following social events will be offered to conference participants:

Banquet

Full menu and drinks. Greetings by the newly elected EACS President.

The banquet will take place in the historical Grand Hall of the Small Guild in Old Riga,
Amatu street 3/5 (Amatu iela 3/5).

Registration

To registrate for the banquet please send an email to info@eacs-riga2010.lv.

Banquet fee 25 LVL (approx. EUR 36) should be paid in local currency (LVL) at the registration desk on Wednesday or Thursday (July 14-15).

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Trip to Jurmala

Sunday, 11:15 - 19:00

The organizing commitee kindly invites everybody to join us in the boat trip to Latvia´s most beautiful sea resort Jūrmala. The boat trip is free of charge for all conference participants.

After the closing ceremony after 11 o´clock we will walk from the main building through the old city to the boat stop. Will will reach Jurmala after 2.5 hours trip, at ca. 14:15 PM.

For the return, you can choose between 2 options:

  • return with the same boat. In this case, you will be back in Riga shortly before 19 PM.
    If you choose this option, you will have ca. 1.5 hours to take a walk through Jūrmala, and you have to be back at the boat stop Majori at 16:00 PM.
  • return on your own, with the city train. You can return to Riga from the Majori train station, or from one of the neighbour stations Dzintari (recommended) or Bulduri or Dubulti, which all are in a walking distance from Majori.
    The train ticket from Majori to Riga costs 0.95 Lats, the ride takes ca. 30 minutes, and the train operates every 15 to 20 minutes. Please note that in sunday afternoon the train could be pretty crowded.

Chinese Movie Night

Film Red Awn (Hongse Kangbaiyin, 2007)

Time and Location: 19:30-21:15, Cinema "Ksuns", Elizabetes Street 83/85

Drama, road movie, China, 105 min
Director: Cai Shangjun
Trailer here
English subtitles, Latvian in headphones if needed

Film reviews:

"Centers on the conflict and reconciliation between a father and son. The father, Soonghai, abandoned his family to go to the city, only to return 5 years later. His son Yongtao, now 17 years old, refuses to accept him back. However, while harvesting rice together with a rented red combine, Yongtao slowly opens his heart to him. Then he learns the real reason why his father left and comes to understand him, even though it is still difficult to share his inner thoughts. Understanding his father is also a process of growing up for Yongtao. Sometimes, time resolves human relationships. "

(Baseline StudioSystems)

"The original Chinese title refers to the red combine harvester that plays a central role in the story. It is a kind of a road movie about a father and son who travel around for hire to harvest wheat with a friend's harvester. "

(Harri Römpötti, Finnish freelance journalist)

"While focusing on the almost monosyllabic relationship between father and son, where expressions and gestures are far more eloquent than any dialogue, Cai also explores themes such as coming-of-age and teen rebellion as well as the fierce competition between workers in a new world of private enterprise and the migration from countryside to town leaving a landscape of ghost villages. Already established as a highly successful screenwriter, Cai Shangjun steps behind the camera for the first time with a film whose theme - a father-son relationship - has informed his previous work. It stylistically recall Italian neo-realist films such as Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948)."

(Dan Fainaru, film critic)

Café and Games

Time and Location: 21:15-23:00, "Andaluzijas Suns" café, Elizabetes Street 83/85

You are invited for a glass of wine to discuss the film to the lovely Andaluzijas Suns café (Elizabetes iela 83/85, in the same building as the Ksuns cinema). Alternatively/additionally, ancient Chinese (Majiang, Weiqi, Xianqi) games will be offered for everyone to play.

Ancient Chinese board-game short description:

(games will be offered for everyone to play, rules will be explained.)

Majiang, (麻將, májiàng)

is an ancient four-player game that originated in China. Majiang requires skill, intelligence, calculation and, like other gambling games, a certain amount of luck. Though rules differ depending on regional variations, the overall aim of the game is to amass a greater score than the other players.

Go game, (围棋, wéiqí),

is an ancient board game for two players that is noted for being rich in strategy despite its simple rules. The game is played by two players who alternately place black and white stones on the vacant intersections of a grid of 19×19 lines. Once placed on the board, stones cannot be moved elsewhere, unless they are surrounded and captured by the opponent's stones. The object of the game is to control (surround) a larger portion of the board than the opponent.

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