The performances of Gintaras Varnas The Distant Land (based on Jean-Luc Lagarce) and The Lighthouse (based on the play by Thimothee de Fombelle) will be shown at the festival Les Passages in Nancy.

In 2008 one of the most prominent music festivals The World Music Days is going to take place. The organisation of the festival was entrusted to Lithuania. Numerous festival events are going to take place in Vilnius in October 24 - November 8.

This year the readers of the Arts Factory website have selected The Nails and Screws of the Season, which are virtual prizes for the best and the poorest performances of the season

Two projects for the programme of the young stage artists Open Space were selected in the Arts Printing House. These are the musical performance Isadora by the informal creative group Operomanija and the dance miniature Drop after Drop by JonÄ— DambrauskaitÄ—

The international festival of audiovisual and experimental poetry combining interdisciplinary art and poetry Between 08 is going to take place for the third time. This year, the festival will extend “between: vilnius / kaunas / klaipėda / šiauliai.”

The fifth International Vilnius Theatre Festival "Sirens 2008" is going to start in the middle of September.

On May 21-25 and June 24, 25 the 10th festival THE NEW DRAMA ACTION is going to present the programme Decalogue: Now. This festival was inspired by the famous film series The Decalogue by KrzysztofKie?lowski.

The Lithuanian Dance Information Centre together with Vilnius festivals is organising an international modern dance festival New Baltic Dance'08 on May 3-12, Vilnius.