Bicycle and e-scooter rental service is available for fans of the outdoor activities. Residents and guests of Daugavpils have a choice whether to ride around city for a few hours or to take a long trip even for a whole day.

By way of homage to Silva Linarte, brilliant artist and veteran art educator, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre launches a new symposium tradition – the international painting symposium “Silva Linarte” whose first iteration is scheduled for 25 June through 5 July.

From June 28, 2019 to June 30, 2019 the 2nd International Doll Festival will be held in Daugavpils. For the second time, Daugavpils Regional and Art Museum will receive in its premises artists, masters and fans of author dolls from all over the world.

В пятницу 7 июня, с 22:00 до 2:00 Даугавпилсский Арт-центр им. Марка Ротко уже в пятый раз организует Ночь искусств в пределах исторической Крепости.

Welcome to the music concerts that will take place on the weekend from June 7th to 9th on the stage at Vienibas square. On Friday evening, June 7 th, there will be a concert of Latvian groups “Carnival Youth” and “Jumprava”. On Saturday, June 8th, Latvian pop singer Aminata will perform for the guests and city residents and after that there will be a concert of Russian pop star Polina Gagarina. After the concert everyone is invited to the festive salute. On Sunday everyone will enjoy a concert of Latvian pop group “Musiqq”.

The topic of this year’s Night of Museums that will be held on May, 18th is “The Bugler of Tālava”. Nine tourist attractions, educational institutions and societies will be inviting visitors to enjoy the magic of the Night of Museums in Daugavpils. Most museums will offer special activities for this original night, aimed at all audiences: storytelling tours, concerts, workshops for children, theatre performances etc. 

On 18 May Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre will be open for the Long Night of Museums with a special programme “Grey Covers Laid out by the Night”. Visitors will have an opportunity to relish dreams and reality at the group exhibition from the Funen Printmaking Workshop, to experience peace and tension in the art of Latgale region and to appreciate the expressive style of painter Maija Bērziņa in her latest solo exhibition.

For one day only, on 18 May, 7 p.m. through midnight, expressly for the Long Night of Museums, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre will offer photo exhibition “Solaris” by popular Lithuanian media artist Remigijus Venckus. The exhibition was inspired by Polish philosopher Stanislaw Lem and his ideas expressed in the Sci-Fi novel “Solaris”.

On May 7 the 8th International Latgale Graphic Art Symposium was officially started at Daugavpils Mark Rothko art Centre.

On Friday 26 April, in cooperation with Boris Lurie Art Foundation, an exhibition “Artist and Witness” by world-famous artist Boris Lurie, founder of the NO!art movement, will open at Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre.

On Friday 26 April, Daugavpils Mark Rothko Centre will celebrate its sixth anniversary with a lecture, a film screening, a discussion and the opening of the new exhibition season.

Daugavpils Tourist Information Centre will be open every day from 10:00 to 18:00 from April, 1st till September, 30th.

The exhibition “The Great Jews of Latgale” can be seen at the Jewish of Daugavpils and Latgale Museum. It is a permanent exhibition that includes five stands with information about 125 Jews who were born, worked, lived or still live in Latgale.

Daugavpils restaurants and cafes welcome everyone to taste special dishes of the VI Restaurant Decade that is held from 10th to 20th March, 2019. The topic of the Restaurant Decade is “Spring notes”.

By way of celebrating the Centenary of the Latvian State, “Basics”: Baltic Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramics will be displayed in Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre from 5 July until 8 September 2019. The exhibition and accompanying conference will explore to the formation and development of professional ceramic art in the Baltic States.

Daugavpils has its own special menu, which can be tasted only in Daugavpils. Daugavpils City Municipality Tourism Development and Information Agency cooperating with Daugavpils catering businesses made a renewed Daugavpils menu and have made a new booklet “Daugavpils menu”, which offers special dishes.

“Park Hotel Latgola” in Daugavpils has a special Valentine’s Day offer for guests in February.

On Friday 1 February at Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre will be opened contemporary art exhibition of sixteen artists in painting, photography, graphics, sculpture on the theme beautiful side of truth and the truthful side of beauty.

On January 27th, Lithuanian tourism exhibition “Adventur 2019” was concluded at Vilnius Exhibition Centre “Litexpo”. A wide tourism offer of Daugavpils, Daugavpils district and Latgale region was popularised at the exhibition for three days. The exhibition “Adventur 2019” is the biggest event of the year in the Lithuanian tourism industry. More than 12,000 people attend the exhibition every year.

The new exhibition season, open to the public from 1 February until 14 April, features such shows as “The Play of Light and Dark” by Inta Celmiņa and Edvards Grūbe, “Internal Uniformity” by Wang Shaojun, “Moments” by Belarusian watercolour painter Alexander Karpan and “Architecture in Painting” by Oļģerts Krauklis.