Category: Meet the local!

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Interview with Bogdan Taran, Riga DJ and electronic musician

We publish a shortened translation of an exclusive interview with Bogdan Taran from April, 2015, initially published in afisha.eu Interview, photo: Anna Gabo Bogdan Taran, a renowned Riga DJ, came to Double Coffee by bicycle despite a still cool weather. A free fashion style posed that he is a person, who is a DJ and an author of popular tracks, as well as a professional working in the field of electronic dance music. Among his achievements in addition to the first place in the top of Latvian DJs, which he hold for several years, is own record label Amber Muse […]

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Anastasia Sysoeva (Starodedova). Artist, poet

Expats in Riga has made an interview with Anastasia Sysoeva about her passion for drawing. ER: Anastasia, please, tell, when did you start to be interested in art? I suppose that it started approximately at times when you had been studying at Pushkin lyceum, during last years of school. Or did it happen earlier?АS: I think that I have been drawing always, as all kids are doing this. But yes, a more conscious occupation with drawing has overlapped my admission to the lyceum, maybe at 8th form. At lyceum a couple of my exhibitions was even organised in the school […]

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An interview with Vladimir Avramenko, an artist

ER: How did you decide to become an artist?V.A.: I wouldn’t say that there has been a conscious decision to become an artist, rather a naïve notion that untainted creative outbursts of my mind might grant me a ticket into a more stable, fulfilling and less ordinary living. What I didn’t quite take into account is the fact that this borderline position of an artist has to be guarded, nurtured and justified on a daily basis. In other words, it is not too hard to decide to become an artist, it is much harder to hold on to this idea […]

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An interview with Julia Kozlovska, a vegan cook

ER: Expats in Riga decided to talk to you because you are a vegan cook, and this is popular now. Could you, please, tell why you have decided to work in this sphere and why vegan nutrition is so widespread nowadays? JK: The vegan culinary interested me long before I have decided to change my career and become a cook. It always seemed to me that a diet of a modern citizen lacks vegetables, and I felt that I would like to make vegetable dishes as tasty as possible. I have studied various ways how to use vegetable products in […]