Launched in 2025, the “Emerging Curators Platform” (ECP) responds to the lack of support and professional attention for early-career curators in the Lithuanian contemporary art field. The platform gives early-career curators the opportunity to realise their own exhibition ideas, gain hands-on experience, and become closely acquainted with every stage of curatorial work – from developing a concept, working with artists, and project planning, to preparing a communication strategy and installing the exhibition.

Participants selected through an open call receive comprehensive support from curators with long-standing experience in the cultural field, who share their professional knowledge and help bring participants’ exhibition ideas to life.

The ECP functions not only as an educational programme but also as a growing professional community, bringing together curators of varying experience for dialogue, the exchange of knowledge, and critical reflection on contemporary curatorial practice. In addition, the platform organises public lectures and discussions aimed at presenting different curatorial methodologies and research, addressing challenges relevant to the contemporary art field, and encouraging broader discussion about the role of the curator today.

LIVE SODAS is a free, open-air concert series running since 2025, showcasing alternative music artists. In summer, the SODAS 2123 sculpture courtyard becomes a stage for live and electronic music, with LIVE SODAS having hosted artists such as Sharukas, Kabloonak, Ministry of Echology, Barbora Matuzaitė, Arklio Galia, Vakaris Mirė, and others, drawing large crowds of music lovers onto the green lawn. LIVE SODAS concerts are complemented by exhibition openings or educational workshops for children, and the oven is lit to provide fresh food to satisfy listeners’ appetites.

“Method, Sound & Silence” is an educational programme in experimental and electronic music and sound art running since 2023, aimed at emerging creators who want to develop their practice, gain professional knowledge with the guidance of mentors, and present their work publicly. The programme combines live performances, creative workshops, discussions, and mentoring sessions, giving participants the chance not only to develop their creative skills but also to understand the broader context of musical creation – from sound experimentation to copyright, from the distribution of works to engaging with an audience.

Over the years, “Method, Sound & Silence” has presented live performances by more than 30 young creators and performers, many of whom took the stage for the first time as authors of experimental music. Among them are Davai Bėgam, BRTQ, Elena Laurinavičiūtė, Natas Kunas, Paula Bagotyriūtė, Álino Garino, Danila Berezko, ugnekavka, Matis Fledžinskas, Rugilė Jonušaitė, Teapot Monsterhouse, pixiepearl, Na Ša., Marco Righetto, 5iuk5le5, and others. Today, these names are well recognised on Vilnius’s music scene, appearing in concert line-ups and recording projects – with “Method, Sound & Silence” having served as a significant first step toward their professional goals.

OPEN SODAS is a recurring, free series of events during which artists and organisations in residence at SODAS 2123 open the doors of their studios and invite everyone to visit. The event’s aim is to introduce residents and visitors of Vilnius to the creators at SODAS 2123, their working spaces, creative processes, and future plans – and it is also a chance for residents to introduce visitors to their projects, connect, and build new relationships. Each edition comes with a different programme of activities, ranging from film screenings, concerts by SODAS 2123 creators, and exhibition openings to book launches, listening sessions, discussions, and even tastings.

The OVEN PAVILION is an architectural intervention created in 2024 by artist Kamilė Krasauskaitė together with architects Ona Lozuraitytė and Petras Išora in the SODAS 2123 courtyard, designed for community gatherings, education, events, and other cultural activities. The OVEN PAVILION consists of an oven enclosed by an architectural structure built for active, meaningful outdoor leisure and for events and gatherings initiated by different communities and cultural practitioners. Every summer season, the OVEN PAVILION opens with a new programme of events dedicated to the synergy between food and art.

Food is one of the most essential themes of everyday life, and yet it is rarely discussed or examined in any depth. For this reason, the events programme of the OVEN PAVILION becomes a foundation for substantive discussion and analysis of food-related phenomena, reconsidering food systems in their close relationship to human and animal health, land, water, climate, biodiversity, economics, community life, and psychology. The OVEN PAVILION activities aim to reveal the many meanings and functions food holds in daily life, as well as the visible and invisible impact of our individual and collective choices on the environment.

The programme brings together both international food practitioners and local ones, with content ranging from communal bread-making – approaching bread as material, memory, and a form of togetherness – to apple pie baking paired with educational workshops on creating one’s own recipe book.

“Playground” is a series of seasonal playgrounds and play-related programming. Launched in 2025, this educational project brings together visual art, architecture, and public space: each warm season, a new sculptural installation – a playground – appears on the SODAS 2123 grounds, accompanied by an educational programme for school-age children developed by curator Vilius Vaitiekūnas.

The “Playground” project examines the contribution visual culture creators can make to the development of children’s play spaces in the city, moving beyond conventional urban infrastructure to bring in creative and educational solutions. The initiative responds to urban communities’ need for socially meaningful and sustainable public spaces – spaces not only for play but for learning, for building a connection with the environment, and for developing new models of collaboration among cultural practitioners, architects, urban communities, and organisations from different fields.

As traditional clay architecture fades from architectural vocabulary and practice, and urban development becomes almost unimaginable without concrete and plastic, the 2025 edition, “Clay Playground”, called for a return to clay as a tool for building and play. In 2026, the playground “tik tak tok”, conceived by artist Beatričė Mockevičiūtė and architect Justinas Dūdėnas, adapted the game of noughts and crosses to sunlight, inviting a return to the cyclical rhythm dictated by sun and earth.