CityTelling Festival

The CityTelling Festival started in October 2019 and was as one of the biggest events of the "Memory Office" - programme of Kaunas - European Capital of Culture 2022. In 2024, the Kaunas City Museum team took over its organization.

The initiative unites storytellers: museologists, theatre and other artists, individual history enthusiasts, professional storytellers, local community activists, and others.

The CityTelling Festival aims to remind the multiethnic memory of Kaunas and its surroundings, to strengthen the dialogue between different communities, to encourage pride in the place we live in, and at the same time – to talk about topics relevant to contemporary European.

Every time it invites the festival organizers and partners to tell unheard, forgotten stories of the city and the district, to try new ways of telling stories, and to do it in unexpected, forgotten places.

CityTelling Festival Team

Initiator of the festival and Curator Dr. Daiva Price

Coordinator Dr. Justina Petrulionytė - Sabonienė