Tribute Run in Ottawa and other events marking the Freedom Defenders' Day in Canada
The Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Canada invites you to commemorate the Freedom Defenders' Day, and by taking part in various commemorative initiatives and events throughout Canada, to honour those who lost their lives for Lithuania's independence in the bloody Soviet aggression on 13 January 1991.
On Saturday, January 13, 2024, we invite you to join the annual Tribute Run/Walk "The Road of Life and Death" in Ottawa, organized by the Embassy for the fifth time. The symbolic run will begin at Parliament Hill at 10 a.m. The participants will have the choice of completing a 5 or 10 km walk/run.
More information about the event – https://www.facebook.com/events/906011020912931
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On Saturday, January 13, 2024, at 10 a.m., we invite you to join the community of British Columbia Explorers on a commemorative Freedom Defenders' Day hike to Mt. Seymour.
For more information about the hike, see the Facebook event – https://www.facebook.com/events/1202502274039671
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On Friday, January 12, 2024, at 8 a.m. (local time), we invite you to join the annual civic initiative "The Light of Victory" and light the candles of unity, remembrance and victory in your windows for ten minutes. The initiative is organized by The International Commission for the Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupation Regimes in Lithuania.
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We also invite you to remember the fateful moments of January 13th by visiting the virtual exhibition "Democracy - One Defining Moment", prepared by Lithuanian Museum-Archives of Canada, which presents the events of year 1991 from the perspective of Lithuanian community in Canada - https://www.lithuanianheritage.ca/january-13/
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For those who want to learn more about the events of January 13th and to hear the memories of the witnesses to that fateful night, we invite you to watch these documentaries and films:
- List of documentaries by Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT) –https://www.lrt.lt/tema/sausio-13-oji-dokumentika
- Documentary "Europos Parkas. The Beginning" (2017) – https://www.lrt.lt/mediateka/irasas/1013686760/europos-parkas-pradzia
- Documentary "Code of Freedom 1991" (2018) – https://duomenubaze.lkc.lt/filmas/laisves-kodas-13-120
- Film "January" (2022) – https://duomenubaze.lkc.lt/filmas/sausis-41
- Short clip "30th Anniversary of the Day of Defenders of Freedom - 30 Years of Defending Freedom - January 13" (Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Lithuania, 2021) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2n2qLexyGo
