“Blue Dinner”

“Blue Dinner” is a traditional event intended to celebrate the city’s birthday, organized annually on August 1st. During the “Blue Dinner” in the heart of the port town in the Theater Square, festively decorated citizens and guests gather at shared tables, decorated with blue tablecloths. Atendees enjoy special concert program which is attended by professional musicians from Klaipeda and well-known performers in Lithuania. “Blue Dinner” promotes community relations, confirms the positive and close relationship of residents with their living space, strengthens the city’s maritime identity. From 2017, the “Blue Dinner” has become one of the most important and highly anticipated events to highlight and celebrate the identity of Klaipeda residents. The color blue for the dinner was chosen as a symbol of the town, a fiest theme and an all-connecting axis.