Expedition to Lake Ummis in Carnikava Parish with Evarts Melnalksnis, author of the performance Ummis and Lobelia, hydrobiologist Marta Dieviņa, and botanists Uvis Suško.

Beginning and end of the expedition: Riga Railway Station (meeting at the station at 13.15; departure time of the Riga-Lilaste train is 13.38).

Less than an hour’s drive from Riga lies one of the last remaining clear water lakes in Latvia – Ummis, home to the lobelia, a species listed as endangered.

Performative storytelling and lectures on the train en route to Ummis focus on our relationship with the perishing. What do we lose with each species that disappears? Can extinction be resisted?

Participants must provide their own train ticket to and from the event.