History

2010 – The number of visitors sets an absolute record!

On the 24^th  of September 2010 "Student Paradise" takes place for the fourth consecutive year, and was attended by more than 11 000 young people, which is an absolute record in terms of student attendance and the history of "Student's Paradise"! More than 40 artists from 7 different countries performed on 9 stages. Event led by Māris Grigalis, performed Dollarman (ASV), GACHO, Musiqq,  Aisha, Ēnas, Pienvedēja Piedzīvojumi, Seat Free, WILD, Droydi (Brazil), Gabbi Lopez (UK), Moses Malone (DK), Kaspars Zlidnis, Dvīnes  and many others.The 9 stages were built inside, as well as outside of the Arena. Outside was made a 55000 square meter area, in which also were placed the big outside pools,  where Red Bull Winch Session took place.

In this year's opening, Ainārs Šlesers, the vice mayor of Riga and university rectors spoke solemn speeches as well as aerialists and more than 40 dancers performed. 

 

 

 

 

2009 – For visitor's convenience the stages and entertainment zones were repositioned

On the 25^th of September 2009 “Student Paradise” takes place the third time.  This year's event was organized by 20 of the biggest universities of Latvia, which brought together more than 10,000 current and future students in "Arena Riga".

 

To make the event more comfortable for the visitors, the “Arena Riga” rooms were reprogrammed so that the event took place in all three of “Arena Riga's” floors, as well as on the outside. This year students had the chance to have fun on the Main Floor, the Love & Music Floor, the Rock Floor and on the VIP Floor. Several artists performed on the four stages, such as “Instrumenti”, Aisha, Ivo Fomins, “PeR”, “Dzelzs Vilks”, “Iedomu Spārni”, “Dziļā Nemaņā”, Crash, Gustavito, Kaspar Kondrat, Deros, Roberts Lejasmeijers and others. Of course, the students could also visit the university and supporter stands, where they could experience almost anything, from economic analysis to a wedding, Las Vegas style.

 

As usual, this year's event was honored by university rectors and country officials – Nils Ušakovs, the mayor of Riga, and Valdis Dombrovskis, the minister president of the Latvian Republic.

In the month of September, before the event, the “Student Paradise” Pre party and Drift party took place. The Drift party took place at the shopping center “Olympia” the second year, where teams of students competed at car pushing competition, and also watched exciting drifter demonstrations. The Pre party took place at Club Essential, exactly a week before the event.

You can see the 2009 event video HERE

 

2008 - “Student Paradise” becomes the biggest academic year opening event in the Baltics

 

“Student Paradise” must become a tradition, so on the 18^th of September 2008 it is organized the second time.

14 Latvian universities took part in organizing the event, bringing together more than 10,000 visitors. The event became the biggest academic year opening event in the Baltics. The ambitiousness and meaning of the event in young people's life was proven by it being revealed by a special guest of honor – our country's ex-president Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, as well as university rectors, who greeted their students in the new academic year.

Fifteen musicians, bands and DJ’s, popular in Latvia, performed on three stages, such as „Tumsa”, „Labvēlīgais Tips”, „Double Faced Eals”, „R.A.P”, Ella, DJ Crash, DJ Gustavito, „Triānas Parks” and others, while the well known and smart Ufo played the role of “the father of the paradise”. The university-designed stands made the event more attractive and interesting – students could have fun as they wished – milk a cow, take photos...

To inform the students about the event, the “Student Paradise” team participated in some of the biggest events of Latvia, where they attracted visitors using competitions, photographing and video interviews. There was also an event pre-party, in which teams of universities competed in an improvised rally with self made vehicles.

This year the “Student Paradise” anthem was made up, and two young people had the chance to manage the event together with Ufo.

Demonstrations of the event were shown in the sites draugiem.lv and studentuparadize.lv, so that anyone who was interested in the event could follow the process.

 

2007 - “Student Paradise” gains “Debut of the year” prize!

“Student Paradise” took place the first time on the 13^th of September 2007, when nine universities joined together to bring together 5,000 students. The main idea of the project was to create the biggest student event to bring together students from several universities in one event.

This event was held in two parts : day and night paradise. Day paradise was a public event in Esplanāde, where students could be acquainted with the project's informative stands. In the night part, students had the choice to party in one of the three or all three event venues (depending on taste in music) – Sapņu Fabrika A.K.A. Heaven Disco („Tumsa”, „Gain Fast”, „Z-scars” performed,  with host Ufo), La Rocca A.K.A. Club Disco (appropriate atmosphere was created by the laser, dance and bartender shows) and Student Club A.K.A.Alternative Paradise („Dzelzs vilks”, Ghetoo Zloba” and „Cilvēks ar putniņu” performed). Paralell to the entertainment part students were welcomed by attractive speeches from university rectors, wishing the students a successful study year.

The event turned out so ambitious that it recieved the Latvian Student Association Award in the nomination “Debut of the Year”, which confirmed the significance of the project in the culture and entertainment lives of the Latvian students.