 To raise funds, Žiburys organized various public lectures (speakers included Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas, Petras Leonas, Marija Pečkauskaitė), music performances, amateur theater plays.The plays included drama "Ponas ir mužikai" by Aleksandras Fromas-Gužutis, comedy by Jean-François Bayard, adaptation of "Genovefa" by Christoph von Schmid, opera "Birutė" by Mikas Petrauskas, "Velnias spąstuose" by Žemaitė and Gabrielė Petkevičaitė-Bitė, "The Bear" by Anton Chekhov, "Nepadėjus nėr ko kasti" by Juozas Tumas-Vaižgantas.In 1914, society's chairman Motiejus Gustaitis traveled to United States to collect donations from Lithuanian Americans for the construction of a dedicated school building in Marijampolė, but the plans were interrupted by the outbreak of World War I.