An international jazz festival “Jazz Bishkek Spring” finished yesterday in Bishkek. I present photographs from the second and third days of the festival. Top-down: the Kyrgyz group “Aura”, a singer Aidai, the Uzbek group “Artsah”, Saadet Turkez and Nils Vogram, the Tajic group “Mizrob”.
An exhibition “Gold of Ancient Kyrgyzstan” has been opened today at the Historial State Museum. There is a large unique collection of ancient gold, found on the territory of modern Kyrgyzstan.
Kyrgyz parliament approved the project of the resolution about an establishment of a Memorial Day for victims of the tragic events of 1916 . It is supposed that the Memorial Day will be held yearly on the first Friday of August.
“This day is necessary to restore historical justice regarding the victims of the […]
Kyrgyz people are known for their strong cultural attachment for holding feasts, celebrations, weddings, anniversaries and so on. Usually hundreds of people are invited to this kind of celebrations and these massive gatherings have become a part of cultural tradition of Kyrgyz people.
An interesting study called “Cost of Traditions” has been conducted by the Institute […]
What do Brazil, Morocco, a TV show (allegedly) about cloning, and veiling in a Kyrgyz village have in common? Quite a lot, apparently.
Julie McBrien recently wrote a very interesting article in the ISIM Review making such a connection. She argues that a Brazilian soap opera (”El Clon”) about a love affair between […]
On the 16th of November, there was an opening of the big art project “Epoch” in the National Museum of Arts, informs photo.kg. More than 200 participants of theis project presented their art works, photos, films that were created from 1991 till 2007, which is the period of country’s sovereignty.
Photos are taken from Photo.kg […]
This is a new initiative called Weekly Overview where some cultural, social or sport events will be summarized and presented. This week I decided to start with culture events.
Let me start off with good news. Kyrgyzstan took part in Eurasia TV’s “I am a Person” contest of social movies and programs for […]
Mega Supergood Films representatives visited Kyrgyzstan. According to newspaper Delo, Indian moviemakers were going to New Zealand to film some of their scenes in highland landscapes. But the Kyrgyz council in India persuaded them to fly to Kyrgyzstan, and it was cheaper rather than flying to New Zealand. In the end of September the […]
Sergey Bodrov Senior, a famous Russian film director, visited Kyrgyzstan for the presentation of his movie “Mongol”, which took place in newly restored movie theatre “Ala-Too” on October 19, says 24.kg. Bodrov said that he was happy to visit Kyrgyzstan again, and he would love to make joint projects with Kyrgyz movie makers in […]
This Wednesday was the opening day of Kyrgyzstan Fashion week in Bishkek. The photo exhibition of French photographer Jerome Fievet was also opened that day in the Russian Drama Theater as part of the fashion week. Anna Veron, the designer from Paris was invited as a guest of the fashion week among other famous foreign […]
