Today people in Uzbekistan celebrate Qurban Hayit - Eid-al-Adha- one of the most important holidays in the Islamic World. It is celebrated at the end of the traditional Hadj to Mekka and 70 days after the Ramazan Hayit. In Tashkent people follow the same traditions as everywhere in the Islamic Culture. But there are also … Qurban Hayit in Tashkent weiterlesen
This summer a big event happened in Kalmykia (Oirat Mongolian republic in the European south of Russian Federation), when more than 60 people saddled their horses and took part in Horse riding festival “Daichin Tengri”, to ride more than 1000km and visit sacred places. The festival was organized by a group of young people, who … A 1200 km journey on a horseback to see the sacred Buddhist places weiterlesen
The multimedia project was created by the Paris based Uzbek director - Saodat Ismailova in 2017. This production was inspired by the Epic story of the Central Asian Amazons. In this play, young Central Asian female artists present songs and stories from a male-dominated Turkic tradition; they recount the epic of forty girls - teen-age … Qyrq Qyz – Multimedia project weiterlesen
On my second last day in Almaty I visited the fantastic "Museum of National Musical Instruments". It is located very nicely in the Panfilov park and already the building itself is worth seeing. It was built beginning of the 20th century out of wood same as the Ascension Cathedral which can be found in the … A visit to the „Museum of National Musical Instruments“ in Almaty. weiterlesen
The »Muras» is a music ensemble from Bishkek [Kyrgyzstan]. The group brought together multi-instrumental musicians playing instruments such as: Komuz, kyl-kyak, choir, sybyzgy, chopo-choor, temir ooz-komuz, zhygach ooz-komuz, dobulbas. Members of «Muras» Sherkul Sherik uulu - wind instruments, komuz, temir ooz-komuz, zhygach ooz-komuz;Temirlan Sovet uulu - wind instruments, temir ooz-komuz, zhygach ooz-komuz;Emilbek Ishenbekuulu - kyl-kyak, … «Muras» ensemble weiterlesen
It was a great pleasure for me directly after arriving to Almaty to meet with Tokzhan Karatai. She is working with the Artischok Theatre in a very interesting project and right that time was in the small stage of the theater which is located in the same block as I am usually staying when I … Almaty – meeting with Tokzhan Karatai weiterlesen
On my first day in Almaty I had an intensive and inspiring meeting with Serik Nurmoldayev, director of SNECC and on the same time musician of the Turan Ensemble. We discussed many issues. My relation to Kazakhstan, what is now one of the main focus countries of Kulteurasia has a lot to do with the … Meetings with Serik Nurmoldayev, director of „SNECC – Serik Nurmoldayev’s Ethnic Culture Center“ and his group „Steppe Sons“ weiterlesen
Kultureller Dialog in Eurasien 