FESTIVAL: International Documentary Film Festival - CinéDOCTbilisi 2020 - 30. August - 30. September

Welcome to CinéDOC-Tbilisi 2020 - Hybrid Edition

How can film festivals survive? How can we adapt to the new reality of 2020? How can we redefine film festivals without crowded cinemas, without vibrant Q&A sessions with international guests, without the dialogue between filmmakers and the audience or with- out masterclasses and networking events where large groups of creative people enjoyed each other’s presence?

This year is different for all of us. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic was extremely high on cultural public events, such as festivals, most of them getting cancelled or post-poned.

Since January until mid-March 2020, we had worked intensively for the preparation of the eight edition of CinéDOC-Tbilisi (initially scheduled for 23 – 27 April 2020). By mid-March all films were selected, all jury members and international guests invited; almost all venues and cinemas reserved, and all festival events planned. Everything was almost ready...

However, our plans where changed suddenly, disrupting our final preparation activities. We had to react very quickly. For public health and safety reasons, we postponed the festival. It was not easy... not easy for our team, not easy for the filmmakers who were eager to travel to Georgia or for the Georgian filmmakers who had worked many years on their documentaries and were looking forward to their national premiere... but safety came first.

Nevertheless, we have soon started thinking of online solutions and alternative ways of continuing our work. We have adapted to an unprecedented situation and we have found a solution: our festival will take place in a hybrid format this year. Some of the selected films will be screened in open-air settings: for example, in the CAVEA drive-in cinema close to the Lisi Lake or in the inner yard of the Caucasian House, in Tbilisi. These creenings allow for social distancing and safety. If you miss any of these screenings, you still have the chance to watch wonderful documentaries online (directly on our website via the platform DAFilms) or on the Georgian Public Broadcaster (in August 2020).

Our regional coordinators had to adapt to the new situation too: some of them organized online film screenings, others outdoor screenings. Luckily many of our regional coordinators were so innovative that they have screened on walls of buildings or in open-air wrestling arenas. Mini festivals in the regions of Georgia will also take place this year, in spite of the pandemic: in Dusheti, Gori, Sagarejo Chkhorotsku and Marneuli. Screening: 24.04 | 21:00| Cavea

“We do emotions” is the slogan of our festival! And we really hope that all the wonderful documentaries of this year’s festival selection will be the source of strong emotions in each one of you! We want to reach you with all films... be it in a beautiful open-air setting during a warm September evening or, at home, with family and friends.

Creative documentaries should be more and more accessible, despite everything and this is what we try to do in this different year.

Enjoy CinéDOC-Tbilisi 2020!

Festival Platforms

CinéDOC-Tbilisi 2020 will be held in an innovative format. This year the festival includes several platforms and allows the audience to watch the latest creative documentaries in their preferred environment.

CinéDOC Cinema Hall on the Georgian Public Broadcaster
This year the festival collaborates with the Georgian Public Broadcaster, the First Chan- nel. Within this collaboration, audiences will have the opportunity to feel like a guest of our festival in their cozy home environment. The First Channel invites us all to the CinéDOC Cinema Hall from 12 August until 28 August, every Wednesday and Friday at 23:30 o'clock.

Cavea Drive-in Cinema
Drive-in cinemas were considered a popular gathering destination for the American youth in the 20th century. Today, the new reality reminded us of a forgotten format. Therefore, our viewers will have the chance to watch festival films at the Cavea Drive- in Cinema, every Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday (from 30 August until 27 September). The cost of the ticket per car admission to the drive-in cinema will be 15 GEL. Cavea cinema tickets will be available online at kinoafisha.ge, to buy tickets visit our website or kinoafisha.ge, select the film and purchase the ticket.

Caucasian House
Open-air screenings of a selection of CinéDOC-Tbilisi's festival films will also take place in the inner yard of the Caucasian House (Galaktioni Tabidze Street 20, Tbilisi). The Cau- casian House aims at establishing peaceful relations and cultural integration in the Cau- casus. Film screenings at Caucasian House are free of charge.

DAFilms & cinedoc-tbilisi.com
The online portal DAFilms.com is a platform for international online distribution of doc- umentaries and experimental films. The films will be accessible through our website - cinedoc-tbilisi.com from 23 to 30 September 2020. The number of viewers are limited, so hurry up to watch the films online as long as they are available. Online films are free of charge, you only have to hurry up to watch the films during those dates.

BIAFF - Batumi International Art House Film Festival
This year the Batumi International Art House Film Festival will take place from 15 to 22 September, and will dedicate some festival slots to our festival films! Four films from our festival program will be screened within the framework of our collaboration with BIAFF. The screenings at the festival are free of charge.

Programm (pdf) >>

KOLGA TBILISI PHOTO: Beautiful Minds - by Dutch Photographer Maurice Wolf (living in Tbilisi)

Beautiful Minds (kolga.ge)

These pictures are part of a 3-year journey together with journalist Robin Forestier-Walker. It initially started by coincidence with just a few pictures at a private home in Tbilisi where mentally impaired people were taking care of after harsh ordeals in mental institutions in the country of Georgia. After a publication of these pictures people approached me and asked me to pursue the matter. So I did.

Mental health in Georgia is a subject shrouded in taboo where parents and family members suffer as much as the children because of lack of awareness and education on the matter. We've visited institutions where basic needs and help, let alone therapy, are basically not present. We've been to places where people with hardly any means tried their best to give the weakest a little comfort and respect. Our aim is to raise awareness and put some facts on the table without pointing fingers.

Maurice Wolf

Maurice Wolf studied communication sciences in Nijmegen, Netherlands before becoming an assistant photographer in Amsterdam. He has freelanced for numerous international publications working out of Amsterdam, Berlin, and later traveling across the US and Australia before moving to Tbilisi in 2015. He is represented by Dutch photo agency Hollandse Hoogte and SOPA Images in Hong Kong. He has had numerous solo exhibitions and group exhibitions in Amsterdam, Berlin, London, Carson City, Nevada and Tbilisi. He is currently finishing the project "Beautiful Minds" together with journalist Robin Forestier-Walker on people with mental problems and mental delays in Georgia. Book and exhibitions in Georgia, Sweden, Germany and the Netherlands are scheduled for the end of 2020, beginning of 2021. At the moment he's finishing a book of 4 years in Georgia and Abkhazia. A project on IDP's in Georgia is still ongoing and presumably finished in 2021

ART: Handmade Print Festival TBILISI. LIFE N STYLE, 2019

Closing Event

Dates: 17.10.2019– 28.10.2019
Program: 17.10.2019 - 19.00 p.m
MOMA Tbilisi Modern Art Museum

Article: Georgia to Host 4th Int’l Print Festival ‘LIFE N STYLE’ [georgiatoday.ge]


We Have Pleasure to Invite You on the 4th issue of the Handmade Print Festival TBILISI. LIFE N STYLE, 2019, Presentation & visual installation

100 Georgian & International Contemporary Artists Handmade Prints.
Georgia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Estonia, Turkey, Lithuania, Russia, Greece, Armenia, France, Hong Kong

Participant artists & curators:

Georgia – Handmade and milited edktion printing studio – Curator - Nana Kirmelasvili; Artists: David Aleksidze, Mariam Akubardia, Mari Ataneli (Mari Ataneli), Lia Bagrationi, Maka Batiashvili (Maka Batiashvili), Uta Bekaia (Uta Bekia), Natia Benashvili, Nino Bilikhodze, Nino Bosikashvili (NinoBosikashviliArt), Sopo Cherkezishvili, Ketevan Davlianidze, Nato Eristavi, Nutsa Esebua, Gia Gogatishvili, Gia Gugushvili, Kote Jincharadze (Kote Jincharadze), Natia Kalandadze, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Tutu Kiladze, Guga Kotetishvili, Luka Lazar /Lasareishvili, Mai Lashauri (Mai Lashuri Art), Tamar Maglaperidze-Dadeshkeliani, George Maskharashvili, Vakhtang Megrelishvili, Konstantin Mindadze (Konstantin Mindadze Studio), Nino Moseshvili, Zaira Nadirashvili, Manuchar Okrostsvaridze, Guela Patiachvili (Guela Patiachvili Art), Elene Rakviashvili, Koka Ramishvili, Salome Rigvava (Art by Salome Rigvava), Romanoz (Romanoz), Julia Sanikidze, Mariam Shakarashvili, Lia Shvelidze, Malkhaz Shvelidze, Murtaz Shvelidze, Tam Oonz, Maka Tavamaishvili, Teyo, Oleg Timchenko, Kako Topuria (KAKO), Luka Tsetskhladze, Mamuka Tsetskhladze, Guram Tsibakhashvili (Guram Tsibakhashvili), Tinatin Tskhadadze (Tinatin Tskhadadze), Guela Tsouladze, Tamaz Varvaridze, Iliko Zautashvili, Maka Zedelashvili (Maka Zedelashvili Art), Shalva Khakhanashvili, David Machavariani / Kakadu;

Georgia – Tbilisi Academy of Arts – Curator – Tamaz Varvaridze; Artists: Loreta Abashidze-Shengelia, Mariam Davitashvili, Mariam Kalmakhelidze, Anastasia Kvakchakhadze, Lika Kviciani, Viktoria Makharadze, Salome Vacheishvili, George Jordania, Lela Zarkua; Georgia – Aluminum Etching Workshop – Curator – Vakhtang Megrelishvili (Vakhtang Megrelishvili); Artists: Mari Ataneli, Mariam Akhobadze, Natia Benashvili, Mariam Chelidze, Maya Chichua, https://www.facebook.com/DMariami, Nino Esaiashvili, George Jordania, Zura Khatiashvili, Rusudan Khizanishvili, Nino Khvingia, Nukri Kutateladze, Lika Kviciani, Vakhtang Megrelishvili, Lia Shvelidze, Salome Vacheishvili; Georgia –- Ozurgeti – Lithuania – Curator Tandila Tavartkiladze; Artists: Tamaz Darchia, Kura Brodskaya, Gia Gvichia, Ugne Zylite, Neringa Zukauskaite, Tandila Tavartkiladze

Austria – Roberto Muffaletto

China – B. Conrad Lau

Armenia – Greece – Curator - Masha-Marina Yeremyan; Artists: Ioannis Chantzidis (Greece), Stepan Veranyan, Vahagn Halambashyan

Estonia – Ukraine – Curator - Olga lybaskina; Artists: Khachatur Bely, Yuri Arrak, Vera Stanishevskaya, Vlad Stanishevsky, Ivan Pirkov

France: Gabrille Kurdadze

Ukraine; Azerbaijan – Artists: Shakhnaz Aghaeva, Inna Kostina; Museib Amirov   

Turkey – Curator - Denizhan Ozer; Artists: Deniz Cobankent, Kara Devabil, Erdem Ilgin, Gonca Erim, Ozgur Eryilmaz, Hakan Esmer, Lutfu Kaplanoglu, Serap Özergin, Kader Ozturkmen, Ilnah Sumeyra, Oben Yilmaz;

Russia – Curator – Ria Keburia Gallery (Ria Keburia)

Artists: Anna Voda, Adil Aubekerov, Roman Ermakov (Roman Ermakov Art), Sasha Frolova, Vera Reiner, Masha Ershova, Tatyana Plakhova

Russia – Alexsander Florenski, Olga Florenskaia

Exhibition in Space

Georgian artist Romanoz (Art by Romanoz)
Exposition in Stratosphere /Documentary/
Address: 27, Rustaveli avenue, Str. Tbilisi. Georgia
Date 18.10.2019 – 18.11.2019
Opening 18.10.2019 – 20:00

October 18 th Sculpture Park opening in Wine Factory # 1

Participant artists: Sepo / Tengiz Sepiashvili, Nato Eristavi, Venera Kazarova, Uta Bekaia, Roman Ermakov, Sasha Frolova, Oleg Timchenko, Anya Mokhova, Luka Tsetskhladze, Tbilisi State Academy of Arts Address: 1 Petriashvili str, Tbilisi. Georgia Curator: RIA KEBURIA FOUNDATION

Event Supporters: Tbilisi Municipality Mayor, Georgian Innovation & Development Center,
HYTECH-GS (NASA Spinoff Technolgy), Ria Keburia Gallery,
Batumi Municipality Mayor, Château Svanidzeebis Marani
General Media Partner: The Financial
Internet Partner: MAGTI
Media Partners: Radio Tavisupleba, Antidot, PRIME TIME

Curator: Nana Kirmelashvili
Tel: +995 599 215 396
Email: artcaucasus@gmail.com

ART FESTIVAL: Fest i Nova 2018 "Castaway Freedom", May 26, 2018 - Independence Day Festival

12:00 Flea Market; Akhalkalaki market

14:00 Independence Day parade from the Market to Akhalkalaki Ancient wall accompanied by Khoni Wind Band

15:30 Opening of the festival: Tournament in Georgian Wrestling; Firing Mill Canon at Akhalkalaki Ancient Wall

16:00 Kites at Art Villa Garikula

18:00 Sovlab member’s Irakli Khvadagiani’s Lecture on Independence of Georgia in 1918-21;
Art Villa Garikula Palace Library
Exhibition opening: Castaway Freedom
(Photo Archive of Sovlab, Photos by Natela Grigalashvili and Guram Tsibakhashvili)

19:00 Presentation of futuristic cocktails and cocktails’ book; Art Villa Garikula

19:30 – 22:00 Music, DJ Anushka Chkheidze, CES

Curators: Group Bouillon and Lali Pertenava
Organizers: Karaman Kutateladze and Jaba Mujiri
Contact: 995555291887; groupbouillon@gmail.com

Fest i Nova is supported by Ministry of Culture, Monument Protection and Sport

www.facebook.com/Fest i Nova 2018

PRESS RELEASE: The Tbilisi Photo Festival 2017 - Opening Week September 13 - 20

For its 8th edition The Tbilisi Photo Festival, the premier showcase for regional and international photography in the Caucasus, is back with its most provocative and diverse program to date! The central theme of festival 2017 is fashion! Fashion is, after all, a genuine representation of identity.

The festival program will emphasize all existing connections between fashion, the tradition of identity representation, ideology and the photographic image.

From Guy Bourdin’s seductive avant-garde photographs to Viviane Sassen’s daring approach to fashion images and the extremely rare collection of East German fashion photography from the Stasi period (1970s), as well as never-before-seen pre-Islamic revolution Iranian Fashion magazines, the week-long festival of shows, events and talks once again breaks new ground in subjects, styles and ways of seeing.

For it’s 8th edition, TPF is proud to host the world premier exhibition of Russian Journal Revisited by Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak and British writer Julius Strauss. 70 years later they travel in the footsteps of famous American writer John Steinbeck and Magnum agency co-founder Robert Capa, who visited and documented life in Georgia, Ukraine and Russia two years after the end of World War II.

Another 2017 highlight of the TPF program is the exhibition-tribute to the late American photojournalist and co-founder of Noor Images, Stanley Greene. Curated by Anna Shpakova, “See You in My Dreams”: Intimate Diary of Stanley Greene is a presentation of Stanley Greene’s unseen series of polaroids and personal letters.

Now in its eighth year, the Tbilisi Photo Festival has ensured its place as a must-stop meeting-point for photography and photographers from across Asia, the Middle East and Europe.

TPF EXHIBITIONS

Fashion Photography
The 2017 Tbilisi Photo Festival starts off with fashion photography and the work of Guy Bourdin and Viviane Sassen, both of whom are shown in the Caucasus for the first time.

Guy Bourdin, Avant-Garde

Guy Bourdin is definitely one of the “most important photographers of the second half of the twentieth century.” An autodidact artist, he re-defined the contours of contemporary fashion photography. For more than 40 years, his sublime iconic images - surreal, enigmatic, and humorous, are timeless and have had a major influence on the works of generations of photographers. TPF will inaugurate its 8th edition with an outstanding open air event that will combine the screening of Guy Bourdin’s work with a live music performance of Nika Machaidze/Nikokoi – one of Georgia’s leading contemporary composers and artists.

Viviane Sassen. In And Out Of Fashion

The Dutch star of fashion photography - Viviane Sassen has broken all the rules of contemporary fashion photography and challenged the way we see fashion in the context of our complex modern world. “Her images are complex, unexpected and breathtaking, and they are many conceptual leaps away from the mainstay approaches to fashion that have dominated the 21st century so far” Extract from In and out of Fashion, Bright Star by Charlotte Cotton.

Identities
Identities is a captivating group of shows that focuses on traditions and ways identity have been represented in the photographic image. Many of these are “found” images, several collections have never been seen before, while others have been published online or in book form. This series is noteworthy for its brazen humor and impact as a chronicle of the human condition: • Renowned Lithuanian photographer, Vitas Luckus’s series of portraits In Front of the White Screen (1987); • A stunning collection of studio portraits from 1970s central India by Suresh Punjabi, from the project Studio Suhag; • Never-before-seen pre- Islamic revolution Iranian fashion magazines; • Portraits of the Taliban found and collected in Afghanistan by Magnum photographer Thomas Dworzak in early 2000s; • Bikini Collection from the private Trophy Collection of the Soviet Soldier (1950s); • Unveiled images of couples photographed in Iranian photo studios before the revolution; Extremely rare collection of fashion photography from East Germany by Gunter Roubitcz (1960s-1970s); • The Circle of Life, a collection of portraits of the inhabitants of Blenio Valley in Switzerland from 1910-25 by Swiss photographer Roberto Donetta. These along with other series are all part of Identities, one of the week’s great highlights for festival 2017.

Identities. Taliban. Collection of Thomas Dworzak/Magnum Photos  

See You In My Dreams!
Stanley Greene’s Intimate Diary
Curated by Anna Shpakova

Co-founder of the prestigious Noor agency, American photographer Stanley Greene started out as a fashion photographer but made a name for himself as a prominent war photographer.

Regarded as the “poet photojournalist,” Greene died in May 2017. Tbilisi Photo Festival presents a tribute to a dear friend and defender of the Caucasus. Anna Shpakova, a long-time friend of Stanley Greene and a curator of the exhibition explains, “For most (he is) a legendary photographer whose war and social injustice coverage will forever stay in the history of photography... For me, (he is) a master of the eminent world I am grateful to be part of... Countless letters and polaroids are evidence of a romance at a time when we were oblivious to the world falling.”

See You In My Dreams! features 30 letters and Polaroids that appeared in the spring and summer of 2001 “Only accompanists of a romance, are becoming a narration, allowed us to penetrate, without being the voyeurs, to the singular rhythm of Stanley Greene,” Anna Shapokova says. This exhibition is a personal, heartfelt presentation of the man; not a display of his work.

Russian Journal Revisited by Thomas Dworzak and Julius Strauss

In 1947, American writer John Steinbeck and Magnum photographer Robert Capa set out to objectively document the USSR. Their journey took them to Russia, Ukraine and Georgia. 70 years later, Magnum Photographer Thomas Dworzak and British journalist Julius Strauss have teamed up to re-explore the 1947 journey with the same original aim Steinbeck described as, "honest reporting, to set down what we saw and heard without editorial comment, without drawing conclusions about things we didn't know sufficiently." TPF is proud to host the world premier exhibition of this bold project, which will prove to be a deeply perceptive comparison and contrast of the times.


Georgian Journey: Robert Capa in Georgia - the collection of Robert Capa’s 1947 images from Georgia will be also featured in the 2017 program of Tbilisi Photo Festival 2017.

Night of Photography 2017 at Fabrika
Open Air Night Screenings

Tbilisi Photo Festival continues its tradition of conducting open air night-time screenings of first-class photography from around the world. This year, however, the Night of Photography moved from the streets of Old Tbilisi to a refurbished Soviet sewing factory called Fabrika - a creative multi-purpose urban space situated in a historical neighborhood. The work of over 350 photographers will be featured on the screens set up on Fabrika’s roof, as well as in the laid back lobby of its hostel, and in the generous courtyard, surrounded by restaurants and bars - and even in hostel dorm room 137.

The Eye of Photography, British Journal of Photography, Photo Vogue Festival, Delhi Photo Festival, Finish Museum of Photography, Ibasho Gallery with the selection of Japanese female photographers and some other, are joining the program of the Tbilisi Night of Photography for the first time in 2017. The Night of the Year of Les Rencontres d’Arles has also returned to Tbilisi. A selection of slideshows will be screened in memory of the late Claudine Maugendre, who had been Artistic Director of the Night of the Year of Les Rencontres d’Arles for many years. Lensculture is again part of the Night –second year in a row. The selection of works of emerging Georgian Fashion photographers, Belarusian artists, emerging Dutch photographers, Vasa project with Kharkov Photography School, in addition to many others, will be featured on the Tbilisi Night of Photography 2017.

Night of Photography will be screened on opening week Saturday, September 16th from 20.00 to 01.30 @ Fabrika.

Vlisco at Tbilisi Photo Festival 2017

Georgia’s vibrant and dynamic fashion industry has lately found its place on the world map of fashion. To celebrate this and to underline Georgia’s stature as “new capital of fashion in Eastern Europe,” Tbilisi Photo Festival has invited Vlisco, the Dutch textile brand with a renowned 170 history as leader in print design using batik technique in West Africa, for a new collaboration with emerging Georgian designer, Lasha Devdariani, and Georgian fashion photographer, Luisa Chalatashvili. The collection will be presented in the event Vlisco, A Unique Fashion Story, along with a public lecture on design at Vlisco by Gabriela Sancez y Sancez de la Barquera, Vlisco in-house designer.

A conversation with Viviane Sassen

Coralie Gauthier, Director of Exhibitions and Programs at the prestigious Parisian club Silencio, designed by David Lynch, and the exclusive underground Paris club Salo, and founder of Since 1977, will moderate a conversation with Dutch fashion photographer Viviane Sassen.

Magnum Photos 70 at 70

2017 is Magnum Photo’s seventyyear anniversary. To commemorate its birthday, the world’s leading photo agency is curating seventy iconic images by seventy of its photographers that will be part of a screening with live music at Tbilisi Photo Festival 2017 at the stylish Rooms Hotel Garden.

Capa Curator Cynthia Young (ICP) on Robert Capa and Russian Journal
Talk/slideshow

The year Magnum was founded was the same year Capa and Steinbeck made their landmark journey to the USSR, just two years after the end of World War II. Cynthia Young, representing the Capa Archives at the International Centre of Photography in New York, will give a talk about Capa and the Russian Journal. Ms. Young will also have a conversation with Thomas Dworzak.

The Art of Fashion Photography with Patrick Remy
Talk/slideshow

French fashion photography critic Patrick Remy is known for his book series, Fashion Images de Mode and Strip/Paradise/Desire/Sensation (Steidl). Remy has also published photographer’s monographs and organized photo exhibitions in Miami, Tokyo and Melbourne. For TPF, Patrick Remy will be talking about fashion photography and the books of fashion photography.

Photography in the Margins: The Material History of an Indian Studio
Talk/slideshow

Anthropologist and art historian, Professor Christopher Pinney is Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London. He is a specialist for his studies on the visual culture of South Asia, specifically India, and is also curator of the Suhag Studio show, which is the part of our Identities program.

The Delhi Photo Festival & Photography from India by Dinesh Khanna
Talk/Slideshow

Dinesh Khanna is a photographer and co-founder of the Delhi Photo Festival, one of the most respected photo festivals in India. Mr. Khanna explains that India is a vast and diverse country of many languages and ethnicities, yet its arts and traditions are steeped in the visual. “In such a nation, photography and the image were bound to be an integral 'language' for social, political and economic conversations,” he says. TPF is eager to have Dinesh Khanna in Tbilisi to present these visual stories to help us understand the rich world of Indian photography.

Tbilisi Photo Festival Book Fair

Tbilisi Photo Book is the first and only photography book fair in the entire South Caucasus region. It was founded by Tbilisi Photo Festival to promote the production of photo books in Georgia. The collection includes photo books from Japan, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, France, India, Iran - and many other countries - as well as self-published books selected by our guests and the curatorial team.

At this old crossroads between East and West, the Tbilisi Photo Festival has become a new destination for the world’s photographers, bringing together the best images of the region and far beyond, transforming Tbilisi into photography capital of Caucasus.

Tbilisi Photo Festival 2017
September 13 - 20
Night of Photography on September 16

Elina Valaite
Program Coordinator

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GEORGIA: We Are Svaneti Festival - 15-17 July, 2017

We Are Svaneti Festival from Rosa Vroom on Vimeo.


15-17 July, 2017
www.wearesvaneti.org

Come to discover Upper Svaneti in Georgia. Visit remote villages at the foot of the Caucasus mountains, learn new artisan and cooking skills from the locals, explore the spectacular wild nature. Listen to the inspiring stories and share yours whilst enjoying a sense of community.
Hosted at the banks of the beautiful river Nenskra, this long weekend summer festival will fill you up with energy and unforgettable memories of authentic Svaneti.
Join us for the We Are Svaneti Festival and the Photo Essay Contest

#GEORGIANWINE: New Wine Festival 2017 Welcomes Participants - May 13; Tbilisi, Georgia (en.vinoge.com)

(en.vinoge.com) Wine Club Georgia proudly hosts its eighth New Wine Festival, held with the goals of promoting Georgian wine internationally, increasing wine awareness in Georgia and helping improve the overall consumption culture.

Venue:

The New Wine Festival will be pleased to open its doors for visitors on Saturday, May 13 in the open space of Mtatsminda Park. Small/family-owned, medium and large wineries from various parts of Georgia will be happy to present their wines of 2016 harvest from 11 AM to 6 PM. Visitors are welcome to enjoy the ambience of the wine gala and taste some of the nation’s best wines. Attendance for visitors is free of charge.

Participants:

This year’s New Wine Festival gathers 113 wine companies, including large, medium and small wineries, associations, government agencies, wine bars and small business owners.

The 2017 New Wine Festival participants are as follows:

Agricultural University

Akhmeta Wine House

Alapiani's Marani

Alexander Distillery

Amiran Vefkhvadze Wine Cellar

Ancestral Wine Cellar

Archil Guniava Wine Cellar

Askaneli Brothers

Atenuri

Babaneuris Marani

Bina N37

Brothers Winery

Bruale

Chateau Khashmi

Cellar in old district

Charitable Union Temi

Corporation Kindzmarauli

Cradle of Wine

Dasabami

Doremi

Enek Peterson

Ethno

Eristavi

Gaioz Sopromadze Wine Cellar

Georgian Wines

Georgian Wine Heritage

Ghvardzelashvili’s Marani

Gotsa Wines

Goderdzishvili Cellar

Giuaani

GUDA WINERY

G.WINE

Iberieli

Imeretian Wine Company

Jakeli Organic Vineyard and Wines

Kakhaber Berishvili Wine Cellar (Artanuli Wine)

Kakhelebi

Kakhuri

Kakhetian Traditional Winemaking

Katchiuri Vineyards

Kidev erti

Kindzmarauli Marani

Kortavebis marani

Kvareli Eden

Kvevri Amoris

Kvibari (Burjanadze-Shanidze’s winery)

Lagazi

Lekso’s Marani

LEPL Scientific-Research Center of Agriculture

Loladze Family Winery

Lukasi

Makaridze Wine cellar

Managadze Wine Company

Marani Sanavardo

Matiashvili’s Cellar

Naotari

Naotrebi

Natural Wine Association

Nikalas Marani

Nika Vacheishvili’s Marani

Niki Antadze

NIKA WINERY

Nikoladze Wine Cellar

Nodar Baghashvili Wine Cellar

ODA Family Winery

Okroswine

Okureshi Wine Cellar

Our Wine

Pheasant’s Tears

Papari Valley

Royal Khvanchkara

Shalvino

SATSNAKHELI

Simon Chkheidze Cellar

Shumi

Tanini

Tbilvino

Tela

Teliani Valley

The Spirit of Georgia

Tifliski Vini Pogreb

Tibaani

Togonidze Wine

Tsikhelishvili Wine Cellar

VAKHTANG BERUASHVILI FAMILY MARANI „ VAKHTANGURI“

Vartsikhe Marani

Vaziani Company

Vino martville

Winery “Misho papa”

Winery Khareba

Wine Thieves

Your Wine

Zekari

Other participating companies:

Tabla Nova

Color pack

Enogrup

Glassgo Georgia

Culinarium Khasheria

Amber Bar

Wine Land

Georgian Wine Club

Tiki

Keiko&Maika

Zanduri

Exhibition of traditional and modern handicrafts at the Festival:

Georgian Blue Tablecloth by Nikoloz Nutsubidze

Traditional Fashion House

Fotia

Nukriani Workshops

Woodson

Nenem Accessories

Lorina Art

IrenDesign Handmade

Gogoladze's clay and wood artworks

Agenda/Special Features:

The New Wine Festival 2017 will traditionally commence with the Qvevri opening ceremony. The Rezo Kiknadze jazz band, the Nali band, the Didgori folklore company along with Khoni People’s Orchestra will perform their selected musical pieces.

Added to the overall excitement, the Wine Club will offer 8 10-liter barrels full of the best Saperavi wine for lottery winners. Visitors will be invited to buy wine-tasting glasses, in return for which they will receive the lottery tickets. These will be collected in the Qvevri designated for the lottery. The winners will be randomly revealed by taking the tickets out of the Qvevri at 1, 2 and 3 PM. Elibo, the prize from the Wine Club, will be solemnly delivered to the wine companies.

The Giffer stands will be available for the visitors to take motion photos and share them instantly from the festival location.

The exhibition of the traditional and modern handicrafts will be interactive, with visitors being able to create things from clay with their own hands.

Partners:

The supporters of the New Wine Festival 2017 are the National Wine Agency, the Tbilisi City Hall and the National Tourism Administration. Its media partners include radio stations: Utsnobi, JAKO FM, Marani (vinoge.com) and Wine Information Center. The event appreciates the partnership with the Mtatsminda Park and the National Parliamentary Library of Georgia. Special thanks to Caucasus Journey and Giffer.

© Wine Club Georgia, National Wine Agency, Wine Information Center, 2017

#GEORGIANWINE: "Zero Compromise" will be a tasting of natural wines in Tbilisi on May 12. (hvino.com) via @Wine_of_Georgia

(hvino.com) "Zero Compromise" will be a tasting of natural wines in Tbilisi presented by the growers themselves, kicking off at 11 AM on the 12-th of May and continuing to 5 PM.

The wine show will be hosted by 3 natural wine venues - Ghvino Underground   ▼Map, Poliphonia ▼Map , and Azarphesha ▼Map - all within walking distance from one another. Small snacks will be served by all three of these unique restaurants.

"It's the best opportunity for both professionals and the public to get acquainted with the people, traditions, and flavours of Georgian natural wine", - explained John Wurdeman, well-known winemaker and one of the event's organizers. "The cost is 25 lari and for this you get a map of how to find the venues, list of which growers are where, a glass with "Zero Compromise" logo, access to all the wines, and small bites of food from some of the best kitchens in Tbilisi", - said Mr. Wurdeman.

To see the full list of participating winemakers, click on the event's poster to enlarge.

25 gel includes: a wine glass, light Food, loads of wine and an opportunity to meet the growers

Mit Pheasant's Tears Winery, ალექსი ციხელიშვილი,  Iago Bitarishvili, ოქროღვინო - OKRO's Wines ოქროსთან, კორტავების მარანი kortavebis marani, Kerovani Winery, Vino Martville / ვინო მარტვილე, Keti Ninidze, Gogita Makaridze, Amiran Vefxvadze, Simon Chkheidze Wine Cellar/სიმონ ჩხეიძის მარანი, Mariam Iosebidze, Nebi - Aslanishvili Winery, Mzis Tvali, Fredericus Secundus, Do Re Mi, Gotsa Wines, Gotsa Wines, Lagazi Wine Cellar, ლაგაზიძე შოთა, Guja Goderdzishvili, ღვინო ნაოტარი • Naotari Wines, Papari Valley, Giorgi Ghvardzelashvili, Archil Guniava Wine Cellar, Giorgi Kemertelidze, Gaioz Sopromadze Wine Cellar გაიოზ სოფრომაძის მარანი, Gaioz Sopromadze, Mamuka Kikvadze, Dasabami Dasabami, Antadze wines ანთაძეების მარანი, Riravo • რირავო, Nikalas Marani - ნიკალას მარანი, Jakeli Wines, Kakha Berishvili, Chvenigvino Our Wine, Merab Matiashvili, Alapiani's Marani / ალაფიანის მარანი, Nika Bakhia, Junior Marani, Ének Peterson, Ramaz Nikoladze, Iberieli Wine Cellar, Zurab Topuridze, Nika Vacheishvili's Marani, Wine Thieves • • ღვინის ქურდები, Armazi Winery,არმაზის საღვინე, Armazi Distillery არმაზის სახდელი, Paata Bolotashvili, Georgien Wein,