VIDEO: Supra Nova - Innovating #GeorgianCuisine | Tekuna Gachechiladze | TEDxTbilisi

Does traditional food have a future? In this conversation renowned Chef Tekuna Gachechiladze describes her work to renew one of the world’s oldest food cultures, and discusses how traditions are both made and misunderstood.

Tekuna Gachechiladze is one of Georgia’s leading and most innovative chefs. After training in New York she served as the head chef at several establishments in Tbilisi before opening her own restaurants. Tekuna regularly promotes Georgian cuisine and culture at home and abroad and is the creator of the “Supra Nova” concept, which seeks to update and renew traditional Georgian dishes.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx


More links:
Tekuna Gachechiladze: the Queen of Georgian Fusion [finedininglovers.com]
Café Littera: Din't Call It Fusion. By Paul Rimple [culinarybackstreets.com]
Tekuna Gachechiladze chef / owner culinarium, cafe littera #cafelittera_tbilisi and culinarium-khasheria#culinarium-khasheria [instagram.com/tekunia]
Tekuna Gachechiladze [calvertjournal.com]
Georgia: Restaurants, hotels and shops. By Carla Capalbo [decanter.com]

VIDEO: A State at a Crossroads - Georgia: Donald Rayfield at TEDxTbilisi

Historian Donald Rayfield draws lessons from Georgia's long and complex history to illuminate the foreign policy choices of the present. In 1973 he first visited Georgia and has since written a history of Georgian literature, edited a Comprehensive Georgian-English Dictionary and, recently, published a history of Georgia.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

PHOTOGRAPHY: Interview with in Georgia-based freelance photographer Justyna Mielnikiewicz (@lensculture)

(lensculture.com) Keep Working, No Matter What: Learning about Life Through Visual Storytelling

For this photographer, 15 years of doggedly pursuing personal projects resulted in one of photography’s most esteemed awards. Discover the tenacity it takes to produce meaningful work.

For 15 years, Polish-born, Georgia-based freelance photographer Justyna Mielnikiewicz has been committed to discovering stories and sharing them with others using her camera. Dedicated and passionate (she would even say stubborn), Mielnikiewicz has stuck through the inevitable highs and lows of independent work to produce personal projects she is truly proud of. Her commitment to narrative photography was recognized in 2016 when she was awarded the prestigious W. Eugene Smith Fund grant in humanistic photography, which came with $30,000 to support new work.

Next month, she will be hosting a workshop in Georgia in collaboration with Tbilisi Photo Festival (more info below). In advance of her workshop, LensCulture managing editor Alexander Strecker exchanged emails with Mielnikiewicz to learn more about her dogged pursuit of visual storytelling that has taken her far from her roots in Poland— Full Interview here >>>




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www.americanphotomag.com/photographer justyna mielnikiewicz



Justyna Mielnikiewicz discusses her journey from a village in Poland to Tbilisi, and her unique path to becoming a successful international photographer.

TEDxTbilisi: Why journalism needs a revolution. By Natalia Antelava, @antelava (tedxtbilisi.com/2015)

(tedxtbilisi.com/2015) Why do stories in the news seem to suddenly appear from nowhere? And has the misuse of the Internet made this phenomenon worse? Award-winning journalist Natalia Antelava argues that reporters need to take a longer view, and stay with stories before and after they make international headlines.

Natalia Antelava is an award-winning journalist and a co-founder of Coda Story, a web platform for covering crises. She started her career freelancing in West Africa but has since been BBC's resident correspondent in the Caucasus, Central Asia, Middle East, Washington DC and most recently India. She has reported undercover from Burma, Yemen and Uzbekistan, and her investigations into human rights abuses in Central Asia, Iraq and the United States have won a number of awards.

This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at http://ted.com/tedx



More links: 

natalia antelava (@antelava) | Twitter 
About Coda Story Natalia Antelava. A co-founder of Cod 
Natalia Antelava: "Jedes komplexe Problem ist ein Thema für Coda" (vocer.org)
scoopcamp.de/natalia-antelava

TEDxTbilisi - John Wurdeman - Tradition: How The Ancient Becomes Cutting Edge (tedxtbilisi.com)

(tedxtbilisi.com) John Wurdeman discusses his life's journey seeking out traditional folk music, dance and ways of life and argues that children of more "closed" cultures have more freedom of expression, and in the "freer" world often creativity is limited.

John Wurdeman was born in 1975 into a family of artists in Santa Fe, New Mexico and is himself an artist and painter. He studied painting at the Maryland Institute of Art in 1991 and completed his graduate studies in painting at the Surikov Institute in Moscow in 1998. His works have been exhibited worldwide and form part of multiple museum collections.

John is also an avid ethnographer and has conducted fieldwork in Georgia, collecting Georgian folk music and songs, ceramics, carpets and kilns since 1995. He has given lectures on Georgian ethnography at Princeton, Yale, Cornell, and other prestigious educational institutions.

In 2007, John co-founded Pheasants Tears, a boutique winery focused on traditional Georgian grape varietals and qvevri wine-making methods. His wines are currently available in 10 countries and have become popular in Georgia as well. He also started a side wine tourism business, sharing his love for Georgian wine, food, and music with others.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

VIDEO: TEDxTbilisi - Stefan Tolz - Creating an Image: Second thoughts about making films in Georgia (youtube.com)

(youtube.com) Stefan Tolz discusses the art of documentary film, and the responsibilities of film makers towards their subjects.

German filmmaker Stefan Tolz has been visiting, living and working in Georgia for more than 20 years. He has filmed news reports, ethnological and political TV documentaries, and two feature-length documentaries for cinema. He is now working on his first fiction film in Tbilisi.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

VIDEO: Musical Performance: TSU ART at TEDxTbilisi (youtube.com)

(TSU ART) combines contemporary music, innovative home-made instruments and traditional Georgian polyphonic singing to create a unique cultural performance. TSU Art is composed of students from universities throughout Tbilisi and professional singers.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

VIDEO: TEDxTbilisi - Justyna Mielnikiewicz - Frame by Frame: Creating My Life on My Own Terms (youtube.com)

Justyna Mielnikiewicz discusses her journey from a village in Poland to Tbilisi, and her unique path to becoming a successful international photographer.

Justyna Mielnikiewicz is a self-taught freelance photographer. Originally from Poland, she has been based in Tbilisi, Georgia for the last 10 years. Between 2001-2009 she worked on a documentary project dedicated to the South Caucasus and its conflicts, titled "Shared Sorrows-Divided Lines". Since 2010, she has started to explore a new topic dedicated to women, sexuality and gender issues in the former Soviet space.

In addition to working on her personal projects, Justyna regularly cooperates with The New York Times, Newsweek Poland and Eurasianet.org. Her works have been published in various international publications such as Monocle, Russian Reporter, NG Travel, Le Monde, German yearbook of Reporters without Borders, among others. In 2009, she received Second Prize in the World Press Photo Competition (People in the News) for Coverage of War in South Ossetia. That same year, she was the winner of the Canon Female Photojournalist Prize, awarded annually in the International Photojournalism Festival of Perpignan - Visa pour l"Image.

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)