#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: Great Map from Wine Regions in Georgia. By Malkhaz Kharbedia

Source: en.vinoge.com


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#GEORGIANWINE: The National Wine Agency is a legal entity of public law under the Ministry of Agriculture of Georgia (georgianwine.gov.ge/eng)

(georgianwine.gov.ge/eng) Main directions of activity: Popularizing and raising awareness of Georgian wine; Promotion of the growth of export potential; Popularization of Georgian vine origination; Restoration of the unique and rare Georgian grape varieties; Creation of a vineyard register; Popularization of the oldest Georgian traditional methods of qvevri wine making; Supporting the development of wine tourism

Georgia has an 8,000 year history of continuous wine making tradition, which is evidenced numerous archaeological discoveries. Georgians have shared the love for the grape the time immemorial and remains loyal to it through to modernity. Numerous displays related to wine making practices dating to millennia have been kept in Georgian museums.

Archaeologists discovered several grape pips of ancient millennia in Kvemo Kartli, to the south of Tbilisi, in the Marneuli Valley, in the ruins of the Dangreuli Gora. In accordance with morphological and ampelographic features, they then assigned the pips to a cultivated variety of grapevine, Vitis Vinifera Sativa.

The earliest traces of viticulture and wine were found in the ancient Neolithic settlements in the neighborhood of Dangreuli Gora (Shulaveri Hill, Cut Hill, Khrami Big Hill, Arukhlo Hill, Khizanaant Hill and others). Besides grape seeds, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of cultural wheat and legumes, agricultural implements and pottery, proving that in the Neolithic period, the inhabited humans developed agricultural activities including viticulture and wheat growing.

The fragments of clay wine vessels found during excavations of the settlements testify to the fact that as early as the Neolithic period there was not a fledgling, but rather an already well-developed stage of agriculture, indicating that people started the domestication of the vine on the territory of Georgia an even earlier period.

The qvevri vessels dating the Neolithic era were discovered during different archaeological excavations, as were cultural vine fossil seeds, tartaric acid sediment on the fragments of earthenware vessels for wine and resin the domesticated grapevine. The diversity of the wild and indigenous grape varieties, the unique wine vessel (the qvevri) and the oldest technologies of making wine by qvevri all confirm that Georgia is truly an ancient wine making country.

Of the artifacts the Shulaveri-Shomu Tepe period, a ceramic vessel for wine found in Didi Gora (Khrami Big Hill), believed by scientists to be an ancestor of the qvevri which deserves the greatest attention. Currently, it is exhibited in the National Museum of Georgia and is considered the world’s oldest wine vessels.

Since the pagan period, wine has had a ritual and mystical destination. In Georgian folk belief, the Aguna, or Angura, is considered a patron saint of viticulture. In Guria, the sacrifice ritual to Aguna is still well preserved as a theatrical performance.

With the spread of Christianity and wine’s association with the blood of Christ, vineyards and wine in Georgia gained even greater importance. A disseminator of Christianity named St. Nino appeared in Georgia with a cross tied with vine branches. Holy wine has always been made in large quantities in monasteries and old cellars (Marani) still remain in many monasteries. Georgians considered the wine a holy drink and often donated it to the saints and the church. This wine is called Zedashe.

The majority of linguists agree that semantic meaning of the word “wine” is rooted only in Georgian language, and supposedly it is derived the verb “Ghvivili”. The root of the word, “ghv,” is purely Georgian and is found in many Georgian words.

Wild sorts of vine are still spread throughout Georgian territory. the 1980s, the forest vine has been included on Georgia’s the red list as an object of state protection. Along with the wild vine, over 500 Georgian domesticated vine types are described in Georgia. Of those, around four hundred thirty are protected in various state and private collection vineyards.

Development

Georgians have been engaged in viticulture and wine making for almost eighty centuries. During this period, a rich culture of grapevine and wine developed using a diversity of grape varieties. This was also the period during which the domestication of wild grapes was realized, systems of vineyard plantation and care were elaborated, wine vessels were improved and the establishment of the culture of Qvevri occurred. Kakhetian and Imeretian technologies of wine making were also established in this period.

The 19th century is considered one of the most important periods in the history of Georgian wine. During this period, Georgian poet and public man Aleksandre Chavchavadze made great efforts to get Georgian wine closer to European wine. Since the 1830s, some places of origin wines, which are still very popular today, have been made on Chavchavadze’s estate. In the beginning of the 1890s, Tsinandali, Mukuzani, Napareuli and Teliani wines were produced on regular basis. In the same period, in the village of Ruispiri, a well known German wine expert Lenz created a wine cellar Georgian and foreign sorts were cultivated. Viticulture was also developed in Tbilisi after the German colonists settled in the city suburbs and imported foreign sorts into the country.

In the 1870s, Georgian wine Ivan Mukhran–Batoni’s cellar was exported Georgia. In the mid-19th century, scientific studies of Georgian grapevine varieties began. In the 1870s, characteristics of the Georgian grape varieties appeared for the first time in descriptions published in Paris and London.

In the 19th century, Georgia participated in multiple wine exhibitions. At that time Europe became acquainted with Georgian wines and brands. In the Paris exhibition of 1900, Georgian wine making already held a respectable place in European culture, as reported by the newspapers of that time. Georgia’s success at this time was also supported by pictures of the wine cellar “Kakhetian Princely Viniyards,” manuscripts describing rather large collections of grape clusters (Rkatsiteli, Saperavi, Tavkveri, Tita, etc), as well as wine samples in bottles, small casks (tikebi), etc. During this period, Georgian wine paved the road to international arena and has since reached great success.

MUSIC: Georgian Band GeoTRAIN mit Zurab J. Gagnidze, Mamuka Ghaghanidze & Paata Demurishvili (geotrain.eu)

Heidelberg, Ziegler, April 2016: JAZZ am NECKAR 50. Jubileum

(geotrain.eu) September 2015 wurde die Gruppe in Deutschland von Zurab J. Gagnidze und Mamuka Ghaghanidze gegründet, die beide seit 2002 in Deutschland zusammen mit Bekannte Formation The Shin arbeiten. Die in Deutschland lebenden Musiker gehören mehrheitlich zur künstlerischen Elite Georgiens, haben mit internationalen Größen wie Randy Brecker, Giora Feidman, Gia Kancheli, Jorge Pardo, Chaka Khan, Okay Temiz, Fuat Saka zusammengearbeitet, mehrere Workshops in Polyrhythmik, Improvisationstheorie und georgischer Mehrstimmigkeit abgehalten, sowie bei zahlreichen internationalen Festivals aufgetreten.

Für das neue Projekt „GeoTRAIN“ konnten die beiden Paata Demurishvili aus Mannheim gewinnen, den das Jazz Podium als einen „der besten Pianisten Europas“ bezeichnet hat.

Der Klangteppich der GeoTRAIN entsteht durch die Begegnung des musischen Georgien mit der Musik Verschiedener Länder und Kulturen. Berühmte georgische Mehrstimmigkeit und instrumentale Virtuosität entfalten sich im Austausch mit Jazz Scat, Funk und Fusion, Indien, Ravel... Wie klingt es? Raffiniert, überraschend, modern, witzig, heiter und einfühlsam.


Mehr in Facebook: www.facebook.com/GeoTrain/

BOOK: Georgian Portraits. Essays on the Afterlives of a Revolution. By Katrine Gotfredsen, Martin Demant Frederiksen (zero-books.net)

(zero-books.net) The ethnographic portraits telling the story of the social and political aftermaths of revolution.

Georgian Portraits chronicles everyday life in the Republic of Georgia in the decade that followed the Rose Revolution of 2003. Recent anthropological developments argue for the use of “afterlives” as an analytical notion through which to understand processes of socio-political change. Based on a series of portraits, Martin Demant Frederiksen and Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen employ the theory of social afterlives to examine the role of revolution in the formation of a modern Georgia. The book contributes to a deeper understanding of life in the aftermath of political reform, depicting the hopefulness of the Georgian population, but also the subsequent return to political disillusionment which lead them to a revolution in the first place.

REVIEWS & ENDORSEMENTS

What happens after a revolution, when the bright and shiny finish has worn off its ideals? Capturing the weirdness and the wonder of post-revolutionary Georgia, Frederiksen and Gotfredsen also capture people's very real struggles to get by, their fears of war and their dreams of a "European" future. Beautifully and hauntingly written, this book captures not only Georgia's politics, but its soul. ~ Elizabeth Cullen Dunn, author of Privatizing Poland: Baby Food, Big Business and the Remaking of Labor

Revolutions are as much made of dreams as real events, and these dreams have afterlives as ghosts as the revolutionary hope fades into disappointment or despair. Writing the history of a revolutionary period is difficult, especially writing one that deals with the fundamentally emergent nature of a revolutionary period, as this one does, embracing the confusion of tenses in which the present is pregnant with the future and the future becomes a past as a condition of narration. This book tracks the lively history of Rose Revolutionary Georgia in a lovely and vivid manner, an engaging narrative full of lively characters, beginning always from small things and local perspectives that show the Rose Revolutionary period as a series of hopes and dreams, programs and disappointments. Misha Saakashvili appears throughout, sometimes as a real historical person, sometimes also an imagined demiurge, sometimes a fraudulent trickster. The ways a revolution changes a society are here portrayed from many perspectives, and the way the revolutionary dreams sometimes became haunting ghosts shows how a single moment can become a whole period of social life. ~ Paul Manning, author of Love Stories: Private Love and Public Romance in Georgia

This book is crafted as a compendium of tacit knowledge about Georgia, harboring an array of insights that capture the tensions and ambiguities of a country that finds itself back from the future and poised between assembly and disassembly. The image of the portrait is therefore very accurate, reflecting the make-believe realities and re-enactments faced by the authors. Thumbing through its pages, I discovered how anthropological variations can be interwoven through biographies, social affects and political afterlives. This type of scholarship is not only inspiring and informative, but also pleasure to read. Georgia is a country for storytellers and vernacular Sisyphus of life, being Martin Demant Frederiksen and Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen the perfect example of this contagious ardor. The intimate and sharp look achieved by the authors makes this collection an important milestone in the discussion of contemporary social dynamics in Eastern Europe and the understanding of human condition overall. ~ Francisco Martínez, author of Playgrounds and Battlefields: Critical Perspectives of Social Engagement


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Katrine Bendtsen Gotfredsen holds a PhD in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen. She has done extensive fieldwork in the Republic of Georgia focusing on subjects such as history, identity, morality, and uncertainty in the context of social and political transformation. Works include her PhD dissertation, “Evasive politics: Paradoxes of history, nation, and everyday communication in the Republic of Georgia” (2013) and the journal articles “Void pasts and marginal presents: On nostalgia and obsolete futures in the Republic of Georgia” (Slavic Review, 2014) and “Enemies of the people: Theorizing dispossession and mirroring conspiracy in the Republic of Georgia” (Focaal, 2016). She is currently lecturer in Caucasus Studies at Malmö University and Programme Manager for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus in the Danish NGO Cross Cultures.

Martin Demant Frederiksen is assistant professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He holds a PhD in anthropology and has conducted a total of 22 months of ethnographic fieldwork in the Republic of Georgia since 2006 in the cities Tbilisi, Batumi and Ambrolauri. His work focuses on subcultures (such as youth criminals and declared nihilists), urban development, temporality and socio-political change. He is author of the monograph "Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia" (2013) and co-editor of the anthology "Ethnographies of Grey Zones in Eastern Europe" (2015). Aside from research and teaching, he is co-founder and co-editor of the independent art-zine "a...issue".

#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,

MUSIC: Trio InCanto mit der georgischen Flötistin & Sängerin Leliko Gokieli

TBILISI PHOTO FESTIVAL: Original Masterclass with Yuri Kozyrev / Noor Images & Justyna Mielnikiewicz - in villages Shenako, Tusheti, Georgia

For its 8th edition, Tbilisi Photo Festival partners with AtlasGlobal air company to hold in July its Original Masterclass workshops with Yuri Kozyrev/Noor and Justyna Mielnikiewicz - two internationally-acclaimed photographers! Both of them share keen ability to communicate the profound knowledge of photography and are intimately familiar with Georgia.

© Justyna Mielnikiewicz. Women with a Monkey at a beauty trade show. Tbilisi, 2001.

The masterclasses will be held in the remote village of Shenako, 2000 meters high in the Greater Caucasus mountain range. This awe-inspiring hamlet of shepherds and horsemen was chosen for its breathtaking landscape and its photographic legacy in the name of Shalva Alkhanaidze, whose brilliant mid-20th century images of Tushetian life reveal a world of raw passion and somber frankness.

The Masterclass aims both to help photographers develop a personal photographic language and to discover Georgia by exploring one of its most enchanting regions.

In the frame of partnership with Atlasglobal the participants flying from European cities will get - 30% disscount on air tickets!

-10% discount on masterclass price for participants that register before May 15th!

To register, please check the details here and send an email to: masterclass@tbilisiphotofestival.com

tbilisiphotofestival.com/en/masterclass-post/visual-storytelling-/Yuri Kozyrev/Noor
tbilisiphotofestival.com/en/masterclass-post/visual-storytelling-/Justyna Mielnikiewicz


More information ask Elina Valaite:

Masterclass coordinator (she speaks English, Russian and Georgian).

email: masterclass@tbilisiphotofestival.com



We hope to host you in Shenako!

Tbilisi Photo Festival 2017
Opening Week September 14 - 19
Tbilisi Night of Photography on September 16

Elina Valaite
Assistant of Artistic Director

www.tbilisiphotofestival.com
www.facebook.com/tbilisiphotofestival

MUSIC: Reso Kiknadze Quintet feat Irakli Sanadiradze ~ Movement Theatre

With Lasha Sakvarelidze, Nika Gabadze, Luka Topuria, Misha Japaridze Movement Theatre, April 26, 2017

AUSSTELLUNG: "Vom Zauber der Realität" eröffnet - Kunstwerke von Rusudan Khizanishvili und Brigitte J. Schaider im Kunsthaus Summerau. Von Olaf E. Jahnke (schwaebische.de)

(schwaebische.de) Rusudan Khizanishvili, und Brigitte J. Schaider haben am Freitag zur Vernissage nach Summerau geladen und etliche Kunstinteressierte sind gekommen. Sie haben sich mit Zauberei und Musik eingestimmt, ein humorvolles Grußwort gab’s von Hans Peter Vollmer.

Khizanishvili ist aus New York angereist und sagt zu ihrer Kunst: „Die Leinwand ist eine Verbindung zu einer phantastischen Welt, in der alle Menschen, Tiere, Pflanzen und Gegenstände Wesen sind.“ Die Georgierin hat 21 Gemälde mitgebracht, die mit kräftigen Farben, vielschichtiger Darstellung, fabelhaften Tierwesen und abstrakter Realität beeindrucken. „Ob Venedig, Wien, New York – oder Summerau, ich schätze die unterschiedlichen Begegnungen, das Interesse an meiner Kunst.“ Zuhause in Tiflis heiße es dann wieder malen, malen, malen. Sehenswert ist nicht nur die Kunst der Georgierin – auch Schaider, die inzwischen ebenfalls international ausstellt, zeigt vielschichtige Darstellungen zum Thema Realität ganz unterschiedlicher künstlerischer Genres.

Die Ausstellung ist bis zum 5. Juni zu sehen und ist samstags, sonn- und feiertags von 11 bis 16 Uhr geöffnet.

Links:
rusudan-khizanishvili.com
instagram.com/rusudan khizanishvili
facebook.com/Rusudans-Art-Studio
www.saatchiart.com/rusa
canvas.saatchiart.com/one-to-watch/rusudan-khizanishvili

Mehr zu dieser Ausstellung von Olaf E. Jahnke: schwaebische.de/Vom Zauber der Realität

Infos zum Kunsthaus Summerau gibt’s unter www.summerau.eu


Zur Zeit auch noch bis zum 17. Mai: Anatoly Burykin & Rusudan Khizanishvili in der Galerie am Roten Hof in Wien

DOCUMENTARY: BANDITS (2003) - A film by Zaza Rusadze

"After the Georgian cinema release of MDZEVLEBI (2017) by Rezo Gigineishvili, I've been receiving numerous queries about my graduation film BANDITS (2003).

I've made the documentary now available online and for free via my YouTube Channel in Georgian, German Dubbed & English Subtitled Versions.


Thank you very much for your messages and for your interest! (Zaza Rusadze)


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Zaza Rusadze's graduation film, a documentary BANDITS (2003) is a daring and timely examination of the human side of terrorism. Produced by Susan Schimk, credo:film in collaboration with ARTE the documentary screened at several International Film Festivals and aired on German & French speaking European TV Channels in 2004.          






more: BANDITS (2003) - a documentary by Zaza Rusadze (hier auch in deutsch und georgisch)

www.zazarusadze.com

GALLERIE WEEKEND BERLIN: Gallery on Wheels by Nino Kiladze - Berlin 29.04.2017

THE CHOICE IS YOURS! LET YOUR THOUGHTS FLOW!
GALLERY ON WHEELS
 



The Exhibition will take place at Oranienburger Straße "come in from outside" in Monbijoupark, 12 a.m. until 3 p.m.

more: instagram.com/gaistzeit


Some Paintings by Nino Kiladze

PERSONAL EXHIBITION: Maka Batiashvili's solo exhibition at Fabrika courtyard

Project ArtBeat is pleased to invite you to the opening of Maka Batiashvili's solo exhibition tomorrow, 7-9 PM at Fabrika courtyard, 8 E. Ninoshvili str. The exhibition is on until April 30.

Visiting hours: 12-8 PM.

The project is supported by Fabrika and Tbilisi City Hall.
Project ArtBeat: Georgian Contemporary Art Gallery Founded By Natia Bukia, Natia Chkhartishvili & Salome Vakhania www.facebook.com/events/796490377165475

“The minimal touch of the tusche on paper lasts for only a few seconds and is inspired by calligraphy aesthetics. Simple lines on a white background represent a splatter of figures, they replace the words and create a face living in the repetition of mundane variations and the endless flow. A person who went out of the house is free from the past and the future. He acts in the present, where there is no current or trend“ - Maka Batiashvili.

Maka Batiashvili (Born in 1975, Georgia) lives and works in Tbilisi. 1992-97, the artist studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Tbilisi.

Selected solo and group exhibitions:

2015 - Playground, TBC Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia; Exhibition of Georgian Painters, Contemporary Art Center, Tel Aviv, Israel; 2013 - Arundel Contemporary, Arundel, UK; 2012 - Industrial Gallery, Ostrava, the Czech Republic; 2011 - Black and White, Tbilisi History Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia; 2008 - OFF EUROPA Festival, Leipzig, Germany; National Museum, Atlanta, USA. Project ArtBeat presented Batiashvili's works at Contemporary Istanbul Art Fair (2014-16, Istanbul, Turkey); Kyiv Art Week (2016, Kiev, Ukraine); START Art Fair, Saatchi Gallery, (2015, London, UK).

www.facebook.com/maka batiashvili / exhibition of drawings
www.instagram.com/projectartbeat/
Maka Batiashvili's exuberant work depicts scenes from the everyday. Through the subject matter, Batiashvili poses questions around the existential issues of life and death. In her work the everyday life resembles a playground, where various scenes are being performed. Ostensibly unmediated figures and the intense color scheme in Batiashvili's work share stylistic tendencies with the early modernist painting traditions of Georgia and Europe. Batiashvili's practice is an interesting cross between the traditional and the contemporary painting.

WETTBEWERB: LASS DEN SOMMER NIE WIEDER KOMMEN I let the summer never come again I ნეტავ აღარასდროს მოვიდეს ზაფხული

achtung berlin - new berlin film award I Wettbewerb I Kategorie Spielfilm

23 April I 18:00 I Wolf Kino I Weserstraße 59

25 April I 21:00 I Filmtheater am Friedrichshain I Bötzowstr. 1-5
R+K: Alexandre Koberidze
C: Mate Kevlischvili, Giorgi Bochorishvili
Producer/innen Nutsa Tsikaridze, Keti Kipiani, Alexandre Koberidze
Erzähler: Tamuna Pkhaladze, Ilia Qorqashvili.
Produktion Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb) DE 2017, 202 Min., georgische OmeU


Ein junger Mann zieht aus der georgischen Provinz nach Tiflis, um dort Tänzer zu werden. Dort angekommen, nimmt er an illegalen Faustkämpfen teil und schläft mit Männern, um Geld zu verdienen – bis er sich in einen Mann verliebt, der später in den Krieg ziehen wird. Lass den Sommer nie wieder kommen ist eine abenteuerliche Reise durch einen aufgepixelten, fast impressionistisch anmutenden Großstadtjungel, untermalt von diffusen Originaltönen, urbanen Geräuschkulissen und Orchestermusik. Ein Film, der beobachtet, wie ein stiller, aber aufmerksamer Betrachter, der die Ereignisse nahezu ungefiltert aufsaugt. Ein Kinoereignis der besonderen Art.


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KONZERT: The Naghash Ensemble - "Agahootyan" in Leipzig und Halle

Das Naghash Ensemble spielt »Agahootyan«, zu Deutsch: Habgier. Diese Vertonung einer Predigt des mittelalterlichen armenischen Priester Mkrtich Naghash.

Das Naghash Ensemble auf Europa-Tour im April 2017

26. April - Leipzig, Liebfrauenkirche
27. April - Halle (Saale), Propsteikirche
28. April - Neustadt an der Weinstraße, Stiftskirche
29. April - Ravensburg, Zehntscheuer

Mehr Informationen unter: www.naghashensemble.com

Alt-Armenische Klänge für das 21. Jahrhundert neu erfunden
Hasmik Baghdasaryan (Sopran), Tatevik Movsesyan (Sopran), Arpine Ter-Petrosyan (Alt), Tigran Hovhannisyan (Dhol), Aram Nikoghosyan (Oud), Emmanuel Hovhannisyan (Duduk), John Hodian (Flügel/Komponist)



Das Naghash Ensemble besteht neben dem Komponisten John Hodian am Flügel aus drei armenischen Sängerinnen sowie drei Instrumentalisten auf Duduk, Oud und Dhol. Sie präsentieren die von Hodian erstmals vertonten Gedichte des mittelalterlichen armenischen Priesters Mkrtich Naghash. In den »Songs of Exile« verbinden sich Folk und Klassik zu einer Musik, die fremd und zugleich vertraut klingt, irdisch und wie nicht von dieser Welt.

Im 15. Jahrhundert verfasste der armenische Priester Mkrtich Naghash bewegende Gedichte über das Leben im Exil und die Beziehung des Menschen zu Gott. Über fünf Jahrhunderte später stößt der armenisch-amerikanische Komponist John Hodian auf ein Fragment dieser Texte und weiß: Er hat gefunden, was er suchte! Als Nachkomme von Überlebenden des Genozids an den Armeniern 1915 liest er in Naghashs Texten auch seine eigene Heimatlosigkeit: „Diese Worte sprangen mir aus dem Text entgegen, direkt in meine Seele.“

Mit der Stimme der armenischen Sängerin Hasmik Baghdasaryan im Ohr, beginnt er, die »Songs of Exile« zu komponieren. In seinen Stücken treffen formale Klavierelemente auf erdige Klänge der armenischen Volksinstrumente Duduk, Oud und Dhol. Eigens um diese Kompositionen aufzuführen, gründete sich das Ensemble. Es erweckt die mittelalterlichen armenischen Gedichte, Klagen und Beschwörungen zu einem neuem Leben.






The Naghash Ensemble in Frankfurt Excerpts - This is a 6-minute film featuring excerpts from The Naghash Ensemble performing in Frankfurt.




On May 3rd, Naregatsi Art Institute had the privilege of hosting John Hodian and The Naghash Ensemble, who presented an exceptional concert dedicated to Naregatsi Art Institute and their new album "Songs of Exile" released in 2014. It is a gorgeous collection of songs based on works by the medieval Armenian poet and priest, Mkrtich Nagash.

“Fantastic... One can hardly tell whether it sounds old or new, strange or familiar, east or west, simple or complex, minimalist or medieval. The music defies labeling” - Alexandra Maria Dietlitz, BR Klassik Radio, DE
Gedichte von Mkrtich-Nagash
THE NAGHASH ENSEMBLE [epiphanyrecords.com]

FILM: Wir, die Apfelbäume. Gedichte von Bela Chekurishvili

Die georgische Lyrikerin Bela Chekurishvili liest aus ihrem neuen Gedichtband „Wir, die Apfelbäume“, der von Norbert Hummelt übersetzt wurde und im Wunderhorn Verlag in Heidelberg erschienen ist.

Musik: Frauenchor aus Deutschland

DOCUMENTARY: Silk Road IV 1/5 "South Caucasus - The Flame and the Cross"

Silk Road IV Central and West Asia (2007)

Episode 1 of 5 - The Flame and the Cross -- The South Caucasus

Surrounded by 5,000-meter high mountains, the South Caucasus was a strategic point tying together all directions of the Silk Road. Home to 50 ethnic groups, the region is a cultural treasure trove of unique ethnic music, religious architecture, wines, and so on. It has also been invaded by the Roman, Mongol, and Ottoman empires. Wars still rage even now, and over one million people have become refugees. The region is truly representative of both the blessings and the historical calamities brought on by the Silk Road. This leg of the journey will take you to three countries -- Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia -- countries that have long fostered unique cultures tempered by the flames of war.

Launched in 1980, NHK's renowned Silk Road series was the first foreign TV program allowed to film Silk Road inside communist China. The series sparked enormous interest. A quarter of a century later, NHK re-visits Silk Road with high-definition cameras, and continues further through Central and West Asia.

FILM: Director Giorgi Tsilosani’s short film honoured at silent film fest (agenda.ge)

The film has also received awards at festivals in Turkey and Georgia since its release. Photo: The Preparation film Facebook page.

(agenda.ge) Filmmaker Giorgi Tsilosani has been honoured for his work on the 2015 short film The Preparation after the director received the Best Directing award from the Globe International Silent Film Festival in the United States last week.
Promoted as one of the few international cinema occasions focusing on silent film, the festival ran at the Michigan State University.
The results of the festival’s competition program were announced on April 11, with Tsilosani’s work revealed among seven prize-winning submissions.
Shot in 2015 in the western Georgia’s Cholobargi village, The Preparation casts actors in a portrait of a family preparing for the death of its elder member.
The production was awarded with Best Short Film at the International Bosphorus Film Festival in Turkey and received Special Jury Prize at the Batumi International Art-House Film Festival in Georgia.
The Preparation was also shown at the Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in the Netherlands, with organisers praising it as an "exciting, wonderfully shot film”.

Tsilosani worked on the short as director and screenwriter, with his film produced by Tbilisi-based Millimeter Film studio with support from the Shota Rustaveli Theatre and Film Georgia State University.
The Preparation was Tsilosani's 2015 graduation work from the University.

Founded in 2015, the Globe International Silent Film Festival is held in a "different academic environment around the world every year”.








Short film made by Georgian director Giorgi Tsilosani in 2015. Film is about family who prepares for death of one of their members. Film is made with support of studio Millimeter film and Shota rustaveli theatre and film Georgia state university. This is independent project but for director it was also graduation film. Film was made in Georgia, village Cholobargi.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Very cool photo series presented on Tamara Natenadze Photo Blog. By Timothy M. Bowser

This is an interesting look but one that I cannot say I've shared in. I've spent over three years living among Adjarians and spending much time in the highlands and villages of Xulo. There is a dark dignity to the photos presented here, and the people do have this dignity but I do not feel that there is the darkness illustrated here. I do not imply darkness as a mood or feeling, only the lens through which the photographer chose to portray her subjects. I have always found the highlanders to be amazingly open and joyous. I've spent a few Shuamtoba festivals at Beshumi and Goderdzi. They are riots of color, wrestling, horse racing, dance, and song. Marriages are conducted before the community and drunken fights are pretty common. The days leading up to the festivals were filled with merriment and obscene amounts of drinking. I've partook. Remember these are Muslim populations. The idea/s that we know anything about the Muslim world in Adjara is correct in the photographer/author's opening assessment. We do not know much about it. What we think we know about the populations of Adjara are most likely mistaken and wrought with unwarranted prejudices. One thing mentioned in the article and I find a truism is that the households would fall apart without the women managing them and they are present at the supras but are only periphery participants. Very cool photo series presented on Tako's blog. I found the smaller village Shuamtoba festival very interesting.


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ESSEN & TRINKEN: Restorani Tbilisi - Georgische Spezialitäten in Berlin. Von Angela Schelling

Wir waren in Berlin, um den Halbmarathon zu laufen und sind an 2 von 5 Abenden in diesem Lokal gelandet, weil es uns dort am allerbesten geschmeckt hat. Am leckersten fanden wir die Auberginen mit Walnüssen, den Gurken-Tomatensalat und das abgebildete Huhn in einer Milch-Knoblauch-Sauce.

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