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| Bactria Cultural Centre, as a contemporary artistic space, serves as a catalyst by providing opportunities to local artists to express their creativity in an entirely free and experimental way. At present it is the only venue in Dushanbe that encourages artists to apply innovative approaches to manifest their artistic visions. |
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| Bactria Cultural Centre, as the cultural actor of ACTED’s activities, is fully devoted to provide access to information and to vocational training. Educational activities aimed at artists and art professionals are organized with the firm belief that an understanding of national identity as well as social changes and development can originate from active participants of society. The role of an artist is, and always has been, the observer, the analyzer, and the initiator. |
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| One of the main information points in Bactria is its library, which has a collection of books in Tajik, Russian, English, German and French, focusing on mostly culture and history. Art books on the works of Michelangelo, Levitan, Vrubel, Aivazovsky, Theophanes the Greek, movies of Russian and Western avant-garde, and Italian Renaissance are the most valued pieces of the collection. |
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Access to information – Cultural Coordination Meetings
 The Cultural Coordination Meetings (CCMs) were initiated by the German Embassy, ACTED and the Swiss Development Cooperation Office in 2003 and continued as a component of the SDC "Promotion of Cultural Diversity" Program until 2007.
The CCMs were developed with the goal of regularly gathering different actors working in the fields of art and culture in Dushanbe to share information, ideas and experiences in order to promote better coordination and cooperation.
The pilot phase of the project was implemented by Bactria Cultural Centre (ACTED) between 2004 and 2006. During this period, the number of participants in the CCMs rose from 7 to 28 representatives from different cultural organizations and roughly 10 CCMs, were held. In addition, the methodology for the CCMs was modified on the basis of remarks and requests of the CCMs participants.
In order to develop the relationships built during this pilot phase of the project, BCC continued the program through 2008 and proposed to build the discussion around relevant issues concerning arts and culture. Themes like Contemporary Art in Central Asia (insight vision); Art and Mass Media: Problems of art criticism and art journalism; Traditions and Modernity: Traditional and Contemporary art forms in Tajikistan: conflict or dialogue; Art & Business: art industries as a way out, were identified.
In addition to the regular meetings an event calendar and BACTRIA’s newsletter is issued monthly both electronically and in print. Bactria’s website also provides information about the centre’s activities and events.
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Workshops on curatorial work and on art criticism
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| Bactria Cultural Centre is engaged in projects that further capacity building and development of music industry in Tajikistan. First of all, it offers a venue to musicians through the organization of regular concerts where they can freely practice their creativity. We impose no limitation in the direction of musical genres, but we do promote world music and experiments based on the combination of traditional and contemporary music. |
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| If the context allows, Bactria Cultural Centre uner the auspices of ACTED, carries out heritage conservation and rehabilitation activities, if the heritage in question has been damaged or suffers from a lack of maintenance due to the difficulties facing the communities. |
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As a result of the continuous degradation of Tajik educational structure, from a unified primary and secondary education under the Soviets, barely 60 percent of Tajikistan’s current school-age population is receiving educational opportunities. Through opportunities for learning and vocational training BACTRIA aims at democratizing access to information and education. |
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Artistic Vision 
