Exhibitions 2008. Bactria Cultural Centre

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Visual Arts


	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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Art Education


	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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Library


	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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Visual Arts / Exhibitions 2008

Exhibition: “Search for Space” – February 2008

Exhibition: “Art of Feminine Gender” – March 2008

Exhibition: “April Thesis” – April 2008

Exhibition: “Shade” - collaborative work between Martha Jackson-Jarvis and local artists and art students – June 2008

Exhibition: "Pre-Islamic Heritage of Tajikistan. Non-museum Interpretation" - September 2008

Photo exhibition: "Light and Shadow" - October 2008

Exhibition: "Original Copy" - November 2008

Music

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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Music bands: MIZROB | SAMO

Heritage


	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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Language Courses


	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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