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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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Exhibition: "Shade"
-collaborative work between Martha Jackson-Jarvis and local artists and art students – June 2008
 SHADE is a collective sculpture project that explores the rhythmic systems of earth as they collide with man made elements and reckless materials in the environment, It is the synthesis of the personal and collective vision of Artists as we journey cross bridges, over rivers,
along trails, around stones, through shelters, and climbing vines, to investigate dynamic systems at play in the eco system.
The genesis of the collective work inspiration sprang from a chance encounter along a mountain trail with a young Tajik boy. Covered in lush green leaves, he balanced a huge bundle of fresh cut branches to "make shade for my house". The boy's small but magnanimous gesture of making shade, becomes the metaphor for survival and futuristic cooling
of the Earth. It symbolizes the global necessity for care giving to our collective home.
Using disparate materials culled from both natural and man made materials, SHADE invites the viewer to travel with us as we move away from a dance of destruction and pollution, to one of change, rejuvenation, and recycling to create shade and shelter for the earth,
Collectively, the eyes of Artists look back through time and forward in time. It is through this God given window of simultaneous observation that we see our survival linked to very ancient and basic ways of living collectively and conscientiously on Earth.
SHADE reaches across cultural borders, across time, and into the hearts of man.
(Martha Jackson Jarvis - Sculptor)
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Exhibition: “Search for Space” – February 2008
Exhibition: “Art of Feminine Gender” – March 2008
Exhibition: “April Thesis” – April 2008
Exhibition: "Pre-Islamic Heritage of Tajikistan.
Non-museum Interpretation" - September 2008
Photo exhibition: "Light and Shadow" - October 2008
Exhibition: "Original Copy" - November 2008 |
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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 
