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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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Handicrafts Fairs
Traditional arts and crafts play a viable role in the economic and cultural development of Central Asia. Crafts fairs are regularly organized throughout Central Asia, including a semi-annual crafts fair in Almaty, Kazakhstan and an annual Silk & Spices Festival in Bukhara, Uzbekistan to boost the regional market as well as to attract foreign buyers. Nevertheless, major initiatives should be further developed in Tajikistan to involve more Tajik handcrafters in this regional network.
In order to increase the visibility of Tajik craftsmen and to develop regional links with Bactria Cultural Centre, the Central Asian Crafts Support Association (CACSA), a Kyrgyz NGO, and Eurasia Foundation of Central Asia, in collaboration with the International Fund of Tajik Handicraft Producers, “Haft Paikar” regularly organizes regional Handicrafts Fairs involving more than 50 handcrafters from different countries of the Central Asia region.
In 2008 the fair went beyond the strict scope of the exhibition of handicraft products and focused more on the development of a regional handcrafter’s network and on building the marketing capacity of Tajik handcrafters.
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Collaboration with the Museum of Antiquities
Inventory project of all ethnographic museums of Tajikistan
Collaboration with Behzod National Museum
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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 
