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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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 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. Fundamental works dealing with the First and Second World War constantly remain in the focal point of readers. Especially interesting is the selection of literature of Tajik history, like the works of Ashrafa, Maitdinovy, and Frei. The library also holds a collection of atlases and picture books.
Among its literature pieces the luxury edition of Tolkien, the books of Houellebecq, French and German works in original language must be mentioned. There are several dictionaries in different languages. The library constantly increases its collection and in the near future it is expecting some American Classics and books on contemporary arts.
In the reading room of the library, book shows on “Contemporary French Literature”, Contemporary American Literature”, Arts of the 20th century”, History of the Second World War”, and Social problems in contemporary literature” are regularly organized.
The movie library boosts a selection of popular and artistic works from all over the world, like films of Chaplin, Wenders, Jarmusch, Spielberg, Muratova, Solovev, and Lungin.
Books, newspapers, DVDs, CDs are available for consultation and to borrow at Bactria library:
- an extensive choice of Western and Eurasian titles – 11 000 books available in their original language (Tajik, Russian, English, French, Spanish, Uzbek, German, Turkish, Swedish and Italian)
- a “Media Corner” with current newspapers and magazines from Central Asia, Russia and beyond,
- A multimedia shelf offering video and audio materials,
- Books and comics for children,
- Dictionaries and encyclopedia,
- Teachers’ methods and students’ books for foreign language teachers and students
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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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