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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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MIZROB
Music Band “Mizrob” is a platform for pure artistic experiment that was established in 2007. They play in the genre of world music based on traditional Tajik music. All members of Mizrob are well-known musicians, who have been playing both traditional and popular Tajik music in different bands. “Mizrob” takes its inspiration for instrumental compositions from the philosophical and poetic works of great eastern thinkers, like Jalolidin Rumi, Hofiz Shirazi, Saadi Shirazi. “Mizrob” conveys the philosophy of Central Asia and the East by means of many instruments -Tajik, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Afghani, Indian, and Turkish - all of which members play professionally.
Members of the band:
Davlat Nazri - (vocal, percussion, nay-flute, ud, dutor-string instrument);
Zarif Pulodov - (vocal, tablac, tabl, maddalina–percussion, ud);
Ikbol Zavkibecov - (setor, guitar, soz, -string instruments, da-percussion)
Discography:
The band is comparatively young therefore it has no discography yet.
Concerts:
International Jazz Festival (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, www.jazz.kg ), April 2008;
Joint concert with Swiss music band - Lucas Niggli Drum Quartet in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, April 2008
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Articles about previous events, workshops and master classes
Gurminj Live project
SAMO
Davlat Nazri |
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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 
