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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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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. Festivals such as the Rock ‘n’ Roll Day and Fete de la Music serve the goal to encourage musicians to compose and perform their own pieces. In addition, our concerts mean an alternative income source to musicians, who foremost earn their living by performing at commercial and social events. Through master classes and workshops we provide training to musicians on various music styles and techniques, electrification of traditional instruments and on recording music.
The center supports the project “Gurminj Live” initiated by Restorers Without Borders, which aims at the revitalization of Gurminj Museum, a small private museum with a significant collection of traditional instruments, in order to become a center for live music culture. The project includes the organization of regular summer concerts, the upgrade of the exhibition with explanatory labels and the development of educational program for school age children. Finally BACTRIA is devoted to promote Tajik music in and outside of Tajikistan. Under its auspices are two bands SAMO and MIZROB, whose music is already well sought after.
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Articles about previous events, workshops and master classes
Gurminj Live project
MIZROB
SAMO
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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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