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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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FOLK-ÔÀËÀÊ
The appropriation of indigenous music of Asia, Africa, Australia and Oceania by the Western hemisphere has been a long existing trend. Integration of "exotic" tribal melodies has occurred in all genres of Western music from classical to pop. In the 1960’s, the term "world music" was coined to describe all music that was not Western. Fusions of Western and non-Western have become popular and in some cases pure Western folk (e.g. French, German, Dutch) has lost its validation, and suffered degradation. At the same time, the spread of globalization (internet, better infrastructure to travel, digitization of music) allowed non-Western musicians to incorporate Western genres in their local music. However their interest focused mainly on genres like jazz, rock and pop.
"Folk – Ôàëàê" – these English and Tajik words mean one and the same – music of the people. Similar sounds and semantics of these two words can mislead people with rich imaginations, the so called “national etymologists”, whose fantasy takes them back to the time of Indo-European commonality and one proto-language, about their related origins.
"Folk – Ôàëàê" is an experiment, with an unpredictable outcome. The starting point is European folk music with all its manifestations and variants.
"Folk – Ôàëàê" is an opportunity to take a close look at traditions, understand other cultures and learn more about our own, to find new means of expression and do something that no one has done before; change the direction of stereotypical cultural exchanges from WEST - EAST to ASIA - EUROPE.
It is important that we have tried to avoid the creation of an ethnographic show in the style of “music of the nations of the world”. European folk music, its melodies, rhythms, and instruments are a source of inspiration to create new compositions – world music in Tajik style.
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Fête de la Musique
“It Rocked!”
“You missed jazz, didn’t you?”
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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 
