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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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Other initiatives
ANNUAL SEMINAR FOR FRENCH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
In 2007, BACTRIA initiated an annual seminar for Tajik teachers of French language from Dushanbe universities and secondary schools in Tajikistan. This seminar takes place during the International Francophone Week and is the only initiative of its kind that allows French teachers from different regions of the country to gather and work together on specific topics such as the curriculum, teaching methods or new projects for the development of French language in Tajikistan.
Tajik French language teachers interested in participating in this seminar can download the registration form and send back the filled out version to bactria.education@acted.org
Registration form for French teachers annual seminar
EDUCATION FOR DISADVANTAGE CHILDREN
Since 2007, BACTRIA has started a new initiative focusing on disadvantaged youth facing severe economical or social difficulties. The idea of this new initiative is to give these children an opportunity to work together in educational and creative activities enabling them to discover new ways of expression, to exercise their creative abilities and to foster teamwork and productive collaboration. During a month-long summer school, children familiarize themselves with a foreign language and culture, bolster their computer skills, learn the basics of drawing, music and theater and visit public cultural places such as museums and theatres. Children who have already participated in this initiative were orphans or were enrolled in a Special Vocational School for juvenile offenders and in a Refugee, Children and Vulnerable Citizens Center located in Dushanbe. Some of them continue their education attending courses offered by the Bactria Cultural Centre during the rest of the year.
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Courses
DELF/DALF
Language Coffee Hours
Research and study grants opportunities
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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 
