Culture

On 9 June 2018, a delegation of the British Museum arrived in Tashkent. The delegation included the head of the Department of Islamic Art, Ladan Akbarnia, the curator of the collection on the contemporary Middle East Famida Suleiman, curator of the textile collection Helena Wolf and others.

Lemusée duquai Branly ethnographic museum in Paris hosts the show of “Kyrk kyz” play (Forty girls) by famous Uzbek artist and director Saodat Ismailova, who tells the story of forty girls based on the epic of the same name.

From 25 to 30 May, the 6th Festival of European Cinema will be held at Cinema Palace named after Alisher Navoi. The Festival is organized by the Delegation of the European Union in Uzbekistan in cooperation with the National Agency "Uzbekkino".

The Smithsonian Institute and the Foundation for Development of Culture and Arts under the Ministry of Culture of Uzbekistan signed an agreement on cooperation during the visit of the President of the Republic of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev to Washington on 15-17 May.

An exhibition of children’s drawings “The House of My Dreams” was held in Bukhara on 13 May. It was organized by the Bukhara German Cultural Center "Wiedergeburt" and Knauf Gips Bukhara.

Uzbekistan and Russia will shoot a joint film “Hodja Nasreddin”, filming of which will take place in Uzbekistan.

A delegation of France headed by the President of the Louvre Museum (Paris) Mr. Jean-Luc Martinez will visit Uzbekistan from 9 to 11 May 2018.

VERTIGO, a legendary Israeli contemporary dance company, will present a dance show “ONE, ONE & ONE” in Tashkent on 2 May 2018.

A concert of Slovak musicians Peter Uličný and Gabriel Jonáš will take place in Tashkent on 27 April. This was reported by the press office of the Embassy of the Slovak Republic in Tashkent.

State Academic Bolshoi Theater named after Alisher Navoi hosted a concert of Great Symphony Orchestra named after Tchaikovsky under the leadership of the outstanding conductor Vladimir Fedoseyev.