EVENT- Kyrgyz music, photography exhibit and lectures in Saratoga Springs
Posted by: Virlana Tkacz <yara@prodigy.net>
This week a cluster of events in Saratoga Springs
Kyrgyzstan: Celestial Mountains
Saratoga Springs, New York April 3-6, 2007
Celestial Cities
Gallery 110,
Wednesday April 4,
6 -8 PM
Opening Reception for exhibit of photography of Margaret Morton,
featuring of Kyrgyzstan's extraordinary architectural legacyornate
"gumbez" or mausoleums clustered in elaborate miniature walled cities
that are astonishing for their grandeur and desolate mountain sites.
There will also be a bazaar of traditional crafts.
Sakhna: Music from the Celestial Mountains
Filene Hall, Skidmore College Thur, April 5, 8PM
In partnership with Skidmore College's Ethnomusicology Department Yara
and Sakhna artists from Kyrgyzstan will perform epic songs or
"dastans", as well as traditional music. The event will be introduced
by slides of Kyrgyzstan.
The Making of Janyl
Gallery 110 Friday, April 6, 6PM
Director Virlana Tkacz and the performers will offer selected music
and stories on the making of Yara's newest work Janyl. Based on an
ancient epic song from Kyrgyzstan about a woman archer with a skill so
refined that she never misses, this World Music-Theater piece
performed at La MaMa in March.
The events with the Kyrgyz artists in New York were made possible in
part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts,
New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs, grants from the
Nordlys Foundation, CEC ArtsLink, US Embassy in Bishkek, Swiss Agency
for Development, the Educational Fund of the President of the Kyrgyz
Republic and the Soros Foundation of Kyrgyzstan
For information on all these Kyrgyz events call (518)587-6433
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