Monday, June 18, 2007

EVENT- The Wildeness of Asia, Nomads Festival, Poland

Distrib. by: Central-Eurasia-L - Announcement List for Central Eurasian Studies


EVENT- The Wildeness of Asia, Nomads Festival, Poland

Posted by Janyl Jusubjan <janyl_j@hotmail.com>

Dates: June 19-24, Wroclaw

Press Conference - June 12. at 14:00
Official Opening - June 19, 15:00

The "Wilderness of Asia" is a five day long event with focus on
nomadic culture of wider Central Asia. The festival hosted by the City
of Wroclaw will include a photo exhibition, concerts, workshops and
presentations, a handicraft bazaar, film screenings, the fire
celebration of the shortest night of the year, competition in archery,
wrestling and horse riding. Many events will be held in yurts - the
nomadic felt tents - made in Kyrgyzstan.

The organizers strive to involve members of Central Asian Diaspora in
Central Europe. They will play for you native music, teach dances and
throat singing, cook lagman - an Ujgur hand-made noodles with spicy
source. You also can learn firsthand to play dombra and stitch felt shoes.

Main Events:

Photo exhibition by Jerzy Trawinski

Concerts of Central Asian Prague Ensemble and its friends

Presentations: "Dungur - Shaman horse", "Instruments of Asia" by
Tereze Wierzbowska, "The Magic of Epic Telling" by Janyl Jusubjan.
LECTURES: "Shamanism in Ethnologic Research", by Konrad Gorny, "The
History of Kazakhstan" by Adilzhan Ibraiuly, "The Music of Kazakhstan"
by Alexiej Vasiliev, "The Steppe Life" by Jerzy Trawinski.

Workshops: "Sound of Asia" - throat singing, dombra (possibility of
private lessons), "An Uzbek Dance", by Gulsara Toktosun, "With Felt
Shoes Against Poverty" by Aizada Sulaimanova.

FILMS And DOCUMENTARIES: Dersu Urzala, Belyi Parakhod, Beyond
Samarkand - an Uzbek Love Story, On the Back of the Horse, Tabu -
poslednij shaman, Tengir-too - Mountain Music from Kyrgyzstan,
Invisible Face of Beloved, and others.
NAADAM Open International Championship in archery, wrestling and horse riding.

The "Wilderness of Asia" is a project by:
The Millennium Society(http://www.grod.wroclaw.pl/), Poland;
The Municipal Museum of Wroslaw(www.muzeum.miejskie.wroclaw.pl),
AKT Kultura i Turystyka (www.akt.art.pl), Poland;
kultur-multur.org, Czech Republic (www.kultur-multur.org)
Society HAYIRAKAN Kultura Jutra, Poland.

with support by
MOFFOM - Music on Film, Film on Music Festival, Prague;
Dialogue of Cultures - United World, Prague

Contact:

Macek Trsinski:
tel: +48605830425
email: trzcinka2@gazeta.pl

Grzegorz Gumula
tel: +48602303374 +48757551971
email: akt@akt.art.pl

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