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OC Media to screen documentary on last Ubykh speaker in Tbilisi
3+ hour, 57+ min ago (177+ words) I Had a Dream You Won't Understand Even If I Tell " a documentary about Tevfik Esen, the last known speaker of the Ubykh language, will be screened in Tbilisi on June 11, followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers....
Songs Without Borders: Maiklang Festival Turns Tbilisi into a Laboratory of Contemporary Sound
5+ day, 8+ hour ago (232+ words) What distinguished Maiklang from many international music events was its refusal to concentrate activity within a single venue. Instead, performances unfolded across a network of radically different urban spaces. The industrial atmosphere of Fabrika and its House of Camora stage…...
Baltic Meets Caucasus: Polish Baltic Philharmonic's Tbilisi Debut
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (256+ words) For Georgian listeners, this work carries an additional resonance. Few cultures understand the coexistence of beauty and melancholy as deeply as those shaped by centuries of political upheaval, cultural resilience, and historical memory. Tchaikovsky's final symphony speaks directly to such…...
The Courage of Imperfection: When the City Sings to Itself
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (196+ words) In a cultural landscape often dominated by virtuosity, competition, and institutional prestige, the concert of the community choir Opus 117 offered something increasingly rare: music as a civic practice. Each participant briefly spoke about a composer who held personal significance for…...
TBC Concept Presents the 19th Black Sea Jazz Festival in Partnership with Miro
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (321+ words) TBC Concept, a longstanding supporter of culture and one of the country's leading patrons of the arts, proudly presents the 19th Black Sea Jazz Festival, taking place in Batumi from July 1012, 2026. For over a decade, TBC Concept has served as the…...
Markus Appenzeller's lecture at the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts
5+ day, 15+ hour ago (96+ words) The more comfortable our cities become, the more fragile, expensive, unhealthy, and oddly characterless they grow. Comfort, pursued without restraint, turns out to be deeply uncomfortable." " Markus Appenzeller On June 5 at 4: 00 PM, the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts will host…...
Into the Forest of Performed Truth: David Doiashvili's A Midsummer Night's Dream and the Theater of Political Derealization
1+ week, 5+ day ago (382+ words) There are productions that reinterpret Shakespeare through contemporary imagery, and there are productions that use Shakespeare to expose the hidden mechanics of the present. David Doiashvili's A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Royal District Theater unmistakably belongs to the second…...
French cinema festival returns to Tbilisi
1+ week, 13+ hour ago (108+ words) The French Institute of Georgia is bringing back its open-air cinema festival "Cinema Under the Stars" for a third edition this summer, with screenings scheduled from June 4 to July 30 in Tbilisi. The festival will take place every Thursday at the…...
The Year's Art Event
1+ week, 5+ day ago (321+ words) I have been to TAF at least once before, but this was definitely a much larger deal. There were individual artists" shows, most of these each on a side of four-walled spaces, on one hall. A much larger hall featured…...
Polyphony, Ruins, and the Post-Soviet Sensorium: Notes from Tbilisi Art Fair 2026
1+ week, 5+ day ago (146+ words) Georgia Today Polyphony, Ruins, and the Post-Soviet Sensorium: Notes from Tbilisi Art Fair 2026 This year's edition of Tbilisi Art Fair 2026 at Expo Georgia unfolded with a peculiar duality. On one level, it retained the recognizable structure of a regional contemporary…...