In 2019, several friends met in a small coffee shop—back then, no one could have imagined that within a couple of years their community would grow to a hundred participants and become the core of Tashkent's new creative ecosystem.

"We believe that creative industries can bring the country no less than manufacturing. But for that, we need to give a chance to those who are ready to take risks," the organizers note.

That's how MOC emerged—a space that today can be called a catalyst for cultural processes in the city. "We started with film screenings and small gatherings. The main thing was to unite musicians, artists, designers—people with ideas who often lacked a place for implementation," the founders recall.

We learned how MOC grew from an intimate community into a full-fledged creative hub, how they managed to preserve the sense of freedom that the team defines as "the right to experiment, even if no one yet understands why it's needed."

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