Kettik!
This week’s guide
This week promises to be anything but dull. Bobur Alimkhodjaev’s double-exposure photography exhibition, a coffee rave after a morning run, a quiz on Pushkin for his birthday, two Sorrentino films in a single weekend, and John Legend on Registan Square. Alongside: lectures on fashion and Caravaggio, a chamber orchestra amid art installations, a flute concert, and a symphony orchestra closing with 80s hits. Kettik!
Thursday
ART
Duality. X-Ray of Memory — a photography exhibition by Bobur Alimkhodjaev
Six photographic panels from 2019–2025, created using double exposure. Each work resembles an X-ray: revealing the hidden facets of a person known only to themselves. The exhibition will be open to visitors from 5 June.
31 Nukus Street
1st floor (IL Home)
Free entry
Friday
COMMUNITY
Puppet show ‘The Caliph Stork’
A staging of Wilhelm Hauff’s fairy tale. The caliph turns into a stork and loses the magic word that would restore his human form. Director Roman Boklanov reimagines the story, transforming it into a tale of freedom and solitude. The performance takes place at the National Puppet Theatre of Uzbekistan, where the first phase of a major renovation has already been completed.
1 Afrosiab Street (Uzbek National Puppet Theatre)
from 40,000 to 60,000 soums
Saturday
EVENT
Intellectual quiz ‘Ay da Pushkin!’
A quiz for Pushkin’s birthday: questions on his biography, works, film adaptations and theatrical productions. Teams of up to 6 people. Registration via Telegram account @misanthropic_toad or by phone: +998993465117
37 1st Olmachi Passage
‘Other Animals’ Theatre
70,000 soums per player, payable on site
EVENT
Coffee Run Party — a run and a party
Ahead of Zaamin Ultra — a joint morning run, after which DJ ianiiiron takes over the decks and a coffee rave begins. Welcome drink: filter coffee.
Rassvet Coffee
Free entry
COMMUNITY
Meet Up ‘Artificial Intelligence and Mental Health’
The first professional meet-up on how artificial intelligence is transforming the practice of doctors, psychologists and psychotherapists. A gathering for psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists, coaches, students and anyone keen to understand the topic. The format is interdisciplinary dialogue. Organiser: @artclub.kandinsky
Impact Hub Tashkent
from 150,000 soums
COMMUNITY
Film Club: ‘Some Like It Hot’
A classic 1959 comedy starring Marilyn Monroe, screened in the original language with English and Russian subtitles. A discussion will follow for those interested. Limited seating. Registration via Telegram accounts @opoytseva, @mortenuit or by phone +998933864730 / +998946783212
43 Kichik Mirabad
100,000 soums
Sunday
FASHION
Lecture ‘Cinema and Fashion’
A lecture by fashion history researcher Alesya Kichko on how cinema has dictated the defining images of the fashion industry for a century. Garbo in men’s suits, Hepburn’s little black dress from Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the leather trench coats of The Matrix, and Miranda Priestly’s editorial eye — all images that stepped off the screen to become real-world trends.
Art Space ‘9 Muses’
Mukanna Dead End, 18
from 300,000 soums
ART
Art Brunch ‘Caravaggio: The Birth of a New Painting’
The gathering is dedicated to the artist who divided the history of painting into before and after. Caravaggio was the first to make light the protagonist of a canvas; his stark shadows and almost theatrical illumination were revolutionary for the 17th century and influenced all of European Baroque painting. The session will examine his technique, biography, and most celebrated works.
Art Space ‘9 Muses’
Mukanna Dead End, 18
from 350,000 soums
EVENT
Film Analysis: Wuthering Heights
A joint screening of the new adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel, followed by an analysis with film scholar Kristina Romanova. How the director works with the source material, what is changed, what is preserved, and why Wuthering Heights continues to be adapted nearly 180 years after its publication.
Art Space ‘9 Muses’
Mukanna Dead End, 18
from 350,000 soums
Monday
EVENT
John Legend Concert
John Legend is an EGOT winner — the only artist in the industry to hold all four major awards: Grammy, Oscar, Tony, and Emmy. Live piano soul, hits like All of Me and Ordinary People — all set against the backdrop of Registan.
Registan Square
Samarkand
from 600,000 soums
Thursday
MUSIC
Chamber Evening with the Romantic Collection Orchestra
A chamber orchestra in an art gallery space. The theme of the musical evening is romance. Live music will resonate among works of art. Tickets: showgo.uz
Kichkik Mirobod
43
from 105,000 soums
MUSIC
Concert of Virtuoso Flute Music
An evening of flute music from the global repertoire: fantasies on opera themes, romantic melodies, and ensemble pieces. The programme spans Hungarian folk motifs, German Romanticism, and the Spanish atmosphere of Carmen. Programme: Doppler — Hungarian Fantasy; Taffanel — Fantasy on Themes from Der Freischütz; Weber / Tsybin — Concert Allegro No. 2; Borne — Brilliant Fantasy on Themes from Carmen; Andersen — Military Allegro for Two Flutes.
Batyr Zakirov Street
1
66,000 soums
ART
Painting Exhibition ‘Colour of Life: Transformation 36’ — Gulya Gromova
A retrospective of 36 years of work by artist Gulya Gromova — from works of the 1990s to the most recent. Nine series tracing the evolution of her artistic language and thematic priorities.
Pakhtakorskaya Street
5
Free entry
Friday
EVENT
Sorrentino Weekend: ‘The Great Beauty’ and ‘Grace’
Kinoxona TFS brings together two films by the same director for one weekend. Paolo Sorrentino is one of Italy’s foremost contemporary directors, an Oscar winner and a regular at the Cannes Film Festival. Both films are united not only by the ever-present Toni Servillo in the lead role, but also by Sorrentino’s central question: what remains for a person when illusions, power and youth fade away? The screening of ‘The Great Beauty’ (2013) takes place on Saturday, and ‘Grace’ (2026) on Sunday.
Kinoxona TFS
10 Socrates Street
From 70,000 soums
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