Kettik!
This week’s guide
A week in which Bravo performs the Game of Thrones soundtrack under the open sky, and Gogol once again makes two neighbours fall out for good. In between — a Sufi parable staged by Pankov, a lecture on Jacqueline Kennedy as a political gesture, and a festival on the alien salt flats of Karakalpakstan. The full rundown of events from 18 to 24 September — only in Kettik. Don't miss it!
Saturday
ART
Hikmah Exhibition — CCA Tashkent
Works by Uzbek and international artists on wisdom, spirit and the transformation of matter. Some of the pieces were created specifically for these halls.
CCA Tashkent Centre for Contemporary Art
6A Amir Temur Avenue
Free entry
Wednesday
EVENT
YONAR Festival — Karakalpakstan
An international project of experimental art and creative tourism on otherworldly salt landscapes. There are no spectators — every participant becomes part of the team. Organised by the Stikhiya festival. Registration: @yonar_community. Free participation (travel, food and equipment at your own expense)
Borsakelmas salt flat
Kungrad district, Karakalpakstan
Friday
MUSIC
Candle Fire: Iron Throne
The Bravo Orchestra performs Ramin Djawadi's music from Game of Thrones under the open sky, surrounded by water, by candlelight — without screens or video effects. 1 hour 17 minutes. 5+.
Hamid Alimjan St. and Uzbekistan Ovozi St.
from 197,000 soum
MUSIC
Rooftop Sonata: Grand Emotion
The Sonata Chamber Orchestra on a rooftop. Young and Beautiful, Still D.R.E., themes from Titanic, La La Land, Game of Thrones, Kara Sevda and Magnificent Century. A small ensemble, with the audience seated close to the musicians. 12+.
Na Kryshe Cinema
Babur St.
from 159,000 soum
EVENT
Blues Night
Electric guitar, saxophone and keyboards, no vocals. Careless Whisper, Hotel California, Purple Rain, Sultans of Swing, Wonderful Tonight, Superstition. 7+.
Human House Gallery
43 Ivliev St.
from 150,000 soum
MUSIC
Concert "A String of Pearls"
A vocal and stage composition by Lyudmila Slonim set to poems by Japanese poets translated into Russian. The story of a Woman's life — from youth to old age — through poetry, music and stage action.
Alisher Navoi State Academic Bolshoi Theatre
28 Zarafshan St.
100,000 soum
MUSIC
Performance "Seven Moons"
A Sufi parable by Alisher Navoi staged by Vladimir Pankov. Traditional music of the East meets contemporary Western rhythms. Created together with the Russian studio SounDrama. With English subtitles. 16+.
Ilkhom Theatre
5 Pakhtakor St.
from 150,000 soum
THEATRE
Performance "The Lost"
A comedy about two women of different ages who suddenly decide to start their lives over. On stage — Yulia Plakida and Klavdia Bezmaternykh.
Drugie Zveri Theatre-Studio
37 1st Olmachi Passage
from 100,000 soum
EVENT
Performance "How Ivan Ivanovich Quarrelled with Ivan Nikiforovich"
An adaptation of Gogol: the absurd feud between two respected neighbours, whose years-long peace collapses over a ridiculous insult.
Uzbekistan State Academic Russian Drama Theatre
24 Zarafshan St.
from 55,000 to 88,000 soum
THEATRE
Musical comedy "Lucky Fellow"
The morning of an ordinary family: the husband leaves for work, the wife invites her lover, who has won the lottery. The husband's sudden return and a accidentally found winning ticket set off a chain of comic events.
Operetta Theatre
Chilanzar-Ts, Chopon-Ota St.
from 55,000 to 77,000 soum
ART
Exhibition "Through the Female Line" — Robiya Kadyrova
16 paintings on the female experience: "Roots", "Transition", "Light" — three perspectives on what is passed from woman to woman.
Zanmakon Women's Museum
48 Zarkaynar St.
Free entry
Saturday
COMMUNITY
Art mediation "Perceiving Art as Self-Reflection" — Kandinsky Art Club
We will talk not only about artists, techniques and context, but also about personal perception. How colour, form, subject matter, emptiness or tension in a work can become an occasion to hear oneself better. 80 minutes. Gallery admission ticket — separately.
Gallery of Fine Arts of Uzbekistan
150,000 soum
ART
Opening of the exhibition "Confluences"
A large-scale multimedia art project on the role of water in Central Asia. The ecological research exhibition will transform and be supplemented with new works over the course of three months.
ARTepa Gallery by Green University
Osiyo St.
Free entry
LECTURE
Opening of the creative hub Chateau KOLHOZ
The Chateau KOLHOZ project opens a new studio of workshops "Depth" in the Hangar.uz cultural cluster. Classes will run throughout the day from 11:00, and at 17:00 a celebratory programme will begin in honour of the opening of the new space.
Hangar.uz
Mavlana Riyozi St., 2
Free entry
Sunday
COMMUNITY
Art meeting "Chanel versus Schiaparelli" — Kandinsky Art Club
Fashion expert Malika Juraeva on the great rivalry between Gabrielle Chanel and Elsa Schiaparelli — two women who at the same time and in the same city created completely different images of femininity and defined twentieth-century fashion.
TUT Workspace
1st Darhan Lane, 7
250,000 soum
LECTURE
Lecture + screening of Miyazaki's "The Boy and the Heron"
D. Nesterenko gives a lecture on Hayao Miyazaki's final film — his concluding statement on art, death and creativity. A joint screening with discussion.
"9 Muses" Art Space
Mukanna Cul-de-sac, 18
320,000 soum
ART
BENCHELLAL Exhibition "Monumental. Sculpting Past Tomorrow"
Dutch-Moroccan artist Mohamed Benchellal translates the monumental architecture of modernism into a silhouette commensurate with the human body. The new sculptures were created during a Tashkent residency.
State Museum of the History of Uzbekistan
3 Rashidov Ave.
Free entry
ART
Exhibition by Vyacheslav Useinov "Here"
‘Here’ refers both to a place and to the mulberry tree, which is pruned every season for the sake of the silkworm cocoon. The artist builds the project around these two meanings.
Ilkhom Theatre
5 Pakhtakorskaya St.
Free entry
Monday
EVENT
Sound drama "Qo'rqma"
A stage adaptation of a work by Javlon Javliev, dedicated to the memory of Uzbek students who studied in Germany in the 1920s and were shot by the Soviet authorities. Director — Abzal Khojaev. 14+.
Millat Theatre
60 Katartal St.
from 50,000 to 100,000 soum
Wednesday
COMMUNITY
Art&Card "Masterpieces of Sculpture" — Kandinsky Art Club
An authored card game about the history of sculpture: from Michelangelo and Rodin to contemporary names. A networking gathering in an interactive game format.
TUT Workspace
1st Darhan Ave., 7
200,000 soum
LECTURE
Lecture by A. Kichko "Style Icons: Jacqueline Kennedy" — 9 Muses Art Space
Jacqueline Kennedy — a woman who transformed the role of First Lady into an independent artistic gesture. A lecture on style, power and image as a political instrument.
9 Muses Art Space
18 Mukanna Cul-de-sac
300,000 soum
Thursday
MUSIC
Jazz evening "Jazz That Defined Its Time" — 9 Muses Art Space
An evening of jazz music with a journey through the history of the genre's key eras — from classic bebop to contemporary jazz fusion.
Holiday Inn Hotel
310,000 soum
Friday
ART
Exhibition "Garden of Memory" — Olga Vislintseva
Flowers, suzani, childhood memories and a grandmother's garden — all that stays with a person for life. Curated by Alexandra Romanova.
Haqiqiy Art Space
115 Parkent St.
Free entry
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