Cultural Guide

5 November 2026Kettik!

November has plenty to keep you busy - in a single week there is jazz, ballet, two plays, an art brunch, five lectures and a handmade market. Saturday the 7th is the busiest: from midday until evening events run simultaneously at ICHKARI, the Alisher Navoi State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, Ilkhom, the CCA and Human House. The week closes on Thursday the 12th - Kandinsky, 9 muses and Ilkhom again.

29 October 2026Kettik!

A new week, new events. From 30 October to 5 November in Tashkent, organ and piano resound at the conservatory, Spanish flamenco takes to a big stage in Central Asia for the first time, and the GABT performs Handel's baroque opera “Tamerlano” staged by Stefano Poda on three consecutive evenings. Ilkhom opens its jazz season with a Jazzirama concert, while 9 muses artclub holds an art brunch devoted to Vrubel, a lecture on fashion and a Gershwin evening with the Soundtravel Band. For Halloween there is the immersive gothic performance “Luna” and the exhibition “Very Scary Things” at the Haqiqiy gallery. The exhibition space continues to host a multimedia project telling the story of the Savitsky collection, Bobur Ismoilov's “In Search of Eden” and other displays. Well then, kettik?)

A new week brings new reasons to leave the house. From 23 to 29 October, Tashkent hosts curator-led tours of the Yalt-Yult exhibition at the ICHKARI museum, the opening of the kinoxona art cinema at a new address with three screenings in one day, from Tarkovsky to Miike, a Max Richter concert at the Palace of International Forums, the first open concert of the SAWT music laboratory, a public talk on translating children's literature and an art brunch with a researcher of Vrubel's legacy. The line-up also includes European cinema, theatre premieres, baroque lute music and a symphony by Hans Zimmer. Exhibitions continue across the city.