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| November 13, 1-3pm, Sunday |
Silk Road House presents: "Hunting with Birds of Prey in Kyrgyzstan"...
The Kyrgyz tradition of capturing, training, and hunting with golden eagles has survived for centuries through oral transmission, passed down from father to son through dynastic chains of tradition. The breadth of knowledge involved in the craft is astounding -- an eagle hunter is required to be an expert in bird taxonomy and physiology, raptor reproduction and migration patterns, and raptor husbandry. Each hunter should have a grasp of leather making and woodworking to fashion his own hunting equipment. How is this traditional knowledge being preserved today, and in what context is it being put to use? How have modern economic forces, from tourism to the illegal falcon trade, shaped this ancient tradition? How can this important national heritage be responsibly promoted and maintained? These questions and more will be analyzed and discussed during a photo presentation from Mr. Keen. Dennis Keen worked in the Kyrgyz Republic from September 2010 to July 2011 on a Fulbright Fellowship in Anthropology. He received his B.A. in Linguistics with a concentration in Russian, from the University of California, Santa Cruz. In addition to his work on falconry, Mr. Keen’s interest in ethnomusicology has led him to pursue an apprenticeship in Kyrgyz folk instrumentation with the well-known komuzchu, Nurak Abdirakhmanov, and he writes regularly on various topics for the regional magazine The Spektator. |
| August 13th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
Silk Road House presents "Koryo Saram"...
In 1937, Stalin began a campaign of massive ethnic cleansing and forcibly deported everyone of Korean origin living in the coastal provinces of the Far East Russia near the border of North Korea to the unsettled steppe country of Central Asia 3700 miles away. This story of 180,000 Koreans who became political pawns during the Great Terror is the central focus of this film. Koryo Saram (the Soviet Korean phrase for Korean person) tells the harrowing saga of survival in the open steppe country and the sweep of Soviet history through the eyes of these deported Koreans, who were designated by Stalin as an "unreliable people" and enemies of the state. Through recently uncovered archival footage and new interviews, the film follows the deportees' history of integrating into the Soviet system while working under punishing conditions in Kazakhstan, a country which became a concentration camp of exiled people from throughout the Soviet Union. Today, in the context of Kazakhstan's recent emergence as a rapidly modernizing, independent state, the story of the Kazakhstani-Koreans situated within this ethnically diverse country has resonance with the experience of many Americans and how they have assimilated to form new cultures in our world of increasingly displaced people. Koryo Saram - The Unreliable People is a one hour documentary film co-directed by Y. David Chung and Matt Dibble. The Director of Photography and Editor is Matt Dibble. The Executive Producer is Meredith Jung-En Woo. German Kim of the Kazakh State University is the historical consultant. The screening will be introduced and commented on by Steven Lee who is an assistant professor in the Department of English at UC Berkeley. His research interests include twentieth-century American literature, comparative ethnic studies, and Soviet and post-Soviet studies. Steven Lee was among the inaugural group of Fulbright students to be sent to the Central Asian Republics, where he compared Soviet Korean and Korean American literatures and histories. A graduate of Amherst and Stanford, he has received fellowships from the Mellon Foundation/ACLS, the Stanford Humanities Center, and NYU’s Center for the United States and the Cold War. |
| July 23rd, Saturday |
Invitation for "Diagnostics" Exhibit
Dear Silk Road House community: As you may remember, three years ago we joyfully celebrated the wedding of Zhanara and Daniel. Now Zhanara successfully graduated from Stanford University, got her PhD in Anthropology (with dissertation entitled REFURBISHING SOVIET STATUS: VISUAL ARTISTS AND MARKETIZATION IN KAZAKHSTAN), and they are leaving for New York. They cannot leave without saying goodbye to all our people – they both feel very connected to the Silk Road House community. So, they’re wishing to invite us to the event they’re organizing with friends on July 23, Saturday, in Oakland. Here is their official announcement for your kind reference: Dear Friends, Please join us for an event by the Artpologist collective. Keith “Speed” Pinkney’s Enthusiast Automotive workshop is a path to exploring the history and politics of Oakland. Over the past two years, we have interacted with the workers of the bodyshop and its social environment through ethnographic and artistic involvement. This project engages with the social and material life of working on and around cars as a way into the rich themes of masculinity, labor and craft, as well as economies and materialities of reuse/recycling/barter in the community histories of the East Bay. We would like to invite you to an exhibit and barbecue at Speed Pinkney’s workshop on Saturday, July 23rd at 4 pm. The address is 5920 Adeline St, Oakland, CA. To learn more about the project, visit our blog: http://artpologist.wordpress.com We hope to see you there! Daniel Gallegos Davon Ramos Diana Sanchez James Crosby Monica Linzner Zhanara Nauruzbayeva Frank Sosa |
| July 9th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
The Silk Road House presents: "THE SALTMEN OF TIBET" German filmmaker, director and writer Ulrike Koch is a sinologist (her previous film dealt with Chinese medicine) who made this 1997 documentary on digital video with a small crew in northern Tibet. She also worked on the Bernardo Bertolucci films ''The Last Emperor'' and ''Little Buddha.'' For this Swiss-German production, she sneaked cameras into Changtang region in order to film four men and 160 yak in a 2,000-year-old ritual -- the annual spring pilgrimage to gather raw salt at remote lakes, a three-month Himalayan trek. The wind is a constant presence, and so are the looming, snow-covered peaks. This nomadic tribe has been collecting salt to buy barley in the same way since ages. All is ritualized: Margen cooks, Pargen prepares burnt offerings and distributes meat, Zopon cares for the caravan of yaks, Bopsa bends his strong back to arduous work. To each other they speak the secret language of saltmen. Camping along the way, they engage in prayers, talk, and songs. The saltmen are a fraternity, and there are initiation rites. The men play assigned roles: “mother,'' `”father'' and “novice,'' and we gather that there must always be a novice to reinforce the idea of seeing familiar things as if for the first time. The sounds we hear are the men chanting, bells and the deep foghorn blasts of resonant instruments. Punctuating the movie are excerpts from the story of King Gesar of Ling, a national Tibetan epic, hauntingly sung by an unidentified female shaman who is a member of the tribe.
Director of photography, Pio Corradi; music by Stefan Wulff and Frank Wulff; produced by Christophe Bicker and Knut Winkler; released by Zeitgeist Films. Stars: Margen (Old Mother), Pargen (Old Father), Zopon (Lord of the Animals). Language -- in Tibetan, with English subtitles. Running time: 110 minutes. The screening will be introduced and commented on by Alma Kunanbaeva. |
| June 25th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
The Silk Road House presents: "Four Weeks in Four Countries: Traveling Alone in Central Asia" by Lance Huntley.
A seasoned Asian traveler and photographer will speak of his adventures in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan last fall. The talk will be richly illustrated with images from this beautiful part of the world. Lance Huntley is a traveler, not a tourist. He spends a month each year in some part of Asia and is always fascinated by the differences between his culture and others. He is also enchanted by what people everywhere have in common. He had planned on joining Alma Kunanbaeva on her Silk Road House tour last year. When the tour was canceled he had already invested too much imagination in the trip and decided to go there alone. He wants to make you regret you didn't go! |
| June 11th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
The Silk Road House presents: "The End of an Era. Tashkent", a documentary film by director Mark Weil (1952-2007). Director of Photography: Rifkat Ibragimov. Composer: Dmitrii Ianov-Ianovskii. English narrator: Carl Watts. Production: Stichting Doen (Holland), Dago Film Studio (Russia), Ilkhom Studio (Uzbekistan), 1996.
The film reconstructs the complex and partly hidden history of Tashkent by means of archive footage which has never been shown before and the testimonies of its inhabitants. With considerable finesse it presents an entire range of archival material, including carefully restored work from virtually faded negatives dating from the 1930s. Running time: 104 minutes. Color. In English and with English subtitles. The screening will be introduced and commented on by Alma Kunanbaeva. |
| May 14th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
Silk Road House presents: "Kelin" (the Daughter-in-Law) -- Kazakhstan, 2009; on the 2010 Oscar short list for foreign language film, has won Grand Prize as the best feature film at the 5th Monaco Charity Film Festival.
"Kelin" is a silent film that unfolds in pre-Islamic times. The setting in the Altai Mountains, considered the ancestral cradle of the Turkic peoples who populate most of Central Asia, enhances the impression that this film is a screen adaptation of an oral legend. Even some rituals we do not immediately understand soon become clear in the story's context. The film has no dialogue and presents a purely cinematic experience. Visually the work is full of symbols. On the surface, though, the film has a simple and traditional melodramatic plot. A father gives his daughter in marriage to a man she doesn’t love. However, the contest for the girl doesn’t end and she is passed from one man to another. Betrayal, lust, murder and revenge unfold wordlessly and compellingly. As reviewers rightly mention, The aural plane of the film is occupied by the sounds of nature, human cries, grunts, laughter, and incantations, and a sparse yet effective score by Edil Kussainov. Cast: Gulsharat Jubayeva (Kelin), Turakhan Sadykova (Ene), Yerzhan Nurymbet (Baktashy), Kuandyk Kystykbayev (Mergen), Nurzhan Turganbayev (Kainy). Director: Ermek Tursunov. Screenplay: Ermek Tursunov, Aktan Arym Kubat, with Marat Sarulu. Director of photography: Murat Aliyev. Costume designer: Kuat Tleubayev. Editor: Svetlana Niyazova. Producer: Gulnara Abikeyeva. Production: Kazakhfilm. |
| April 30th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
Silk Road House presents: "Khadak" (Mongolia, Belgium, Netherlands, and Germany, 2007)
Originally titled Color of Water, the film was retitled Khadak (means blessing scarf) in keeping with the film's transition from documentary to feature, from landscape to mindscape. It has ecological and religious dimensions and a hero who undergoes several transformations. This fascinating, beautifully shot film also explores the potential of shamanism. “Khadak” tells the story of an epileptic Mongolian sheepherder named Bagi who embraces his destiny as a shaman when his village is threatened by a livestock plague. The film becomes an account of Mongolia’s shift from a rural to an industrial economy; a rebellion narrative in which Bagi joins vagabond musicians opposing their oppressive government. Cast: Batzul Khayankhyarvaa (Bagi), Tsetsegee Byamba (Zolzaya), Damchaa Banzar (the Grandfather) and Tserendarizav Dashnyam (the Shamaness). Directed and written by Peter Brosens, a Belgian anthropologist and award-winning documentarian, and Jessica Woodworth, a former journalist, born in D.C., raised in Europe, and trained in film at Stanford. Music by Altan Urag, Dominique Lawalrée, Michel Schöpping, Christian Fennesz and J. S. Bach. Art Director: Agi Dawaachu, Mongolian born, German resident. Khadak delights viewers with its exquisite cinematography by Lithuanian Rimvydas Leipus. Produced by Byamba Sakhya (Mongolia) and Heino Deckert (Germany). DVD released in 2008. Running time: 104 minutes. Language: Mongolian, with English subtitles. The screening will be introduced by Lilia Valitova and commented on by Alma Kunanbaeva. |
| April 23rd, Saturday, 5-7pm |
Silk Road House presents a documentary: "Siberia: At the Center of the World". Part 2: Music, Dance, and Ritual in Buryatia.
This disc focuses on the culture of the Buryat Republic, which is located in the southern part of East Siberia, to the East of Lake Baikal, the home of the largest ethnic group, the Buryats. The Transbaikal area has been part of the Central Asian historical and cultural region since the depths of antiquity. The majority of today’s Siberians arrived from further West after Ivan the Terrible authorized merchants to open up trading posts east of the Urals from 1558 onwards, among them being Cossacks, and the so-called Semeiskie – the Russian Old Believers exiled to Siberia at the time of Catherine the Great. Revival and preservation provide a focus for the film, and the authors showcase the cultural space of the Semeiskie, whose legacy has recently been appointed by UNESCO as the Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind. Authors of the film have tried to keep their voiceovers to a minimum, and to include a large variety of local voices – musicians, dancers, academics, and audiences young and old. Filmed, scripted, and produced by Misha Maltsev (born in Yakutia, since 2000 works in London) and Keith Howard, then Professor of Music, University of London. The film runs 61 min in Buryat and Russian with English subtitles and in English. The screening will be introduced and commented on by Alma Kunanbaeva. |
| April 16th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
Silk Road House presents a documentary: "Siberia: At the Center of the World". Part 1: Music, Dance, and Ritual in Sakha-Yakutia.
Siberia is deeply connected with Central Asian traditions. Its territory covers 14 million square kilometers and eight time zones. It has some 53,000 rivers and almost a million lakes. They believe it was the cradle for much that is mankind. Scholars, known as diffusionists, talk about Siberian links with America, Finland and Hungary, and with the Mongolian warlord Genghis Khan. As for shamanism, Siberia is the home of archetypal practices. The Yakut epic sung storytelling, olonkho, has recently been appointed by UNESCO as the Masterpiece in the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Mankind. Authors of the film have tried to keep their voiceovers to a minimum, and to include a large variety of local voices – ritualists, musicians, dancers, academics, and audiences young and old. Filmed, scripted, and produced by Misha Maltsev (born in Yakutia, since 2000 works in London) and Keith Howard, then Professor of Music at SOAS, University of London. The film runs 62 min in Yakut and Russian with English subtitles and in English. The screening will be introduced and commented on by Alma Kunanbaeva. |
| March 12th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
German/Swiss/Russian/Kazakh/Polish co-production, the screenplay was the result of collaboration between director Sergey Dvortsevoy, acclaimed Kazakh documentarian, and Russian screenwriter, Gennadiy Ostrovsky. Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
Asa (Askat Kuchinchirekov) has finished his compulsory military service in the Russian Navy and comes to the “Hunger Steppe” of southern Kazakhstan, where his sister Samal, her husband Ondas and their three children live a traditional nomadic life. Asa daydreams of becoming a herdsman with his own ranch, but if he wants to earn his own living, the first thing he has to do is marry. The comely but unseen Tulpan (her name means tulip) is the only single girl in the area. The matchmaker Boni (Tulepbergen Baisakalov), the itinerant tractor driver, claims that she is ideal for Asa. After a courteous interview with the girl’s parents, where no one seems impressed by his tall tales of the sea, Asa finds out that Tulpan does not want to marry him because of his somewhat large ears. The naïve and hopeful young man doesn’t give up, however, and continues to dream about a life in the middle of the vast steppes that might not end up as he envisaged. In addition to its good-humoured storyline, this charming film offers stunning views of unrepeatable images of the Kazakh steppe. The film uses no music other than the girl's song, the mother's lullaby, the occasional theme from Kazakh radio, and Boni’s recording of Boney M, preferring the sounds of everyday life, of animals, and of the steppe. Running time: 100 minutes. Languages: Kazakh and Russian with English subtitles. The screening will be introduced and commented on by Alma Kunanbaeva. |
| March 6th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
Silk Road House presents: "Nomad, the Warrior"...
This is a 2007 historical epic written by Rustam Ibragimbekov, executive-produced by Miloš Forman and directed by Ivan Passer, Sergei Bodrov and Talgat Temenov. The film has been shot in two versions: in Kazakh by Temenov for distribution in Kazakhstan and in English by Passer/Bodrov for distribution worldwide. In North America it was distributed by the Weinstein Company. Nomad is a historical war epic set in the 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalized account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan (1711–1781), a descendant of Genghis Khan, the last great khan of the Kazakh Middle Horde who united the three Kazakh hordes, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Jungar invaders. (The Kazakhs had been fighting the Jungars for two hundred years.) The cast is multi-cultural: Kuno Becker, Jason Scott Lee, Jay Hernandez, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov, Ayanat Ksenbai, Ayana Yesmagambetova. Music by Carlo Siliotto who received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score. Running Time: 1 hr. 52 min. Language: English (the film is dubbed). The screening will be introduced and commented on by Alma Kunanbaeva. |
| February 26th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
Silk Road House presents a documentary: "Su Jok Academy in Moscow ".
Professor Pak Jae Woo from South Korea created the Su Jok method (Onnuri therapy). “Su” in Korean means “hand” and “Jok” -- “foot”. Using fundamentals of Eastern philosophy and medicine, he has taken a new direction in the acupuncture system. Su Jok helps eliminate pain and suffering quickly without medication. It’s indeed possible to treat any part of the body by stimulating the corresponding points of the hands and feet. The main advantages of Su Jok therapy include: high efficiency, absolute safety of application, universal character of method, availability for the average person and simplicity of use. Su Jok therapy can be learned by anyone and can be self-applied almost anywhere and anytime (usually in minutes). This documentary film is about the Su Jok Academy in Moscow. It was opened at the beginning of the 1990s under doctor Park Jae Woo guidance. This movie demonstrates real patients, real doctors and real clinical cases. In the U.S. this technique is almost unknown. Lilia Valitova, a SRH activist, suggested this screening. Directed and screenwriting by Gennady Raspopov. Music by Ilya Yartsev. Scientific consultant – Prof. Park Jay Woo. Movie was created by the help of “VideoFilm” in 1995. Running time: 20 minutes. Language: English (the film is dubbed). The screening will be introduced and commented on by Dr. Damir Galiev. After the film he will be giving a talk about "How to be Healthy through Holistic Medicine" or "Be Your Own Doctor" for about forty minutes. |
| February 12th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
Silk Road House presents: "The Orator (Voiz)" – an Uzbek film created in 1998. Writer, director and producer Yusup (Jusuf) S. Razykov (b. 1957) tells a witty and poetic story of Iskander, a poor cart man, who can't give up his three-woman harem and therefore happens to find himself at the centre of events that impact his marital life, family relations and his position in the society. Having three wives, harmoniously co-existing in his home, he finds a fourth -- Mariam Fazilovna, head of the Revolutionary Committee. The epic story ends with the birth of Mariam and Iskander’s son, the death of Mariam in a jail and Iskander’s renunciation of his wives and son. The story is told from the point of view of the son of this heir – the grandson of Mariam Fazilovna.
The Orator takes place in the 1920s, at the dawn of Soviet power in Uzbekistan. The Orator is crucially concerned with gender, specifically the early-Soviet reform of Uzbek women’s rights and marriage policies. The film starts as an ironic story about the establishment of the Soviet Power in Uzbekistan. It ends as a philosophical reflection on what happens when one political paradigm comes to replace another one, and on what happens to people who seem easily to adapt to a hybrid culture. The Orator is a landmark not only, or even primarily, in the director’s own career, but in Uzbek film generally. The film made the international festival rounds to great acclaim. Camera (color), Daniar Abdurakhmanov; music, Dimitri Yanov-Yanovsky. Cast: B. Odilov, A. Alikhodzhayeva, D. Zakirov, L. Eltayeva, N. Rakhmonova, Sh. Khamrakulova. Running Time: 83 minutes. Languages: Uzbek and Russian with English subtitles. The screening will be introduced and commented on by Alma Kunanbaeva. |
| February 5th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
Silk Road House presents: "White Sun of the Desert". The film (1969) is one of the most popular Russian films of all time. Its blend of action, comedy, music and drama has made it wildly successful and it has since achieved the status of a cult film in Soviet and Russian culture. Written by Valentin Yezhov and Rustam Ibragimbekov. The director, Vladimir Motyl (1927-2010), said such films as Stagecoach and High Noon influenced him and he had described the film as being a "cocktail" of both an adventurous Russian folktale and a western. Its main theme song, "Your Honor Lady Luck" (music: Isaac Schwartz (1923-2009), lyrics: Bulat Okudzhava (1924-1997), performer: Pavel Luspekaev (1927-1970) became a huge hit in its home country. Many lines from that film (e.g. "East is a delicate matter," Gyulchatai, show your sweet face (a popular Russian saying for boys to say to girls) became a part of Russian vernacular. It was reportedly the favorite movie of Soviet astronauts, constantly being played at their training center. A Russian computer game was released based on the film.
The setting is the east shore of the Caspian Sea (today's Turkmenistan) where the Red Army soldier Fyodor Sukhov (actor Anatoly Kuznetsov, b. 1930) has been fighting the Civil War in Russian Asia for a number of years. After being demobilized, he sets off home to join his wife, only to be caught up in a desert fight between a Red Army cavalry unit and Basmachi guerrillas. (Basmachi, or 'Raiders', a deliberately pejorative term that was applied by the Soviets to their Muslim opponents in Central Asia between 1916 and 1931.) Sukhov ends up having to guard and protect the harem of the Basmachi guerilla leader Abdullah (actor Kakhi Kavsadze, b. 1935), as his army comrades pursue him. The task proves to be much more difficult than he originally thought, and in between attacks from Basmachis and offers from the harem (who now consider him their husband), Sukhov must deal with a drunken former Imperial Russian customs official who still looks after the trading outpost and museum they shelter in... Running Time: 85 minutes. Language: English (the film is dubbed). The screening will be introduced and commented on by Alma Kunanbaeva. |
| January 29nd, Saturday, 5-7pm |
Silk Road House presents: "Nomad, the Warrior". This is a 2007 historical epic written by Rustam Ibragimbekov, executive-produced by Miloš Forman and directed by Ivan Passer, Sergei Bodrov and Talgat Temenov. The film has been shot in two versions: in Kazakh by Temenov for distribution in Kazakhstan and in English by Passer/Bodrov for distribution worldwide. In North America it was distributed by the Weinstein Company.
Nomad is a historical war epic set in the 18th-century Kazakhstan. The film is a fictionalized account of the youth and coming-of-age of Ablai Khan (1711–1781), a descendant of Genghis Khan, the last great khan of the Kazakh Middle Horde who united the three Kazakh hordes, as he grows and fights to defend the fortress at Hazrat-e Turkestan from Jungar invaders. (The Kazakhs had been fighting the Jungars for 200 years.) The cast is multi-cultural: Kuno Becker, Jason Scott Lee, Jay Hernandez, Doskhan Zholzhaksynov, Ayanat Ksenbai, Ayana Yesmagambetova. Music by Carlo Siliotto who received a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Original Score. Running Time: 1 hr. 52 min. Language: English (the film is dubbed). The screening will be introduced and commented on by Alma Kunanbaeva. |
| January 22nd, Saturday, 5-7pm |
Silk Road House presents: "Close to Eden" (or Territory of Love)...
Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov. Written by James Bridges. Story, Mikhalkov and Roustam Ibraguimbekov. Screenplay, Ibraguimbekov. Photography, Villenn Kaluta. Music, Eduard Artemiev. Cast: Badema, Bayaertu, Vladimir Gostukhin, et al. A French-Russian production (producer Michel Seydoux). A Miramax release, 1992. An affectionate, humorous, visually spectacular, unique and unpredictable, this charming film won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the Venice Film Festival. Set in Inner Mongolia (the steppes of northern China), the time is late Gorbachev. The true title of the film is "Urga,” a long pole with a lasso at the end, for catching quadrupeds. When stuck on the ground, the urga becomes a "Do Not Disturb" sign signifying love-making in progress. The TV antenna symbolically looks like the "urga." Will that new lasso replace the old one or can they co-exist? The answer is in the film's delicious multiple closure. "Close to Eden," according to Roger Ebert, is as slight as a breeze, as charming as a sly old con man. It shows a way of life we can barely imagine; surely Eden, had it been like this, would have needed no apples. The film runs 119 min in Mongolian, Chinese and Russian with English subtitles. The screening will be introduced and commented on by Alma Kunanbaeva. |
| January 15th, Saturday, 5-7pm |
Silk Road House presents a documentary: "Silk Road Odyssey: Beijing to the Black Sea". Directors, actors and producers of the film are Sid and Mary Lee Nolan of Corvallis, Oregon. They have worked in educational media production for about 40 years, creating documentaries, educational materials and specialty films from their travels around the globe, one of which will be presented at the SRH documentary series.
Their journey traces the path of adventurous merchants who led their treasure-laden camels from one sundrenched outpost to the next. Historical sites, natural beauty, and welcoming people make this odyssey an incredible experience. The journey begins in Beijing, continues to the Chinese Silk Road outposts, and then leads to Kyrgyzstan and on to the famous cities of Fergana, Tashkent, Samarkand, Bukhara, and Khiva in Uzbekistan as well as to Konya-Urgench, Ashgabat and the ruins of ancient Merv in Turkmenistan. After crossing the Caspian Sea, producers follow a northern Silk Road route through the Transcaucasia (Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia) where they reach the shores of the Black Sea watery route toward Constantinople and the historical silk markets of Imperial Rome. Release Company: Total Content (December 16, 2008). GlobeScope Expeditions. The film runs 80 min in English. The screening will be introduced and commented on by Alma Kunanbaeva. |
| January 8th, Saturday, Noon-5pm |
Silk Road House presents "FOUR MONGOLIAN ARTISTS"...
This is the first Californian exhibit of four Mongolian artists born in the 1960s. TUMURKHUYAG BATJAV, born 1969 in the Province of Khovd, illustrator of 16 books in the paper-cut technique, had solo exhibits in Mongolia and Scotland and joint exhibits in Japan and the USA. CHIMEDDORJ MOONON, born 1965 in Province of the Sukhbaatar, Master of Fine Arts, illustrator of kids’ magazine and two books about Buddha, wax portraits sculptor, leading artist in two state projects (interior design of Mongolian Parliament Palace and Museum of the Ministry of the Foreign Affairs of Mongolia) as well as the fashion designer for Mongol Costume Museum. BAATARTSOG NOROVSAMBUU, born 1967 in Province of the Khovd, Master of the Fine Arts and PhD in Art History, a paper-cut artist, had solo exhibit in Korea and in the US, participant in numerous exhibits in Mongolia, Germany, UK. NYAMDORJ BUYAN, born 1966 in Ulaanbaatar, graduated in Mongolia and Russia (V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute), is well-known graphic artist and painter, participant in numerous exhibits in Mongolia, Russia, Germany, Japan, China, Korea, Finland, Greece, Hungary, Romania, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Singapore. This exhibition is organized by Sandagdorj Turburam. The exhibit will be open through the first quarter of 2011. All works are available for purchase. The price list is at SRH and by email via Turburam Sandro at turburam2002@yahoo.co.uk or (510) 816 0586 (cell phone). |
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