International Day of Islamic Art was proclaimed at the 40th session of the UNESCO General Conference in 2019 and is observed annually on 18 November.

At the Turkmen National Conservatory named after Maya Kulieva, we held a meeting with the Polish researcher of ancient music Marcin Wladyslaw Szczycinski.

The IV International Festival “Theatrical Art of the Happy Era” opened in Ashgabat on Tuesday, November 14, with a procession of stage groups from Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, the Russian Federation (Tatarstan), Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkey and Turkmenistan. The ceremony took place on the square in front of the Main Academic Drama Theater of Turkmenistan.

On November 21, the closing of the interstate program "St. Petersburg - the cultural capital of the CIS 2023" will take place. On this occasion, there will be a concert commemorating Soviet and Russian conductor, artistic director of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic named after Dmitry Shostakovich, People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Temirkanov. He passed away at the age of 85 on November 2 of this year…

The feature film "Daragt" by the Turkmen film director Sahysalyh Bayramov entered the competition program of the XXIX Minsk International Film Festival "Listapad", which will be held from November 17 to 24.

Taldykorgan Kazakh Drama Theater named after Biken Rimova will take part in the IV International Theater Festival, which will be held in the cities of Ashgabat and Arkadag from November 14 to 16.

...In the 1930s, such professional musicians and craftsmen as B. Nurali, G. Ugurlyev, S. Tumanyan, G. Arakelyan and A. Petrosyants began the reconstruction of Turkmen national musical instruments. The main goal was to enrich the sound of the orchestra of Turkmen folk instruments. As a result, such varieties of the dutar family as prima, second, viola, plector dutar, prima plector, bass and double bass dutar appeared. They entered the practice of dutar musicians and began to be used for solo performances, in ensembles and as part of orchestras.

The Moscow International Art Festival «Sounds of Dutar» named after Nury Halmamedov was held in the Russian capital for the seventh time, having completed its marathon last week. The project is unique in itself: to combine national classics with new creative hiccups of composers, young and novice performers with experienced musicians and mentors, musicologists – with a live audience. The current edition of the festival has shown that the project is in demand, saturated with growth points and carries important messages – cultural, spiritual, creating spaces of a special creative ecology and musical landscape.

From March 1 to March 10, 2024, the 11th International Theater Festival of the Balkan Countries “Balkan Breeze” will take place in Turkey.

The largest theater in Central Asia will appear in the capital of Tajikistan, Dushanbe. The Ministry of Culture of the Republic reports this.