"Oriental Bazaar in Kazan" – the only major music festival in Russia with the participation of pop performers from all over the Turkic world. This year, a unique show with an oriental flavor, which will be held in the capital of Tatarstan from October 21 to 27, will bring together famous artists from 25 countries of the world – the states of Central and East Asia, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, the UAE, China, Hungary and other countries.

The Russian House in Ashgabat announces an event dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Dagestan poet Rasul Gamzatov, whose poems are familiar to many poetry lovers.

The exhibition of crafts and demonstration day of the Business Incubator “Lebap Handmade Exports” will be held in Ashgabat on September 30 at the Museum of Fine Arts of Turkmenistan.

International Music Day is a holiday that is known in all corners of the earth and celebrated on the first day of October. The date, established in 1975 by the decision of UNESCO, has been firmly registered in the calendar sheets and has become one of the most beloved and revered.

Participants of the international media forum taking place in Turkmenistan visited the State Circus of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat.

Jewelry, accessories, interior items, cosmetology and many more interesting and original products marked "handmade" became exhibits of the exhibition, which opened on Wednesday in Ashgabat in the capital's Berkarar shopping center. The exposition dedicated to the Independence Day of the country will be held in the Turkmen capital for three days – from September 26 to 28 (13:00-22:00).

It is a wonderful tradition — on the eve of the opening in Moscow of the next International Art Festival "Sounds of Dutar" named after Nury Halmamedov to hold a concert of classical music with the participation of laureates of past forums. Before the eyes of numerous fans of the festival, young musicians are maturing, their repertoire is deepening, and their performing skills are growing. The meeting place remains unchanged — the Small Concert Hall of the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, located under the arches of the former house church of the restored 18th-century manor, formerly owned by the Dolgorukov family.

The Azerbaijani city of Shusha has been declared the cultural capital of the Islamic world in 2024. The city's candidacy for obtaining status at the 12th Conference of Ministers of Culture of the Islamic World, held on Monday in the capital of the State of Qatar, Doha, was presented by Minister of Culture of Azerbaijan, Adil Karimli. He proposed Shusha as part of the ISESCO "Cultural Capital of the Islamic World" program. The forum participants unanimously supported the initiative of the Azerbaijani side, according to the website of the Ministry of Culture of Azerbaijan.

A performance with blank canvases called “Take the Money and Run” cost conceptual artist Jens Haaning a pretty penny. A court in Denmark ordered him to pay 67,000 thousand euros to the Kunsten Museum of Contemporary Art in the city of Aalborg for an unfulfilled order, euronews says.

Julio Iglesias, the main romantic of Spain and the most famous Spanish singer, is celebrating his anniversary - today he is 80 years old. For half a century now the whole world has been listening to his songs and during this time he has given thousands of concerts, released 57 albums, sold 300 million of his records and was included in the Guinness Book of Records as the most commercially successful Spanish-language musician.