Young teachers and students of the Maya Kuliyeva Turkmen National Conservatory performed classical music concerts in Turkmenabat and Mary. At the end of last week, they went on a trip to the administrative centers of the regions and visited the Lebap Special School of Arts and the Mary Special Music School named after Elaman Hummaev, and also played works of world classics, modern Turkmen and foreign composers together with their pupils on the stage of regional drama theaters.

"Those who touched the Sun. In search of style: avant-garde and Realism in Central Asian Art" - such a project was announced by the Alexander Solzhenitsyn House of Russian Abroad. The exhibition will introduce the general public to the phenomenon of Russian painting, known only to a few — the Turkestan avant-garde, namely, the works of 1920-1960.

Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Russian Federation to Turkmenistan Ivan Volynkin, while on a working trip to the Lebap region, visited the Museum of the Great Patriotic War in Turkmenabat with his family.

Turkish Culture Days began in Ashgabat on Saturday with the opening of an Ebru exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts. Drawings and paintings in this technique are very individual, effective and unique thanks to the hands of the artist and the technology itself: natural paints are applied to water, the created image is transferred to paper, fabric or other hard surface. You can also go to the Ebru exhibition on Monday.

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.