Melbourne. July. Warm winter evening. There is vanity and pandemonium in the courtyard of the Russian House. Tickets for the “Brother” concert dedicated to Sergei Bodrov Jr., a famous Russian director and actor, were sold out two weeks in advance. The organizer of the musical project is amateur singer Murad Arrykov, a Turkmen from Ashgabat who now lives in the Australian city. About a year ago, he won the hearts of the Russian-speaking Melbourne audience by winning the performers' competition with the song "Favorite Eyes". This melodic composition, in fact, "opened" the concert venues of Melbourne to him. Orient told his readers about this story.

August promises to be full of creative events and various thematic forums. Thus, a large cycle of scientific, educational, promotional events, poetry meetings, literary debates, musical dedications, art and book exhibitions in honor of the 300th anniversary of Magtymguly Fragi continues in Turkmenistan.

The first international creative school "Symphony Ala-Too" takes place on Issyk-Kul Lake. Teachers of the Gnessin Russian Academy of Music have arrived in Kyrgyzstan, who will conduct master classes, open lessons, lectures, concerts and creative meetings from July 26 to 30, "Big Asia" reports.

Uzbek ceramic tableware, Turkmen traditional clothing, embroidery by Indian craftsmen and many other beautiful and interesting things were presented at the fair of crafts in Bishkek. The XVII International Festival of Traditional Culture and Crafts "Oimo-2023" opened in the Kyrgyz capital on Thursday, AKIpress reports.

The Turkmenfilm Association will take part in the IV International Festival of New Cinema of Russia and Neighboring Countries (Lendoc Film Festival), which will be held on August 25-29 in St. Petersburg. The information was confirmed to ORIENT correspondent by representatives of the Turkmen film studio.

Kazakhstan has started creating 10 pilot animation projects based on ancient legends known in all Turkic-speaking countries. The timing of each work included in the animated almanac takes more than 5 minutes, Kazakhstanskaya Pravda reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of the Republic of Kazakhstan, by order of which the creative association "Kazakhanimation" has launched new animated paintings.

International Short Film Festival of the CIS, Baltic and Georgia starts on July 18 in Bishkek. The Film Forum includes two competitive programs – international and national, in each of which there are genres such as - fiction, documentary, animation and experimental films, Kabar reports.

"Singer of the Perfect World", colleagues say about the People's Artist of Turkmenistan Babasary Annamuradov. His creative path is a constant search for harmony. Her reflections and reflections, carefully and painstakingly collected in a unique collection, these days give their radiant warmth to visitors of the sculptor's personal exhibition at the Moscow Museum of the East.

Tours of Russian artists of the Great Moscow State Circus on Vernadsky Avenue and the Nikulin Moscow Circus on Tsvetnoy Boulevard continue in Turkmenistan. They started their tour in the new circus of the city of Arkadag, which was inaugurated at the end of June, and now they are performing in Ashgabat.

The XIV Elena Obraztsova International Competition for Young Opera Singers started on Wednesday in St. Petersburg immediately from the second round. 56 performers from Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine and Mongolia will compete, TASS reports.