Turkmenistan will establish an anniversary medal for the 300th anniversary of Magtymguly Pyragy, which will be solemnly and on an international scale celebrated in 2024.

Creative and talented people, poets and artists are invited by the organizers of the international competition "Voices of Friends: Poetry and Arts" – "Voices of friends" to take part in the competition.

The premiere of the film "Daragt" ("Tree") by Turkmen director of the film studio "Turkmenfilm" Salih Bayramov will be held on the Day of Culture and Art Workers of Turkmenistan, which is celebrated annually on June 27.

Almaty will become the cultural and tourist capital of the SCO for 2023-2024. The ministers of culture of the member countries of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization supported the proposal of Askhat Oralov, the Acting Minister of Culture and Sports of Kazakhstan, to assign a new status to the city, which he initiated at an online meeting of the heads of the ministries of culture of the SCO, Kazinform reports.

The Embassy of Turkmenistan in Kazakhstan announced the holding of a competition of readers in Turkmen, Kazakh, Russian, and English among students, according to the website of the diplomatic mission.

The first meeting of the Union of Writers of the Turkic World was held in the city of Navoi in Uzbekistan, the UZ news agency reports.

The Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Caspian states will be created in the Astrakhan region, TASS reports. The team will include young musicians aged 11 to 22 years. The orchestra will perform on the occasion of Russia Day in June.

Spring in Turkmenistan was marked by new interesting events in the cultural life of the capital. Students and teachers of the Composition and Instrumentation Department of the Maya Kuliyeva Turkmen National Conservatory are actively engaged in the implementation of one of them. A new project dedicated to the approaching 300th anniversary of Magtymguly is being held as part of the annual TURKSOY festival of Turkic culture.

The ArtIst Youth Theater will present Turkmenistan for the first time at the International Theater Festival of the CIS countries "Meetings in Russia", which will be held in St. Petersburg from April 7 to 16. This year the prestigious forum celebrates its quarter-century anniversary and is dedicated to the 200th anniversary of the Russian playwright Alexander Ostrovsky.

Cheerful, charming and familiar to everyone since childhood, the fairy tale "Cat's House" will "return" to the repertoire of the children's theater studio at the metropolitan theater "Artist". The students of the circle will present on April 2 the premiere of the musical based on the famous play by Samuel Marshak. The new version of the performance will become a kind of "immersion" into the wonderful world of musical theater and will not leave indifferent either young viewers or the adult audience.