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.

Films dedicated to the life and work of the poet Magtymguly Fragi will be shot by Turkmen and Uzbek filmmakers. An agreement on this was reached during a meeting between Ambassador of Turkmenistan to Uzbekistan, Yazguly Mamedov, and Deputy Director General of the Uzbek Film Agency, Shukhrat Rizaev, held in Tashkent on March 29.

On March 15, in the Hungarian city of Kiskunfeledyhaz, an awards ceremony for the winners of the International Creative Competition for the best translation into the national language of an excerpt from the poem "Love and Freedom" by the famous Hungarian poet Sandor Petofi took place. Thanks to the pen of the Turkmen poet Akmurad Rejepov, the quatrain can now be read in the Turkmen language.

Tickets for concerts of the State Symphony Orchestra of Turkmenistan always fly very quickly. Maestro Rasul Klychev – the head of the composition and the musicians of the orchestra do not remain in debt and "give out" bright performances every time. This time they invite their audience to an evening of "serious" music – "Masterpieces of World Symphonic Classics", which will be held on April 9 at the Mukam’s Palace in the capital at 19:00.