[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″ custom_padding=”|1px||||”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″ width=”100%” max_width=”100%”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.1″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_3_font=”|700|||||||” header_4_font=”|700|||||||” header_5_font=”|700|||||||” header_6_font=”|700|||||||” custom_margin=”||50px||false|false” border_style_all=”dotted” border_color_bottom=”#f1f1f1″] By Liza Tsitsishvili I’m going to introduce to you about a young woman, Georgian film director Anuna Bukia, who had to leave her home with her parents in the 90s, during the conflict between Georgia and Abkhazia. She has been living in Tbilisi, far away from her home, for over 30 years now. What kind of city is Tbilisi for you? Anuna: It’s probably a rare city, the kind you can’t explain in one word.  Two things come to my mind – multiethnic and unending. Tbilisi is a quiet unity of many different…

  One of my favorite things to do is to get lost in any city and find street art, somewhere off the beaten path. While wandering in Tbilisi, I realized that I am specifically drawn to the works of TAm OOnz. I had no idea who she was. But I sensed that it was a female artist. After getting back home, I kept going through my photos and looked up Tam’s name and found her Facebook page. I sent her a message and she responded. Coming up with questions for someone like TAm that just exudes power and creativity wasn’t easy. And I deeply appreciate her punctuality and the time…

[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.3.2″ width=”100%” max_width=”100%”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.3.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.1″ header_font=”|700|||||||” header_2_font=”|700|||||||” header_3_font=”|700|||||||” header_4_font=”|700|||||||” header_5_font=”|700|||||||” header_6_font=”|700|||||||” custom_margin=”||50px||false|false” hover_enabled=”0″ border_style_all=”dotted” border_color_bottom=”#f1f1f1″] By Liza Tsitsishvili I had the greatest pleasure to sit down for an interview with the director of the Tbilisi International Festival of Theatre and Kote Marjanishvili Theatre Eka Mazmishvili. Eka graduated from the faculty of History and Theory of Art at Ivane Javakhishvili University; she received her PhD in Management of Art and Culture from the Academy of Management and Arts, Grenoble, France. Since 2006 Eka manages Kote Marjanishvili Theater in Tbilisi, and since 2009 she is the director of the Tbilisi International Theatre Festival. She has also lectured on “Practices…

  The story of Amiran Shalikashvili’s Pantomime Theater turned out to be far more interesting than I had anticipated. It was also unexpectedly sad. We talked about a lot of things: pantomime as a way of life, the state of the current theatre and his plans for its modernization, his father’s legacy, and the future of Georgian Pantomime, etc. What was your first time on stage like? What was the theatre like back then? Amiran Shalikashvili Junior: I started doing this when I was thirteen, and I’ve been doing it since. It was the 90s back then, and to be honest, I entered the theatre by accident. For some time after…