People+Stories
We're always looking for interesting Tbilisians, people from all walks of life who have inspiring stories to tell. We would love to tell your story and share it with our community. If you have an interesting profession or a story to talk about or know someone who does, please contact us. Thank You!
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Requiem for a phone
I wasn't really allowed to play around with the phone as Mom was always waiting for someone to call.
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What The Fuck Do You Represent?
By kirruna What the fuck do you represent? I’ve never been able to verbally communicate exactly what I wanted to convey, but since you asked me to give you an intro to myself, I’ll try my best to contradict the first part of this very sentence… Shit. So, buckle your seat belts, this opinionated shit is about to get real. I’m from Tbilisi, which is basically God’s waiting room, full of people with extreme cases of imagined self-importance trapped in a concrete jungle of fears and bad faith. I’m just another misshapen piece of the puzzle that makes up the chaotic mess of a city that we know and love.…
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Filmmaker Anuna Bukia
[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…
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Assa Novikova
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Tam OOnz
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…
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Ezo – The Tbilisian Courtyard
[et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.4.1″][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.4.1″ width=”100%” max_width=”100%”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.4.1″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.4.4″ 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″] The Walls Have Ears “Shh! Shh! No one should hear us!” – a phrase from the film “Keto and Kote” (comic Opera by Victor Dolidze; premiered in Tbilisi in 1919) This is not a story about walls, nor ears. This is a story about an old Tbilisian Yard, in which I spent my childhood. Fortunately, I remember much from those times, “dark years of the 1990s, 2000s” as we call it nowadays. Despite its darkness, power cuts, and cold, which were part of our daily life, my childhood also had its peculiarities…
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Mako Lomadze
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Tato Rusia
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Interview With Eka Mazmishvili
[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…
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Interview With Luka Metreveli (L8)
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