Society+Culture

Tbilisi is mostly popular for the Fashion Industry which is great, however, it is also home of very talented performers, musicians, painters, graffiti artists, sculptors, filmmakers, etc.

Avtandil Gakhokidze’s Art

Avtandil Gakhokidze’s Art

A fine work of art can engage the viewer's heart and soul for a very long time. You can extend your imagination quite a long way into it and can feel its rhythms. You can also observe how this particular artwork reflects the culture of the society and the time in...

Freedom of Transportation

Freedom of Transportation

For whatever reason you want more parks for the city, whether it’s for quiet contemplation, socialization or a clean air to breath, the fact still stands – the reason you want more, is that there isn’t sufficient number of them

Urban Parks Wanted

Urban Parks Wanted

For whatever reason you want more parks for the city, whether it’s for quiet contemplation, socialization or a clean air to breath, the fact still stands – the reason you want more, is that there isn’t sufficient number of them

Homophobic Nation

Homophobic Nation

Gay men and lesbians are subject to legal discrimination in housing, employment, and fundamental civil rights. And transgender individuals are stigmatized and discriminated against.

This reinforces a fact that equality on the legal level isn’t the same as social equality. Minority stress—a cause of health disparities—is a theory about the impact of prejudice and stigma, which is the most prevalent under the shade of our ever-vigilant church.

Falling In Love With A New City

Falling In Love With A New City

Falling in love with a new city is very different than falling in love with a human being. Everything about the city excites you at first, as you explore it and learn the hot spots, the streets to avoid, the best places to eat and socialize. The cities cannot speak...

What The Fuck Do You Represent?

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...

Mariam Sitchinava – Stealing The Intimacy

Mariam Sitchinava – Stealing The Intimacy

"With a flick of a finger, I am stealing the intimacy." Mariam Sitchinava's work has an interesting quality. There's something raw, intimate, and breathing. Her ethereal photographs let the viewer become a part of the artistic process, feel the sounds, breathe in the...

Georgian Dance – The Eternal Celebration

Georgian Dance – The Eternal Celebration

The roots of the art form are lost in the depths of millennia. Its history is the endless strive for perfection. Dance is a specific form of spiritual culture that reflects reality in artistic images. Georgian choreography is based on reality, reflecting much of the social and aesthetic experience of our ancestors, but at the same time, its spirit is unreal. The symbolic nature of expressive means of every artistic image is loaded with meaning and used to communicate ideas through symbolic allusions of various components.

Politicians We Deserve

Politicians We Deserve

Politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from Georgian families, Georgian schools, Georgian churches, Georgian businesses and Georgian universities, and they are elected by Georgian citizens. These politicians are the best we can do folks. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out.

The Making of Georgia

The Making of Georgia

The 70s of the X century is one of the most important stages in the history of Georgia, which throughout its long existence has always had the tendency towards unification, accompanied by the nonetheless weaker separatist soul. This cultural dissonance resulted in various attempts of knitting the kingdom together but almost always ended in an even stronger wave of disintegration.

The Goal Of The Kremlin Is To Create Division Abroad

The Goal Of The Kremlin Is To Create Division Abroad

By GRACE BANFIELD  Mark Mullen was born in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from Wesleyan University in 1989 and later went on to be a Sloan fellow at London Business School. He has founded several non-profits, including GeoCapital, Orbeliani, and Radarami, in the Republic...

Oil Builds Statues – Effigies of Greed

Oil Builds Statues – Effigies of Greed

Once upon a time, there was a man, Who had tons and tons of oil wells. He drilled and killed as much he willed, Forging, gilding all his deeds.   Futile were his hordes of sins, Veiling all of pogrom yields. With stygian gold he used to preach, And got himself some...

Back To The Future

Back To The Future

  - Do you ever wonder that the melodies that are stuck in our heads are actually rooted in our memory and connected to certain places, events, or meetings that we wish to erase or can't forget? Strangely enough, these exact places carry the memory of music in...

Tbilisi – The Way I See It

Tbilisi – The Way I See It

By Filmmaker Giorgi Tavartkiladze   Tbilisi - the city I was born and raised, is stuck in my earliest memory as a post-civil-war, ruined, poor and grey space. But in spite of this, I still fell in love with her. Today, some people in Georgia say "Tbilisi meant...

Ezo – The Tbilisian Courtyard

Ezo – The Tbilisian Courtyard

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...

Digital Nomads

Digital Nomads

If you’ve already figured out how to become a digital nomad, then we need to find out whether Tbilisi is a good location for you or not? Traveling around the globe, living among different nations, and having a great paying job is the dream of thousands of young...

The Intimate Terrorism

The Intimate Terrorism

For millions of women, children, and men, all over the world, home is not a safe place and the only memories that are formed in it are painful ones. The challenge of dealing with domestic violence and the importance of doing so are two sides of the same coin. Domestic violence is so devastating precisely because it causes problems at the core of people’s lives—their homes.

Our Not So Unique Flag

Our Not So Unique Flag

Our icon is the homeland Trust in God is our creed, Enlightened land of plains and mounts, Blessed by God and holy heaven. The freedom we have learned to follow Makes our future spirits stronger, Morning star will rise above us And lightens up the land between the two...

Tbilisi – More Than Hot Baths

Tbilisi – More Than Hot Baths

  “Vakhtang I Gorgasali, once went out hunting with his royal falcon in the neighborhood forests of the first capital of Georgia – Mtskheta. After some time, the king sent his falcon to catch a pheasant. The falcon flew away, and after a while, the king lost...

Losing Our Past

Losing Our Past

What happens when we destroy the past? We lose our memory and when we lose it, we lose ourselves, because there is no “us” without memories. With cities, it is the same. Historical urban areas are the memory of a city, while the buildings serve as records. The...

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