Friday, September 5, 2008

Art Gene, Tbilisi

Festival "Art Gene" is held in Georgia every year since 2004. The festival "travels" around the country and performs final concerts in Tbilisi, at Open Air Museum, where you can enjoy crafts and ethnography exhibitions, Georgian combat art, different variety of folk songs and dances of all parts of Georgia.

Entrance TICKET. Cute, isn't it?

Handmade traditional carpets and rugs...
You can get temporary tattoo with Georgian ornament...

Moderns scarfs, made using traditional Georgian method of working on wool and colouring cloth...

Traditional Georgian clothes, used by shepherds in mountains...

Craftsman dressed like a shephered...


"Old Ladies' Dance"...

"Shepherds' Dance"...



Getting dark...


...still singing...

...and singing to the accompaniment of Georgian national musical instruments...


My favourite Svans singing and dancing... :-)

French guests trying to sing Georgian folk songs... :-)