Culture

An event was held on July 15 before the Molla Panah Vagif’s museum-mausoleum complex in the framework of the Vagif’s Poetry Days being held in Shusha. First, poems about Garabagh by well-known poets were heard. Then, performances of young poets on the project “New Breath” took place. Thus, poems and ghazals were heard on the Garabagh land again...

Vagif’s Poetry Days started in Shusha, Azerbaijan’s cultural capital, with the organizational support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the Culture Ministry and the Writers Union of Azerbaijan, July 14. With its forty-year history, the Vagif’s Poetry Days are being held for the 2^nd time after Shusha was liberated from the occupation...

On June 28, inauguration of a photo-exhibition entitled “Reza’s Inner Odyssey” took place at the Heydar Aliyev Centre. Jointly arranged by the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, the Embassy of the Republic of France in Azerbaijan and the French Institute in Azerbaijan, the exhibition is devoted to the 30^th anniversary of establishing diplomatic ties between Azerbaijan and France...

Another project, aiming at preserving, developing and promotion of our national and spiritual values, our cultural heritage, was implemented with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation. Made within the framework of a project launched in 2016, the new carpet collection called “Azerbaijani carpet-dance of loops” and a book of the same title was presented at the Heydar Aliyev Centre, June 3^rd...

On May 14, the 5^th Kharybulbul International Folk Festival, held in Shusha city – the cultural capital of Azerbaijan – came to the end. Held in the “Year of Shusha”, declared by a resolution of President of the Republic of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev on the occasion of the 270^th anniversary of the city of Shusha, the 5^th Kharybulbul International Folk Festival was organized...