The “Qala Festival” and “From Waste To Art” international exhibition will be held with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation

Inauguration of the “Qala Festival” and “From Waste to Art” international exhibition will be held at the “Qala” State History and Ethnography Reserve, May 30.

On that day, some 3000 children from secondary and boarding schools, children’s homes of the republic, as well as children from refugee and LDP families  will participate in the festival.

Held with the support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation since 2010, the festival aims at immortalizing our people’s rich historical past and traditions, conveying them to young generation, and popularization.

Handicrafts of children will be demonstrated, various interactive games organized and dance groups perform  in the open air within the framework of the Festival.  

Children from Pakistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Russian Federation and other countries have been invited to the Festival to be held on June 1^st – the International Day of Protection of Children.

On May 30 will also take place inauguration of another  project – the 3^rd International Exhibition “From Waste to Art”.

 To be held following the Heydar Aliyev Foundation’s initiative, and with the organizational support of “Clean City” Open Joint-stock Company, supported by IDEA (International Dialogue for Environmental Action) Public Association, “Icherisheher” State History and Architecture Reserve Department and “QGallery” Art Gallery, the exhibition will demonstrate various samples of art   made of domestic waste. Works of artists from USA, Austria, Great Britain, Netherlands, Spain, Turkey, Czech Republic, Cuba, Columbia and Japan will be presented at the exhibition, along with those of Azerbaijani artists.

Organization of this event, which is going to be already the third one, in Qala Settlement is not by chance. Since 2010, following the initiative of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation, “Clean City” OJSC has been implementing the pilot project “Clean Qala” to build waste management in the settlement in compliance with modern standards. The objective of the project is to organize collection, transportation and recycling of  wastes in  Qala settlement in a sorted fashion. In accordance with this project, in addition to timely collecting and transporting wastes, various containers have been put in Qala settlement in order for the villagers to sort the waste by organic and non-organic wastes.

In order to ensure participation of everyone who wants to watch the exhibition to run until June 3^rd, bus tours will be arranged from “Gosha Gala” gates of Icherisheher twice a day (at 12:00 and 15:00).