On September 30, 2018, the 7th International “From Waste to Art” Exhibition was inaugurated at Gala State History and Ethnography Reserve. Vice-president of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation Leyla Aliyeva attended the event.
The exhibition has been realized within the framework of the Nasimi-Poetry, Art and Morality Festival held with the organizational support of the Heydar Aliyev Foundation and the Culture Ministry.
The primary objective of the exhibition was to enlighten population on the necessity of keeping the environment clean, and making them refrain from throwing items they had deemed unnecessary into a waste bin without thinking once more.
Art works by 27 artists from 12 countries made using domestic wastes were demonstrated there.
A concert programme by Paraguay’s famous “Recycling” Orchestra was presented in the framework of the exhibition. The unique feature of this orchestra, comprised of children and juveniles, is that they use music instruments recycled from waste.