ALIM QASIMOV | concert
Thursday 5 November - 20h30
The Voice of Azerbaïdjan
Alhambra, Geneva
MORE INFOQETIQ - ROCK'N URUMCHI | Cinema
Friday 6 November - 18h30
Film from Mukaddas Mijit (2013, 55')
Alhambra, Geneva
MORE INFOBADAKHSHAN | concert
Friday 6 November - 20h30
Music and dance from the Pamir Mountains
Alhambra, Geneva
MORE INFOTRIO SENEM | performance
Saturday 7 November - 10h30
"Chin Tömur Batur and the seven headed monster"
Younger audience(5-8 year old) - Bibliothèque de la Cité, Geneva
MORE INFOTRIO SENEM | performance
Saturday 7 November - 16h00
"The steppes. A love story"
Bibliothèque de la Cité - Geneva
MORE INFOAU FIL DES MUSIQUES DU MONDE | Lecture
Saturday 7 November - 18h30
World music currents - A conversation with Laurent Aubert
Alhambra, 2nd floor lobby - Geneva
MORE INFOMUSICAL MERIDIANS OF CENTRAL ASIA | Cinema
Sunday 8 November - 15h30
Lecture by Theodore Levin
Films from Saodat Ismanilova (Uzbekistan, 2011-2013, 2 x 24')
Alhambra, Geneva
MORE INFOPEARLS OF THE EAST | concert
Friday 13 November - 20h30
A musical encounter on the Silk Road
Alhambra, Geneva
MORE INFOMEHMET'S JOURNEY | performance
Saturday 14 November - 15h00
Younger audience show - LES Z'ETHNOS / LES CREATIVES
A musical tale with Maria Robin and Shadi Fathi
Alhambra, Geneva
MORE INFODAUD KHAN | concert
Saturday 14 November - 20h30
Afghan master of the rubab
Alhambra, Geneva
MORE INFOUYGHUR DANCE | workshop
Sunday 15 November - 10h30
by Mukaddas Mijit
ADEM, 10 rue Montbrillant, Genève
MORE INFOEchoes from the Silk Road
For centuries, the Silk Road has helped to create links between the most diverse cultures – nomadic traders would establish contact with sedentary populations through encounters along the road. From the Caucasus to the borders of the Pacific Ocean, this vast territory was – among other things – a spiritual melting pot for Sufism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism and Shamanism. These influences helped to forge artistic expressions of great originality, of which this festival offers some particularly significant examples.
Although certain connections remain evident, each culture has developed its own language and aesthetic. Far from being restricted to the reproduction of past models, contemporary artists of inner Asia are today part of a cultural renewal that sometimes occurs through new encounters.
Laurent Aubert (translated by Emma Johnson)