20 June 2012

Natiya Osipova's One Day

Natiya Osipova is an activist of the Assyrian community in Georgia. She lives in Assyrian village Dzveli Kanda, studies in Ilia University on the Law Faculty. Her hobby is wet drawing. Natiya always draws her mood.






14 June 2012

Dom people (One Day of Domari Community's Life)

Dom people (Qarachis, Mirtivs, "Kurdish travallers") is Kurdish-speaking Gypsy community which lives in the Middle East. Dom people have Roma life-style, but they are separate ethnic group (Here live 3 ethnic groups of Gypsies in Georgia - Romani, Domari, Lomavi peoples). Dom people moved to Georgia from Azerbaijan and Iran. The main occupation is begging.













27 May 2012

Vardaton


100 years ago in Tiflis (Tbilisi) poet Hovhannes Tumanyan and artist Gevorg Bashinjaghyan invented "Vardaton" (Feast of Roses), a holiday designed to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the great gusan Sayat-Nova.
Armenian community in Georgia celebrate Vardaton on the last Sunday of May. In 2012 diaspora celebrates the 300th anniversary of Sayat-Nova.
Milena Oganesyan, an activist of the Armenian community, shoote the Feast of Roses, which was held on central square of the Old Tbilisi.