03.11.2018 FESTIVAL "THE DAY OF CULTURE OF JAPAN"

 On 3 November, 2018 from 14.00 to 18.00 the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, together with the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Kazakhstan-Japan Center for Human Resource Development, Narhoz University, the Association of Japanese Businessmen in Kazakhstan, the Association of Japanese in Kazakhstan, the Terracaya Organization and the Kazakhstan-Japan Silk Road Association a traditional FESTIVAL "THE DAY OF CULTURE OF JAPAN" is will be held.   

The Central Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan has been actively cooperating with the Embassy of Japan in the Republic of Kazakhstan for more than 10 years, together with which cultural and educational projects are carried out annually.

The purpose of the festival "Day of Culture of Japan" is to strengthen cultural cooperation, develop ties and deepen mutual understanding between Kazakhstan and Japan, as well as acquaint residents and guests of Almaty with traditions and customs, with modern innovative and intellectual achievements of the Land of the Rising Sun.  

Japan is an amazing and mysterious country of the East, where ancient temples and beautiful gardens, snowy mountain peaks and skyscrapers, future technologies and centuries-old traditions are combined.

At the festival, visitors will be able to get acquainted not only with cultural traditions and modern forms of art, writing, music, dancing, cuisine, but also with the products of Japanese companies.
The program of the event includes: the performance of the Ooedodayko drummers' group, the Japanese dances Yosakoy Soran, the animated computer games Cosplay, and the Japanese drafts (“drafts of go”); dressing Yukata (traditional Japanese clothing); workshops on various types of art and handicrafts: manga art style (classical techniques of drawing Japanese comics), Sumium art (drawing with ink and paints on rice paper), origami and furoshiki (an ancient technique of wrapping gifts from fabric) and isatagami (Japanese craft of making paper stencils for dyeing textiles), ikebana art (traditional Japanese art of arranging), etc. Festival visitors will also get acquainted with Japanese Samurai dolls, learn to write hieroglyphs at master classes on calligraphy, properly pour tea at a Japanese tea ceremony and prepare traditional Japanese dishes (takoyaki, mochi-tsuki).

The event will be attended by Japanese companies – Sony, Daio Seishi, the Kazakhstan-Japan Silk Road Association, the organization of Terracaya and others, as well as a presentation of two cars of the Japanese brand Toyota tsusho Kazakhstan Auto – Toyota Land Cruiser, Lexus ES (Toyota Center Zhetisu), Lexus Center Almaty).

The Day of Japanese Culture in Almaty will be opened by the Director of the Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan – Nursan Alimbay and the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to Kazakhstan Mr. Ichiro Kawabata, the rector of the University of Narhoz – Andrew Wakhtel.

Free of charge entrance to festival (from 14.00 to 18.00).

29.09.2018 THE FESTIVAL "All Family in the Museum!", timed to the "Family Day" holiday.

The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, with the support of ABDI Company, on September 29, 2018, from 11.00 to 17.00, conducts the FESTIVAL "All Family in the Museum!", timed to the "Family Day" holiday.

The main goal of the annual traditional festival "All Family in the Museum!" is the preservation of family, cultural values, traditions, spirituality, as well as the upbringing of the younger generation and the strengthening of the family institution.

The cultural and educational program of the museum holiday consists of quests for exposition halls, quizzes, competitions, master classes, thematic classes and excursions that allow you to get acquainted with the history and culture of the country and create a lively dialogue between museum specialists, museum items and visitors. Children's clubs, academies of creativity, educational training centers, art studios, artists, masters of arts and crafts, creative and musical groups will take an active part in the festival "All Family in the Museum!"

The concert program of the Festival will be opened by the famous not only in Kazakhstan but also beyond its borders - "Concert Orchestra of the Akim of Almaty" under the control of People's Artist of the Republic of Kazakhstan, member of the Union of Composers of the Kazakh SSR and USSR Murat Serkebayev who will perform popular classical works, elegant melodies, excerpts from operas and ballets, as well as folk melodies, works of Kazakh composers – Kurmangazy, Zhaiau Musa, etc. Also in the concert will take part: the popular ensemble of the Daribaevs family, ethnical collective «TRIBAL PRO» (artistic director Helen Kim), a children's dance group "Aibyn" (artistic director A. Kumarova), music band of Guk family.

On this day the Museum offers EXHIBITIONS: "Flora and Fauna of Kazakhstan" (from the museum's fund collections); "Restored heritage" (restored exhibits from the museum's fund collections); "Faces of Central Asia" (artist Gyuzel Zakirova). With the purpose of organizing family leisure, development of creative potential of children and youth of Almaty city, the exhibition "My family, my city of Almaty" will take place in the museum from September 29 to October 10 which will introduce to the diverse creativity of leaders and teachers of 19 children's art galleries, art schools and art schools: M. Grechkina (art studio "Жаухар-Шедевр"); E.Popova, O.Kolomytseva, N.Reznikova, A.Mirgorodskaya, A.Serbenko, N.Trofimova, E. Podlubnaya (Children's Art School "Умай"); D.Gaitov, A.Satybaldina (Studio of Drawing, Painting and Creativity "In ART"); A. Tyuleubaeva (Workshop "By ART"); L.Savankina (Studios "Подснежник" and "Вдохновение" of the school-lyceum of Turan); L.Drozdova, I.Gushin ("АРТ-Мастерская" by Lydia Drozdova); G.Kabizhanova (Studio of creativity "Palitra-izo"); L.Logvinova ("Веселая ромашка"); D.Mertenova, I.Sokolova, S.Ibraeva (Project "Творим вместе" workshop "Ты художник"); M.Grishina, M.Abdullaev (KSU "Gymnasium No. 83"); N.Prihodchenko (International School of Almaty, educational foundation of N.Nazarbayev); A. Kobrina (Art-studio "МАРТ", School-gymnasium No. 5); E. Isakova ("Да Винчи"); "Божья коровка"; A. Astakhova (INDIGO); "Simpli art studio"; N.Kukharenko.

Within the festival there will be quizzes and competitions for all categories of visitors on the history of the country and our city: slide-quiz "What is this, where is this?", Contest "Mom, Dad and I are the best family!" with individual tasks: "And will blossom the museum flower ", "The eastern beauty", "Our family – museum fans", "Priorities of my family", "Holidays are different. I'm at the source...", "Understand me."
Visitors are offered free tours of the museum halls, lectures "Why is it interesting?", "History and a masterpiece about the creativity of E. Sidorkin" (lecturer Natalia Kovtun, School Art Studio "Aрт-группа Апрель"); fascinating thematic classes: “By pages
Red Book of Kazakhstan", "Fine decor of medieval ceramics through the eyes of contemporaries", "There is no future without the past "and historical quests:"Journey to the world of paleontology and archeology", "History of objects from the grandmother's chest", implying the fulfillment of certain tasks in a game form by paleontology, archeology and ethnography. Fans traveling with the whole family, having received a passport, will be able to take part in the family expedition "Labyrinths of the history of Kazakhstan" (on the museum's exposition halls), perform a number of thematic tasks and receive a prize from the Museum.

At the festival, the workshop "By ART" (headed by A. Tyuleubaev) will carry out the performance "Painting on fabric", in which artists and teachers of the exhibition "My family, my city of Almaty" will take part.

For all comers, master classes on various types of needlework will be organized on this holiday from masters of Kazakhstan and students of the Almaty College of Decorative and Applied Arts named after O. Tansykbaev: decoupage from M. Kurazh; jewelry from I. Vinogradova; on wood from Y. Kovalenko; bases of the Japanese language, temari, calligraphy from the Japanese House of Ichikawa, Almaty; on "fusing" (glass technique) from the designer I. Ibadildina; knitting from the brand Azhar_Jewelry, making jewelry and knitting from Irene Golotovskaya and Leili Duzenova, and others.

The guests of the Festival will be pleasantly surprised by the youngest participants in the master classes: Yesaly Aybibi (6 years old), a skilled craftsman, a puppet designer who will present 45 of her works and Mirgorodskii Artem (11 years) - a master class for making souvenirs from baked clay.

"Aрт-группа Апрель" (artistic director N.Kovtun) specially for the festival has developed an interactive program "Картинка-загадайка", studio "All in dance" (artist A. Alibek) will teach children and parents to dance, Republican specialized school-boarding Olympic Reserve College will demonstrate martial arts, and animators "Qazaq animators" and the Holiday Center "Мако" will take children in fascinating games.

In addition to this holiday guests are waiting for various consultations: a psychologist (Aliya Chetin), an astrologer (Elena Yezhkova); as well as educational, intellectual, creative children's centers that will tell about their activities: Art Studio School “Арт-группа Апрель”, Center for Intellectual Development “Advance”, Children's Club “Лукоморье”, Creative Academy “Яблоко”, Development Center “Радость” and others.

On this festive day, the Museum will hold 2 events - "FAMILY RARITETES - IN THE GIFT MUSEUM", the fair "Everything for the Home, Everything for the Family!", presenting services and products from various companies.
Visitors of the event – participants of the quizzes and quests will receive letters of appreciation, diplomas, souvenirs and good mood on this day.

The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan is waiting for you at the Festival "All Family in the Museum!" from 11.00 to 17.00. Entrance and excursions are free.

06.10.2018 The traditional Central Asian exhibition-fair of crafts "Golden Apple".

October 6 - 7, 2018 The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan together with the Center of Decorative and Applied Art «Bakhyt» conducts the traditional Central Asian exhibition-fair of crafts "Golden Apple".

Autumn time is a period of creative inspiration for artists, sculptors, masters of arts and crafts.

Almaty is a city of apples. Apples are everywhere. They became the main theme of the exhibition. The idea of the apple theme is not the story of a lone fruit, it is infinitely multifaceted. Still-life and landscapes, portraits and genre scenes. Yes, in different forms - painting, graphics, photography and decorative art, such as tapestry and hot batik. One theme, but told by each artist, a master in his own way. This is a boundless fantasy on the topic of familiar things.

Masters of arts and crafts transferred this symbol to their products: paintings, jewelry, panels, tapestries, felt, leather, batik products. Wares with the image of an apple will be a gift to anyone, both an adult and a child. To have at home an object of art with the image of an apple is to attract prosperity and well-being to oneself.

Trade fairs of crafts are of great importance in the development of economic and cultural ties between the peoples of Central Asia. More than 150 folk artists will come from all regions of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Russia. Carefully, from generation to generation they convey their skills, traditions.

The assortment of the exhibition-fair "Golden Apple" is diverse: author's decorations, clothes, stylish bags and cosmetic bags, bijouterie, designer toys, plaids, ceramics, soap and handmade cosmetics, interior items, all kinds of pictures and much more. The exhibition "Golden Apple" is not only a large market of bright, unique, original things, but also a place where you can try your hand at needlework and, perhaps, find a new hobby for yourself. So, within the exhibition-fair "Golden Apple" for visitors of the museum will be organized a traditional master class on felt from a famous Kazakh artist Kulyan Zhangutty. Lovers of products of art can not only observe the creative process, but also make their own hands with apples, various souvenirs, original panels of felt.

The official opening of the exhibition-fair - October 6, 2018 at 10-00

Working hours of the exhibition-fair: October 6 - 7, from 9.00 to 18.00

The entrance to the exhibition-fair is paid.

2-3.06.2018 The traditional Central Asian exhibition-fair of folk handicrafts "Silk Road"

The Central State Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan in cooperation with the Center of Decorative and Applied Art "Bakhyt" will hold the traditional Central Asian exhibition-fair of folk handicrafts "Silk Road" on June 2 - 3, 2018. Artisans from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Mongolia and Georgia will take part.

Opening of the exhibition will be held on 2 June, 2018 at 10.00.

The participants will present a huge selection of gift and souvenir products: clothes, jewelry, musical instruments, oriental miniature, carpets, felt and silk products, textiles and knitted goods, embroidery, amulets and leather goods, etc.

Schedule of the event:

On 2 June, 2018 from 11.30 to 14.00 - an action timed to the International Children's Day for Children from the Charity Fund for the Protection of Motherhood, Guardianship and Childhood "Altyn-Kul" which for many years supports the Center of Decorative and Applied Art "Bakhyt";

-  15.00 to 16.00 - raffle lottery with lots from masters of arts and crafts and showing of an ethnic collection created by students and teachers of O.Tansykbaev Almaty College of Decorative and Applied Arts;    

- on 2 and 3 June from 10.00 to 15.00 - master classes on felt and batik;

The exhibition-fair of folk crafts is a bright and memorable event in the life of our city. 

Opening hours of the fair: 2-3 June 2018 from 9.00-18.00.

Entrance fee is charged.