"This concert is very symbolic for me. Allegoria Sacra (2015), for two performers and multimedia, was the last piece of music I wrote until February of this year. After this piece premiered in the summer of 2015 in Paris, I stayed away from music for 7 years..."
Azerbaijan was represented for the first time at the 65th Monterey Jazz Festival (MJF65) in Monterey, California, USA.
An enterprising student and a designer want to make attractive clothes that disabled people can wear – and model too.
VENICE 2022: We chatted to the promising Azerbaijani director, whose debut feature follows a mother struggling to gain custody of her son in a patriarchal and sexist country.
With its medieval walled Old City, melting pot cuisine and vibrant jazz clubs, adventurous travelers should put the capital of Azerbaijan on their must-visit list.
The relationship between Israel and Azerbaijan is getting stronger. About one month ago, Azerbaijan approved a tourism cooperation agreement with Israel. Around the same period of time, Israel and Azerbaijan signed an agreement on air transport.
Not least during times of conflict, most would agree on the importance of protecting the cultural identity of a country and its people.
Meir’s artistic work is not only a labor of love and, naturally, immense talent.
Nelson, who has sojourned from Azerbaijan to Turkey to the Bay Area, is debuting her one-woman show Saturday at the Back Room.
"Yalli, a masterpiece of Azerbaijani folk dance, is not just an ordinary dance—it is a portrait of the Azerbaijani people, symbolizing its courage, unity and solidarity", says the CNN Greece article devoted to the Azerbaijani national dance.
Azerbaijan and its capital Baku have become must-visit tourist destinations.
The AI-driven immersive experience showcased NFTs that were new speculative forms of the carpet created using 150,000 archival images of carpets.
Famous Azerbaijani artist Nigar Helmi Abbasbayli’s solo exhibition dedicated to the heritage of Karabakh has been opened at Istanbul’s iconic Atatürk Cultural Center (AKM).
The online African marketplace for arts and advisory Aworanka is partnering with Friends of Azerbaijan, a non-profit organisation in Nigeria to promote social and cultural exchange between Azerbaijan and African, with special emphasis on Nigerian art.
We chatted to the acclaimed, award-winning filmmaker, who also works at the country’s Ministry for Culture, about the founding of the Cinema Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan in late April
Gazelli Art House is presenting Liminality, its first UK solo exhibition of new works by Aida Mahmudova.
The Soviet, Russian and Azerbaijan writer and screenwriter died in Moscow on March 11 after a long illness, his family reported.
For some, she is a literary phenomenon, the only Azerbaijani writer who achieved recognition in France, for others, she is the last love of the great Ivan Bunin. Umm El-Banu Mirza gizi Asadullayeva... Banine.
Famous Azerbaijani jazz musician will tour the cities of Japan as part of his new collaboration with a music label.
It was early December, and there was no snow in Quba, but the town administrator still told me I was too late. “You can’t go to Khinalig now,” he said. “The road is closed. The Khinaligi come down for the last time in September and buy everything they need for winter.”
When we say "independent cinema", the first thought that comes to mind in Azerbaijan is that if a director's film is funded by a government agency, specifically the Ministry of Culture, it cannot be considered independent. Is that really so? We will return to this question later.
The National Library of Moldova (BNRM) and the Embassy of Azerbaijan in Chisinau, with the support of Moldova’s Culture Ministry, today organized a cultural event titled, Heritage of Nizami Ganjavi in the context of the inter-cultural dialogue.
Minsk Mayor Vladimir Kukharev met with Azerbaijani ambassador to Belarus Ulvi Bakhshaliyev on 8 December to discuss the implementation of the project to erect a monument to Azerbaijani poet Nizami Ganjavi in the Belarusian capital.
Rufat “Ru” Hasanov’s Daxildəki ada (The Island Within), which premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in last August and won a Heart of Sarajevo Award for Best Director, was confirmed as the Azerbaijani entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards (the Oscars).