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UZBEKISTAN

The Fund Forum's activities at exhibition/fair of applied arts
national level are equally and crafts Bazar-art, the festi-
extensive and diverse. In par- val of Traditional Culture
ticular, it implements a major Asrlar Sadosi (Echo of
annual project to support Centuries), the biggest Art
young talents in Uzbekistan -- Week in Central Asia Style.uz,
the Republican Festival of and many others. Besides that,
Children's Creativity Yangi the Fund Forum provides sup- I
Avlod (new generation), port in implementing various
which is now held with the international projects in
assistance of the UNICEF. Uzbekistan, such as the
International
Tashkent
What adds lustre to the big- Biennale of Modern Art,
gest children's festival is the which was held this year in
fact that these talented young the framework of Art Week
people receive their prizes Style.uz, International Photo
from the hands of internatio- Biennale, the International
of
Exhibition
nal stars. This year, the grants Photo
At the Final of the Fund Forum's Contemporary
Choreography, Gymnastics and Sport Plastic Art International were handed to the laureates Contemporary Arts "East and
by big-name stars such as West: Tashkent Crossroads".
Contest - Tashkent, 2009
Sting and Sezaria Evora, who
The main directions of the Russian Vanguard and had come to Tashkent specifi- TRADITION
AND
Fund Forum's activity also Bukhara Silk" in Saint cally for this event. MODERNITY -- IDEAL
involve youth projects and Petersburg, the exhibition Throughout its five years of COMBINATION?
grants to support the "Colours of the Silk Road: existence, the Festival has
education of talented young Suzane of Uzbekistan" in embraced over 50,000 talen- Judging from the inter
people in the country and Glasgow, art and photo exhi- ted
-national interest and the
across
children
abroad; international presenta- bition "Tashkent: Yesterday Uzbekistan. The Festival fea- success of the Fund Forum's
tions; children's creativity pro- and Today" in Geneva and tures children aged between 6 two major projects -- the
jects including premises with Vienna, and many others. The and 14 years old, irrespective Festival of Traditional Culture
free tutoring; sponsoring crea- Fund Forum also became an of their social status and pro- Asrlar Sadosi (echo of
tive exhibitions and wide- official partner of the annual fessional training. centuries) and Art Week
scale projects in fashion and Hyères International Festival Style.uz, initiated by Goulnara
design; supporting youth cine- of Fashion and Photography Among other big projects are: Karimova -- the answer is
matography and music; grants in France. Programme on Educational definitely "yes".
young
to Grants, Programme of
support
athletes; charity projects and In May 2009, Goulnara Scholarships for gifted stu- According to art experts, the
micro-credits for female Karimova's Fund Forum was dents, Contest of Talented purpose of these two projects
entrepreneurs and large fami- the official donor of the Youth Kelajak Ovozi (Voice is twofold: first, they represent
lies; social events to support annual charity evening of the Future), the festival of Uzbek culture in its full spec-
large families; pedagogical amfAR Cinema against AIDS traditional and contemporary trum, including traditional
and educational projects to held as part of the Cannes arts Navqiron O'zbekiston aspects and modern trends;
support researchers and Film Festival in Paris. In par- (Young Uzbekistan), an second, international celebri-
publishers; business forums, ticular, Goulnara made a annual award in sphere of ties, art experts, journalists
round-tables, etc. donation of $50,000 to the music and TV M&TVA, an and other international guests
amfAR Foundation, which
For the past years the Fund will be channelled into
Forum has carried out a num- HI V/AIDS
research,
ber of major projects which prevention, education and
generated great interest advocacy programmes world-
abroad. Among them are the wide.
presentation of Uzbek desi-
gners in Paris, the photo exhi- In Uzbekistan Goulnara is the
bition "125 years of Uzbek initiator of implementing by
photography" presented in several foundations together
Luxembourg,
France,
with USAID of the
Belgium, Germany, China, Programme of training and
Japan, Russia and Ukraine, awareness raising against
the exhibition "Great Silk HIV/AIDS entitled "We are
Road and its Heritage" in for healthy lifestyle!", in
Tokyo, "An Evening of Uzbek which annually around 200
Art" organized annually in volunteers and students parti-
Moscow, the art exhibition cipate from almost all major On the special occasion of the young
"Dreams about the East: higher education institutions. talents nomination with Sting

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