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| Bactria Cultural Centre, as a contemporary artistic space, serves as a catalyst by providing opportunities to local artists to express their creativity in an entirely free and experimental way. At present it is the only venue in Dushanbe that encourages artists to apply innovative approaches to manifest their artistic visions. |
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| Bactria Cultural Centre, as the cultural actor of ACTED’s activities, is fully devoted to provide access to information and to vocational training. Educational activities aimed at artists and art professionals are organized with the firm belief that an understanding of national identity as well as social changes and development can originate from active participants of society. The role of an artist is, and always has been, the observer, the analyzer, and the initiator. |
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| One of the main information points in Bactria is its library, which has a collection of books in Tajik, Russian, English, German and French, focusing on mostly culture and history. Art books on the works of Michelangelo, Levitan, Vrubel, Aivazovsky, Theophanes the Greek, movies of Russian and Western avant-garde, and Italian Renaissance are the most valued pieces of the collection. |
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SAMO
 Samo (“sky”) folk band was established in September 2006 in Gurminj Museum, a small private museum of musical instruments in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Originally from the Pamir Mountains, where music is an integral part of everyday life, members of the band have been practicing music since childhood, learning melodies from their fathers, mothers and professional musicians. All of them are professional on many instruments as well as in singing. Samo dominantly plays music from the Pamirs, but their repertoire also includes music of other Tajik regions. Besides playing pure folk music they have their own compositions using traditional musical elements and genres. Falak is a special vocal genre sung at funerals; darguilik are originally songs of lament, and lalaik are lullabies; all of these however can also be sung at other occasions.
In its first year of existence, Samo gave a series of concerts at Gurminj Museum and at other cultural venues. Their efforts of preserving and developing traditions of the Pamirs and Tajikistan have been acknowledged by the audience and cultural specialists.
In addition to giving concerts, the band is involved with educational activities in Gurminj Museum and in music schools. They maintain teaching in the traditional way, meaning from ustod (“master”) to shogird (“disciple”).
Members of the band:
Shavqmamad Pulodov – Setar, Rubab, Vocal
Faizmamad Nazariev - Rubab, Tanbur, Vocal
Shanbe Mamadgaminov – Ghijjak, Nay, Vocal
Daler Pallaev – Daf, Tablak, Vocal
Alishaev Qurbonhaseyn – Daf, Tablak, Vocal
Discography:
First album: “SAMO”, Surush Music, Dushanbe, 2007.
Concerts:
Gurminj Museum, Dom Kino (Cinema House), Bactria Cultural Centre, Vahdat Hall, Jami Hall, and other places in Tajikistan; USA tour in 2008; Rudolstadt, Germany 2008
Echoes:
Interview of Samo by BBC
Tajik cultural information site
Persian BBC
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Articles about previous events, workshops and master classes
Gurminj Live project
MIZROB
Davlat Nazri
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| Bactria Cultural Centre is engaged in projects that further capacity building and development of music industry in Tajikistan. First of all, it offers a venue to musicians through the organization of regular concerts where they can freely practice their creativity. We impose no limitation in the direction of musical genres, but we do promote world music and experiments based on the combination of traditional and contemporary music. |
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| If the context allows, Bactria Cultural Centre uner the auspices of ACTED, carries out heritage conservation and rehabilitation activities, if the heritage in question has been damaged or suffers from a lack of maintenance due to the difficulties facing the communities. |
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As a result of the continuous degradation of Tajik educational structure, from a unified primary and secondary education under the Soviets, barely 60 percent of Tajikistan’s current school-age population is receiving educational opportunities. Through opportunities for learning and vocational training BACTRIA aims at democratizing access to information and education. |
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Artistic Vision 
