LYVG & ART GENI

PROJECT MOTIVATION AND SHORT HISTORY OF ART GENI FESTIVAL: Festival Art Gene's main goal is to promote and popularize Georgia's traditional folklore, research and gather known and unknown materials of this field and introduce it to the general public, also to archive and preserve those materials for future generations. Festival presents and hosts concerts and events with participants from different parts of Georgia and the world and holds wide verity of traditional arts and crafts exhibitions and sales. Traditionally festival starts in regions of Georgia and continues in Ethnographic Museum of Tbilisi. WORKING PLACE: The Open Air Museum is located in Tbilisi, Vake district, to the west of Turtle Lake. It occupies 65 ha of land. The Museum features objects of traditional art and architecture from different parts of Georgia. The Open Air Museum was founded on April 27, 1966 by George Chitaia, a famous Georgian ethnographer and academician, whose name it now bears. Museum exposes 14 ethnographic zones: Khevsureti, Kakheti, Meskheti, Javakheti, Guria, Imereti, Racha, Lechkhumi and Osetia. Each of them presents the particular historic-ethnographic area of Georgia. Together with the architectural monuments the museum exposes ethnographic materials - different kinds of tools, textile and ceramics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tbilisi_Open_Air_Museum_of_Ethnography