The Main Drama Theatre hosted the closing ceremony of theatre festival “the Silk Road of Cordiality”. Representatives of the Ministry of Culture, theatre directors and artists from the capital and velayats took part in the event.

Opening of theatre festival “The Silk Road of Cordiality” was held in the Main Drama Theatre of Turkmenistan in Ashgabat.

The programme of cultural events includes artistic performances timed to the opening of the Aqua Park with resort and Avaza sanatorium on Caspian Sea and to the opening of other social and industrial facilities.

Turkmenistan marks the Day of Cultural and Art Personnel and the Day of Magtumguly Fragi Poetry. The Week of Culture 2018, which was finished by the gala concert under the dome of Nowruz ýaýlasynyň ak öýi in Ahal Valley, was timed to these events.

“I congratulate you on the Day of Workers of Culture and Arts and the poetry of Magtymguly Fragi that is celebrated for the first time in the year under the motto “Turkmenistan is the heart of the Great Silk Road”! I wish you good health, prosperity and creative success”, says the President of Turkmenistan, congratulating the workers of culture and arts, and all the compatriots.

The fifth day of the Culture Week was marked with a concert “Küşt Depip, Gazal Aýdyp” given by folk and dance ensembles from across the country in the Culture House in Anau, Akhal velayat. The main aim of the event is to popularize the traditional art of singing and dancing, Kushtdepdi, inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.

The Culture Week will be remembered by fellow citizens and guests of the country as a bright constellation of events. This large-scale campaign dedicated to the Day of Workers of Culture and Art and Magtymguly Pyragy’s Poetry Day turned into a great celebration that aims to promote the spiritual and cultural heritage and unique traditions of the Turkmen people.

As part of the Culture Week–2018, participants visited unique historical monuments in Ahal province: the Seyit Jemaleddin Mosque and the ancient settlement of Paryzdepe. The Ak bugdaý National museum hosted the opening ceremony of the exhibition of local painters, items of decorative and applied art and the scientific conference headlined “The Great Silk Road in Visual Art”.

By hosting the Culture Week this year that celebrates the slogan “Turkmenistan Is the Heart of the Great Silk Road”, not only has Ahal province become the center of the colorful creative traditions of the Turkmen people, but also the center of attraction for cultural figures and masters of art from every region of the country, their rave admirers and foreign tourists visiting this region to see the historical monuments of global significance located on its territory.

Solemn opening of the Culture Week took place in Ahal valley, in the building of Nowruz ýaýlasynyň ak öýi. This large-scale campaign is held annually in different regions of the country as a showcase of the vibrant and diverse local culture.