Georgia: With the initiative of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Georgia and the support of the Government of Georgia, the fifth week of the Georgian Festival in Levili’s homeland began with exciting and diverse cultural and sports events.
On June 22, the festival guests had the opportunity to meet Levan Gelashvili and Shota Tevzadze, famous veteran handball players. The athletes also held an exhibition game.
The concert of the ensemble “Mardve” was held. The children’s choreographic ensemble “Lapreb” with the ensemble “Erision” presented samples of Georgian choreography. The evening ended with the Georgian polyphony ensemble “Didgori” being given in front of the audience. It should be noted that the ensembles participated in the Leville Festival for the first time. Georgian multi-voiced song and choreography earned great interest and appreciation from the audience.
After the event, the singers of the ensemble “Mardve” and the dancers of the ensemble “Laprai” were at Levili Georgian Cemetery. The singers performed “My Good Country.”
Among the guests of the festival are Teona Iashvili, head of the National Archives of Georgia, who got to know the foundation of documentation and book of various periods preserved in Levili’s homeland, ethnologist Rosetta Gujejiani, director of the Historical-Architectural Museum of Dadiani Palaces David Okujava, director of Ilia Chavchavadze Saguramo State Museum Andro Bedukadze, publicist, writer, professor I Oseb Chumburidze and others.
As it is known, Levili Georgians’ homeland is Georgian every weekend from May 24 to July 14.
She is hosting the festival. It is being held for the second time, and unlike the previous year, both its length and the number of participants have increased. This year, for the first time in Levili’s homeland, May 26 was celebrated on a particularly large scale. Every week, several foreigners or locals visit the festival. Among the guests at the events are Georgian immigrants living in France.
Over 700 artists and athletes are participating in this year’s two-month festival, including folk and choreographic ensembles from across the region, municipal state theaters, and creative groups. Several sports (rugby, football, hairdressing, chess, Georgian martial arts) have competitions or exhibition dueling. For the first time, wood artisans, writers, and art academy students participated in the festival.
It was important that Leville’s historic homeland hosted the Academy of Art’s master’s and undergraduate students of sculpture for the first time this year. Seven students have been visiting the Ministry of Culture’s first creative residence outside Georgia for several weeks, and the works they created there will be permanently placed in Motherland Park.
