The culture season is booming this weekend- take your pick from the best cinema, theater and music!
Friday 28
THEATER
Tbilisi International Festival of Theater
THE OVERCOAT
Nikolai Gogol
Directed by Nikoloz Sabashvili
Language: Georgian
English Subtitles
Start time: 13:00
Venue: Tbilisi Giorgi Mikeladze State Professional
Puppet Theater
CINEMA
JOHNNY ENGLISH STRIKES AGAIN
Directed by David Kerr
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Olga Kurylenko, Emma Thompson, Jake Lacy
Genre: Comedy, Action, Adventure
Language: English
Start time: 22:00
Language: Russian
Start time: 22:30
Ticket: 16-19 GEL
Cavea Galleria
EXHIBITION
Georgian National Museum Simon Janashia Museum
The EuroArt and ArtEcho foundations (directed by Dali Ubilava de Graaf), together with its Georgian and foreign partners, is organizing an EXHIBITION OF AURELIEN VILLETTE'S
‘RESOLUTION OF SILENCE – ABKHAZIA’
LIVE MUSIC
Tbilisi State Conservatoire
CLASSICAL MUSIC COGNITIVE PROGRAM
Classical Music Program
Start time: 16:00
Ticket: 50 GEL
Tbilisi Concert Hall
Within the "Check in Georgia" project, the state academic ensemble of Georgia folk music and songs ‘Abkhazeti’s’ concert
GEORGIAN GENI
Famous Georgian national folk music and songs
Start time: 20:00
Ticket: 10-15 GEL
Saturday 29
THEATER
Tbilisi International Festival of Theater
WHEN THE WORLD IS ENDLESS
Irakli Gurgenidze, Koba Shonia
Directed by Irakli Gurgenidze
Language: Georgian
English Subtitles
Start time: 18:00
Venue: Tumanishvili Film Actors’ Studio Theater
CINEMA
THE NUN
Directed by Corin Hardy
Cast: Bonnie Aarons, Taissa Farmiga, Jonny Coyne
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Language: English
Start time: 20:00
Language: Russian
Start time: 22:30
Ticket: 14-19 GEL
Cavea Galleria
EXHIBITION
Tbilisi History Museum- Karvasla
Exhibition: ‘MUTUAL FRUSTRATION’ BY ETER METREVELI
LIVE MUSIC
ALIBI ARENA is an 21 000 Sq. m space which has been given the necessary infrastructure to host various kinds of events and concerts. This weekend it will be decked out for 90s Georgia- featuring 90s music, artists and decor.
Grab your place at one of the many bonfires, chow down on mtsvadi (barbequed meat), make vodka with your own hands and of course, drink! All whilst listening to 90s hits.
Dress code: It’s the 90s, baby!
LIVE BAND LINE-UP:
Kuchis Bichebi
Achiko Meparidze
Lela Tsurtsumia
Temur Tatarashvili
Lekseni
Nini Karseladze
Tika Jamburia
Marika Tkhelidze
DJ SET
WHEN: Saturday September 29, Doors open at 18:00
WHERE: Tbilisi, Zemo Fonichala, ALIBI ARENA
Price on tkt.ge: 20 GEL
Price at the door: 30 GEL
Sunday 30
THEATER
Tbilisi International Festival of Theater
DIALOGUE IN SKIN
South East Asia Music, Contemporary Percussion
Directed by Bernar Go.
Writer, adaptation: Khelebis Ritmi
Georgian, English Subtitles
Start time: 20:00
Ticket: 15-30 GEL
Venue: Marjanishvili Theater
CINEMA
A SIMPLE FAVOR
Directed by Paul Feig
Cast: Anna Kendrick, Blake Lively, Henry Golding
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Language: English
Start time: 14:30
Language: Russian
Start time: 21:45
Ticket: 15-19 GEL
EXHIBITION
Tbilisi History Museum- Karvasla
UNITY IN DIVERSITY. BRISTOL & TBILISI: 1988 -2018
The exhibition showcases the development of the cultural, educational and civic relationship between the two cities from the beginning to the present day.
LIVE MUSIC
Tbilisi State Conservatoire
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS-
SWISS-GEORGIAN FESTIVAL
Concert II
Performers:
Mondrian Ensemble (Switzerland):
Ivana Pristasova- violin,
Petra Akerman- viola,
Carolyn Oman- cello,
Tamriko Kordzaia, piano,
Peter Konradin Zumtor- drums (Switzerland),
Nino Kasradze- piano (Georgia),
Nino Jvania- piano (Georgia),
Tamar Jvania- piano (Georgia),
Mariam Abramishvili- piano (Georgia),
Start time: 16:00
Ticket: 50 GEL