Tbilisi Joins Gallery Weekend- Multimedia Project 'War Diaries'

War Diaries is a multimedia project that brings together artists and musicians, actors and writers, with the aim of spreading the word from Ukraine. Various forms of art events such as exhibitions, musical life, and other forms of accessible expression are presented through various events.

In Tbilisi, the program combines Gallery Weekend and live streaming on MUTANT Radio with Ukrainian and Georgian musicians such as Nika Machaidze, Tusia Beridze, Rezo Kiknadze, Anushka Chkheidze, Michael Blog, Anton Slepakov, Andrei Sokolov, Oleg Junket.

Up to 11 galleries and art institutions are involved in the project. Such as ARTBEAT, 4710, E.A. Common Space and Magazine Danarti, WINDOW PROJECT, PROPAGANDA NETWORK, POSTA DA KONA & LC-QUEISSER, THE WHY NOT Gallery, Patara Gallery, JIBU/TASO and the artists represented in these galleries are Kinder Album, Taras Bichko, Nikita Kada Kadyrova, Lesya Khomenko, Vladislav Krasnoshchok, Danilo Movchan, Nivan Made, Stanislav Ostrus, Vlada Ralko and Oleksandr Shatokhin.

Almost all participants of the program remain in Ukraine. Therefore, the purpose of the event is to raise funding to support them during this difficult time.

After Tbilisi, InterchanGE Festival in Batumi will host WAR DIARIES and the event will last until the end of June. ATOMIC SIMAO live stream will be held together with Georgian musicians within the framework of the Batumi program.

An exhibition of war diaries has already been held in Poland, Wroclaw and plans to travel to Korea and other European countries.

The program is supported by TBC Creative Europe Georgia Desk and Adjara Group.

The Adjara event is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, the Contemporary Art Space and the Government of Lower Silesia, Poland.