More than 60 festivals and concerts will be held on City Day of Almaty
Almaty, August 7. Kazakhstan Today - Residents and guests of Almaty can enjoy a rich cultural and entertainment program throughout the month: over 60 new and already loved festivals and concerts. The festive program dedicated to the City Day will start on August 19-20 at the high-mountain skating rink Medeu, where the first international music festival Star of Asia will be held within the framework of the Ruhani Jangyrou program, Kazakhstan Today reports.
Popular performers of Asia in different styles: from hip-hop, classics, r'n'b to indie-pop and rock promise to arrange a real holiday for Almaty residents. Being a completely new festival format, Star of Asia continues the good traditions of the music contest "Asia Dauysy". The high-mountain skating rink Medeu will be visited by popular performers from China, Turkey, Japan, South Korea, India and other countries. Among those, South Korean К-рор band "U-KISS", singer from India Sanah Moidutty, Turkish star Murat Boz. Two days the local performers will be performing together with foreign artists: Muzart, Kairat Nurtas, Aikyn, Ali Okapov and others. Tickets are already available at Kassir.kz. Tickets for the festival will be available in "Meloman" and the ticket offices of The Palace of the Republic starting from August 7, the press service of Almaty akim informed.
During the month, residents and guests of the city will be able to visit the international music festivals "Kok-Tobe-Opera" and "Parade of Orchestras" in the open air, festival of apples "Alma fest", festival of national cuisine of the people of Kazakhstan "ToiKazan 2017", several thousands Open Air "Gakku Dausy", ceremony of national film award "Tulpar", Open Air performance "Bazarym tarkamasyn" of the Musical Theater named after G. Musrepov and other events. Discounts in more than 100 shopping centers of the southern capital in the framework of "Almaty Sales Festival: Summer 2017" will be a pleasant surprise.
On the day of the city, in September 17, the VI Eurasian music award Muzzone "EMA 2017" will be held at "Almaty Arena", the press service reported.
In addition to cultural and entertainment events, Almaty residents and guests of the city will experience spectacular sports events, including favorite tournament which has already become a popular - Kazakh kuresi "Alem Barys".The performance of MMA "Alash Pride" fighters will be held in September 9, where the main event of the evening will be the battle of undefeated Arman Ospanov with Brazilian Thiago Tavares. In addition, this year's two-day cycling event "Tour of Almaty" will be held in September 28-29, which makes it a significant sporting event among international multi-day tours. The live broadcast will be provided by Eurosport.
The Akimat noted that ABBA platinum", "A'studio", "Mushrooms" and other performers will perform in "Almaty Arena" in the next few months. Concerts of Kazakh and Russian pop stars, including Toregali Toreali, Vaengi, Nargiz Zakirova, Pavel Volya and others will be held in the Palace of the Republic.
In addition, this year, the State Academic Russian Drama Theater named after M. Lermontov will be celebrating its 80th anniversary. The 80th anniversary is also celebrated by one of the oldest zoological parks in the country - Almaty Zoo.
For City Day, it is planned to complete the reconstruction with priority for pedestrians of Panfilov, Zhibek Zholy, Gogol, Kabanbai batyr streets and Astana square, open the social facilities and new administrative center of Nauryzbay district with Akimat, Public Service Center, post office, court, prosecutor's office, justice department and other buildings.
We would like to remind that in one of the Messages to the people of Kazakhstan, President of the country called to provide an impetus for development of all-Kazakhstan culture and long-term concept of cultural policy.
It was also noted earlier that tradition and culture are the genetic code of a nation. Since achieving independence, despite globalization and westernization, our cultural foundation has been visibly strengthened. We should protect our national culture and traditions in all their diversity and greatness, and gather our cultural heritage in pieces.
In the article "Looking to the Future: Modernizing of Public Consciousness," President emphasized that the first condition for a new type of modernization is the preservation of its culture, its own national code. "Without the support of national and cultural roots, modernization will hang in the air, I want it to stand firmly on the ground, which means that history and national traditions must be taken into account" stated in the article.
Also, the President of Kazakhstan noted: "If we want to be a nation with its unique place on the global map of the 21st century, we must implement another project -" Modern Kazakhstan culture in the global world." The point is that the world will know us not only on oil resources and major foreign policy initiatives, but also on our cultural achievements. "
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