Nomad 2023 - Day Two "Land" Programme

08:00 -- Breakfast

Location: Khan Tengri Restaurant; UCA Campus Dining Hall

09:15 -- Departure from Khan-Tengri Hotel; Arrival at UCA Naryn Campus

10:00 -- Workshop "Writing in Response to A Living Land"

Location: UCA Campus Yellow Classroom

Agenda:

• Presentation by acclaimed poet Dr Mark Tredinnick
• Writing workshop by Khurshedsho Qunonov and Lucy Palmer
• Writing venture nearby Naryn River
• Regrouping in the Creative Studio for recordings

"Land as a teacher, as an embodiment not only of its own integrity but of human aspirations and virtues like hope and beauty; land as an educator of the senses; land as a measure against which to prove and compare one's own and others' lives, as a theater for the divine comedy of all human life; land as an elder, as a god, as a library..."

Mark Tedinnick

12:00 -- Opening of Digital Experiments Screening

Location: UCA Campus Creative Studio

12:30 -- Lunch

Location: UCA Campus Dining Hall

13:45 -- Departure to Naryn Drama Theater

Departure Location: UCA Campus West Entrance

14:30 -- Film Festival Opening Ceremony 

Screening Time of Central Asian Films

• 15:30 -- Kara-Kamysh by Asel Umaralieva
• 15:44 -- Blessing by Daniiar Abirov
• 15:59 -- Shades of Melancholy by Karash Zhanyshov
• 16:29 -- Earth by Aliman Toktogulova and Umarjon Jumaev
• 16:46 -- The Door by Zhanyl Umuralieva

Location: Naryn Oblast Academic Musical Drama Theater Named After M. Ryskulov

17:15 -- Break

Location: Naryn Oblast Academic Musical Drama Theater Named After M. Ryskulov

Screening of International Films

• 17:47 -- Us by Elias Redlitz
• 18:03 -- Pay To by Mohammad Ghazazani
• 18:18 -- A Normal Day by Mohammad Ghazazani
• 18:33 -- The Journey: The Future of Kazakh Nomads by Kazuya Isobe
• 18:46 -- Suitcase by Saman Hosseinpuor and Ako Zandkarimi

Location: Naryn Oblast Academic Musical Drama Theater Named After M. Ryskulov

19:00 -- Departure to UCA Campus

Departure Location: Naryn Oblast Academic Musical Drama Theater Named After M. Ryskulov

19:30 -- Dinner

Location: UCA Dining Hall

20:30 -- Exhibition "Mountains of Sorrow"

Location: UCA Campus Lobby

Cultural Heritage and Humanities Unit (CHHU), Graduate School of Development, UCA

Curators: Altyn Kapalova, CHHU, UCA; Nurperi Orunbaeva, Artist and Research Fellow, Osh State Museum of Fine Arts

The exhibition “Mountains of Sorrow” demonstrates what land means for nomads, what it means to leave your home behind to walk thousands of kilometers stepping on damp, cold and icy land earth across huge glaciers. And then, what does it mean to return to one’s native land and to start again? This exhibition is about death, life, path, and home earth.

“Though it was a conspired amnesia, yet memories of Urkun continued to live in the oral history of every affected family. Even after decades, the stories shared by their descendants remain full of tragedy and empathy for the victims.”

- Altyn Kapalova

20:30 -- Student Art Exhibition [Auction]

Location: UCA Lobby

21:30 -- Departure to Hotel

Location: UCA Campus West Entrance