Project “R.A.C.I.S.M. – Radical Action Combating Indifference & Supporting  Migrants ”
19 – 26 October  2012

Participation of   Valerian Gunia  Union of Young Theatral Artists delegation /Sandro Nakashidze and Tamta Mandzulashvili   – members of YTA union youth section / in Training Course, which will be held in Marsaxlokk, Malta in the period of  19th – 26th October  2012.

The event is organized by the Youth for Exchange and Understanding Malta  in the frames of project “R.A.C.I.S.M. – Radical Action Combating Indifference & Supporting  Migrants ” implemented with the support of  Youth for Exchange and Understanding.

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OISTAT Architecture Commission Meeting
Milan, Italy – 2 August 2012

Participation of   Valerian Gunia  Union of Young Theatral Artists member Manana Gunia in  Architecture Commission Meeting 2 August, 2012 at La Scala theatre.

The Architecture Commission meeting was held July 29 to August 03, 2012 in Italy with a special Northern Italy Historic Theatre Tour.

In the annual AC meeting , Tim Foster, proposed by the ABTT,  was elected as AC Chair unopposed. Torsten Nobling and Martien van Goor agreed to continue to serve as vice-chairs and were duly re-elected.

Cooperation with International Confederation of  Theater Unions  & Chekhov International Theatre Festival
6 – 13 June 2012

Festival of Young Theater Artists of CIS Countries, Baltic Countries and Georgia, Chisinau (Moldova) 

Participation of the representative  of  Youth Section of YTA Union/ Georgian OISTAT National Center Sergei Shivts  at the Festival of Young Theater Artists of CIS Countries, Baltic Countries and Georgia, in Chisinau.

Project Objective: participation of the representative of the Georgian scenography school in the international exhibition, promotion of Georgian culture in the artists of former Soviet states.

Organizer – International Confederation of Theater Unions with the financial support of the Interstate Fund of Humanitarian Cooperation of CIS Countries

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Education Commission Meeting, Maastricht, The Netherlands
19 – 23 April 2012

Project objective: business trip of  Tamar Bokuchava,  Valerian Gunia Union of Young Theatric Artists Advisory Council Member, Education Section Chair, doctor of theater science,  professor of Shota Rustaveli State University of Theatre and Film, chair of the Dissertation Council, representing YTA Union as a new OISTAT  national center to  the Education Commission Meeting of International Association OISTAT in Maastricht, and for the first time participation of first part of the Georgian delegation in the elections of  OISTAT Education Commission chairperson.

Establishment of professional contacts with representatives of  various OISTAT national centers and selection of potential participants for future bien...

On  the International Theater Day in Tbilisi, at Akaki Khorava Actor’s House  by YTA Union/Georgian OISTAT National Center of the Ministry and Georgian Theater Society  was organized the solo  exhibition of Manana Gunia.

The exhibition presented the works created in the years 2001-2012. In particular, set design sketches, costumes, and installations performed in 3D MAX program / see the article “Manana Gunia’s Virtual theater”.

Donor – YTA Union/ Georgian OISTAT National Center

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 5 – 8 February  2012

Inspection of theatrical scenes in the regions of Georgia / the trip of YTA Union/Georgian OISTAT National Center three-member delegation/Nino Gunia – Kuznetsova, Zurab  Nakashidze, Bekar Jumutia/  to Batumi and Poti / analysis of  plans and equipment and selection of best stage site for “La scala di seta” performance concept.
Working meetings with the Minister of Culture of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara, self-governments of Batumi and Poti devoted to the cultural networks  integration of the Black Sea countries  and organization of the international scenography and  performance biennale in Georgia.

PQ11 – Georgian Student Pavilion in the Contemporary Art Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
June 2011

Creation of pavilion and exhibition work process;
The official opening of the Prague Quadrennial;
Radio Prague interview with  Nina Gunia – Kuznetsova, Bekar Jumutia;
Presentations within the Prague Quadrennial;
Participation in the workshops organized by OISTAT (scenography, light design, costume design) (16.06-26.6) (master classes and workshops held at national pavilions of Spain, Finland, Japan, Poland) –  Tea Gelashvili, Sergei Shivts.
June 19 – 23  LIGHT AND SOUND PARTY – Shio Abrakhamia, Bekar Jumutia.

Financed by: Ministry of Culture and Monument Protection of Georgia, the program “Georgian Seasons”

In 2011 in frames of Prague Quadrennial was held OISTAT Congress

June 17 – OIST...

20 January – 10 June 2011

Curator Mrs. Gunia-Kuznetsova carried out additional work with  the students- competition winners;
Exhibition of selected works at the academic theater of Ilia State University in the beginning of June.
Creation of Georgian Student Pavilion – concept development, design, site implementation.

Exhibition’s Theme:
“We are such stuff As dreams are made on…..” – “The Tempest”   W. Shakespeare
The last twenty years (1989-2009) have significant value for Georgia: restoring independency, returning to Western democratic values, revolutions and wars, all these are important for the development of culture, which sometimes documentary reflects all the changes in the mentality of nation...

Born and grew up in Georgia…
Lives and works in Italy…
Dreams and creates in the virtual theater…

Manana Gunia, the Georgian set designer, ten years ago went for study to Florence, the town of her dreams (the scenography chair of Florence Academy of Art, the course of virtual scenography) and tied her creative work with the virtual theater.

She scored a first great success with her work created as far back in Tbilisi. This was the virtual setting and costumes for William Shakespeare’s play “The Tempest”: in 2002 at the International Competition of Artists in Florence “XX Premio Firenze” Centro Culturale Firenze-Europa “Mario Conti” she was awarded the Gold Medal in the nomination “Digital Arts & Multimedia”...