Truman Capote – Breakfast at Tiffany’s

Nata Dzvelishvili

Everyone has the loveliest place where feels free and comfortable, where he can relax. Maybe he hasn’t such place and just dreams about it. In such case Home can be like house, park or cafe .

Truman Capote’s Holly Golightly dreams to wake up once and has breakfast at Tiffany’s. How amazing is she – little beat freak, frivolous and unpredictable. She drinks, likes scandals, comes back in the midnight, there is always noisy in her house. The main point is that she is completely free from everything and everyone. Her life is disorder like her room. The clothes are in suitcases and guests have a feel as if she is going to leave.

She couldn’t find Home.

Anyway I like Holly. In fact her name isn’t Holly, but it isn’t important. She is one of the distinctive character  in American prose.

Holly arrived in New York from village, but she could not find Home. She always wears dark glasses. I don’t think that this detail is an insignificant. Such habits help her to hide her real face.

“I don’t want to own anything until I know I’ve found the place where me and things belong together. I’m not quite sure where that is just yet. But I know what it’s like.”

Such place is Tiffany for her.

Then Holly met Fred. She called him Fred, like  her brother. Till last page you can’t understand what his real name is. He is writer and, to be honest, I don’t know how he feels about Holly. She has many friends, acquaintances, due to this fact, Holly has no compassionate except Fred.

She has got a cat, which has no name, but has Holly.

“If I could find a real-life place that made me feel like Tiffany’s, then I’d buy some furniture and give the cat a name.”

Then comes Sally Tomato’s story. The drug-smuggling racketeer, he is in prison, where Holly has weekly visits in return for money.

I always sadly think about Holly, everything isn’t so simple.

Anyway, home is where you feel at home.

I haven’t seen the film. My Holly doesn’t look like Audrey

Real ‘saga’ about women

Lela   Gogoladze

The book, which is currently laid on my bedside table, is Annie Murrays’  “Family of women”. This is a haunting novel about three generations of one British family, about  joys, loves, struggles and  disappointments in their lives.

A main character, Violet is sensible, ethereal young girl. She’s talented and dedicated pupil but Her mother doesn’t care about that. Her mother, Bessie is rude and  uneducated woman with four children.  For earning some money She takes care of neighbors  babies. Violet can’t stand her mothers’ treat with indifference  towards her and constant disorder in Their house. So, she prefers to work all day or just hang out with her only friend Josephine.

Unexpected love changes everything  in her routine life. Henry is a fascinating young lad works with Vi in the factory and despite their pure life, they have great plans about future. But, together with feel of happiness serious problems  have immediately appeared…

“Family of women” is a real  ‘saga’ ,  which covers a long period of 20^th century. Annie Murray wants reader  to look in every corner of characters social and personal life. So ,you have precise images of lower class members, these  who struggle because of  unrealizable  ambitions in their lives.

    “The three main characters, Bessie, Violet and Linda are all women of their times. Women’s lives have changed and opened up enormously. But so many things don’t change, like women’s feelings about their children and the dilemmas we all face of trying to work out our own lives and look after everyone else as well, through all sorts of changing circumstances” – said Annie Murray.

      

The knight in the Panther’s skin

Maia Tsiklauri

Trailer of movie “The knight of Panther’s skin” is already in Social networks. But a process of filming starts in the next year. The movie scenario is a kind of fantasy movie’s. There are a lot of battles and special effects in the movie. It is based on the poem “The knight in the Panther’s skin” which was written by Georgian famous writer Shota Rustaveli in the 12^th century. Producer and Editor of the movie are Levan Dabrundashvili and Jaba Melqadze. As for the soundtrack, it has been written by composer Giorgi Gogoladze. Characters in the movie are played by Georgian young celebrities: character of Tarieli – Tornike Gogrichiani, Avtandili – Giorgi Vardosanidze and Nestan-darejani – Ruska Makashvili. Trailer was filmed in Kareli Region in the east side of Georgia. And it describes a battle near the Monster castle (Qajetis tsikhe).

Travel in Samtskhe-Javakheti

Miranda Surmanidze

For 4 hours we were travelling in absorbed landscape of the Trialeti in South Georgia. Just rocks, valleys and fog. Me and my friends from Reader’s Club wanted to remember all we had seen and done, For this we used photo and video camera, used words. Our travel in Samtskhe-javakheti was full of stories. We were almost drunk on sensations.

On our way we saw the lakes Faravani and Sagamo, Kumurdo, monastry of Poka, touns Akhalkalaki and Kirovakani. We held a Georgian-Armenian event in Kirovakan`s public school. We presented to pupils books and stationary things. During our meeting Armenian children read the rhymes in Georgian and we read in Armenian. We tried to make friends with Armenian people and they got this initiation.positively.

 

British-Georgian debate on cultural heritage and modern fashion

Tatia Paqsashvili

British Council in Georgia and Georgian National Museum have realized fashion project: ” Cultural heritage and contemporary fashion”. In the National Museum exhibition hall there were presented seven british designers, who founded modern and particular fashion styles in the world. Georgia hosted this kind of event for the first time. Where was represented : Vivien Vestvud, Osman Iusepzade, Sophia Kokosalakis, Peter Jensen, Chalaiani Hussein, Maria Shvabi, Paul Smith.

There were two dresses by Vivien Vestvud , one was garish and cost 20 thousand pounds. Just this strange and rapid dress deserved critic. Most Georgians were pleased Kokosalakis, Osman Iusepzade’s and Piter Jensen’s costums.

Sophia Kokosalakis kokteil, white-black dresses was inspired by Greek mythology. The dress embroidery was complied by hand and looked very sophisticated.

Osman Iusepzade’s wemen have a severe but at the same time very feminine style. The British designer prefers black and red colors like Stendal. He displayed black classic and red aerial chiffon dresses.

Peter Jensen’s collection told us storry about Greenland autumn and winter. His inspiration was a folk of Greenland. He used decorate floral material in the long white boots, handmade leather belt, which combined black , smart, knit wear and blue skirt.

After exhibition we saw honourable fashion show with Art Academy students participation. On the cat walk we have saw young designers works. They were: Nino Sepiashvili, Maka Cercvadze, Tamuna Qisishvili, Lasha Devdariani and Qhristy Kakhidze.

Sepiashvili’s ” Caucasion Framework” was compared with Parajanov’s style. As far Qhristy Kakhidze’s black dresses, they described Georgian architectural monuments by geometric figures and ornaments.

My passion – fashion

Lela Gogoladze

I have grabbed the chance to attend Fashion Exhibitions and Curation in the UK and my impressions need to be shared.

As you know, I’ve just started my career as a journalist, but fashion is like my second passion J I used to think about becoming fashion reporter. Even now, for me the way people dress or look reveals their interests and personality. As usual, I observe passers-by, what they are wearing, if their style matches their appearance and etc. So, the idea of British Fashion Exhibition was highly attractive for me.

Georgian National Museum  and its  president David  Lortkipanidze  was regaling with fashion lovers, BC members and their special guest from UK, Sir Vernon Ellis, Chair of British Council, who was pleased to have a short speech together with Mr. Lortkipanidze.

At first, I was taken to see several designer’s  creations displayed in a hall. The list of the designers was really short, but I saw  impressive works by Sophia Kokosalaki, Osman Yousefzada, Peter Jensen and finally, Vivienne Westwood. When I saw two, sharply different dresses near the entrance of the exhibition hall, “what a familiar style” – I thought. At that moment I noticed influential initials of fashion industry  – VW  (Vivienne Westwood) , for me she is a symbol of  British fashion industry. I took some brief  photos  to share with my friends.

After that, all the guests gathered to see  Presentation on the history of fashion exhibitions in UK and screening of fashion films. Sir Vernon Ellis’s greeting speech was eloquent and memorable.  It appeared that he had seen some antique Georgian handmade and golden jewellery. “I saw resembling style and shapes in Mexico and I was charmed, but your inheritance is much older.  It means that you have a great cultural heritage” – he said.

The presentation included a brief overview of fashion exhibitions in the UK over the last 30 years. As I realize, the popularity of fashion exhibitions keeps growing in recent years and the most  memorable ones are created  by Alexander McQueen, Versace and Vivienne Westwood.  As a presenter, Kendall Martin-Robbins told us, British government is highly interested in growing importance of fashion in culture. And British Council has many fashion projects for supporting  this idea. First British Council Fashion exhibition was held  in Alamaty, Kazakhistan.  After that  the exhibition has travelled in several countries, including  Georgia.  And finally, Summation of the event was Screening of eleven short fashion films. Those films were living pictures of presentation’s topic – fashion exhibitions  influence world’s cultural life, designers’ views, preparation process, etc.

I have already mentioned that I’m a young fashion lover? J  If I had more time, I would scrupulously learn about fashion design, designers, its style and, based on my own taste, I would create local fashion magazine. So, such kind of events definitely help to boost my knowledge and if one day I set up my own magazine, I will not certainly find myself thrown in at the deep end.

For the First Time in Final Four

Miranda Surmanidze

Elite round group tournament of  UEFA Futsal Cup ended up with victory of Georgian champion Iberia Star. Georgian champion will join holders FC Barcelona, Kairat Almaty and MFK Dinamo in the finals. Tbilisi will be host Final Four which will be held by the end of next April.

After the first half, Iberia Star was beating Benfica Lisbon 4:2 but the Portuguese team started the second half actively and equalized the score 4:4. In case of draw, Benfica would have gone through the decisive round of the tournament – Final Four.
Three minute before the end of the game, one of the players of Benfica touched the ball with hand and received yellow card. Referee rewarded penalty. Augusto scored penalty – 5:4.

After that, Benfica attacked its opponent but in vain. Iberia Star used it and scored two goals. The game ended up 7:4.

Georgian team has made through Final Four for the first time

Kurt Vonnegut – Slaughterhouse Five

Nata Dzvelishvili

The war, great inspiration of writing about heroism. If you lose, you can write how guys were heroically fighting, if you win, you have more reason to write this. Some of writers shows horror of war with suffering of one character or describe battle image, so all of them have even one main character.

Vonnegut is quite different – no one can show foolishness of war better than he. He has fantastic language, writing style, composing manner. His characters are moving from one book to another and create one huge world – Vonnegut’s literature.

Slaughterhouse – Five  has different title as well –  The Children’s Crusade. Everything happens in Dresden. Before main plot  starts, he goes to O’Hara and tries to remember the war. O’Hara’s wife Mary isn’t friendly to him. she thinks that wars were partly encouraged by books and movies.

‘You’ll pretend you were men instead of babies, and you’ll be played in the movies by Frank Sinatra and John Wayne or some of those other glamorous, war-loving, dirty old men. And war will look just wonderful, so we’ll have a lot more of them. And they’ll be fought by babies like the babies upstairs.’ 

– says Mary. At last everything happened opposide of this. This book is like children’s crusade.

Characters of this book aren’t vocation for war, even Bill Pilgrim wanted to die when war had begun. Then they arrested in Dresden in Slaughterhouse #5. They spent 5 years in room which hadn’t even windows. It was a hell on the Earth. It was full of boiled alive school-age girls.

Bill Pillgrim randomly travels in time and is abducted by aliens from planet Tralfamadore. This planet is opposide of the Earth with its calmness. Local people live with belief, that in fact nothing dies and disappears. Every moment -past, present or future is alive forever

 ‘we will all live  forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be.’

When Billy arrived to the Earth with this idea, he christened as a mad

‘No art is possible without a dance with  death’ 

The Tralfamadorians have quit different definition of  “death” that’s why he is astonished how aliens can live in such calmness.

Kurt Vonnegut

I am from a planet that has been engaged in senseless slaughter since the beginning of time

Only Vonnegut has such style of writing. Transmission to different period, situation, characters, stories is absolutely natural. Neither reading race drops down nor interest decreases. Vonnegut is one of the writers whose stories never are bored to me. He has typical sense of humor and he writes even about slaughterhouse without trouble

I feel like every character passes through during reading and in fact only war nonsense stayed with me.

The most interesting thing which i found with Vonnegut is that the story idea comes to you and less important are characters who brings this idea.

135 thousand people died during Dreasden bombing.  ,As Tralfamadorians says the death doesn’t mean disappearance. Everyone remember Dreasden bombing and nothing passed through half century ago.

Once, after five-year captivity the door was opened and they left. But five years weren’t erased from memory.

So it goes

Re-Construction

Natia Khoshtaria

20 October Tbilisi 5 p.m. Georgian National Museum. I was invited at the exhibition organized by British Council the main idea of the event was cultural heritage and contemporary fashion. I got there at 5 p.m. with my 4 year-old daughter, and there were too many guests already.

Before the official opening ceremony, we were able to examine the exhibition, especially created for the British Council and this project by UK’s leading fashion designers of different nationalities: Vivien Westwood, Peter Jensen, Marios Schwab, Osman Yousef Zada, Hussein Chalayan, Paul Smith and Sophia Kokosalaki. We were told that all these designers tried to find a link between the history and modern fashion – to create clothes with narrative. And there you can find some models by these famous authors until 20 November.

But let’s go back at the event, after the official part, after the red ribbon was cut there was nice fashion show. Four Georgian young designers, the students of art-academy, presented their works, quiet different from each other: dresses like medieval centuries Georgian Queens, ethnographic elements in modern fashion, and interesting mix of old and modern culture. The main colour was black, white, and grey.

I really miss some   colours in the models we were shown, traditional Georgian colors: purple, turquoise and so on. But everything else was perfect – the atmosphere, Georgian composer’s Vato Kakhidze’s music mixed by young D.J. George Gogiava.

According to the organizers, Ms Kendal Martin Robins, Georgia was sixth country where the exhibition was held, after the Uzbekistan, Kirgizstan, Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The aim of the event was to distil elements of the past in modern designers creatures.

There were head of British Council Zaza Phurtseladze and British Ambassador, Ms. Judith Gough. She told us, that this exhibition was one out of the long-list events initiated by British Council and supported by Great Britain’s embassy in Georgia.

Don’t miss the exhibition it will be desplayed for a month in Georgian National Museum.

 

English-Georgian Fashion

Liza Vadachkoria

Cypriot, Danish, Greek, Austrian, Afghani, English –six fashion designers of different nationalities from Great Britain presented their collection dresses in Georgian National Museum.

They found inspiration in country that united them.

Fashion exhibition was organized by the British Council.

After English part Georgian part started. Art academy students were showing their collections. Models of Natali were wearing historic dresses and folk costumes.

After the performance I asked UK ambassador Mrs. Judit Goff’s for her opinion about the show.

“Both countries need such event, because that strengthens cultural relationships”- she answered.

Mrs Judit has a good sense of humor. When I asked her “Do you like Georgia?” She said:”It’s terrible!” and laughed. Then added: “It was a joke. I’m glad that Georgia became a really democratic country”.