Mongolian designers successfully participated in 8th international festival of multinational costumes, organized in Moscow, Russia. Mongolian designers are participating in this kind of activity for the first time. “Mongolian Costumes” company's multinational costume collection got the first prize , collections called “Great State” and “Zoos” got the second, also “Power and beauty” collection rewarded with the special prize. Designers from Russia, China, Netherlands and other countries took part in this competition. They demonstrated about 40 collections in 4 categories.

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Ghosta is one of about 200 members of Mongolia’s Dukha minority who eke out an existence as reindeer herders in the alpine taiga along Mongolia’s border with Siberia. They move with the seasons, subsisting mainly on reindeer cheese and bread.
There are perhaps half a dozen shamans among the herders. They are the priests and healers of an ancient religion, the bridge between this world and that of the spirits. Here in the countryside, they keep the old ways, performing rituals only at night, in strict accordance with the seasons and the phases of the moon. They are wary of outsiders, and Ghosta talks only reluctantly.

He found his calling at the age of twenty-five, he says, at a time when he was “sick and becoming unconscious.” Shamanism is a family tradition, and the spiritual congress often begins when the future shaman confronts a life-threatening illness. Ghosta describes the day when he awoke from a mysterious sleep to find his father performing a ritual. “My father told me to put on his costume. I wore it for a while and took it off.” Soon after, he became a shaman.

“That was during socialism times,” he says. “Everything had to be done secretly.”

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THE QUEST FOR SOUND

15:00, Friday 29th June, Cosmo Rodewald

This film concerns the initiation of Corine, who is French, by the Mongolian master shaman Enkhtuya, a reindeer herder, who lives in the Taiga. The film-maker traces the process intimately, from the making of the shamanic paraphernalia to the initiate’s experiences in modified states of consciousness. But this adventure is also the portrait of a woman and her relationship with her shaman teacher.

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There will be a Mongolian theme present at this years Lincoln Center Fest throug the performance of a play entitled "Secret History of the Mongols". The highlights of the festival include works by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass and the Mariinsky Theater's staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle highlight this year's Lincoln Center Festival.

The festival, held from July 10-29, includes 93 performances at 10 venues at or near Lincoln Center, the organization announced Tuesday. The one world premiere is David Michalek's video installation "Slow Dancing," which will appear on the facade of New York State Theater.

The history of the establishment of the state of Mongolia is the basis for the "Secret History of the Mongols," an eight-hour performance split over July 22 and July 29, will be played by nine musicians and storytellers from Mongolia at the Clark Studio Theater,

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