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US Ambassador to give lecture at the National University PDF Print E-mail
Sunday, 04 June 2006
Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/. The US Ambassador to Mongolia, Mrs. Pamela Slutz will give a lecture on the development of the relations between Mongolia and the USA on June 8 in the Mongolian National University. This is one of the series of lectures that are arranged by the American Center for Mongolian Studies. The Center is a non-profit educational institution, which aims to develop the study of Mongolia.

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Mongolia's Roaring Hooves music festival PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 25 May 2006
The “Roaring Hooves” is an international annual musical festival and this year the festival’s opening ceremony will be held on June 05, and about 40 delegates will participate from over 10 countries. This festival is a unique blend of countryside and city, foreign and Mongolian, contemporary and traditional.
For fourteen days, international and Mongolian musicians, performers and artists come together for workshops, lectures, master classes, and nightly concerts. The majority of the festival will take place in the countryside, but two concerts will be preformed in UB for opening and closing ceremony.

June 5th
2pm: Roaring Hooves Opening concert for kids at Yarmag district
4pm: Roaring Hooves Opening concert at the Choijin Lama Temple Museum

June 12th
6pm: Roaring Hooves concert at the State Philharmonic Hall

18th
1am: Roaring Hooves closing concert at the Natural History Museum

Provided by the Arts Council of Mongolia


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Traditional Script Calligraphy Contest PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 24 May 2006
Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/. One of the great cultural heritages created by the Mongolian people is the national script. During its development process of more than 1,000 years, the traditional script has been developed as an independent art with many kinds of forms such as, calligraphy, artistic writing, and shorthand. Within the framework of the 800th anniversary celebration of the Great Mongol Empire, the Linguistics and Civilization Institute named after Choi.Luvsanjav will conduct the national calligraphy contest for the tenth time in two stages on May 25 in the Fine Art Gallery. A winner of the competition will receive cash saward of 200 thousand togrogs. The two runners-up will be awarded with 160 thousand and 120 thousand togrogs, respectively. The best calligraphic works will be displayed at an exhibition.

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New Genghis Khan Drama: Leather tickets and baby performance PDF Print E-mail
Friday, 19 May 2006
The actresses of State Dramatic Theatre perform the play Blood Clot starting on May 19th.  The play is written by the people’s poet B.Lkhagvasuren and produced by Ch.Baatar and tells the dramatic story of the Mongolia's great leader Genghis Khan (Chinggis Khaan) It was originally decided to name the drama Chinggis Khaan, but later was renamed to Blood Clot, referring to the story of Chinggis' birth. When he came out of the womb, it is said he was holding a blood clot in his hand. It was seen as a sign of his strong mind and future leadership. For the role of the baby Chinggis, the play features the youngest actor ever on stage in Mongolia: a two months old baby.

leather tickets of the blood clot drama

Another peculiarity of the performance is that some of the tickets have been printed on leather. People and some historians judge that leather tickets can be preserved as an object of art and audiences can keep it as souvenirs.  The leather tickets are priced at between 8000tg and 12000tg. The normal paper tickets ranges from 3000 from 5000tg.

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Mongolia Celebrates International Museum Day PDF Print E-mail
Thursday, 18 May 2006
Ulaanbaatar, /MONTSAME/ Today is the International Day of Museums. On the occasion of the Day, Mr. O.Enkhtuvshin, Mongolian Minster of Education, Culture and Science, has granted certificates of confirmation to 260 unique and valuable exhibits and monuments. They are kept in 13 museums and organizations, including the Bogd Khan Palace Museum, the Natural History Museum, the Paleontology Museum, the National Library, the Erdene Zuu Museum, the State Treasure Fund, the Gandantegchinlen Monastery, the Archeology Institute of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences, and in the Shankh and Tuvkhun temples in Ovorkhangai Aimag. The exhibits were confirmed as the unique and valuable items in 1995-2005, but no certificate for confirmation was granted to them. The certificates for confirmation were given to ten sutras and 12 Buddha images in the National Library, 67 unique monuments in the Fine Art Museum named after Zanabazar, to belongings, state protocol costumes, and other items regarding the historic persons such as the Bogd Khan and his queens, and rarest paleontological findings. Activities will be performed to classify the historic and cultural monuments being kept in rural museums and organizations to provide certificates of confirmation. The material objects related to the Gobi Noyon Khutugtu Danzanravjaa will be classified this year.

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