Art Gene Festival ends

Art Gene is a festival celebrating Georgia's historic way of life. Its folklore, music, artisanship, handicrafts, cuisine and many other characteristic features have been offered to the Tbilisi public over several days since 2004.

Representatives of different regions of Georgia exhibit their art and traditional skills and products. The festival became very popular very quickly and participants and spectators love to come to the Tbilisi Art Gene Festival.

Art Gene's main goal is to promote and popularise Georgia's traditional folklore and to research and gather known and unknown materials in this field, introduce them to the general public and archive and preserve them for future generations. The Festival hosts concerts and events involving people from different parts of Georgia and the world and a wide variety of traditional arts and crafts exhibitions and sales. Traditionally the festival starts in the regions of Georgia and continues at the Ethnographic Museum of Tbilisi.

The Art Gene Festival has proved to be the one of the most successful, self-sustaining and highly attended festivals in the South Caucasus region, with growing numbers of supporters from both the local and international community. Members of the different ethnic minorities of Georgia and countries such as Chechnya, Ingushetia, Ukraine, Turkey, Latvia, China, Japan, France and the UK also participate, thus making Art Gene a truly international festival.

The festival was held for the seventh time and is gaining more and more admirers.