Mongolian Khöömii Festival

Embassy of Mongolia in London
& Art Café at Lingua Global
proudly present the Inaugural European
Mongolian Khöömii Festival
in celebration of Khöömii being recognised as an intangible cultural heritage of Mongolia with UNESCO in 2011.

Inaugural Khöömii Conference & Film showing of “Mongolian Khöömii”
from 9:30am to 5:30pm Tuesday 19th July 2011
Ticket £50/30concs (inclusive the Gala Concert on 20 July)
For ticket sales and more info, please email: hmandakhtsetseg@yahoo.com ; unurmaa@linguaglobal.org.uk ; ormi_khoomii@yahoo.com
Venue: Room 111, Vernon Square Campus, School of Oriental and African Studies,
University of London, Penton Rise, London WC1X 9EW

Mongolian Khöömii Gala Concert
from 8pm to 10pm Wednesday 20th July 2011
followed by the After Party Disco until midnight
Venue: Venue 229, International Students House
229 Great Portland Street London, W1W 5PN
Tickets £20/15 concessions Box Office info: 020 7631 8306

Hanggai, Rock Naadam coming to UB

A while back, Heesco blogged about Hanggai, an ethnic rock Mongolian band, hailing from Inner Mongolia.
Today I found out through Mongolian Music blog that they are coming to UB and Darkhan before Naadam for a Rock Naadam! So be sure to check them out, coz they are pretty awesome. They played at Wacken Open Air, which is like the Woodstock of heavy metal, held annually in Germany. So, much respect!
Here's a video of them performing live.

Click on the image to visit their Official FB Fanpage.

EBRD hosts art from across the Gobi Desert

The exhibition which attracted distinguished members of the Mongolian community including the Mongolian ambassador to London, was officially opened on Wednesday 8 June to the spherical sounds of a traditional Mongolian fiddle player and a throat singer.
Welcoming staff and guests to the reception, EBRD First Vice President Varel Freeman commented on the extraordinary creativity and variety of art on display which also reflected his personal impressions of the country and its incredibly rich cultural history. To date, the EBRD has invested over €1 billion in Mongolia and Mr Freeman took the opportunity to express his hopes for even greater future cooperation between Mongolia and the EBRD.

Contemporary Mongolian Art in London: Group exhibition

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=228363713857223

8th June – 24th June, 2011
Free admissions by appointment only Mon-Fri 9:00am-5:30pm

Opening reception: Wednesday 8 June, 2011 at 5:30 pm
RSVP: unurmaa@linguaglobal.org.uk or ulziia@ebrd.com

Venue: European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, One Exchange Square, London EC2A 2JN

EBRD is pleased to host a group exhibition of exciting contemporary works by Mongolian and International artists, whose work is inspired by the rich culture and great history of Mongolia, who once built the largest empire in the history of the world. We present selection of artworks by Mongolian artists, Batbileg Darjaa, Nurmaajav Tuvdendorj, Odgarig Sereeter, Otgonbayar Tod and Munkhgerel Odgarig and of the special guest Dutch artist René Polak, whose works have been inspired by the Mongolian folk rock band “Altan Urag”.

Batbileg Darjaa is an artist well-known for his decorative hand-woven gobelins. He recently finished working on his latest exhibition an on Queen, the British rock band, and displayed some of those magnificent artworks at the 25th Official Queen Fan Convention in the UK last year. Here we display some of the artworks as part of our exhibition dedicated to the 40^th Aniiversary of Queen. Batbileg has been invited to exhibit during the Freddie Mercury’s Day Celebration in Montreux, Switzerland, which is due to take place in September 2011.