Dilijan Arts Observatory, Armenia will be launched on August 22 through 11 September 2016. It will bring together an international group of artists, cultural historians and environmental scientists to Dilijan. The Observatory has been founded by IDeA (Initiatives for Development of Armenia) Foundation and Dilijan Development Foundation (DDF).The event is to take place in the ancient town and mountain retreat of Dilijan, which once hosted composers Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten, among others. Fieldwork activities will include investigating style, crafts, graphics; music, composition and astronomy; Soviet architecture and design; culinary knowledge; and wilderness, botany, and future products for survival. The results and outcomes of the Observatory will be featured in exhibitions at the leading national art museums in Europe: the National Gallery of Contemporary Art, the "Hamburger Bahnhof", Berlin, in November 2017, and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, in summer 2018.Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the event.
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