FEAST OR FAMINE

MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of:- The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

The Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi is holding an exhibition on Stone Age Georgia from 27 September 2016 to 27 September 2017. The exhibition holds a range of skeletons and bones found in archaeological sites in Georgia. Due to its geographic location, Southern Caucasus at the border between Europe and Asia (Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia) has always been at the crossroads of cultures. Early humans have repeatedly occupied this area for the last 2 million years. There are over 500 Paleolithic sites discovered already. The Stone Age of Georgia exhibition covers the period from 1.77 million to 8 thousand years ago, as well as anthropologial material discovered in other parts of the world, presenting the timeline of human evolution. The introductory part of the exhibition presents the paleoenvironments and the evolution of the land fauna from the late Miocene (8 to 5 million years) before evidence of the dispersal of the early hominins to Southern Caucasia.

The Georgian National Museum is holding an exhibition called A Week Within Otar Ioseliani’s World as part of the 2016 International Film Festival in Georgia (Kinovino). The exhibition of Georgian film maker and director, Otar Ioseliani, will be held from 28 November to 4 December 2016 in the Simon Janashia Museum within the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia. The exhibit coincides with the 50th anniversary of Ioseliani’s film ‘Falling Leaves’ (‘Chute des feuilles’ / ‘Giorgobistve’) made in 1966. The storyboard for the film is displayed. A storyboard is the series of graphic illustrations that show the sequence of a film (the pre-visualization of the movie). The exhibition also showcases Ioseliani’s 50 drawings from his private collection that have never been exhibited before – all hand-illustrated by Otar Ioseliani. Otar Ioseliani (1934-) is a Georgian-French film maker, born in Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. His most recent film is the 2015 ‘Winter Song’