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Programme - Georgian day
31 oktober 2009
Metropolitan Building VU
Buitenverdertselaan 3, Amsterdam
Price: € 10. pp, students and children € 5

09.30   Coffee / Tea
10.00   Welkom, Eka de Jager-Mkheïdze, chairman ‘Bagration’ foundation
10.10   Ilia Chavchavadze (1837-1907) writer, poet and lawyer
   One of founding fathers of modern Georgia
   Francoise Companjen Georgia expert VU Amsterdam

10.30   Cultural Diplomacy and its Role in the Foreign Policy of Georgia.
   Georgian Ambassador to the Netherlands
   Her Excellency Maia Panjikidze
10.45   Coffee/Tea

11.15   Georgia in ancient Greek sources
   Prof. Sopo Shamanidi, Tbilisi State University
   
11.45    History of Georgia, from kingdom to democracy
   ‘The Jeans Generation’ Dato Turashvili (36) writer, Tbilisi

12.45   Georgian-Dutch dictionary
   Artchil Djzvakhadze interpreter, Gouda
 
13.00   Lunch-break (please contact us for the lunch-reservation)
   
14:00   ‘August 2008’ Lasha Bugadze (32) writer, Tbilisi
   ‘Alphabet’ Rati Amaglobeli (32) writer, Tbilisi
   Musical accompaniment by Gogi Dzodzuashvili, Amsterdam

15.00    Break
15.30   Gia Edzgveradze ‘Born in Georgia’ documentary
   George Gvakharia film – recensent, Tbilisi
   
17:00   Drinks and Georgian snacks by Hans Smits
   Georgian songs, Joke van der Weide