MICHAEL ANANOV: “ARTISTS WORK TIRELESSLY TO DISCOVER A RECIPE FOR HARMINOUS COEXISTENCE” ant things about yourself and your creative work. What is your creative, life credo and motivation for your creativity? Michael Ananov: I am an essayist, playwright, poet, literary scholar, and translator of poetry. I belong to the Pushkin Society of Russian-speaking Writers “Arion,” […]
OCA PEOPLE: ALEKSANDRA REY OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work.Aleksandra Vlasova: I am an Art director with a passion for visual storytelling and impactful design. Since graduating, I have been collaborating with Hertfordshire Press under my pen name Alexandra Rey on a wide range of print and media […]
DISCOVERY TRAVEL FORUM: UNBOXING THE BRAND The practice of international and local conferences is not new. It is a very effective way to focus on a particular issue or area of research and to get multiple views to discuss. But as soon as we shift the POV from discussing the topic in general to some […]
THE CONTEMPORARY ART OF BAHKSHI A NEW SOUND OF THE GOLDENHERITAGE OF UZBEKISTAN Uzbekistan is a country wrestling with its past and its future. Ancient historical cities where heroes such as Alexander the Great and Tamerlane walked the same smooth worn pavements as today’s tourists, need preserving, yet the country is also caught up in […]
5TH EURASIAN FILM FESTIVAL DESCENDS ON LONDON From the 25th to the 30th May 2023, the Fifth Eurasian Film Festival was held in Romford, London. Films and presentations were made from more than twelve countries, embodying the best of culture and creative talent. The festival ran alongside the Romford Film Festival. President of Romford Film […]
A Master Comic Visits Schuchinsk For the first time, school children and students of the Burabay district had the opportunity to take part in master classes on the creation of comic books from Daniel Akhmed – the young author of British publishing house, Hertfordshire Press. Daniel, the young author of “The Final” graphic novel, made […]
LET OTHER PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT YOU! INTERVIEW: TATIANA ZHUKOVA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Tatiana Zhukova: I am Ukrainian, born and raised in Odessa. For the last 10 years I have been working in the field of personnel management. Since 2021, I am a PhD student in […]
EVERY NEW DAY IS A NEW OPPORTUNITY INTERVIEW: SURIYA YESSENTAYEVA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Suriya Yessentayeva: I am 57 years old with 3 daughters and 2 granddaughters who I love very much. I am also an oncologist, a chemotherapist. I have been working in this field […]
LIVE AND LEARN INTERVIEW: BARSHAGUL TLEPINA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Barshagul Tlepina: My name is Barshagul Tlepina, I am 46 years old, I was born in the Aktobe region, live and work in Almaty. My first education is medical. I successfully realised myself in medicine, currently […]
OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Elena Titenko: My name is Elena Titenko, I was born in the South of Russia in a family of Kuban Cossacks. I spent all my childhood and youth in a small village on the Black Sea coast. There you can look at […]
“POETRY IS MY UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE” INTERVIEW: MARINA SHKROBOVA-VERNALIS OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Marina Shkrobova-Vernalis: My name is Marina Shkrobova-Vernalis. I`m a poet, artist, actress, by first education-teacher, candidate of pedagogical sciences, holder of the gold badge “Knight of Humane Pedagogy”, by second education – diplomat, graduate […]
MY WHOLE FAMILY ARE CREATIVE PEOPLE INTERVIEW: ANASTASIA SHEVCHENKO OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Anastasia Shevchenko: I was born and grew up in a small closed city of Novouralsk. My whole family are creative people, so at an early age I realized that my life would be […]
“I WAS NOT INTERESTED IN ANYTHING BUT MOVIES..” INTERVIEW: MAXUD SARSEMBAYEV OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Maxud Sarsembayev: My name is Maxud Sarsembayev. I am a director, screenwriter, video editor and photographer. I’ve been writing scripts with my co-writer and co-director Mansur Sarsembayev, for six years. The […]
THE GOAL IS SELF-REALIZATION INTERVIEW: MANSUR SARSEMBAYEV OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work MS: I am Mansur Sarsembayev, a big fan of cinematography and everything related to it. I started my screenwriting career together with my co-writer Maxud Sarsembayev back in 2016. Since then, we’ve written over 20 […]
MY GOAL IN LIFE IS TO BE NEEDED BY PEOPLE INTERVIEW: NAZYM SAPAROVA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Nazym Saparova: I was fond of reading from early childhood. I especially loved fairy tales of the peoples of the world. I wrote my first fairy tale at the […]
LISTEN ONLY TO YOUR INNER WORLD INTERVIEW: AIGUL RYSKULBEKOVA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Aigul Ryskulbekova: Once, when I was studying at school, my friend asked me to make a birthday card for him, and from that moment I started to write my poetry, songs, fairy tales […]
LOVE WILL ALWAYS PAVE THE WAY TO A SUCCESSFUL FUTURE! INTERVIEW: NATALYA ROVENSKAYA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Natalya Rovenskaya: I moved to Bulgaria from my birthplace in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, five years ago and live in Balchik with my Bulgarian partner Yan. I graduated from Tashkent Conservatory […]
AT ANY AGE, YOU CAN START TO REVEAL YOURSELF INTERVIEW: GALINA PRIMORSKAYA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Galina Primorskaya: I am Primorskaya Galina (@galinaprimorskaya) I was born in Almaty, Republic of Kazakhstan. My parents are simple. but talented people. Mom, Olga Akimovna, a professional cutter and seamstress, […]
WE ARE ALL UNIQUE INTERVIEW: AKNUR NURTAZA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Aknur Nurtaza: I was born and live in Kazakhstan. Kazakh people have many traditions and customs, but since childhood I have been interested in other countries, languages and peoples. Also, as you know, we were […]
MY MOTIVATION IS MY FAMILY INTERVIEW: DILOROM NISHANOVA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Dilorom Nishanova: My name is Dilorom, I live and work in Washington DC. I write about real life of people and drama. The genre of my books composes of true and fictional characters through […]
TRY TO MAKE OUR LIFE A LITTLE BETTER INTERVIEW: NURLAN MUNBAEV OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Nurlan Munbaev: I was born in the city of Guryev in 1971, on June 17. I graduated from school with a silver medal from the 67th school in Almaty in 1989 […]
I LOVE ALL OF YOU INTERVIEW: KARINA MULIAR OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Karina Muliar: I was born and raised in Chisinau. Graduated from a music school, then from the Academy of Arts. In 1991 my family moved to live in Israel. Here I graduated from the […]
WHAT IS YOUR ROLE ON EARTH? INTERVIEW: MARIA MUCHINSKAYA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Maria Muchinskaya: I live in Minsk, Belarus. I was born in 1953 in the Dubina village, Belarus. Have two higher educations: mathematics-programmer and economics. Currently a pensioner, I study at the school-studio of […]
“I HAVE ALWAYS PAINTED” INTERVIEW: TATYANA MENDYBAYEVA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Tatyana Mendybayeva: Born in the USSR in the last century. Most of my life I lived in the ex-union republic of the ex-USSR, which since 1991 has been an independent state – the Republic of […]
BELIEVE IN YOUR OWN SPECIALNESS INTERVIEW: NATALIA LOSKUTOVA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Natalia Loskutova: I started to write poems 4 years ago. It was a real necessity for expression my feelings on paper. My literary works found a broad response among readers. My compositions are published […]
EVERYONE HAS A CHANCE TO “COME ON BOARD” INTERVIEW: DINARA KUSHBAEVA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Dinara Kushbaeva: Like many others, I had an ordinary, but full of bright colours life with its ups and downs. In the routine of affairs, I did not betray much importance […]
EVERY PERSON IS IMPORTANT AND NEEDED INTERVIEW: MIKHAIL KUNITSKY OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Mikhail Kunitsky: I am a children’s writer, living and creating in Belarus. I am the finalist of the competition “Poet of the Year 2016, 2017, 2019, 2020” in the nomination “Children’s Literature” in […]
ANXIETY FOR KNOWLEDGE INTERVIEW: PAVEL KOSSOVICH OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work. Pavel Kossovich: Over the years, I used to work as a scientist. I am a biologist-geneticist. Nowadays I am engaged in research work at the nexus of history, geography and cultural studies of Central Asia and […]
ALL PEOPLE ARE CREATORS INTERVIEW: ALISSA KLIMA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Alissa Klima: I believe that all people are Creators. We try to be creative in the way we communicate and work, build relationships and families, raise children or perform social duties. I was born in […]
INTERVIEW: ALEXANDER KAZARNOVSKY OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Alexander Kazarnovsky: I was born in Moscow in 1951. Graduated from the Moscow Teachers’ College in 1973. In 1993 immigrated to Israel. Since my childhood I have been writing verses. Living in Russia I translated British, American, and German […]
HAPPINESS IS A GREAT RESPONSIBILITY INTERVIEW: GUMER KARIMOV OCA Magazine: What is “Eurasianism” for you? Gumer Karimov: This is everything for me: the philosophy of life, its meaning, my whole worldview. I am from Ufa, the capital of Bashkortostan. My nationality is Tatar. Fifty years ago, at twenty-two years I left my homeland to continue […]
“ALL OF YOUR VICTORIES ARE AHEAD” INTERVIEW: NARGISA KARASARTOVA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work. Nargisa Karasartova: My full name is Karasartova Nargisa Omurbekovna. I was born in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan on August 29, in 1978. My literary debut took place in 2007, when my poems were published in […]
“IN ORDER TO LIVE WELL, YOU NEED TO WORK HARD” INTERVIEW: NIKOLAJ IVLEEV OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work. Nikolaj Ivleev: I was ashamed of our miserable existence in the USSR, the richest country in the world, unable to feed itself, which had 2/3 of the planet’s […]
DON’T BE IN A HURRY TO SUCCEED INTERVIEW: LAURA HAMILTON OCA Magazine: Tell us about yourself and your creative activity Laura Hamilton: As director of the prestigious Collins Gallery at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, from 1988 until its closure in 2013, I originated exhibitions and events related to contemporary Fine and Applied Art by […]
“KNOW THE CULTURE OF THE SOCIETY THAT YOU LIVING AND WORKING WITH” INTERVIEW: BRUCE GASTON OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Bruce Gaston: I am primarily a businessman and not as involved in the arts as I used to be. However, I still write articles for publication every […]
CREATE IN THE NAME OF ART INTERVIEW: YULIA GANETSKAYA OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Yulia Ganetskaya: My name is Yulia Ganetskaya, I was born in Uzbekistan, and now living in Japan. My husband and I own a small cultured pearl farm. I have been writing since childhood. […]
“MY BOOKS HELP CHILDREN SEE THE BEAUTY OF THE WORLD WE LIVE IN” INTERVIEW: GRIGORE GACIKEVICI OCA Magazine: Tell us, please, about yourself and your creative activity / work Grigore Gacikevici: I am 49 years old, I write poetry for children in Russian, English and Romanian. I began my public literary activity a year ago, […]
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