Daily Archives: June 4, 2015

Georgian artists are not welcome in Britain

By | June 4th, 2015|Categories: News|

performance 'Welcome' by the New Collective about immigrant women in the UK Tbilisi, DFWatch - A group of Georgian artists, invited to perform a play about immigration in the international theater festival in the UK, got their visa applications rejected. Mareike Wentzel is a German actress and performance artist, who frequently visits Georgia and [...]

Dog shelter flooded in Tbilisi

By | June 4th, 2015|Categories: In brief|

Tamaz Elizbarashvili Dog Shelter (Facebook) Tbilisi, DFWatch – At least 13 dogs drowned in flood on Wednesday night  in Tbilisi at Tamaz Elizbarashvili’s dog shelter. A heavy rain flooded river Vere and the water flushed the shelter’s ground floor. Patrol police crew and several employees came at the shelter at night to help the pets, but some of the dogs had already been swept away. […]