Tag: KaZantip festival

Another music festival in Georgia canceled after threats from priests

August 5, 2019 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–One more electronic music festival in Georgia has been canceled due to threats from clergy, this time in Kobuleti on the Black Sea coast. Organizers of GR Fest wrote on Facebook that the youth festival, which is scheduled to start on August 10, will be held in a new location, after priests and local … Read more

KaZantip manager calls Georgians 'ridiculous' for removing sculpture

July 8, 2015 by DFWatch staff

anti_kazantip_20140726_20_Crop — From an anti-KaZantip demonstration in Tbilisi in 2014. (DF Watch.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The manager of KaZantip has called Georgians ‘ridiculous, poor and wild’ people after learning that someone demolished a sculpture built by the music festival’s organizers in Anaklia last summer.

KaZantip is an electronic music

Music festival KaZantip returns to Crimea

June 10, 2015 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–The popular Ukrainian festival KaZantip, which took place in Georgia last year after Russia’s annexation of Crimea, may this year return to Ukraine but with a different name. An alternative music festival will take place in Anaklia, where the festival was held in 2014.

Fired Georgian tourism official says he was pressured by the Church

September 16, 2014 by DFWatch staff

TBILISI, DFWatch–The former head of Georgia’s National Tourism Administration has said that the Georgian Orthodox Church demanded that he cancel a music festival shortly before he was sacked.

Giorgi Sigua was one of those who helped organize the festival, but was

Music festival KaZantip to be held in Georgia in 2015

September 12, 2014 by DFWatch staff

Kazantip_colors — KaZantip is planned held in Georgia also in 2015.

TBILISI, DFWatch–Organizers of KaZantip are determined to hold the electronic music festival in Georgia next year too, despite low visitor numbers last month.

But the condition is that the government allows the festival site in Anaklia to be used.

KaZantip was held

KaZantip festival in Georgia a failure, may be cancelled

August 27, 2014 by DFW-admin

TBILISI, DFWatch–The long-awaited music festival KaZantip turned out a disappointment for some visitors and the head organizer.

The electronic music festival, which has been held for the last decade in Crimea, was moved to Georgia’s Black Sea coast after Russia’s

KaZantip opens as conservatives protest

August 20, 2014 by DFWatch staff

KaZantip_opens_Crop — Conservatives protested outside the old parliament building in Tbilisi. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Conservative groups continued protesting against KaZantip Wednesday as the music festival opened at 9 pm in the evening.

Those opposed to the festival are radical Orthodox Christians and small opposition parties.

On Wednesday one such group held a protest

KaZantip organizer to priests: 'We have a no drugs policy'

August 15, 2014 by DFWatch staff

kazantip_festival_site_Crop — KaZantip is planned held in Anaklia, a beach resort in Georgia near the border with Abkhazia. (Palitra.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–The manager of KaZantip has offered to meet priests and conservative activists to discuss the music festival, claiming that they are misinformed.

Orthodox activists demonstrated near the festival site Thursday using biblical slogans warning

Georgian conservatives demonstrate against KaZantip

August 14, 2014 by DFWatch staff

anti-kazantip_Crop — Orthodox activists are against the music festival KaZantip. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Georgian conservatives continue trying to stop the music festival KaZantip from going ahead in Georgia and Thursday organized another rally, this time attempting to enter the festival compound.

Orthodox clerics and followers a few days ago

Georgian Church plans big demonstration against KaZantip

August 4, 2014 by DFWatch staff

archimandrite_antimoz_Crop — Archimandrite Antimoz. (Interpressnews.)

TBILISI, DFWatch–Clerics in Georgia plan a big demonstration against the music festival KaZantip, and have started information work and preparing the Church and clerics.

Archimandrite Antimoz on Sunday told Interpressnews that the rally is going to be peaceful