Welcome back to Field Notes, your cultural guide to what’s on where. Focusing on concerts, exhibitions and talks linked to the region Journeys Beyond Borders covers - that is roughly Eastern Europe to Central Asia - it’ll arrive at your inbox every other Monday.
As we race towards September, the diary is busier than ever with lots of exciting events. Here’s what’s in store: Central Asian storytelling and translation in Seattle, a talk on world music in Ojai, discussions about the Caucasus and Ukraine in Abergavenny, an exhibition on sexual violence in conflict in London and Turkish psych-rock in Zurich.
Before we start, I’d like to quickly share two interesting book reviews of my latest travelogue with recipes, Green Mountains: Walking the Caucasus with Recipes.
Firstly, Istanbul-based author and journalist Hannah Lucinda Smith reviewed it for Cornucopia magazine (read here), and then the Armenian writer Naneh V Hovhannisyan wrote it up for the summer issue of Oxford Review of Books, and you can read that here. They are both extremely thoughtful assessments and the pages beautifully designed for glorious print…
Now, to Field Notes…