Things to do in Uzbekistan during the weekends

Hi,

What do you usually do on your weekends in Uzbekistan?

Are there any places to visit, any activities, any events or festivals regularly organized you would like to recommend?

What are your top tips for the weekend in Uzbekistan?

Thank you in advance for sharing your experience, ;)

Christine

Friends !  Uzbekistan is not bad place as you think /, There are lots of enjoyment in Tashkent city.  If you feel free you can join Expat community
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PARTIES AND HAPPY HOURS

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- English Pub Quiz.
Like us on Facebook: facebook.com/englishpubquiztaschkent

- 02 July 2015. CinZZano TeraZZa invites you to the opening of the season. More info: 235-00-15, 445-57-75.

- 02 July 2015. Elvis Bar invites to an acoustic evening. Beginning: 21:30. More info: (+99894) 922-83-95.

- 03 July 2015. Bar "Own territory" invites you to a musical evening. Beginning: 21:00. More info: (+99890) 955-19-12.
- 03 July 2015. Docker Bar invites you to the performance of Popeloff. Entrance free. Beginning: 20:00. More info: 281-48-25.
- 03 July 2015. Malibu Sun Club invites you to the traditional Friday party. Beginning: 12:00. More info: (+99890) 970-82-38.
- 04 July 2015. Night City Lounge Bar announces the official opening. Beginning: 20:00. More info: 230-33-88, 934-66-60.
- 04 July 2015. The bar "Own territory" will host a performance of a new group "White Rabbit". Beginning: 21:00. More info: (+99890) 955-19-12.
- 07 July 2015. "GOROD" Lounge Bar invites you to a romantic evening. Beginningn: 21:00. More info: (+99894) 605-33-11, (+99871) 212-10-29.
- 29 June 2015. "Sun City" invites you to a dance festival "Aqua dance Battle". Beginning: 18:00. More info: (+99897) 708-98-67.
- Every Thursday Restaurant LaRiva invites you to the regular milonga party. Beginning: 20:00. More info: 215-56-43, 170-75-51, 996-21-40.
- Every Sunday Gorod Lounge Bar invites guests to enjoy the music from the DJ Bob. More info: (+99894) 605-33-11.
- Every Monday Royal bar offers 20% discount on all desserts. Every Wednesday 20% discount on all menu. tel: 982-24-24.
- Every Thursday For fans of singing every Thursday at 20:00 at the patio Marmalade Bar - Open Air Karaoke! More info: 952-00-78.
- Every Thursday Skazka offers 50% discount for all women's companies! More info: 3115030, 9655533.
- Every Thursday Friend's Night at Bochka bar. Special guest Vitaliy Popelov with project Popeloff (live guitar music). 25% discount on all menu for groups of 4. tel: (+99890) 966-45-00.
- Every Sunday Family Night at Bochka bar. Live sax music. tel: (+99890) 966-45-00.
- Every Thursday from 8.30pm to 11pm you may enjoy the traditional music of the Golden age of Argentine tango in the spacious hall of the "Rosemary" restaurant ( map: http://g.co/maps/sq7hq), free admission. Address: Niyazbek 1 street, Yunusabad district, near to "Minor" subway station, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
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COMING EVENTS

- Uzbekistan-Japan Center for Human Development.
Please see the website for more detail: http://ujc.uz/culture. Contact phone: (998-71) 120-73-94 / 95

Lal Bahadur Shastri Centre for Indian Culture.
Address: 5,Buzbozor 2-tor Street., Mirzo Ulugbek Distr., Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Tel.: +99871-267-04-19, 268-29-07.
- Regular activities will be going on as per the schedule:
a. Hindi classes every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday from 16:00 hrs. to 17:30 hrs.
b. Yoga - 3 batches everyday (2 morning & 1 evening), excluding Saturday & Sunday;
c. Kathak dance class - every day, excluding Saturday & Sunday.
d. Tabla class - every Tuesday & Friday from 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Entry to program is free of charge. All are cordially invited.
For more information: telephone: 268-1811, 268-8920
Website: www.icc.indembassy.uz.

- TWIG events.
Meet new friend and discover what Tashkent has to offer.
President for 2014- 2015: Jennifer Fox ([email protected])
Secretary for 2014- 2015: Emily Summerer ([email protected])
TWIG will be having their monthly meeting every second Wednesday of the month from 10:00 - 12:00 at the International Hotel in Tashkent.

- VISAGE Movement Theatre
The theatre was founded in 1982 as an ensemble of modern choreography. Since 2003 we have been working as an integrated company that is we unite children and young people with disabilities, their peers and professional dancers.
At present the group unites about forty people. More than twenty of them are young people with physical and mental disabilities: moving on wheelchairs, deaf-and-dumb, having cerebral spastic infantile paralysis, oligophrenia, Down's syndrome, with various disorders of support-locomotion system, visually impaired.
Contacts of the Visage Movement Theatre:
To request an invitation please call Anna (+99891) 1904407. Calls in English only to Aizada (+998 94) 6537931 Art director - Lilia Sevastyanova
Tel.: (+99890) 808 80 54
e-mail: [email protected]
http://www.visage-theatre.ilim.uz/index_en.html


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EXHIBITIONS

- 25 June - 04 July 2015.
The International Caravanserai of Culture Ikuo Hirayama of Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan will open a personal exhibition of young artist Sevara Kasimova.
Entrance free.
Beginning: 17:00. More info: 256-35-56, 252-30-88, 252-74-73.

- 29 June - 31 August 2015.
Bonum Factum Gallery invites to the exhibition "Art Salon 2015". The exhibition will feature the works of more than 15 artists of Uzbekistan.
More info: 232-03-60.

- 04 - 05 July 2015.
Shopping center Samarqand Darvoza invites to the summer fair of arts and crafts from masters of Uzbekistan.
Entrance free.
Beginning: 10:00.
More info: 205-00-55

- 04 - 05 July 2015.
National Park of Alisher Navoi invites to the fair of handicrafts Master.Uz
Beginning: 10:00.
More info: (+99893) 563-32-06.

All exhibitions: here
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SPORT EVENTS
Seewww.sport.uz for more information about Uzbekistan's overall sport program. Please send us any news about sport events.

- Ultimate frisbee
The Tashkent Ultimate Club plays ultimate frisbee on Saturday mornings. All players are welcome, regardless of skill and experience. Join our Google Group at https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en# … ntultimate for games times, updates, and other information.

- English Trekking Club.
My name is Viola, the director of the ORIGINAL Club of Spoken English Tashkent.
Every first Sunday of a month the Club members and everyone who needs to improve their Spoken English, hike in the mountains in order to speak just English far from Russian & Uzbek environment, find new friends, enjoy the nature!
For native speakers participation in English hikes is free of charge.
A train ticket costs 1100 soum. And everyone takes some snack to eat in a train and on a picnic.
Viola +99890 3501811
http://www.facebook.com/groups/etcviola/
Enjoy the photo albums of our hikes http://moigori.narod.ru

- Goto Mountain group.
Tashkent mountain hikers group "Go to mountain".
Join the group by the link: https://www.facebook.com/groups/edemvgori/ and join us in the trip!
There you can see the albums from the previous trip there on June, 30th.
The page of the group is at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Tashkent … kers-group
The group is closed and designed to bring together people of Tashkent who want to travel together to different places in the mountains, to make new friends and to share photos and videos with the members of the group. Children over 7yo are admitted with full payment.
Their parents are responsible for their safety.
For details call +99894 625 80 57 - Farida

- Silk Road Hash House Harriers. http://hash.tashkent-events.info.
Our Hash group is not the typical noisy, rowdy and ritualistic HHH gathering. We respect the local cultural norms and we welcome families with children. Our walk is usually 1 hour to 1.5 hours in duration and we try to visit a different part of the City each week. Runners are welcome. Due to local police regulations the route is not marked so please make sure you know where the end point will be or keep the leaders in sight. The Tashkent Hash run/walk is scheduled for each Sunday (rain, snow or shine) starting at 15:00 hours (Dec, Jan, Feb);16:00 hours (Mar, Apr, May, Sep, Oct, Nov and 17:00 hours (Jun, Jul, Aug). Meeting place: Tour bus parking lot on right side of Hotel Uzbekistan. We promptly depart from the meeting place at 15 minutes past the hour (15:15, 16:15, 17:15).
More details will be sent in each week's Tashkent Events and Hash newsletters. Participation costs: Metro tokens and No Host drinks and food at the end of the walk. Come join the fun, fresh air, social interaction and practice your language skills. We are an international group of foreigners and locals. Dress casually and wear comfortable shoes. Bring an umbrella if the weather looks threatening or sun seems too intense. Look at the NEW PHOTOS from our recent HASH walks at Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/SilkRoadHashHouseHarriers. Please send us your Hash photos and we will add them to the gallery.

- Tashkent Nomads GOLF SOCIETY play every Sunday, tee-off time 9.00 hours. All players are most welcome to join us, no matter what level of golf you play. Weekly prize & end of the month competition. Please contact Phil Hesketh on 1863020.
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CONCERTS AND CULTURAL EVENTS

Summer holidays till September 2015.
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USEFUL LINKS
English Hiking club Tashkent: (https://www.facebook.com/groups/etcviola/)

Advantour Travel agency: (http://www.advantour.com)

Arts and Crafts: (http://www.artandcraft.uz) (http://www.artsogdiana.com)

Academy of Art (official website): (http://www.art-academy.uz)

American Chamber of Commerce in Uzbekistan: (http://www.amcham.uz)

Auto Rental: (http://www.rent-a-car.kz)

Azia Art Gallery: (http://www.aziagallery.com)

Central Asia Commerce: (http://www.centralasiacommerce.com)

Central Asia Gateway: (http://www.cagateway.org/)

Central Bank of the Republic of Uzbekistan: (http://www.cbu.uz)

Churches, Mosques, Synagogues: (http://tashkent-events.info/index.php?o … ;Itemid=82)

Cinemas (contacts): (http://tashkent-events.info/index.php?o … ;Itemid=68)

Embassies, consulates, and missions: (http://tashkent-events.info/index.php?o … ;Itemid=76)

Foreign Entry Visa Requirements: (http://travel.state.gov/foreignentryreqs.html)

Health Services: (http://tashkent-events.info/index.php?o … ;Itemid=78)

ICT Coordination Council of Uzbekistan: (http://www.Ictcouncil.gov.uz)

Interactive Map of Tashkent: (http://creativeroots.org/?p=16030)

Karavan Seray Travel Agency: (http://www.k-saray.com)

Real Estate Ads: (http://www.kv.uz)

L!ve.uz - Life of Tashkent (http://www.live.uz)

Local Information: (http://www.09.uz)

Local Information, Phones Registry: (http://www.goldenpages.uz)

Mercury Tour Travel Services (email): ([email protected])

Ministry of Cultural and Sports Affairs: (http://www.madaniyat.sport.uz)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs: (http://www.mfa.uz)

Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialized Education: (http://www.edu.uz)

Ministry of Public Education: (http://www.edu.fan.uz)

Movies: (http://www.kino.uz)

Museums: (http://tashkent-events.info/index.php?o … ;Itemid=91)

MyMap.uz: (http://mymedia.uz)

MyMedia.uz: (http://mymap.uz)

News: (http://www.cascfen.org)

Overseas Expat News: (http://www.talesmag.com)

Quarterly magazine Open Central Asia: http://www.ocamagazine.com/

Uzbekistan at OyMap.net - a world directory (http://uzbekistan.oymap.net/)

Patent Authority: (http://www.patent.uz)

Catalogue of shops and products: (http://shops.uz)

State Property Committee: (http://spc.gov.uz)

Site of dog-fanciers: (http://www.budka.uz)

Tabobat.org - Alternative Medicine site: (http://tabobat.org)

Theatres and Concert Halls (contacts): (http://tashkent-events.info/index.php?o … ;Itemid=92)

Tashkent Events Fan page: (https://www.facebook.com/tashkent.events.info)

Tashkent International School: (http://www.tashschool.org)

Tashkent Wedding Portal: (http://www.svadby.uz)

Tashkent Women's International Group (TWIG): (http://www.tashkentwig.org)

UK and Uzbekistan: (http://www.britain.uz)

Uzbekistan Development Gateway: (http://darvoza.uz)

Uzbekistan Newspaper and News Media Guide: (http://www.abyznewslinks.com/uzbek.htm)

Uzbekistan-Japan Center for Human Development: (http://www.ujc.uz/)

Uzbekistan Real Estate: (http://uzre.uz/)

Tabobat.org - Alternative Medicine site: (http://tabobat.org)

www.superjob.uz - Recruitment portal of Uzbekistan: (http://superjob.uz)

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