Agenda, Culture, Main Category

Music Lessons

Dear Friends,

“Music is the art of thinking with sounds” – Jules Combarieu

Would you like to learn an instrument, searching for a good teacher? This is the right address!

Tirana Ekspres, in collaboration with four great musicians, opens the doors for Tirana Ekspres Music Lessons. For all music-interested people starting from kids and without limits of age.

Choose your instrument and explore it! Our teachers will do their best to give you the basics a hand and, depending on your skills, professional tips and tricks.

Teacher:

Vinsent Dervishaj (Acoustic-/E-/ and Bass-Guitar)

Linda Spathari/ Ergys Hotaj (Drum Set)

Lek Spathari (Piano)

 

 

 

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Main Category, Projects

FACTORY of MEMORIES

Albania is a country in the middle of the Balkans that is considered somewhat of a ”white dot” on the European map. It has been isolated for four decades. After the communist period and the riots of the 1990s of economic collapse and armed insurgency in 1997, Albania is still a country in transition as it is undergoing this shift and trying to find its identity in a European context. For centuries, Albanians have lived scattered throughout the region now considered the Western Balkans. The ”Factory of Memories” project is dedicated to analyzing this Albanian collective memory in a cinematic and artistic way and aims to organize a cross-border short film competition. It is clearly aimed at young filmmakers,originating from Albania and its neighboring regions in Kosovo and Macedonia. An interesting and provocative element of the dialogue will be the comparison of how diverse historical experiences created commonalities, as well as different perceptions of Albanian collective memories and how these are currently being processed in relevant social contexts.

Summary of project objectives: Following the distribution of the call for participants, the artists will be selected to participate in three expert-led work on collective remembrance, as well as filmmaking practices. Each participant will then produce his / her short film and submit it to the competition. All compiled films will be presented at the short film festival during the summer of 2014 – taking place at the cultural center ”Tirana Ekspres” in Tirana, Albania. A jury of five experts will select the three winning films according to the set criteria. After that, a DVD with all the contributions will be produced to be sent on a tour across the border – across the region.

The aim of the Project is to mobilize and engage emerging artists together with the public. By inviting artists to portray the past, the ”Factory of Memories” aspires to confront Albanians with their past. In this way the project will create bridges of communication between different perspectives to help develop a complete and inclusive collective memory.

The ”Factory of Memories” will create space for different artistic interpretations, independent and dialogue, creating benefits for the participating artists. In addition to promoting these artists, the initiative aims to contribute to the exchange of ideas, as well as to the establishment of cooperation and partnership between the various cultural institutionsinvolved – and ultimately an annual implementation of the Project.

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Culture, Main Category, Past Events, Visual Arts

Behind Facades & Geometric Trees -Exhibition by Daliah Ziper

Dear Friends,

We are happy to announce the exhibition of Daliah Ziper, a photographer from Germany. The exhibition will take place in an old and empty building on Rruga e Durresit, close to the Ministry of the Environment, on Friday the 10th of April at 6pm.

Through her photos, Daliah Ziper is reflecting upon the city of Tirana. Her observations take up a subject that is continuously presenting in her works: visibility and visualization. A motif and state of mind that from her point of view runs like a common thread throughout the city.

Kind regards,
Tirana Ekspres Team

This exhibition is a collaboration between Tirana Ekspres, Daliah Ziper and supported by the German Embassy.

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Culture, Main Category

“Fasten Your Hat!”

This is an English for “Attache ta tuque!” Une tuque (a hat) keeps us warm during the -20/-40 C winters of Québec and the rest of Canada. The word “tuque” is especially used in other, metaphoric expressions as well. The expression “attache ta tuque!” is translated directly as “tie your hat!”, and means that one should get ready… well, for anything!

Discovering the culture of QUEBEC. Join us at ‘Tirana Ekspres’ on Friday, the 27th of March, for an amusing night involving lively discussions, Québécoise music, and maple syrup! Everyone is welcome!

The pics below are presenting Canada and Quebec flags, ‘Golden Autumn’ in gorgeous Montreal, winter pastime.montreal beauty

 

 

 

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Culture, Main Category, Music

Wattican Punk Ballet

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be aware for Sunday the 5th of April and check out Tirana Ekspres at 7pm! We would like to invite all friends of experimental, loud, heavy, wild and beautiful music this evening to stay with us and enjoy a concert by the unique “Wattican Punk Ballet“.

The Armenian duet, based partly in Budapest and Moscow, creates a unforgettable sound. Siblings, Karen and Gaya Arutyunyan, name their music “freak dance punk”, which you will feel and see in their live performance. After a concert by this energetic, amusing two people you will jump home and into the next day Monday-morning with a big happy smile in your face.

Convince yourself and see you on the concert!

 

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Culture, Main Category, Visual Arts

The Forgotten Station – Exhibition

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within the Francophonie-Week in Albania, we would like to invite you for a photo-exhibition at ‘Tirana Ekspres’, reminding our old home, Tirana Train Station.
After the exhibition opening (LE VERNISSAGE) at 6pm on Thursday, the 19th of March, we’re offering you to stay a bit and enjoy a glass of wine and a exclusive Jazz-Concert.

The exhibition shows photographs from the old Tirana Train Station. Timeless black-and-white pictures keep the forgotten soul of the now destroyed station… Let’s never forget. A year after the first publishing of these works from various artists, Tirana Ekspres reviews and reminds its old home again in good memories. In a rapid process of changes in Tirana, this exhibition want to calm down and reflect on the venue. But! – what has been gone, gone!

 

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Culture, Main Category, Music

Jazz Concert -19th March

Dear Friends and Supporters,

the beautiful Jazz vibes are coming back to Tirana Ekspres! And we would like to invite you for this celebration on Thursday the 19th of March at 8:00pm. Be with us and share a warm evening with pure Jazz music at its best.
We are going to open the stage for such a Quartet: Angjelin Toma on the Bass, Elton Harapi on the Drums, Xhesika Pollo for the Vocals and Lek Spathari on the Piano and the Trompet. They will arrange a sound for us which makes our legs swinging and dancing, and our faces smiling for the rest of the week!

And you are welcome!

 

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Culture, Main Category, Music, Past Events

JAZZ Concert – February 19, Thursday

Dear Friends and Supporters,

the beautiful Jazz vibes are coming back to Tirana Ekspres! And we would like to invite you for this celebration on Thursday, the 19th of February, at 9pm. Be with us and share a warm evening with pure Jazz music at its best.
We are going to open the stage for this Quartet: Angjelin Toma on the Bass, Elton Harapi on the Drums, Xhesika Pollo for the Vocals and Lek Spathari on the Piano and the Trumpet. They will arrange a sound for us which makes our legs swinging and dancing, and our face smiling for the rest of the week!

You are welcome!

 

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Main Category, Movie, Past Events

“WALL-E”

The story follows a robot named WALL-E, who is designed to clean up an abandoned, waste-covered Earth far in the future. He falls in love with another robot named EVE, who also has a programmed task, and follows her into outer space on an adventure that changes the destiny of both his kind and humanity. Both robots exhibit an appearance of free will and emotions similar to humans, which develop further as the film progresses.

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Culture, Main Category, Music, Past Events

CODY & Eduart Hallulli live – 14th February

Dear Friends and Supporters,

You have wait for some rock-vibes for a long time, but now, finally, we can invite you to the concert and performance by CODY and Eduart Hallulli.
Saturday the 14th of February and Valentines Day at 9pm should be marked well in your calendar!
“In the name of Love” – this evening will make your Valentines Day a real one!

We are going in the first round with Eduart Hallulli in violin with the midi controller exploring ballkanik rythms , the second round is going to CODY (Alternative/Punk). CODY consits of Mirgen Huba (Kit,Vox), Visent Dervishaj (Kit), Ergys Hotaj (Batteri) and Francesko Cuku (Bass), these four guys are rocking the stage with heavy punk sounds but are also really good in melodic alternative things.

 

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