Bright colors of European Games in Baku
By Amina Nazarli
The “Time’s Colors” exhibition will be held in Baku’s “Galereya 1969” on June 10.
The art event organized in anticipation of the first-ever European Games 2015 will be held at 17:00 at Uzeir Hajibeyli Street 27.
The purpose of the exhibition is to acquaint the Baku residents and its guests with the creative heritage of the national artists.
Skill of the artists, their technique, colors and original compositional solution will likely attract the attention of many visitors.
Such famous artist as Mikayil Abdullayev, Togrul Narimanbekov, Boyukaga Mirzazadeh, Maral Rahmanzada, Vajia Samedova and Mahmud Tagiyev will put their works on display.
The Baku 2015 is the first Games of the continent, which will be held in the capital of Azerbaijan on June 12-28. The Games will gather over 6,000 athletes from 50 countries to show their abilities in 20 sports.
Some 16 of these sports will be Olympic and four non-Olympic. Twelve of the sports will offer qualification opportunities for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Those sports include Archery, Athletics, Boxing, Cycling, Judo, Shooting, Swimming, Table Tennis, Taekwondo, Triathlon, Volleyball and Wrestling.
Baku was awarded the Games by the European Olympic Committees (EOC) in December 2012.
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