The document summarizes arts and cultural events that the Arts Council of Mongolia (ACM) is planning for 2020, including festivals, exhibitions, and film screenings. Some of the key events mentioned are the Motion Mongolia International Contemporary Dance Festival in April-May, the Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival in June, the Culture Naadam Festival in July coinciding with Mongolia's Naadam celebrations, and the Ulaanbaatar International Film Festival in October. The ACM is also launching its 2020 membership campaign in March and will hold exhibitions at its Red Ger Creative Space throughout the year featuring works by Mongolian artists.

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The Arts Council of Mongolia
(ACM) is an arts and culture NGO,
which was established in 2002 with
the mission to support the sustainable
development of Mongolian arts and
culture and the preservation of cultural
heritage. Its activities include supporting
Mongolian art institutions and individual
artists through programs for promoting
international exchanges, raising public
interest and awareness about Mongolian
arts and culture, building the capacity of
artists and administrators at the Mongolian
art institutions, and initiating art education
and cultural heritage programs through
advocating a close collaboration between
private and public sectors.
In 2020, ACM is planning to organize
the following highlighted arts and culture
events for the public. If you join ACM,
you will participate and receive special
invitations to all ACM’s arts and culture
events, concerts, exhibitions and festivals
throughout the year and broaden your
network with diverse group of intellectuals,
artists, and patrons of the arts.
ACM Membership
night
ACM 2020 Membership campaign will
launch on March 18, 2020. One of the most
important parts of ACM local fundraising
activity is the ACM members recruitment.
In order to raise awareness of ACM
activities and enhance public support for
Mongolian talent, the ACM continues its
‘Bringing the Arts to you!’ creative series.
This year membership campaign will
start with fundraising event for “Cultural
Treasure” grant program through which
ACM improves preservation of Choijin
Lama Temple Museum. Everyone can
join us for this fundraising event and your
contribution will make “Choijin Lama
Temple Museum”- a unique historical and
cultural memorial of Mongolia to become
an attractive “Oasis” at the heart of UB city,
providing UB citizens with a place of rest
and relaxation.
By becoming our new member you will
be invited to ACM creative cultural events
including annual festivals, concerts and
exhibitions.
ACM will implement four different
arts festivals, such as Motion Mongolia
International Contemporary Dance
Festival, Ulaanbaatar International Media
Art Festival, Culture Naadam Festival and
Ulaanbaatar International Film Festival.
Motion Mongolia
International Contemporary
Dance Festival
ACM in collaboration with its official
partner Mongolian Ballet Program is
about to present the 2nd Motion Mongolia
International Contemporary Dance Festival
in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The festival
focuses on promoting artistic excellence
and cultural diversity through dance and
it aims to nurture local talents through
collaborations, professional development
exchanges and presenting the world-
class dance companies to Mongolia. As
contemporary dance today has reached new
dimensions by adapting to our vast and
dynamic world, we believe contemporary
dance can trigger cultural and artistic
diversity and unveil unique understandings
about movement expression in Mongolia.
Motion Mongolia 2020 main program
shall consist of Contemporary Dance
Competition; Main Stage Performance;
International Dance Showcase; Street
Dance showcase and Master classes. The
festival shall take place in Ulaanbaatar
during April 27 – May 2, 2020.
Ulaanbaatar International
Media Art Festival
ACM in collaboration with TodaysArt
IMAF is going to present the 5th
Ulaanbaatar International Media Art
Festival(UBIMAF),whichaimstofacilitate
innovation, collaboration in the media
arts field of Mongolia by bringing artistic
excellence by internationally renowned
artists to the audiences in Mongolia. The
5th UBIMAF shall take place during June
6-14, 2020.
UBIMAF 2020 program shall consist of
“Fake Reality” the main joint exhibition by
the international participants; “Perception”
a curated train trip to East Gobi’s
Energy Center with mobile installation,
performance and interactive talks and
artist’s workshops.
The main international exhibition
of UBIMAF 2020 “Fake Reality” will
be presented to public at the MN17 Art
Gallery. It will be a reflection of the natural
mirage and participants’ interpretation of
social mirage and complex aspects of fake
reality, through sound, light, dance and
visual expressions shall be presented for
the public in Ulaanbaatar, during June 8-14,
2020.
‘Perception’ the train trip will assist
the participants to reflect on the natural
phenomenon of mirage along with opening
opportunities for the participants to network
and to perceive reality and illusions that
the nature has to offer. Participants will
experience the train ride through the
wilderness during June 4-6, 2020. It will
be a pre-journey of perception before going
into the fake reality.
Culture Naadam
Festival
ACM and the Mongolian State
University of Arts and Culture are co-
organizing the ‘Culture Naadam’ to
showcase traditional Mongolian nomadic
arts and culture for Mongolian and
international visitors. This year, for the
thirteenth time, Mongolia’s Naadam
celebrations will include a summer arts
festival. The Culture Naadam will bring
new festive spirit to the sweeping Hui
Doloon Hudag Valley, where the Naadam
horse races take place on July 11 and 12.
Culture Naadam is run in the valley of
the horserace, the out of town spectators
witness the racing of horses, take a stroll in
the scent of pasture sage and thyme and pay
a visit to the ‘One Day in Mongolia’ arts
and crafts village of Culture Naadam. It’s
arts and crafts village with several Mongol
gers and pop-up tents, where heritage
bearers and artists showcase distinct
nomadic culture.
It’s not only for watching, but available
for taking part in the actions of calligraphy
writing, traditional painting, felt stitching
and wool processing. Holding a brush,
dipping it in ink and writing on rice paper
will definitely make you feel like an ancient
sage. Or making felt out of wet wool,
sensing its tangled fibres will bring you the
warmth of the wool and the warmth of the
hearts of Mongol people.
Ulaanbaatar International
Film Festival
ACM will organize the 12th edition
of Ulaanbaatar International Film Festival
(UBIFF) together with City Governor’s
Office, City Arts and Culture Department,
and co-organize with the Embassy of
France, Embassy of Australia, Goethe-
Institut Mongolia, Alliance of France
Mongolia and partner with Locarno Film
Festival, during October 19-25, 2020.
The festival presents most recent and
cinematically daring, uncompromising and
powerful films that had been selected and
awarded at the Cannes, Berlin, Toronto and
other A list festivals and the best of recent
Mongolian films to the local audience.
This year, UBIFF will feature French
films as a focus country. Overall festival
programs will consist of Open-air-summer
screenings in July, Festival Opening
ceremony, Focus country-French films,
Film competition among feature and
documentary films, Non-competition films,
Bright future – screenings and discussions
with school children, Film forum on
film industry development and series
of workshops on script writing and film
production for local film community.
Highlighted exhibitions at
Red Ger Creative Space
Under its main goals, the ACM’s Red
Ger Creative Space supports young talents
by exhibiting their artworks to the public
under innovative and creative curatorship.
In 2020 ACM shall feature the following
three exhibitions. “Khosolmol” by
Bolortuvshin.J is the first exhibition of this
year at the space and it will be held from
March 20th–April 20th. The exhibition
consists of 3 big and 4 small size paintings
of fairy tale characters with 2D animation,
3 channel video installations that will
reflect a unique way of imagination. Artist
Bolortuvshin.J is known for her beautiful
paintings which describe innocent children
characters. Bolortuvshin.J uses advanced
technology in order to reach modern
audiences and to trigger new aesthetic
experiences.
Series of ACM curated exhibitions
shall be followed by “Urban Fashion”. This
exhibition shall lead the audience to travel
in time and shall trace the links between
the fashions of the last two centuries.
Reflecting unique features of the past in
the current fashion expressions. “Urban
Fashion” exhibition shall take place at the
Red Ger Creative Space in May, 2020.
The third curated exhibition at the
creative space shall be “DeeL”. Mongolian
history of the 20th century shall be narrated
through a traditional outfit of a single
historical figure. This exhibition shall be
delivered through video media installations.
“DeeL” exhibition shall greet the audiences
in September, 2020.
Mongolia’s first inclusive short
film “Stairs” launch
In partnership with Bus Stop Films
(BSF), Australia’s premiere and globally
leading inclusive filmmaking company,
ACM has successfully implemented
four 10 week, terms of an accessible film
studies program for people with intellectual
disability, titled “We can–We are talented”.
The program has culminated in the creation
an 11 minutes’ short film “Stairs” made
with people with intellectual disability at
the helm, and with local Mongolian and
Australian filmmakers.
The first inclusive short film made
by “We can–We are talented” initiative
promotes inclusivity in the Mongolian
film industry as well as society. In this
film; a young man who uses a wheelchair,
must overcome the obstacles in his path if
he is to achieve his dreams in the city of
Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. ACM will host
the Mongolian premiere of “Stairs” on
the 3rd of April 2020. ACM is preparing
the second edition of the “Inclusive film
making curriculum” to be held from April
to December 2020 at Broadcasting Media
Arts School of Mongolian State University
of Arts and Culture.
Finally, the ACM would like to
welcome all the organizations, individuals,
artists, partners, friends, members and
volunteers to join us. See you at ACM arts
activities of 2020!
Bringingtheartstoyou!