DUSHANBE, April 26, 2011, Asia-Plus — Tajikistan plans to organize the first Delphic Games in later October or early November this year, Minister of Culture Mirzoshorukh Asrori announced at a news conference in Dushanbe on April 25.
According to him, the Ministry Culture in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the Committee for Youth, Sports and Tourism Affairs are currently considering organizing issues.
The Delphic Games of the modern era involve presentations, exhibitions, competitions and other activities in six different fields of art. These games unite people of all nations and cultures through their fascination for the arts and have their origins in the ancient Greece.
In the second half of the 20th century, the International Delphic Movement developed. In 1987 the Musica Magna International (MMI) was founded – as a network of international cultural contacts and as «Association for the reintroduction of the Delphic Games». At the invitation of J. Christian B. Kirsch – the founder of MMI, in 1994, a hundred years after the revival of the Olympic Games, representatives from Argentina, Austria, China, Cyprus, Ecuador, France, Germany, Greece, Kazakhstan, Libya, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Philippines, Poland, Russia, Slovakia, United States came together to the founding congress of the International Delphic Council in Berlin in Schonhausen Palace. The Delphic Games of modern era promote the dialogue between all cultures, they contribute to intercultural understanding among people and support the international peace.
