Virtual Series
- Georgian Literature Reading Series
As part of our mission to promote Georgian culture, we were pleased to launch the “Virtual Georgian Literature Reading Series.” The goal of the series is to create an informal and interactive forum for those with an interest in Georgian history and culture to read and discuss important Georgian books, both classic and contemporary. Summer…
Continue reading » Georgian Literature Reading Series - Georgian Female Artists Series
In this series of conversations, Tbilisi-born and New York-based curator and art writer Nina Mdivani profiled twelve Georgian women artists. Natela Grigalashvili Rusudan Khizanishvili Vera Pagava Elene Akhvlediani Tamara Abakelia Natela Iankoshvili Ema Lalaeva-Ediberidze Gayane Khachaturian Esma Oniani Keti Kapanadze Tamara Kvesitadze Mariam Natroshvili Some of them are known to the wider audience, while some…
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Educational Projects
- Academy of Georgian Heritage
The Georgian Association in the USA is a proud supporter of the Academy of Georgian Heritage. The Academy emerged from a Sunday school project that the Georgian Association initiated in 2009-2010 together with St. Tamar’s Georgian Orthodox Church. Thanks to the efforts of the first teacher of the school, Ms. Nino Meladze, the project attracted tens of Georgian children from the Washington, DC…
Continue reading » Academy of Georgian Heritage - Georgian Heritage School in San Francisco
The School of Georgian Heritage of the Georgian Heritage Foundation in Santa Clara, CA (https://www.facebook.com/GeorgianHeritageFoundation) was founded in August 2020. The goal of the organization is to promote, preserve and popularize Georgian Heritage among the Bay Area’s Georgian community and friends of Georgia. The school currently conducts online classes free of charge for over 40…
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Georgian Heritage in the US
Profiles of Georgians in the US
- Biographical Sketch – General John Shalikashvili
General Shalikashvili achieved the highest ranking position in the US military. He joined the United State Army as a private, served in every level of unit command from platoon to…
Continue reading » Biographical Sketch – General John Shalikashvili - Biographical Sketch – George Matchabeli, a Georgian nobleman, diplomat and an American perfumer
George Matchabeli was a Georgian nobleman, diplomat and an American perfumer. He was born in Tbilisi in July 1885 and is a descendant of the princely family of Machabeli, from the Tskhinvali area,…
Continue reading » Biographical Sketch – George Matchabeli, a Georgian nobleman, diplomat and an American perfumer - Biographical sketch – Irakli Orbeliani, the first director of the Georgian Service in the Voice of America
The Georgian Association in the United States will launch a series of short biographical sketches showcasing some of the more illustrious members of the Georgian diaspora. Our first profile is…
Continue reading » Biographical sketch – Irakli Orbeliani, the first director of the Georgian Service in the Voice of America