British Georgian Society

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In May, 2019, Hubertus Jahn and Maximilian Hess, two directors of the BGS, led an event to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Marjory Wardrop, noted for her role in the formation of Anglo-Georgian relations.

The 2019 BGS Annual Georgian Supra took place on 22 October 2019 and was generously hosted by the Tamada Restaurant.

Reception for the British Georgian Society Charity walkers who walked the entire length of Hadrian's Wall to raise money on behalf of Diabetes UK and a Children's hospice in Georgia with honoured guests, the mayor of Newcastle and the Georgian Ambassador to the Court of St James.

This year's charity walk of 80 miles in 6 days and took place from the 6-11 October 2019, covering Hadrian's Wall Path, a historic coast to coast trek in northern England.

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Armand Wang, a BGS member and great photographer, regularly attends events and we are delighted to be able to show his photographs. Here are some for the dance event in January 2017.

The British Georgian Society is able to offer for sale a number of prints of beautiful and historic 19th century Tbilisi buildings by the architectural historian, Maia Mania. These are buildings that she sketched, mostly in the 1990s, that are either threatened or that have already been demolished.

These works are a rare record of old Tbilisi by the leading light of the Tbilisi heritage & conservation movement. Professor Mania's distinction as an academic is sustained by her years of passionate commitment, and driven by the educated eye and talent of a true artist. She is using money from the sale of the prints to fund her work on trying to save historic buildings, a campaign she has been fighting for decades.

The large prints - 49x36 cm (Vertskhli St, Dumas St and Sharteli St) are £80 each, the medium sized ones - 42x34cm (Old Tbilisi) are £60, two of the small ones -35x27cm (Dumas St and Sharteli St) are £40 and Aveli St is £30.

An important collaboration between the Courtauld Institute of Art and Georgia to preserve and restore these unique wall paintings, nearly one thousand years old, in this famous rock-cut monastery in southern Georgia. Read the article Become a Guardian Angel of Vardzia.