Georgia Today on how GIFT began in 1997 — 220 artists from 18 countries, and a city that opened its homes to them.
In a long feature, Keti Dolidze recalls the first edition: around 220 people from 18 countries gathered at Stansted Airport and flew straight to Tbilisi. The article traces the festival’s roots in Mikheil Tumanishvili’s theatre, the support of Peter Brook and William Burdett-Coutts, the years it was halted and its revival.
