III International Festival OIMO-2008 will start in Bishkek on July 26, reports Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.

The program on supporting art and culture of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation supports the festival for the third year, financing expenditures on cultural program. The festival’s goal is to promote Kyrgyzstan as regional area for development of intercultural dialog and international cultural tourism.

The festival’s program includes fair of handicrafts of Central Asia, fashion-show, concerts, demonstration of films of Central Asia, master-classes on applied art for children and adults, roundtables on issues of developing craftsmanship and traditional cultures, etc. The festival will end on August 1.