See Christmas trees by Georgian firefighters, join Christmas Tree Festival in Tbilisi
A Christmas tree built by firefighters in Zugdidi from their equipment. Photo: Tamaz Ubilava.
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The festive season has again sparked creative talent among Christmas tree decorators across Georgia, from fire department personnel throughout the country creating trees from their equipment to an upcoming showcase of quirky designs at the Christmas Tree Festival in capital Tbilisi.
While streets in cities and towns of Georgia have been illuminated by city halls with lighting for Christmas and New Year’s Eve, individual creators have used their imagination to come up with unusual ideas for dressing up their surroundings.
This year’s display of unconventional Christmas trees has been led by pictures from firefighters from across the country.
See best Christmas tree designs from firefighters across Georgia below:
Asked by the Emergency Management Service to build the trees with obsolete or inoperable equipment at hand, crews in fire departments of all cities took the challenge and sent in photographs of their completed works.
The Service then selected its favourite submissions — from cities and municipalities like Zugdidi in the west, Mtskheta outside Tbilisi, mountainous Kazbegi and Kvareli in the Kakheti province in the east — and published them in a slideshow video on Thursday.
Firefighters in Kazbegi dressed their tree in a costume. Photo: Emergency Management Service.
We have a very busy schedule over the New Year’s Eve — we don’t take any breaks during the night. So we decided to liven up our work [environment] by doing this.
We built our original construction by using fire ladders as well as handles for hanging inoperable, written-off equipment we had,” Tamaz Ubilava, Head of Emergency Management and Coordination Service in Zugdidi told Livepress reporters.
A tree designed by fire department in Tbilisi’s Gldani District. Photo: Emergency Management Service.
A slightly more formal celebration of novel designs for trees will take place over in capital Tbilisi, where the annual Christmas Tree Festival is being readied.
On a small but cosy Georgian Cinema Square, located between Bambis Rigi and Rkinis Rigi streets in the downtown, trees from varied material and original construction will be exhibited on Saturday.
A historical square in downtown Tbilisi will host this year’s Christmas Tree Festival. Photo: Meidan Group.
With previous editions of the Festival having included trees made out of books and vintage accessories, visitors can look forward to a promising display of creativity.
It will be accompanied with sale of handcrafted items, accessories and sweets in this historical area of the city, where vendors sold textile and cotton (hence the name of one of the streets being derived from bamba — Georgian for cotton) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Opening at midday, the Festival will be concluded with a musical performance by the band Goblins on the Square.
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