[5] Following her vote for a controversial law in 2023, widely seen as designed to repress civil society, a petition by the PEN Center of Georgia asking the UNESCO Secretary General to withdraw this title drew more than 100 signatures.

[15] Elisso Bolkvadze is also the Founder and Artistic Director of Batumi Black Sea Music and Art Festival in Georgia.

In 2013, Elisso founded her own charitable music foundation, Lyra, with the mission of inspiring and promoting the young generation of Georgian classical pianists.

[21] The same year, she performed a recital "Piano for Peace" at Nobel Prize World Summit[22] in Warsaw, in presence of Sharon Stone.

In March 2017, she participated in a conference organized by United Nations General Assembly in Geneva with Angelina Jolie[23] to honor the memory of Sérgio Vieira de Mello.