Today, on November 27, the Aigine CRC team started participating in the Non-Governmental Organizations Forum at the 17th annual UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which will be held in Rabat, Morocco. Presentations were made at the Forum today by NGOs that have been accredited under the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage 2003 in recent years. Also today, the Forum’s Symposium entitled “Living Heritage, Climate Change and the Environment” took place.
Year: 2022
Final workshop
Today, November 10, the Aigine CRC team held the final workshop under the project ““Sustainable Research Data Collection for ICH Safeguarding in the Asia-Pacific Region”” as a regional partner of the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region(IRCI) The purpose of the workshop was to sum up and analyze a two-year project to collect research materials on ICH for the IRCI database. The workshop was attended by National Counterparts who, during the second year of the project, were involved in the collection and description of research…
"The people who protect the monuments"
This is the name of the international conference on sacred heritage, pilgrimage and sustainable tourism, which takes place in Turkestan (Kazakhstan, October 26-28). On October 26, at the section “Management of cultural heritage objects”, the director of Aigine CRC Gulnara Aitpaeva, made a presentation “The experience of creating the National Guidelines for the preservation of pilgrimage practices and rituals in Kyrgyzstan”. The report revealed the purpose and objectives of creating this Guide, its concept, structure and format. The section ended with a lively discussion of the definition, sustainability and conservation…
Aigine and the World Indigenous Science Network (WISN) partnership
Today, on October 10, a working meeting was held between Aigine CRC staff and a longtime partner, director of the World Indigenous Science Network (WISN) Dr. Apela Colorado, as well as a Network sound engineer, Matthew Tucker. Dr. Apela Colorado shared her impressions of a series of meetings with local partners. The meeting also discussed the results of joint projects and possible ways for further cooperation between Aigine and WISN. In particular, Apela presented her book “Woman between the Worlds”. We discussed the possibilities of its translation. Archia acoustics (the…