Today the Aigine CRC team, together with partners, held a consultation meeting with representatives of the UNESCO Secretariat for the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Juliana Forero and Agne Barktkute, who are conducting a technical assessment of the Aigine project proposal to create a digital platform for the intangible cultural heritage of Kyrgyzstan. The goals of the planned project are to convert the national list of elements of the intangible cultural heritage of Kyrgyzstan into digital format, as well as to conduct inventory of the…
Year: 2022
Karakol is the Commonwealth Capital of Culture in 2022
Within the framework of the project “Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and the Transformation of Cultural Codes”, Aigine CRC supported the initiative of the Uyghur diaspora living in the city of Karakol to document elements of their cultural heritage. This initiative aims to contribute to the cultural relay “Karakol – Commonwealth Capital of Culture” by documenting and preserving the cultural heritage of various ethnic groups living in Karakol. In 2022, the city of Karakol took over the cultural baton from Dushanbe. The initiative is being implemented by Professor of Issyk-Kul State…
Certification of a new complex of petroglyphs
In 2021, Aigine CRC team, on the initiative of Manas epic chanter Tilek Asanov, together with the residents of Ak-Bulun village of the Issyk-Kul region, explored petroglyphs located in the mountains near Ak-Bulun. As it turned out, this complex was not known to specialists, was not documented and was not included in the registers of the cultural heritage of Kyrgyzstan. Since June 2022, Aigine CRC, with the support of Pawanka Fund, has started a project to study and preserve traditional knowledge associated with Ak-Bulun petroglyphs. The purpose of the project:…
The data on ICH collection process
Today, May 30, a zoom meeting of Aigine CRC with representatives of the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region (IRCI) took place. The meeting discussed the next cycle of collecting a research database within the framework of the project “Sustainable Research Data Collection for ICH Safeguarding in the Asia-Pacific Region”. In 2021, Aigine CRC, as a regional partner of IRCI, began to form a research database on ICH in Kyrgyzstan. This year, with the involvement of national partners, the data collection process will continue.