Month: February 2022

On February 2-4, 2022,representatives of Aigine CRC held a meeting with the State Secretary S.S.Kasmambetov, Minister of Culture A.K. Jamankulov and other employees of thisministry. The purpose of the meetings wasto inform high-ranking officials about the situation with the sacred sites of the country and related complex of traditions andrituals that constitute the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and underlie thecountry’s cultural self-identification. Religious radicalization, on theone hand, and mass commercialization, on the other, lead to the destruction ofthe ICH of the peoples of the country.  The experience of the Aigine…

Aigine CRC’s project on Inventory and Safeguarding of Practices and Rare Rituals Related to Sacred Sites in Kyrgyzstan implemented in 2018-2020 and supported by the International Assistance program of the UNESCO ICH Fund was selected as one of the best examples of community-based inventorying of ICH. Thus, Aigine CRC is invited as a guest speaker to make a presentation on the project implementation process and results within the framework of an online workshop on on the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage organized by ICCROM/Sharjah at…

On 27 January 2022, Aigine CRC took part in a monthly meeting of the Working Group on More Balanced Geographical Representation of NGOs. The purpose of the group is to understand, address and overcome the issue of ongoing geographical imbalance of the NGO representation in the ICH NGO Forum and the UNESCO 2003 Convention by creating capacity building materials and practical information for the NGOs in the underrepresented countries. Structure-wise, there are several thematic blocks of the group meetings – presentations from different geographical regions on current realities/difficulties and opportunities…