Director of the Aigine CRC Gulnara Aitpayeva takes part in the UNESCO International Conference on Cultural Policies and Sustainable Development. The event takes place in the capital of Mexico, Mexico City, and brought together about 2 thousand participants from more than 200 countries. Aigine CRC is accredited under the 2003 UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and has achieved the highest international recognition in this area, becoming the representative of the country and the entire Asia-Pacific region in the Evaluation Committee in the International Committee for…
Month: September 2022
Studying the Events of 1916: joint seminar of ISU, IFEAC, Aigine CRC
Aigine CRC together with the French Institute for Central Asian Studies (IFEAC) and the Issyk-Kul State University named after K. Tynystanov, with the participation of a representative of the Central State Archive of the Kyrgyz Republic, held a scientific seminar “The image of 1916 through the prism of the diary of the abbot of the Issyk-Kul Monastery, Archimandrite Irinarkh ( Ivan Semenovich Shemanovsky): facts, memories, positions” on September 9, 2022 at the Issyk-Kul State University named after K. Tynystanov. On September 8 and 10, the participants of the seminar visited…
Sama Dance in Karakol: Preservation of Identity through Culture
Within the framework of the project “Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) and Transformation of Cultural Codes”, Aigine CRC supported the initiative of Uyghur activists 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. As part of this initiative, a documentary short film “Sama Dance in…