🧵 Week of Master Classes: Tomorrow, April 6, will mark the final day of the master class week for the residents of the crisis center “Sezim.” Throughout the week, they’ve been studying felting techniques, delving into the meanings of various embroideries, and creating products with their own hands. Additionally, there have been meetings with guests who shared their stories of overcoming family violence and offered practical advice. Visiting various workshops, where participants could interact with craftsmen and witness firsthand the creations possible by their own hands, sparked particular interest. Over…
Year: 2024
Weekly review of the activities of Aigine CRC
Master Class: This week the Aigine CRC team conducted preparatory activities for the upcoming week of master classes for the residents of the crisis center “Sezim”. The main expert of the master class will be Aigine’s partner, artist-designer Gulmira Kutueva. Participants of the master class will master skills of working with wool, felt and embroidery patterns. The program also includes visits to workshops where participants will be able to observe the process of creating specific products. An important part of the event will be a session with women, heroines of…
Weekly review of the activities of Aigine CRC
Workshop: On March 20, as part of the project “Safeguarding Murdash petroglyphs and related traditional knowledge through mapping and digitalization”, the Aigine CRC team held a working meeting with practitioners on the interpretation of drawings on the stones of the Murdash Bashy complex. The working group of traditional practitioners created a story based on the drawings on the stones of Murdash Bashy, which will be realized as a motion video and will be part of the project results along with a digital map of the Murdash Bashy cultural and historical…
Weekly review of the activities of Aigine CRC
The process of training young musicians: The working group of the project “Bringing the konur үn into the sound of the Kyrgyz orchestra”, musicians Cholpon Turumbaeva, Rysbek Zhunushov, Zalina Kasymova continue the process of training young musicians on reconstructed kyl kyyaks and komuzes. The musicians continue to search for the authentic sound of konur, working closely with the master of traditional musical instruments, Marat Berikbaev, to make small but significant changes to the instruments. The final goal of training a group of musicians to play reconstructed komuz and kyl kyyak…