Month: February 2026

How did the Kyrgyz name days and months? The team of Aigine CRC held a discussion to clarify the Kyrgyz traditional system of time reckoning. Over the years, users of our calendars have raised questions and well-grounded doubts about the accuracy of certain month names and the order in which they are counted. Two versions were compared: the widely used one today (the year begins in January— “Uchtun ayı”) and the version recorded by Ishenaly Arabayev (1911) and Kasym Tynystanov (1926), and discussed in Törön Zhumaev’s research (the year begins…

Aigine CRC has begun implementing the project “New Expressions and Shapes of Ancient Kyrgyz Songs.” This initiative will help creative young people hear and feel the strength of our ancestral song heritage anew. The project brings together two strands of work. The first is collaboration with the youth choir “Barchyn Capella.” Together with experts in traditional music and the choir’s director Gulbarchyn Zhakshylykova, we will develop a selection of traditional Kyrgyz songs and adapt them for choral performance. We hope that regular rehearsals, exploring the meanings and imagery of the…