Today, November 10, the Aigine CRC team held the final workshop under the project ““Sustainable Research Data Collection for ICH Safeguarding in the Asia-Pacific Region”” as a regional partner of the International Research Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region(IRCI) The purpose of the workshop was to sum up and analyze a two-year project to collect research materials on ICH for the IRCI database. The workshop was attended by National Counterparts who, during the second year of the project, were involved in the collection and description of research…
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"The people who protect the monuments"
This is the name of the international conference on sacred heritage, pilgrimage and sustainable tourism, which takes place in Turkestan (Kazakhstan, October 26-28). On October 26, at the section “Management of cultural heritage objects”, the director of Aigine CRC Gulnara Aitpaeva, made a presentation “The experience of creating the National Guidelines for the preservation of pilgrimage practices and rituals in Kyrgyzstan”. The report revealed the purpose and objectives of creating this Guide, its concept, structure and format. The section ended with a lively discussion of the definition, sustainability and conservation…
Aigine and the World Indigenous Science Network (WISN) partnership
Today, on October 10, a working meeting was held between Aigine CRC staff and a longtime partner, director of the World Indigenous Science Network (WISN) Dr. Apela Colorado, as well as a Network sound engineer, Matthew Tucker. Dr. Apela Colorado shared her impressions of a series of meetings with local partners. The meeting also discussed the results of joint projects and possible ways for further cooperation between Aigine and WISN. In particular, Apela presented her book “Woman between the Worlds”. We discussed the possibilities of its translation. Archia acoustics (the…
The fifth scheduled meeting of the working group on a geographically more balanced representation of accredited NGOs to the 2003 UNESCO Convention
On September 29, 2022, the fifth scheduled meeting of the working group on a geographically more balanced representation of accredited NGOs to the 2003 UNESCO Convention was held. The meeting was devoted to discussing the results of the implementation of the first part of the plan of the strategy to cover the African region with weak NGO representation in the Forum. Participants discussed ideas and steps for preparing materials aimed at providing information and technical support to NGOs with potential for, and interest in, accreditation. Participants also discussed ongoing organizational…