Projects

Traditional Headdresses with Feathers in Kygryz Culture

Video reflection

The initiative group “Suuchular” (The Waterers): Traditional water knowledge of mountain lake communities in Kyrgyzstan

SolTech LLC in partnership with Aigine CRC: Cultural Heritage Meets Modern Technology

Sustainable Research Data Collection for ICH Safeguarding in the Asia-Pacific Region

• Collection process and data analysis. The first year of the project.
• Network-Building with National Collaborators. National Workshop
• Formation of the list of publications. The second year of the project.

Studying the Events of 1916: joint seminar of ISU, IFEAC, Aigine CRC

• Seminar program

Study and Preservation of Traditional Knowledge Associated with Petroglyphs of Ak-Bulun Complex (Issyk-Kul province, Kyrgyzstan)

• The first field trip
• The first workshop
• Registration of petroglyphs
• Analytical Seminar 
• Secrets of petroglyphs live on TV
• A new website on petroglyphs of Kyrgyzstan
• Presentation of the results of the project at Issyk-Kul State University
• Presentation of the project results in the village of Ak-Bulun, Issyk-Kul region

The Secret Power of Petroglyphs

•  Video reflection
• Meaning of petrogliphs: reflection and contemplation by kyrgyz practitioners

Closing ceremony of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence

•  Video reflection

Integration of traditional practices and scientific methods, strengthening the capacity of local experts and raising awareness of residents to preserve biodiversity and ecology (Kulun-Ata State Nature Reserve, Konduk village, Osh Region).

• Key project results
• “Communities Conserving Nature: Global Challenges and Experience of Konduk village” brochure
• The film “People who love their land, the land that feeds people: methods environmental protection of the residents of Konduk village”

Safeguarding of Practices and Rare Rituals Related to Sacred Sites in Kyrgyzstan: Preparation of an Inventory and Safeguarding Measures

• Desk research of the Aigine CRC’s existing data of sacred sites
• Steering Committee
• Training workshop for the project team
• Working groups
• On-site workshops
• Workshop with the international expert on ICH
• Video reports about on-site training workshops
• Shaman dance on the sacred site Ak-Baka (Isyk-kul province)
• Pilgrimage to the sacred site  Ysyk-Ata (Chui province)
• Pilgrimage to the sacred site Sharkyratma (Naryn province)

Mobilizing academic communities in Central Asia to produce new knowledge about the 1916 Uprising and to build shared academic platforms for exchanging and disseminating knowledge about ethnically or/and politically sensitive topics.

• Invitation
• Program of the first workshop
• Participants
• Сonsultants
• Media about the project
• Program of the analytical seminar
• International symposium  “Uprising of 1916 in Central Asia: Academic Integration, New Approaches and Knowledge”
• Maps
• Documentaries
• Film about the project

Raising young people’s and local communities’ environmental awareness in water-related issues in Kyrgyzstan, 2016-2017

• The first invitation to the contest and selection
• The first training seminar
• Regional seminars
• The fourth seminar
• Creation of the project products
• Presentations
• Social videos

Building the Collective Memory about Outstanding Contemporary Guardians of Traditional Wisdom, 2016-2017

• Nationwide Competition on Sacred Geography – Kasietyy Jer-Ene (Sacred Motherland)
• Nation-wide event aimed to safeguarding the Master’s Legacy
• Film Jaryktan Jaralgan Adam (A Person of Light)
• Identifying main directions of further organizational development of Aigine CRC
• Academic way of promoting biocultural diversity as an important direction of further development
• Usage of Mass Media means and publications to promote traditional practices and values

Sacred sites and traditional knowledge, 2005-2014

Solving Youth Problems through Creative Interaction, 2013-2014

• Intersessional meetings
• Third session
• Final concert
• Project on teaching music visually impaired and blind people
• Training blind and visually impaired children how to play komuz on the En Belgi sistem

Studying Kurultai’s Potential in Solving Socio-Political Issues in Kyrgyzstan, 2012-2013

Preserving and developing epic heritage of Kyrgyz people, 2011-2013

• Video compilation of the first part of the epic trilogy, the Manas epic (2012)
• Video compilation of the second part of the epic trilogy, the Semetei epic (2013)
• Video compilation of the third part of the epic trilogy, the Seitek epic (2013)

ReSET the soviet in everyday life, 2010-2013

Promoting and transmitting traditional music, 2011-2012

• Selection of participants 
• The first year of training seminars
• The second year of training seminars
• The concert and main achievements of the two-year seminar  
• Performance of a thousand Komuz players at the opening ceremony
• Performance of a thousand Komuz players at the opening ceremony (video)

Reset building anthropology in Eurasia, 2007-2010

Women’s NGOs in Kyrgyzstan: international funding, and social organization of gender, 2007

The role of the mass media for political participation in Kyrgyzstan, 2005-2007