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ASHGABAT (TCA) — The Turkmen national art of carpet weaving has been included into the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. The decision was made at the 14th annual meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held in Bogota (Colombia) last week. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage meeting in the Colombian capital last week inscribed Ak-kalpak craftsmanship, traditional knowledge and skills in making and wearing Kyrgyz men’s headwear to UNESCO’s Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — Bishkek Business Club is organizing the New Year’s Ethno Festival of Craft and Organic Products in the frame of the NICE-TAK project (Networking Intermediaries and Competitive Enterprises in Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan), funded by the European Union and co-funded by the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development of Germany, the Delegation of the European Union to Tajikistan reported. Continue reading
ASHGABAT (TCA) — Opera has returned to Turkmenistan after nearly 19 years of being banned along with ballet by the Central Asian country's first post-Soviet president as "incompatible with Turkmen mentality," RFE/RL's Turkmen Service reported. Continue reading
NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The National Museum of Kazakhstan opens the exhibition "The Great Steppe: History and Culture" on November 11 at the Epigraphic Museum of Athens (Greece). The exhibition will run until December 11, as part of the international exhibition project "The Procession of the Golden Man in the world museums," the press service of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — The U.S. Embassy in the Kyrgyz Republic, with representatives of the Ministry of Culture, Information and Tourism of Kyrgyzstan, Government in Osh province, and Sulayman-Too National Historical and Archeological Museum Complex on October 29 presented the completed conservation of a twelfth century Karakhanid mausoleum roof in Uzgen. Continue reading
