Xhubleta, skills, craftmanship and forms of usage

Benefitting country(ies): Albania

Overview:

This two-year safeguarding programme aims to support efforts to enhance the practice and transmission of Xhubleta craftsmanship in northern Albania. It has three main objectives: ensuring the needed infrastructure for the revitalization of the craft, enhancing the capacities of bearers to make Xhubleta and increasing the visibility of Xhubleta and of intangible cultural heritage values among the community. The proposed ›››

Building sustainable capacities to safeguard the art of singing, playing and making of the lahuta

Benefitting country(ies): Albania

Overview:

To be implemented by the Ministry of Economy, Culture and Innovation of Albania, in partnership with the NGO Fondazione Arte, this thirty-six-month project aims to safeguard the endangered practice of playing, singing with, and making the lahuta, a single-stringed wooden instrument. The project entails documentation, inventorying, cultural mapping, training and awareness-raising activities. The activities will be carried out primarily in ›››

Community based Inventory of ICH in Albania with a view to safeguarding and transmitting to future generations

Benefitting country(ies): Albania

Overview:

Implemented by the Ministry of Culture, the project aimed at carrying out a community-based inventory of intangible cultural heritage in Albania, with a view to drawing up tailored action plans for its safeguarding and transmission to future generations. Though considerable efforts had already been undertaken to safeguard living heritage in Albania, a thorough national inventory of intangible cultural heritage including ›››

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National Folk Festival of Gjirokastra (NFFoGj), 50 years of best practice in safeguarding Albanian intangible heritage

Benefitting country(ies): Albania

Overview:

Held every five years, the festival has become the most important and largest event celebrating intangible cultural heritage in Albania since 1968. It brings together a large number of bearers, communities, performers, folk associations and cultural centres from the country and beyond, as well as scholars working in the field of intangible cultural heritage in Albania. The festival is organized by ›››

Needs assessment in Albania

Benefitting country(ies): Albania

Overview:

The needs assessment aimed to explore the legislative and policy documents in the sphere of ICH in Albania, to analyze the institutional and administrative framework for the implementation of UNESCO’s 2003 Convention, and to study the situation of awareness-raising activities, inventorying procedures, and educational and training programs on ICH in the country. The goal was to outline the major challenges encountered i ›››

Inventory of Albanian folk iso-polyphony

Benefitting country(ies): Albania

Overview:

The purpose of this project was to establish an electronic database on Albanian folk iso-polyphony, incorporated in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008. Between 2007 and 2010, the Albanian Music Council implemented safeguarding activities including the establishment of an initial register of the element. The present project aimed at enriching that initial inventory including additional information on ›››

Safeguarding Albanian Folk-Iso-polyphony

Benefitting country(ies): Albania

Overview:

Derived from Byzantine church music, Albanian Iso-polyphony is a sophisticated form of group singing, performed mostly by men. The rise of cultural tourism and the growing interest of researchers are contributing to the revival of this unique folk tradition. This project contributes to the safeguarding of Albanian iso-polyphony, focusing especially on its transmission of to the younger generation. The project’s ›››