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Yurt production includes knowledge and skills in creating a portable dwelling traditionally used by Kazakh and Kyrgyz people. Yurt has a dismountable wooden circular frame covered with felt and braided with ropes. Yurts can be easily set up and dismantled within a short period of time. Yurts are basically characterized as easily transportable, compact, ecological and practical dwellings.\nBearers of yurt-making traditional knowledge are craftspeople (men and women), producing yurts and yurts’ interior decorations.\nMen and their apprentices make yurts’ wooden frames, traditionally by hand using special devices and instruments. Men also make wooden, leather, bone and metal details for yurts and household items. Women make yurt coverings and interior decorations. As a rule, they work in community-based groups supervised by experienced skilled women-artisans. Women-artisans use weaving, spinning, braiding, felting, embroidering, sewing, winding and other traditional handicraft technologies. Women’s work- process is usually accompanied by their singing, joking, telling stories about famous masters of the past and treating traditional meals.

Yurt production includes knowledge and skills in creating a portable dwelling traditionally used by Kazakh and Kyrgyz people. Yurt has a dismountable wooden circular frame covered with felt and braided with ropes. Yurts can be easily set up and dismantled within a short period of time. Yurts are basically characterized as easily transportable, compact, ecological and practical dwellings.\nBearers of yurt-making traditional knowledge are craftspeople (men and women), producing yurts and yurts’ interior decorations.\nMen and their apprentices make yurts’ wooden frames, traditionally by hand using special devices and instruments. Men also make wooden, leather, bone and metal details for yurts and household items.

Yurt production includes knowledge and skills in creating a portable dwelling traditionally used by Kazakh and Kyrgyz people. Yurt has a dismountable wooden circular frame covered with felt and braided with ropes. Yurts can be easily set up and dismantled within a short period of time. Yurts are basically characterized as easily transportable, compact, ecological and practical dwellings.\nBearers of yurt-making traditional knowledge are craftspeople (men and women), producing yurts and yurts’ interior decorations.\nMen and their apprentices make yurts’ wooden frames, traditionally by hand using special devices and instruments. Men also make wooden, leather, bone and metal details for yurts and household items.

The yurt is a nomadic dwelling used among the Kazakh and Kyrgyz peoples. It has a wooden circular frame covered with felt and braided with ropes, and can be easily assembled and dismantled within a short period of time. The bearers of yurt-making knowledge are craftspeople, both men and women, who produce yurts and their interior decorations. Yurts are made from natural and renewable raw materials. Men and their apprentices make the wooden frames by hand, along with wooden, leather, bone and metal details. Women make the interior decorations and exterior coverings, ornamented with traditional zoomorphic, vegetative or geometric patterns.

The festival is a celebration of regional cultures, with national foods, concerts, film screenings, fashion shows, and most notably, a large handicraft fair. Craftspeople, artists, vendors, and presenters hail from across Central Asia to share their unique cultures and celebrate regional diversity, bonds and friendship. In the mid-2000s, the Ministry of Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic announced a program titled 100 Cultural Activities aimed to create an array of events and activities within the country that would enrich cultural life and promote Kyrgyzstan as an attractive tourist destination. Our organization worked out the concept of such event, and after receiving little support from the Ministry of Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic, the first Oimo International Festival was held. Its initial mission was to celebrate and preserve folk art traditions and create economic opportunities for local craftspeople. Over the following years, the festival continued to develop and expand, with an increasing number of both exhibitors and attendees. As it grew, the Oimo International Festival became a vibrant international cultural event that seeks to bring people together from around the globe to celebrate culture and honor folk traditions.

The festival is a celebration of regional cultures, with national foods, concerts, film screenings, fashion shows, and most notably, a large handicraft fair. Craftspeople, artists, vendors, and presenters hail from across Central Asia to share their unique cultures and celebrate regional diversity, bonds and friendship. In the mid-2000s, the Ministry of Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic announced a program titled 100 Cultural Activities aimed to create an array of events and activities within the country that would enrich cultural life and promote Kyrgyzstan as an attractive tourist destination. Our organization worked out the concept of such event, and after receiving little support from the Ministry of Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic, the first Oimo International Festival was held. Its initial mission was to celebrate and preserve folk art traditions and create economic opportunities for local craftspeople. Over the following years, the festival continued to develop and expand, with an increasing number of both exhibitors and attendees. As it grew, the Oimo International Festival became a vibrant international cultural event that seeks to bring people together from around the globe to celebrate culture and honor folk traditions.

The festival is a celebration of regional cultures, with national foods, concerts, film screenings, fashion shows, and most notably, a large handicraft fair. Craftspeople, artists, vendors, and presenters hail from across Central Asia to share their unique cultures and celebrate regional diversity, bonds and friendship. In the mid-2000s, the Ministry of Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic announced a program titled 100 Cultural Activities aimed to create an array of events and activities within the country that would enrich cultural life and promote Kyrgyzstan as an attractive tourist destination. Our organization worked out the concept of such event, and after receiving little support from the Ministry of Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic, the first Oimo International Festival was held. Its initial mission was to celebrate and preserve folk art traditions and create economic opportunities for local craftspeople. Over the following years, the festival continued to develop and expand, with an increasing number of both exhibitors and attendees. As it grew, the Oimo International Festival became a vibrant international cultural event that seeks to bring people together from around the globe to celebrate culture and honor folk traditions.

The festival is a celebration of regional cultures, with national foods, concerts, film screenings, fashion shows, and most notably, a large handicraft fair. Craftspeople, artists, vendors, and presenters hail from across Central Asia to share their unique cultures and celebrate regional diversity, bonds and friendship. In the mid-2000s, the Ministry of Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic announced a program titled 100 Cultural Activities aimed to create an array of events and activities within the country that would enrich cultural life and promote Kyrgyzstan as an attractive tourist destination. Our organization worked out the concept of such event, and after receiving little support from the Ministry of Culture of the Kyrgyz Republic, the first Oimo International Festival was held. Its initial mission was to celebrate and preserve folk art traditions and create economic opportunities for local craftspeople. Over the following years, the festival continued to develop and expand, with an increasing number of both exhibitors and attendees. As it grew, the Oimo International Festival became a vibrant international cultural event that seeks to bring people together from around the globe to celebrate culture and honor folk traditions.