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Traditional knowledge in making Kyrgyz yurt ‘Boz ui’
The yurt is a nomadic dwelling used Kyrgyz people. 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. All festivities, ceremonies, births, weddings and funeral rituals are held in a yurt.

#housing construction #houses #housing #architecture #traditional tent #tree #felt #rope #nomad #transportable #compact #ecological

Kyrgyzstan 2014

Kazakh traditional yurt (nomadic dwelling)
Yurt (kaz. 'kigiz uy', 'kiiz uy') - portable housing with dismountable wooden circular frame with felt covering. Its origins date back to the era of ancient Turkic nomads. For modern population of Kazakhstan yurt is not only housing, and the model of the universe; it is also a symbol of their national identity. A yurt is a round folding wooden frame covered with felt and rope weaving. The frame of the yurt consisting of four parts: •\tkerege - ready-sliding base •\t'uyk' ('uyq') - dome poles, roof (modern) •\tshanyrak ('shanyrak') - circular top, a chimney and a window (modern) •\tyessyk ('esik') - double doors (modern) Tent can be easily assembled and disassembled in a short period of time. Yurt is mainly characterized as easily transportable, compact, ecological and practical home. The yurt used as livestock housing in their daily life and urban residents as a gazebo, which reinforces the sense of the continuity of the traditions of their ancestors.

#housing construction #houses #housing #architecture #traditional tent #trees #felt #rope #nomad #transportable #compact #ecological

Kazakhstan 2014

DUDANDOZI
Knowledge and practices about protection of fruit trees through smoking in the beginning of winter. This method often is used by gardeners in mountainous areas.

#protection #fruit trees #smoking #winter

Tajikistan

BALANDI-BAROYAK
Children game played by boys and girls together or separately. They try to stay on the some thing, for example, on the stones, wood and etc.

#game #stone #tree #stay #children

Tajikistan

DUDANDOZI
Knowledge and practices about protection of fruit trees through smoking in the beginning of winter. This method often is used by gardeners in mountainous areas.

#protection #fruit trees #smoking #winter

Tajikistan

BALANDI-BAROYAK
Children game played by boys and girls together or separately. They try to stay on the some thing, for example, on the stones, wood and etc.

#game #stone #tree #stay #children

Tajikistan

Kyrgyz musical instruments

#instrument making #fretless string instrument #traditional craftsmanship #komuz #kylkiyak #chopochoor #wood #metal #leather #music #folk #wind instrument #apricot tree #mulberry #copper #need of urgent safeguarding

Kyrgyzstan

Process of making wooden frames of the yurt
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#housing construction #houses #housing #architecture #traditional tent #tree #felt #rope #nomad #transportable #compact #ecological

Kyrgyzstan

Orteke—Traditional Kazakh Puppet-Musical Performing Art
Orteke (mountain goat) is the name of an indigenous Kazakh performing art in which flexible wooden figure of a mountain goat is placed on a traditional drum called dauylpaz. Orteke’s originality comes from it being a combination of theater, music, and puppet dance. The expressive puppet figure, called teke (goat), seems to come to life when the master starts playing the drum. The figure makes funny dance movements in time with the rhythm of the music being played. It is also said that the orteke figure once came different shapes and sizes that were created individually, each with a different number of moving limbs, depending on which kyu was performed.

#puppets #mountain goat #trees #hand puppets #puppetry #music #dance #performance

Kazakhstan 2017

Models and Melodies of Komuz
The film is dedicated to the Kyrgyz folk instrument komuz. An expert on making and playing komuz shares an komuz origin story. The film shows the interconnectedness between the models and melodies of komuz. Outstanding komuz makers and players as well as komuz beginners present some classical komuz melodies in the film.

#melodies #classical musical heritage #musical instruments #transmitted orally #mouth plucking instrument #metal #brass #bronze #copper #music #reed #instrument #wooden #mouth #honeysuckle #wolfberry wood #need of urgent safeguarding #wood carving #woodworking #wood product manufacture #birch #cottonwood #sump-weed #juniper #nut-tree

Kyrgyzstan 2017

Singapore Launches Street Corner Showcases for Traditional Trades

Singapore launched its Street Corner Heritage Galleries scheme for traditional trades on 7 March 2020. The new scheme will involve the National Heritage Board of Singapore (NHB) collaborating with qualifying local traditional trades and businesses with significant history in selected precincts to co-curate “street corner heritage galleries” that will showcase the history of their respective shops, trades, and products as well as other intangible cultural heritage (ICH) elements through displays of historical documents, photographs, and artefacts.\n\nUnder the scheme, NHB will also provide training to owners of these traditional trades and businesses in the areas such as the development and delivery of heritage programs. NHB will also provide funding support to these street corner heritage galleries to encourage them to develop heritage programs and to participate in NHB’s signature events such as Singapore Heritage Festival, CultureFests, etc. as showcases of Singapore’s living heritage.\n\nAccording to Mr. Alvin Tan, Deputy Chief Executive (Policy & Community) of NHB: “Through the scheme, we hope to identify existing heritage resources and perform ‘urban acupuncture’ by introducing small-scale interventions to showcase these resources and in the process, revitalize the precinct through street-level heritage.”\n\nThe scheme is aligned with NHB’s five-year masterplan, Our SG Heritage Plan, which seeks to showcase heritage in everyday places to encourage greater public awareness and appreciation of heritage in our midst. NHB will be piloting the scheme with the traditional trades and businesses within the Balestier precinct, and they include a traditional pastry shop, a traditional bakery, a traditional coffee powder shop and more.\n\nFollowing its launch, NHB will be identifying other traditional trades and businesses and partnering with the relevant community stakeholders to roll out the scheme on a precinct-by-precinct basis starting with Balestier and Kampong Gelam in 2020 followed by Little India and Chinatown in 2021, and finally Geylang Serai in 2022. Overall, NHB hopes to co-create a total of twenty-five street corner heritage galleries with traditional trades and businesses across the different precincts.\n\nThrough the Street Corner Heritage Galleries scheme, NHB hopes to facilitate stronger stakeholder participation and ownership of different aspects of Singapore’s heritage; equip traditional trades and businesses with the necessary basic competencies in the areas of heritage documentation, promotion, and conservation; activate public spaces through a stakeholder-centric and participatory approach; and create a network of community-championed “mini heritage galleries” in different parts of Singapore.\n\nPhoto 1 : The owners and staff of Loong Fatt, the oldest surviving traditional coffee shop in Balestier known for its signature traditional flaky pastry filled with green bean paste, standing around the shop’s street corner heritage gallery © National Heritage Board, Singapore\nPhoto 2 : The owners of Loy Kee, a shop selling traditional Hainanese chicken rice in the Balestier area since 1953, standing next to their street corner heritage gallery © National Heritage Board, Singapore

Year2020

NationSingapore

“Orteke—Traditional Kazakh Puppet-Musical Performing Art”
Some people say orteke is a street theatre, others might claim it is a musical instrument, some would see it as a decorative art, and children perceive it as a toy and use for entertainment. The truth is that all of the statements are correct, orteke is everything altogether. It is an indigenous Kazakh performing art that combines theater, music, and puppetry. You may notice it from the introductory words of one of the masters in the video. He did not give single-worded description of orteke, because it is simply impossible.

Kazakhstan

2020

30 MIN

Encountering a Tree Steeped in Time Somokjang Yang Seog-joong is a key figure among the free and beautiful master artisans of Korea, who measure their lives by the pursuit of growth over success, capability over status, depth over width, and independence over isolation.
Yang Seog-joong

NEWS Drangyen, Bhutanese Instrument and Lessons Two drangyens of Bhutan at Linden Museum (public domain image) The Bhutanese lute, the drangyen, is the oldest and most well-known instrument of Bhutan. The word drangyen itself roughly translates to “hear the melody,” where dra means “melody,” and ngyen means “listen.” The drangyen is often used in religious festivals accompanied by folk dances and stories. Some date back to the eighth century CE when Buddhism was introduced to Bhutan. The instrument is made from wood (preferably from cypress trees), leather, and yak bone and is about one meter long. Structurally, the top or head is intricately shaped like a sea monster to scare away evil spirits that may be attracted to the beautiful music that the instrument makes. The head stands upon a long fretless neck that attaches to a rounded body that pictures the goddess of music. The seven strings, which are made from the bark fiber of the jute tree, are played with a triangular plectrum made of wood or bone. Kheng Sonam Dorji is a master folk musician of Bhutan. He has assembled a series of videos that show how the drangyen is made and how to play it. They are available in several lessons on YouTube. Visit the following links to find out more about the drangyen. Drangyen Lesson -1: Brief Introduction ( with Eng Sub) – YouTube Drangyen Lesson – 2(A) : Note Introduction & Tunning – YouTube Drangyen Lesson – 2 (B) : Note Introduction & Tunning – YouTube Drangyen Lesson – 3: Octave/Yangduen/ Saptak – YouTube Drangyen Lesson – 4: Fingering & Note familiarization. – YouTube 03/12/2021

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