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THIS YEAR RA MINISTRY OF CULTURE TO HOLD CONTESTS DEDICATED TO PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF NON-MATERIAL CULTURAL HERITAGE
Noyan Tapan
Jan 16 2007
YEREVAN, JANUARY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. This year the RA Ministry of Culture
will hold a number of contests, each of which will contribute to
development of Armenian culture. Karine Khodikian, the RA Deputy
Minister of Culture, said at the January 16 press conference.
In her words, the Ministry will announce a grant competition of
ethnographic ensembles for the purpose of promoting preservation,
spreading and development of national non-material cultural heritage,
promoting organization of ethnographic festivals. Ethnographic
ensembles having two years' experience and two concert programs, acting
in various regions of Armenia, who with their activity contribute to
preservation and spreading of folk lore and ethnography traditions
of the given populated area, can take part in the competition. The
competition will consist of three stages. Three winners will be given
grants in the amount of 5m drams (nearly 16 thousand USD) each.
A contest of TV and radio broadcasts will be also announced. The
broadcasts should be 15-30-minute and should be dedicated to some
side of non-material cultural heritage, folk lore, national rituals,
to name but a few. Authors of at least three TV broadcasts can take
part in the contest.
A statuette and a monetary prize of 100 thousand drams will be given
to the main prize-winner of the contest to be held for the purpose
of promoting publishing, publishers' cooperation, best publishing
technologies.
This year the Ministry of Culture will also hold the first
international fonts' contest "Font 2008," in which citizens and
organizations of Armenia and abroad can take part. The author of the
fonts to be recognized the best will receive the chief prize and a
monetary prize of 100 thousand drams and the participants taking the
second and third places will be give diplomas.
Noyan Tapan
Jan 16 2007
YEREVAN, JANUARY 16, NOYAN TAPAN. This year the RA Ministry of Culture
will hold a number of contests, each of which will contribute to
development of Armenian culture. Karine Khodikian, the RA Deputy
Minister of Culture, said at the January 16 press conference.
In her words, the Ministry will announce a grant competition of
ethnographic ensembles for the purpose of promoting preservation,
spreading and development of national non-material cultural heritage,
promoting organization of ethnographic festivals. Ethnographic
ensembles having two years' experience and two concert programs, acting
in various regions of Armenia, who with their activity contribute to
preservation and spreading of folk lore and ethnography traditions
of the given populated area, can take part in the competition. The
competition will consist of three stages. Three winners will be given
grants in the amount of 5m drams (nearly 16 thousand USD) each.
A contest of TV and radio broadcasts will be also announced. The
broadcasts should be 15-30-minute and should be dedicated to some
side of non-material cultural heritage, folk lore, national rituals,
to name but a few. Authors of at least three TV broadcasts can take
part in the contest.
A statuette and a monetary prize of 100 thousand drams will be given
to the main prize-winner of the contest to be held for the purpose
of promoting publishing, publishers' cooperation, best publishing
technologies.
This year the Ministry of Culture will also hold the first
international fonts' contest "Font 2008," in which citizens and
organizations of Armenia and abroad can take part. The author of the
fonts to be recognized the best will receive the chief prize and a
monetary prize of 100 thousand drams and the participants taking the
second and third places will be give diplomas.