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Uzbekistan craftspeople and designers benefit online/offline training
The programme of training includes online theoretical and practical on-site training on traditional embroidery, ethno-design and natural dyeing. The following leading experts, designers and craftspeople from Uzbekistan are invited to conduct the training: Ms Markhamat Umarova, Ms Madina Kasimbaeva, Mr Rasul Mirzaahmedov, Mr Akbar Khakimov and Ms Binafsha Nodir.
Given the continuing unfavorable epidemiological background caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the activities will be held in groups of no more than 30 people in compliance with the applicable sanitary standards.
As a follow-up of the training, an online course on handicraft entrepreneurship will be held for training participants from 14 October to 14 November 2020. Mr Sardor Gaziyev and Mr Husnuddin Ato will conduct the course. The experts will teach how to create an own brand, art management, and will talk about modern methods of promoting handicraft products, legal aspects of sales and marketing communications.
The activities are implemented within the framework of the UNESCO and European Union partnership project "Silk Roads Heritage Corridors in Afghanistan, Central Asia and Iran 鈥 International Dimension of the European Year of Cultural Heritage".
This project aims to: (i) strengthen capacities for safeguarding tangible and intangible cultural heritage, (ii) raise awareness and promote the common cultural heritage on the Silk Roads, and; (iii) use the heritage as a foundation for sustainable development, including through the development of sustainable heritage-based tourism.
Margilan has been chosen as a workshop site based on the historical uniqueness of the city which has been a centre for the production of natural silk and semi-silk fabrics - adras and atlas since antiquity.
In 2017, by a decision of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage established by the for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (Uzbekistan has been party of this Convention since 2008), the technique of Uzbek traditional atlas and adras making was included in the UNESCO Register of Good Safeguarding Practices. This practice was called
The event is organized by the UNESCO Tashkent Office, the Hunarmand Association of Craftspeople and Folk Artists of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and the Margilan Crafts Development Centre.
