Chuvashia will consider modern technologies of revival and preservation of Tatar folklore

February 01, 2019

On February 24-27, 2019, the Chuvash Republic will host the 9th interregional workshop “Modern technologies of the revival, preservation and broadcasting  of the cultural heritage of ethnic groups, Tatar folklore. Experience, problems, prospects».

The organizer of the annual event is the NGO “National-Cultural Autonomy of the Tatars of the Chuvash Republic”.

The seminar participants will be teachers of the Kazan State Conservatory named after N. Zhiganov, the Chuvash State Institute of Culture and Arts, employees of the Center for the Development of Traditional Culture of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Tatarstan and the Executive Committee of the World Congress of Tatars, the House of Friendship of Peoples of Chuvashia.

The venue will be the site MBU TO “Komsomolskaya  DSHI” and Urmaevsky SDK (rural house of culture , the   Komsomolsk district of the Chuvash Republic.

The participants of the seminar in 2019 will be offered a program to study ethnic choreography, vocal, ethnic theater, original Tatar folk musical instruments, including gusli, kurai, saz, dumbra, talyan, harmun, def.

Within the framework of the IX interregional seminar, lessons on musical folklore and theatrical art will be broadcast.

Classes for leaders of Tatar folk-folk groups, teachers of music lessons in secondary schools, cultural workers will be held in a free and creative atmosphere.

It is no secret that many of the original Tatar folk musical instruments have been lost and are now experiencing a new birth.

The original traditional household musical culture of the Tatars is harmoniously combined with the Finno-Ugric culture of the peoples of the Volga region. According to the organizers of the above-mentioned seminar, the positive historical and cultural experience of the Tatar people will serve to create the conditions for further active knowledge of folklore.

House of Friendship

Peoples of Chuvashia