Our story about the “Grandma March Day” project has been selected among 20 best European Heritage Stories for 2020, after the Call for European Heritage Days Stories 2020 and the application process. The European Heritage Story is a joint initiative of the Council of Europe and the European Commission since 1999 and it is a follow up of the European Heritage Days. The condition to be a part of the European Heritage Story is that you have to be a legal entity and to have organized at least one event within national coordination of the European cultural heritage days in
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On 22.11.2019 at 07:00 pm, HAEMUS in partnership with Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst – Macedonia Program organized an event entitled “Let’s Invest in Futurism: The cultural landscapes of one post-socialist city” at Kino Kultura in Skopje. After the catastrophic earthquake from 1963, Skopje was envisioned and afterward built as an example of a modern, futuristic, socialist – utopian, Yugoslavian city. The remains of this vision and this Skopje are still visible in the material and intangible culture of the city. In many of the post-socialist countries, there are debates about the architecture and the symbolism of this cultural
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The founder and director of HAEMUS, Vasilka Dimitrovska discusses the importance of “Martinki” as a tradition transmitted since ancient times in a long interview for Australian SBS and the SBS program in Macedonian language. This is the first podcast where the focus is HAEMUS work as an organization and our involvement in the multinational UNESCO application about “Martinki” where Mrs. Dimitrovska explains “How Macedonian “Martinki” become part of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity“. Short info The little bracelets called “Martinki” that are made out of red and white thread and comprise part of the Macedonian cultural tradition
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Contractor: Municipality of Center Scientific study: HAEMUS Recently, HAEMUS finished a very extensive “Study about the intangible cultural heritage of Debar Maalo – a case study for defining the Bohemian quarter as cultural attractions based on cultural – historical and anthropological context in the last century, with emphasis on the first half of the 20th century”. The study was commisioned by the Municipality of Centar, aiming to promote the Bohemian quarter located in the Debar Maalo neighborhood, in the very heart of Skopje. The purpose of this project is to create and shape a
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Kopachkata is a dynamic and energetic social dance performed by local residents of the village of Dramche in the region of Pijanec. It is danced at weddings, public gatherings and religious holidays by the village’s best male dancers. The dance is performed in a semicircle accompanied by drummers, a fiddle, and sometimes a tamboura lute or bagpipes. The key roles are the dance leader, who initiates the dance, the last dancer, and the middle dancer who acts as the fulcrum, balancing the left and right sides of the semicircle. During the dance, the dancers hold
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The UNESCO National Commission marked Thursday the inclusion of Macedonia’s first ritual, called Cetrse, in the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The application was filed in 2011 while the announcement was made during a conference held in Baku on Dec. 2-7. Cetrse is a unique and centuries-old custom marked annually on the Feast of the Holy Forty Martyrs (March 22), honoring the venerable martyrs of Sebaste and marking the first day of spring. Participants gather on the streets and squares of Stip and then first go to the church on the
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