Safegurading and Promotion of Intangible Cultural Heritage (SPICH)

The general objective of the project is to strengthen the economic and tourist potentials by preservation and presentation of cultural and historical heritage.

The project activities are:

1. A Jazz workshop with selection of maximum 10 traditional music songs from Serbia and Bulgaria to be adapted for a performance by a brass jazz orchestra;
2. Art of mask workshop for making of survakar masks by masters of masks from the region of Pernik;
3. An exhibition of masks and photographs in the city of Niš and Pernik organized by a representative masquerade group of 30 people;
4. Nisville Jazz Festival – An Ethno stage where traditional composition from Jazz Workshop will be presented and rehearsed;
5. Nisville Jazz Art of Mask Exhibition – masks exhibition in the Nisville Jazz Museum in the Nis Fortress;
6. Surva Art of Mask Exhibition - exhibition of survakar masks and traditional jazz songs concert during public events in the city of Pernik;
7. DVD SPICH – audio-video material collected from the conducted events in Nis and Pernik;
8. A joint final press conference in Nis.

The expected outputs include:

1. Organized 2 joint events and other 4 public events aimed at promotion and cultivation of the common traditions of the CBC area;
2. Recorded and published DVD with 20 traditional songs from Bulgaria and Serbia, processed in jazz arrangement;
3. Minimum 20 Art students and professionals, 30 members of the Masquerade group and 2 Masters of masks educated for making masks and upgrading skills.

The target groups of the project are tourist, visitors of the festivals (25 000 Musicians), Art students (20), professionals (30), Мasquerade group (30) and Мasters of masks (2).