10th Annual Meeting of the South –

East European Experts Network

Intangible Cultural Heritage

14-16 June, 2016- Supetar, Croatia

Ivona Opetcheska Tatarchevska

Ministry of Culture of Republic of Macedonia

Cultural Heritage Protection Office

Department for Intangible Cultural heritage

Key Facts about ICH in Macedonia

Law on Copyright and other Related Rights (1996);

Law of culture (1998) and Law on the Macedonian Language Use (1998);

National Program for Culture for the period 2013-2017;

Law on Cultural Heritage Protection enacted March 19th 2004, entering into force on 1st of January 2005; and 7 Revisions of it.

Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural heritage (Paris 2003), enacted 24.04.2006, entering into force on 12th of May 2006;

Key Facts about ICH in Macedonia

88 elements inscribed on the National List

19 dialects of Macedonian language

10 dialects of minority languages

1 element od toponomastic system

58 Folk expressions (music, dances, social

practices)

UNESCO’s Lists

Holly Forty Martyrs - social practice from the town of Shtip, on

the Representative List (2013)

Kopachkata – social dance from the village of Dramche,

Pijanec region, on the Representative List (2014)

Glasoechko singing – two part male singing from Dolni Polog

on the List of Urgent safeguarding (2015)

Renewed multinational nominations in 2016

Martinki/Martishor/or Celebrations of the first of March with

the respective colleagues from Romania, Moldova and

Bulgaria; and

H’derlez/ Erdelezi or St. George’ day as a common application with the respective colleagues from Republic of

Turkey.

In the last two

years

National inventory policies;

Digitisation projects within the

Institutes for Macedonian language “Krste Misirkov” – Skopje (more than 300.000 toponomastic and onomastic items were digitised

Institute for folklore “Marko Cepenkov”- Skopje is dealing at the moment with 7000 photoses, and another 4000 magnetic tapes….etc.

Cultural Heritage Protection Office

established Digital national

inventory (in 2013 ) web page: http://niskn.gov.mk

3.000.000 millions euros tailored

project will be supported by the Government as a priority project

for Digitisation of the institutional

archives in the sphere of cultural

heritage.

Among them the archives of three

authorised institutions for ICH are

taken into account.

The role and involvement of the local communities

Community based inventories were

developed by the Kopachkata

community.

Inventory of the tambura players in

the region of Pijanec, 2015

Mapping of the regional kemene

players in 2014 (concerts,

publications)

• the “school of Glasoechko singing” as an

informal education classes in the

municipality of Jegunovce and

neighbouring three villages;

• trio Gavrovski (practitioners) published

a CD (in 2015) with financial support of

the Ministry of culture.

UNESCO club “HAEMUS” actively

participated in the process of

preparing the Martinki application.

They organised thematic traveling

Exhibition with four institution

UNESCO club “HAEMUS” with

collaboration with Arbo Travel

tourist agency from Skopje, started

this year with “UNESCO tour in the

East planned region” in which

synergy between tangible and

intangible are primary.

Details on their website

http://unesco.haemus.org.mk/

State activities 2015-2016

Revision of the Cultural Heritage Protection Law

and other related Legal Acts as a mechanisms

were promoted in January 2015;

Capacity – building Seminar (April 2016)

organized by the Sofia Regional ICH center

National Committee of ICTM for Macedonia;

In a very final phase is a National Strategy for

protection and safeguarding the Cultural Heritage

2016-2020 which has a great involvement of the ICH.

Ministry of culture developed special financial

mechanisms separate budget to provide The

effective implementation of the 2003 Convention

through the revitalisation projects

And as a very last happening is the redesigning of

the institutional structure of the Cultural Heritage Protection Office was improved by the

Government last week with the fosuk on new

established Sector/Unit for cataloguing,

digitisation and

Thank you very much for your kind attention