On the 7th of August, the opening of the exhibition – “Traditions of the Didi Liakhvi Valley – Village Kekvi” was held in Gori.
The photos and texts presented at the exhibition allow the visitor to learn about the rich cultural heritage of the village of Kekhvi, its past and present, and to listen to the stories told by the people of Kekhvi about the life and traditions of the village before and after the 2008 Russia-Georgia war, focussing on the incredible intangible heritage of the region. It aims to present the results of the ethnographic research of the intangible cultural heritage of the occupied Tskhinvali region, in particular, the village of Kekhvi in the Didi Liakhvi Valley.
The opening of the exhibition was attended by the President of Georgia Salome Zourabishvili, the cultural attaché of the US Embassy Eavan Cully, representatives of the government and museums and IDPs from Kekhvi.
The exhibition presents material collected through the following projects:
- Preserving the Cultural Heritage of the Occupied Regions (Tskhinvali Region-PCHOR), supported by the U.S. Embassy in Georgia.
- Protection of Intangible Heritage of Occupied Regions, supported by Cultural Emergency Response.
On July 31, the exhibition “Traditions of the Didi Liakhvi Valley – Village Kekvi” was opened in Shaumiani. IDPs from Didi Liakhvi Valley living in Shaumiani IDP settlement attended the opening of the exhibition.
The exhibition is the result of cooperation between the Georgian National Committee of the Blue Shield, the Center for the Protection of Historical-Cultural Heritage and the Penn Cultural Heritage Center and was made possible with the support of the US Embassy Tbilisi, Georgia grant.
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