Strengthening Identity of Rural Places through Traditional Crafts and Tourism Development

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Project will create outputs for cultural activities and sustainable tourism development by implementing activities based on folk culture of rural places in the cross-border region. Two workshops (weaving workshop in Lida town (BLR) and woodcraft workshop in Rykantai village (LT) will be established for promotion of traditional crafts and providing possibilities for different target groups learn how to make different things for their household needs themselves. This workshops tends to become places for professionals and students to provide masterclasses and places where locals could spend time and share knowledge about traditional crafts. Sustainable tourism will be developed by creating 3 cultural routes which will attract people to visit the workshops and explore cultural heritage of villages in ecological, healthy and healthy way. One route will call to visit most interesting villages traveling from Lida to Trakai. This route will be promoted by e-book, which will represent unique folk culture in the borderland in photographs and texts. Other two routes will be created around Lida town and Rykantai. Four public cultural events will be organized in both countries to represent the outputs, celebrate partnership and represent folk culture. All project activities will be influenced by the results of the fieldwork, where materials about crafts and life in the villages will be explored. Modern technologies will be applied for communication.

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