The first international glove exhibition “Latvian written gloves”, which will be held from 17 June to 27 August at the Sabiles Centre for Art, Culture and Tourism, is devoted to an element of the Latvian intangible cultural heritage list – the traditions and skills of Latvian ethnographic gloves. The opening of the exhibition will take place on 16 June at 16.00 and will follow the Riga project Cora concert at 18.00.
The exhibition will cover 500 gloves written by more than 260 participants from nine countries: Latvia, USA, Belgium, Estonia, Iceland, Japan, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands and Germany. A total of 700 gloves were submitted to the exhibition and most of the gloves presented for the exhibition have been scanned and will be seen at the site after the exhibition. http://latvijascimdukarte.lv/.
From 2021, the traditions and skills of Latvian ethnographic gloves have been included in the Latvian Intangible Cultural Heritage List, and the exhibition “Latvian written gloves” is intended as one of the measures for preservation and transfer of that element. More information: https://nematerialakultura.lv/Elementi/latviesu-etnografisko-cimdu-adisanas-tradicijas-un-prasmes/
The experience of developing international events related to the writing of written gloves began in 2014, when the first international conference on gloves was organised and the Latvian National Cultural Centre then organized practical seminars in gloves in cooperation with the People's tērpu Centre “ancient rock”. Currently, the Latvian-written gloves admit continues to be populated by the People's tērpu Centre “ancient rock”, which organises professional seminars of gloves in Latvia, offering them to visit foreign stakeholders.
The visual image of the exhibition was created by artist Arthur Arnis.
The exhibition is organized by the People's tērpu Centre “ancient rock”, the Latvian National Cultural Centre, the Sabiles Art, Culture and Tourism Information Centre and the Talsi District Municipality, and its side with financial support from the State Culture Capital Fund.
