Project title:
Making of Vaiņode national costumes
Aim:
To gather information about and promote
cultural heritage of the Vaiņode Rural Territory.
Implementer of the project:
Council of Vaiņode Rural Territory
Address:
23A Raiņa Street, rural municipality of
Vaiņode, rural territory of Vaiņode, LV-3435
Contacts:
Oskars Zvejs; [email protected];
[email protected]
Total costs of the project:
EUR 8002.97
Public funding:
About the submitter of the project in a nutshell:
Rural territory of Vaiņode is located in Kurzeme, 60 km from Liepāja.
It borders with rural territories of Priekule, Skrunda and Saldus. Has a
17 km border with the Republic of Lithuania. Rural territory consists
of the rural municipalities of Vaiņode and Embūte. Total area of
the rural territory is 30733.5 ha. Municipality of the Vaiņode Rural
Territory is economically, administratively and territorially independent unit with own budged based on the financial equalization
principled determined by law. Main sources of income are inhabitant
income tax, land and property taxes, subsidies from the equalization
fund; it is a payer of VAT.
Project description:
Vaiņode has had its national costume since old ages, but majority of
the locals is not aware of this fact and also they do not know how
this costume looks like. Still information about the national costume
is found in several information sources. So to maintain and promote
culturally historical heritage, the council of Vaiņode rural territory
decided to implement this project by making national costumes of
Vaiņode to the mixed chorus of the Vaiņode rural territory.
Photography by Mārtiņš Zitmanis.
EUR 7202.68
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