Secret Craftsmanship

Inaugurumi i Muzeut Etnografik të Kavajës

Muzeu Etnografik i Kavajës, tashmë i rilindur pas restaurimit të dëmeve të shkaktuara nga tërmeti i vitit 2019! Ky projekt i realizuar në kuadër të programit #EU4Culture, mbështetur nga Delegacioni i Bashkimit Evropian në Shqipëri dhe ... • Posted: 14 November 2024

Mirela Kumbaro: Why I signed the European network of literature

Albania becomes part of “TRADUKI”, the European network of Literature. The Minister of Culture, Mrs. Mirela Kumbaro, signed the agreement yesterday. Thus, she recounts in an interview for “Shqiptarja.com” how the agreement sig... • Posted: 26 August 2023

Isuf Skenderi, the master of preserving the centuries-old tradition of pipe carving

Ali Pasha Tepena, who lacked nothing in his yard, would have envied a pipe carved by the hands of master Isuf Skenderi. On the wall of the balcony, under the grape pergola, where he likes to work quietly, he fixed exactly one meter and 5 centimeter p... • Posted: 6 January 2020

Ramazan Cani, the master who has trained theater and circus artists for 55 years

Ramazan Cani has spent more than half a century among artists. He didn’t go to art school, but nothing, he is also an artist in his profession. He is the one who made the most difficult step for the generals of the theater stage or the easiest ... • Posted: 26 December 2019

Syri Tufina: How the dynasty of Tirana watchmakers survived

In the first drawer of the dresser, where most Albanians kept their valuables, my parents kept, among other things, a small box. Born in the era of “Lux” soap, that box was like magic in itself. Among 100 stars, my hand went right there. ... • Posted: 9 November 2019

Cinema mechanic Theodhor Ziu, the ‘courier’ of Albanian film

For years he was, most likely, the most important cultural courier in Tirana. He was 14 years old, when he took his bicycle, the film reel in his bag and started to cross the road from the “17 November” Cinema to “Partizani”. ... • Posted: 2 November 2019

Nermin Ahmeti, the “soul” of the Ballet School

When she was little, she was “daddy’s little spirit”, today she is “the spirit of ballet” and her name remained: Zysh Piti. There is no Albanian ballerina who does not know her, as beloved as she is strict, the teacher o... • Posted: 26 October 2019

Irena Asqeriu, the “encyclopedia” of the Film Archive

It is a moving encyclopedia. If you want to know something about the history of Albanian film, she can tell you everything. Graduated in French, specializing in archival science in Paris, Irena Asqeriu is passionately devoted to archives. He has been... • Posted: 19 October 2019