Other projects in 2006

“My culture” project in Khovd province
ACM-US, a sister organization to ACM, does tax-deductible fundraising in the US to support Mongolian arts and culture. Recently ACM-US Board announced to award ACM with grants totaling US $ 30 000. These grant-winning projects are 2 cultural heritage projects My culture and Museums in the region and arts education project Artsplus .

My culture
The My culture project aims to preserve the unique musical traditions of Khovd province by running folk music training for kids in collaboration with the Khovd Music and Drama Theatre. The first stage of the project, the curriculum development, has started in November, 2005 and the following stages will be the training of the trainers, repairing and equipping the training rooms and the training for children.

Museum development project in rural areas
Regional museum development project is aimed to support museums as heritage preservation site and to develop museums into heritage education venue to deliver knowledge on Mongolian history and culture through arts.

Two day training in Khovd province

The ACM has devised an after school folk music project in Khovd province aiming to preserve and promote intangible folk music heritage of the area to younger generations. In the preparatory part of the project, specially developed curriculums were developed, which will also encourage children's creative thinking and problem solving skills. On March 3-4, ACM facilitated a two day training on secondary school music education standards. During the training, which involved 25 music teachers from all soums of Khovd province, the selection of the trainers for the after school folk music training. The selected trainers are two teachers of secondary schools in Khovd and two artists of Khovd Music and Drama Theater and they took part in the curriculum development workshop. The actual training for kids will start in September, 2006 when the academic year starts.