The Institute of the Book and Promotion Foundation was registered at the register of non-profit organizations upon the decision No. 216 on 15th March 2006 of the Court of Judicial District Tirana, with premises in Tirana (Albania).<\/p>\n
Purpose and scope of activity:<\/strong><\/p>\n The overall objective of the Foundation Instituti i Librit dhe Promocionit \u201cILP\u201d (Institute of Book and Promotion) is:<\/p>\n Main activities of ILP:<\/strong><\/p>\n International and national projects that ILP has been part of, both as partner and co-partner: \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>\u201cKolonit\u00eb e artist\u00ebve figurativ\u00eb – Plein Air Art Colonies\u201d: <\/strong><\/p>\n – More than 50 plain Air Art colonies from 2014 in Albania, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Italy and Greece;<\/p>\n – Participation of approximately 200 landscape artists from Albania, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Greece. Each art colony has been finalized with a final exhibition of the works realized during the 5 days stay. Among the singular exhibitions and the ones with different works from different art colonies performed, 60 exhibitions have been organized.<\/p>\n Specific objectives:<\/p>\n Festivali Letrar p\u00ebr t\u00eb Rinj \u201cTirana: 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021\u201d (Youth literary Festival \u201c2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n The Literary Festival is addressed to young talents is divided in 2 sections: the younger generation (14 to 18 years old) and the youth generation (19-35 years old). Aspirant writers in prose, poetry and essay from Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia send their literary pieces and participate in the festival. The festival main objectives are:<\/p>\n Misteret e Jugut (South Mysteries) \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n The purpose of this project is to promote a specific territory such as Himara municipality by offering 15 brochures, 2 itinerary guides and brochures describing in detail the geographical territorial extension, cultural, ethnographic, gastronomic, artistic offerings, the monumental offerings of these mountain and coastal villages for a tourist who can visit these territories 365 days a year. This project contained a series of activities and sub-activities that met its objectives to achieve the expected results:<\/p>\n The whole project was implemented in close cooperation with the Municipality of Himara and the Kuk\u00ebs District and key elements of tourism in Albania both in the north of the country and in the capital. It produced some publicity material such as newspaper articles (thanks to the journalists who took part in all activities), it was built an online study that was published on some social networks and distributed to travel agents, a documentary was filmed and showed in the You tube page of ILP. Also more than 500 copies of the 15 brochures and 2 itineraries published by the project were distributed gratis at the touristic agencies in South of Albania.<\/p>\n Java Arb\u00ebreshe\u00a0 2017, 2018, 2019\u00a0 (Arb\u00ebresh week 2017, 2018, 2019 )<\/strong><\/p>\n The project helps to contribute in a bigger context which is the Arb\u00ebresh-italian communities in Italy, living there from 1400. \u00a0The municipality of San Giorgio Albanese, hosted 20 young students of the Art University of Tirana, to paint two murals, in the city of San Giorgio and 2 groups of dancers who performed folk music for the local people in two organized events. The connection of Albanians and Arb\u00ebresh (a group of Albanians who went away from Albania, before and after the death of our national Hero Scanderbeg) creates a possibility to enter in collocation with a language we have changed over the years but they have protected through different ages and a culture that is so similar and so different from ours now days we want to know and celebrate.<\/p>\n Art against Plastic Pollution<\/strong><\/p>\n In the framework of the International Drin Day, on the dates 2nd, 3rd and 4th of May, the “Art against Plastic Pollution” project was developed in the City of Kuk\u00ebs by the Institute of Book and Promotion and Culture Zone. An awareness-raising project addressed to young people in the city of Kuk\u00ebs:<\/p>\n This three-day project had some major activities:<\/p>\n First, more than 1000 high school and mid school pupils were organized in a well-coordinated action from the Kuk\u00ebs Education Directorate, for the purpose of gathering sacks of waste that were found to the edges of Drin.<\/p>\n Afterwards, Art Students and pupils in a series of workshops and with the help of their teachers implemented plastic waste installations to show how recycling plastic products remains an effective way to minimize plastic pollution.<\/p>\n The works were transformed into the decors of the improvised scene in front of the Kosovo Memorial Tower, where interfered with their sensitizing messages, Mr. Blendi Klosi, Minister of Tourism and Environment, Mrs. Irena To\u00e7i, Project Coordinator, Mr. Albert Lenja, Director of the Water Resources Management Agency, Mr. Zenel Ku\u00e7ana, Prefect of Kuk\u00ebs District, Mrs. Melita Omuri, Representative of the Kuk\u00ebs Regional Education Directorate and Mrs. Erjola Ke\u00e7i Coordinator of the action Drin Corda.<\/p>\n Panairi i Librit \u201cUlqini\u201d, (Ulcinj Book Fair \u2013 from 2003 still now)<\/strong><\/p>\n The Ulcinj Book fair 2019 was the 19 edition of this Book fair, taking place in Ulcinj, every year on summer with the main porpoise to attract tourists and locals to the newest editor\u2019s proposals for summer time.<\/p>\n Publishers from Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro and North Macedonia were present from 26th<\/sup> of July till 31st<\/sup> of July at the Small beach bay to present books, literary events, meetings with authors and to award the following first literary prizes:<\/p>\n This book fair creates a space between publishers from neighborhood countries to meet and share professional experience and to grow up in a wealthy competition in the field.<\/p>\n \u201cN\u00eb udh\u00ebtim me Edward Lear\u201d (In journey with Edward Lear)<\/strong><\/p>\n Objective: To realize a cultural-touristic itinerary in the places where Edward Lear travelled in Albania in the fall of 1848 according to his book “Journals of a landscape painter in Albania” 1851. Publication of the itinerary in book format and online.<\/p>\n Activity 1<\/em>. Research, which consisted of reading E. Lear’s book, Expert Routing Defined. The itinerary will contain several displacement sections based on the itinerary made in 1848. It will contain instructions on how these itineraries can be realized on foot, by bicycle or by other means of transport, taking into account targeted groups.<\/p>\n Activity 2.<\/em> Implementation of the itinerary, which consisted of placing touristic signboards in places where E. Lear’s paintings were made. The touristic signboards will contain the original outline and map showing the point where the table and other itinerary points are located, together with historical data on its passage to that location. Next to these tables will be placed author’s poems in English and Albanian that will point the way to the main table, to some other tables or surfaces that will be designated by the project in agreement with the respective municipalities. (The poems will have a distance of 10 kilometers from each other).<\/p>\n Activity 3<\/em>. Publish the itinerary in two languages, English and Albanian.<\/p>\n Activity 4.<\/em> Set up an online itinerary with all the details.<\/p>\n Activity 5<\/em>. Realization of the closing ceremony, through which Art students re-interpreted E. Lear’s sketches in an exhibition at the National Museum, through painting, installation, photography and video art. Introducing the itinerary through a presentation video.<\/p>\n \u201c1001 Windows of Berat\u201d- Project in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture <\/strong><\/p>\n The city of Berat, being one of the 600 cities protected by UNESCO, was the focus of 60 painters from the Balkan region, whose paintings and final works represented the uniqueness and beauty of the city in subject. The paintings, final outputs of the Project, were displayed in an art exhibition that took place in the Art Gallery of Berat.<\/p>\n \u201cTirana 100\u201d- Project in collaboration with the Ministry of Tourism and Environment, the Ministry of Culture, Municipality of Tirana and the Italian Institute of Culture <\/strong><\/p>\n The Project\u2019s main goal was the creation of an application for Italian tourists travelling in Albania, as well as the publishing of a tourist guide in the Italian language. The final event of the project included a photography exhibition held in the National Museum of Albania, having in focus the city of Tirana, on its 100th<\/sup> anniversary.<\/p>\n \u201cBiodiversity through photography\u201d (2020) \u2013 Project in collaboration and financed by the organization \u201cDrin Corda\u201d for the protection of Drin River <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u201cREAD Regional Network\u201d- funded by the European Commission <\/strong><\/p>\n Top of Form<\/p>\n READ Project (Regional Network for Cultural Diversity), funded by the European Commission, aims to promote intercultural reading skills and democratic values through promoting reading culture and opening new channels of communication for regional, cultural societies, thus offering them networking opportunities. The project is implemented by 6 CSO-s from North Macedonia, Serbia, Kosovo and Turkey, including the Institute of Book and Promotion in the role of co-partner from Albania.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Institute of the Book and Promotion Foundation was registered at the register of non-profit organizations upon the decision No. 216 on 15th March 2006 of the Court of Judicial District Tirana, with premises in Tirana (Albania). Purpose and scope of activity: The overall objective of the Foundation Instituti i Librit dhe Promocionit \u201cILP\u201d (Institute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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