ACRI is an International NGO registered in Kenya that aims at promoting African cultural values that Africa can use for her development today as well as for lending to the emerging global family. ACRI's activities capture and document African Culture through serious research that aims at conserving gathered information through print, film, audio and video.
In October 20th 2005 the General Assembly of UNESCO adopted the CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION normally known as the UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Below, the objectives of this Convention are summarised as follows:
ACRI is currently championing the ideals of the 2005 UNESCO Convention for the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions through the two IFCD projects being implemented in Kenya since 2011. They are as follows:
The Unearthing of Gems of Culture: Mapping Kenya’s Creative Industries is championed by the African Cultural Regeneration Institute (ACRI). Having understood the thrust of the 2005 UNESCO Convention for Cultural Diversity, ACRI realised that, when Kenya as a country will realise the potential of the creative economy, the development of the official policy and private sector commitment will mean a critical turning point in Kenya’s growth and development.
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The AST International Stone Sculpture Symposium based in Kisii, and implemented by the DEPCONS Ltd, (Design Power Consultants), a member of the CUNET-K (Cultural Network for Kenya). AST means “African Stones Talk”, which means that stones in Africa can be culturally made to talk. In other words, though many people in Africa consider stones as bothersome unless they are used for construction, the project aims at showing that stones can be turned into true resources that talk volumes through the traditional stone sculpturing technology
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