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28 November

• Showing of the film “Yéla, melodies of the memory”, Dakar
  Within the framework of promotion and conservation of intangible heritage, a film entitled “Yéla, melodies of memory” has taken place, with the financial support of UNESCO. The film was shown in exclusive on November 6, 2008 in the culture center Douta Seck. If you wish to see this film or just only know more about it please contact our colleague Christian NDOMBI. c.ndombi@unesco.org

19 November

• November 2008 E-Newsletter, The Cultural Landscape Foundation
  The Cultural Landscape Foundation is the only not-for-profit foundation in America dedicated to increasing the public’s awareness of the importance and irreplaceable legacy of cultural landscapes. Through education, technical assistance, and outreach, the Cultural Landscape Foundation broadens the support and understanding for cultural landscapes nationwide in hopes of saving our priceless heritage for future generations.

14 November

• National Library of Australia website - Grants
  To view nine recent media releases concerning the awarding of grants to various groups in all states and territories.

7 November

• Multilingual Website on Art Nouveau
  Jugendstil, Modern Style, Glasgow Style, Secession, Nieuwe Kunst, Stile Liberty, Ecole de Nancy, Modernisme - these are all different facets of an essentially pan - European cultural phenomenon: Art Nouveau. Emerging at the turn of the century, the Art Nouveau trend was driven by a particular set of aesthetic ideals and an enthusiasm for modernity, exploiting the possibilities offered by the industrial technologies and the new materials, and combining an aspiration to beauty with meticulous workmanship and a scrupulous eye for detail. The result was a wonderful concordance of architecture, furniture, and decoration.

• Synaxis Baltica 2008: Successful Platform for Students
  Synaxis Baltica 2008, titled “Discovering new cultural-historical attractions” took place on 1- 14 August, 2008 in St. Petersburg-Tikhvin, Russia. The Academy Synaxis Baltica was hosted by the INTERSTUDIO in cooperation with the Department of Culturology of the St. Petersburg University of Culture and the Arts, Non-profit partnership “Project “CULTURE” and the Chair of Museum Business and Preservation of Monuments of the Department of Philosophy and Politology of the St. Petersburg State University. For more information about this platform, contact Maria Naimark, mashanaimark@gmail.com

• Cultural heritage, cornerstone of European construction
  On 23-24 October 2008, on the occasion of the 20th Anniversary of the European Heritage Days in Belgium, the European Commission and the Council of Europe organised in Brussels within the context of the European Heritage Days the first Forum on Heritage and Dialogue. The Forum was opened on 23 October by Odile Quintin, Commission's Director-General for Education and Culture and by the representatives of the Council of Europe. Mrs. Quintin spoke on the role of cultural heritage in society and on the Commission's Agenda for culture in the coming years...

• Two meetings on urban planning
  Reclassification of the river banks and the issue of density will by examined in November 2008 at the Maison de l'Architecture, des Territoires et du Paysage, in Angers.
  
  • Thursday 20th November 2008 at 6:30pm
    Reclassification of the river banks and urban project: the example of Angers.
  • Tuesday 25th November 2008 from 6pm to 7:30pm
    Meeting contracting owners, developer contractors, designers: The issue of density.

   

• Audiovisual collection dedicated to the Loire
  The Centre region suggested to the Pays de la Loire region to join forces in creating a large collection of old films dedicated to the Loire, a patrimony common to the two territories. As part of a 3-year programme, audiovisual works dealing with the Loire will be collected, restored and digitised by EPCC Centre Images, who have a technical platform with the most sophisticated tools for digitising films. This work shall result in the cataloguing of several dozen hours of archives, from both territories of the Pays de la Loire and the Centre region. It will mean the public return of the collected works and eventually the production of an original film.
  Val de Loire Mission Newsletter

• $440,000 to preserve our nation's historic shipwreck sites
  Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett today announced $440,000 in funding from the Australian Government's Historic Shipwrecks Program to protect the nation's underwater cultural heritage. The Minister made the announcement on a visit to the Queen Victoria Museum in Launceston, Tasmania, where three of the 29 funded projects will be carried out.
  Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts: Media Release

• Heritage Honour for Iconic Alps
  One of the nation’s most outstanding and breathtaking mountain landscapes, the Australian Alps, has today been awarded Australia’s highest heritage honour with its inclusion in the National Heritage List. Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts, Peter Garrett said the Australian Alps National Parks was the largest and most complex National Heritage assessment to date, encompassing 1.6 million hectares of national parks and reserves across eleven national parks and nature reserves in the ACT, NSW and Victoria.
  Australian Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts: Media Release

5 November

• Exhibition: Marvels of Modernism. What We Are Collecting Now: Marvels of Modernism
  Join us for the opening reception for What We Are Collecting Now: Marvels of Modernism on view at George Eastman House November 19 through January 5, 2009. This second collaboration between George Eastman House and The Cultural Landscape Foundation looks at twelve important modernist landscapes through the lens of nine photographers. Kidney-shaped pools, boomerang curves, floating cantilevered decks, adventure playgrounds, sculptural Japanese maples, revolutionary new materials, the melding of Modern forms and classic sensibilities. Often experimental and innovative, these gardens and landscapes possess subdued transitions between indoors and outdoors, yet they have often been misunderstood and under appreciated.
  5th Ministerial Conference on Cultural Heritage in South-Eastern Europe
  The 5th edition of the Ministerial Conference was organized in collaboration with the Romanian Ministry for Culture and Religious Affairs on 20 September 2008 in Bucharest, Romania. The principal aim of these annual conferences is to reinforce cooperation for the protection of cultural heritage in South-Eastern Europe and increase public awareness. Cultural heritage is a shared value: a bridge between cultures and communities, from past, to present and to the future. A bridge which highlights constructive cooperation to be undertaken so to foster intercultural dialogue, support human and economic development and to further regional stabilization.

• Pavilion of the Republic of San Marino Exnibition - 11th Biennale of Architecture
  From 14 September to 23 November 2008. Palazzo Zorzi (Venice, Italy)
  After 22 years of absence, the Republic of San Marino returns to the Venice Biennale with an active participation at the Exhibition, South Out There : Projects for the Southern Hemisphere : water, hygiene and health, representing the cultural identity of the small state, its ideal values and its capacity to measure itself and confront the great dilemmas of our current times.

• RESOLUTIONS of the 16th General Assembly (Quebec, Canada) 30 September – 4 October 2008.
  Composition of the Committee - President: Werner von Trützschler (Germany); Rapporteur: Joan Domicelj (Australia); Members: Beverley Crouts-Knipe (South Africa), Francois Leblanc (Canada), Michèle Prats (France), Ruth Shady Solis (Peru), Jordi Tresseras (Spain).

4 November

• CRIC - Identity and Conflict: Cultural Heritage and the Re-construction of Identities after Conflict
  Recent conflicts in Europe, as well as abroad, have brought the deliberate destruction of the heritage of others, as a means of inflicting pain, to the foreground. With this has come the realisation that the processes involved and thus the long-term consequences are poorly understood. Heritage reconstruction is not merely a matter of design and resources - at stake is the re-visioning and reconstruction of people's identities! This project aims to investigate the ways the destruction and subsequent selective reconstruction of the cultural heritage impact identity formation. The project seeks to illuminate both the empirical and theoretical relationship between cultural heritage, conflict and identity. In particular, it will examine how destruction as well as reconstruction affect notions of belonging and identities at different scales ranging from the individual to the pan-national.

• International Coalition of Sites of Conscience
  The International Coalition of Sites of Conscience is a worldwide network of “Sites of Conscience” – historic sites specifically dedicated to remembering past struggles for justice and addressing their contemporary legacies. Read The Power of Place: How Historic Sites Can Engage Citizens in Human Rights Issues (PDF), an article about the founding and development of the Coalition. The Coalition is currently made up of 17 Accredited Sites of Conscience and more than 100 Individual and Institutional Members from around the world.

• Investigations and Studies Association on Rural History - Saint Romain - France
  The town of Saint-Romain holds a considerable cultural and natural heritage, object of interdisciplinary studies (environment, geology, archeology, history, architecture, ethnology) and of protection measures (site classified, ZPPAUP, LIFE program, Natura 2000). A rich and varied documentation collected from 1966 by professional and voluntary scholars, allows to highlight the training and the transformation of the town and its land, from prehistoric times to our days. Based on the academic program, from the establishment project, the pedagogical objectives, the level of the students, their needs and the time available, establishes a specific schedule between interested professors. Interventions in class can also be programmed.

• The work and thought of Monsignor Leonidas Proaño declared Intangible cultural heritage of the Ecuadorian State
  During a multicultural ceremony in the Community of Santa Cruz, Riobamba, the work and thought of Monsignor Leonidas Proaño was declared Intangible cultural heritage of the Ecuadorian State. The event was presided over by the president of the Republic of Ecuador, Hon. Mr. Rafael Strap. The event was organized by the Ministers of Coordination of Natural and Cultural Heritage, Hon. Mrs Doris Soliz; and Culture, Hon. Mr. Galo Mora; as well as by the Director of the National Institute of Cultural heritage, Mrs Ines Pazmiño. The Minister of Culture signed the Declaration of Intangible heritage and thought of Monsignor Leonidas Proaño on the part of the National Government.

• The Patrimoine© Assessment: defining, analyzing and assessing business cultural heritage
  Atemia modestly explored the links between private companies and cultural heritage. Our work demonstrated that the consideration of the material and intangible heritages of an organization can be accompanied by very favorable internal repercussions (human resources) as well as external (communication, commercialization). With the purpose of structuring and strenghthening this sphere of influence, we initiated, in association with Guillaume Touati from Mediadesk (www.mediadesk.fr) the Patrimoine© assessment, a method to define, analyze and assess the cultural heritage of companies. Concretely, this method allows to carry out an inventory of the essential heritage of an organization, analyze the internal and external challenges and propose, in fact, specific actions in form of publications, adaptations of social addresses and company museums.
  ATEMIA

3 November

• Conférence : « Les Tarahumaras : société et coutumes »
  4 novembre. l'Institut Culturel du Mexique à Paris. à 19h (en français)
  Par Juan Luis Sariego Rodríguez, anthropologue de l’Ecole Nationale d’Anthropologie et Histoire Unité Chihuahua (ENAH Chihuahua), dépendante de l’Institut National d’Anthropologie et Histoire (INAH).

• Conservators Without Borders
  Conservators Without Borders (CWB) is a volunteer initiative that provides field conservation support to archaeological sites where insufficient funding and expertise does not allow for any on-site conservation activity. Priority is given to sites where finds are in need of special or urgent conservation attention. CWB also has a key interest in providing sustainable international conservation support in cooperation with archaeologists, specialists and local communities. CWB was founded in 2007 and has run programmes in Greece, Jordan and Peru.

• Training “cultural heritage and local development”. Oporto Novo, Benin, 18 - 21 November 2008
  The first training seminar “Cultural Heritage and Local Development”, that will take place in Oporto Novo, Benin, from November 18 to 21, will gather the elect positions of Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso and will be organized jointly with the Workshop of the Directors of cultural heritage of the Africa 2009 program. It will take place in the School of African heritage. It will be exclusively dedicated to a first day of technical introduction on the topic of cultural heritage for the elect positions and municipal technicians. A visit to Oporto Novo and the works carried out in favor of heritage by the city - among other things within the framework of the decentralized co-operation with the city of Lyon - it will allow to present a case study that must be analyzed in the successive sessions.

• “Old Towns” from the north of Syria: project follow-up
  At the request of the governors of Alepo and Idlib and in collaboration with the team of the General directorate of Antiques and Museums in charge of the documentation, a new mission in Syria is programmed from November 15th to 22nd, 2008. Mr. Michel Brodovitch, inspector general of the team, and Mr. François Cristofoli, architect - city planner, will go in situ to continue the consulting tasks work of the management of the archaeological parks. The July mission allowed to present proposals on two of the eight parks.

• Preparatory meeting: Rabat, October 6th, 2008
  In order to prepare the meeting in December, the Rabat office organized last October 6th a day of work for the attention of the Maghreb Countries, in Rabat: among the participants were Mr. Juan-Louis Luxen, jurist, former Chairperson of ICOMOS international and responsible for the organization of the Workshop in December for the Euromed Heritage program; three French experts in inventories, Mr. Frank Braemer, CNRS and Ms. Alain Morel and Bernand Toulier, from the French Ministry of Culture and communication; the directors of the cultural heritage of Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia and Mauritania (the Director of the cultural heritage of Libya could not attend).

• “Niger - Loira: Governance and culture”

  European project. The project “Niger-Loira: Governance and Culture” continues in Mali:

  • The Working Group on methodology of the cultural investigations formed by the DAPA supports the National Directorate of Cultural heritage in the preparation of the surveys: update of the record models, reflection on the operation and the restitution of data. An experimental online wiki platform will be established from now until December 2008 with the purpose of allowing partners to include data (research records…) and to return them in cartographic format.
  • The land surveys (anthropological research, inventory of the heritage related to water…) will begin at the end of 2008;
  • The first studies on the pilot actions (creation of a regrouping place for the women that dye clothes in Bamako, rehabilitation of the port of Mopti, improvement of the sewer system in Djenné, water supply in Moribabougou…) have finished. The results are detailed in the Newsletter of the project;
  • The continuous training programmes for the attention of the territorial communities started in October 2008. Two modules will be exempted in four sites.

• Network of Indian cities of living culture: study trip of Indian mayors to France (27th September – 3rd October 2008)
  As a result of the exchanges initiated under the auspices of UNESCO (New Delhi office and CFU) together with the national Association of the cities and countries of arts and history and the cities with safeguarded and protected sectors (ANVPH) and the higher studies Center of Chaillot, a study trip to France for the elect positions of several Indian cities was organized. These are member cities of the “network of Indian cities of living culture”, launched in Jaipur in September 2006. This trip was organized and co-financed by the France-UNESCO Agreement, the ANVPH, the Ministry of Culture and Communication, the Ministry of Foreign affairs, the Ministry of Ecology, Energy, sustainable development and urban planning and several French cities.

• Support to the elaboration of a good practices handbook on urban conservation, in collaboration with the OVPM
  Within the framework of the Organization of World Heritage Cities (OVPM), the city of Lyon proposed the elaboration of a “good practices handbook” on the topic of urban conservation. This is a participating project based on the experiences of the member cities of the OVPM. Three Control Committee meetings took place and a first model of analysis was elaborated and tested in several pilot cities. The calls for participation for the member cities of the association were sent in September. A dozen cities showed their interest. A meeting of the Project Control Committee is programmed for December 4, 2008, in Strasbourg.

• MAEDUP: the Korean art of knots
  Maedup or the art of making decorative knots, very loaded of symbolism, is a Korean tradition typically inherited from Ancient China. It connects with the culture of the thread, which is linked to a certain philosophy of Korean life. KIM Sang-Lan, Korean artist trained in the design and the art of the textile industry in South Korea, and also in the work of tapestry by the most relevant French names of the field sees maedup as a true heritage of the Korean culture and, in parallel, as a source of artistic creation. Through this French-Korean interview and the discovery of one of its workshops in the Guimet Museum, KIM Sang-Lan reveals the way in which the work of Korean knot represents life and human relations done and undone. His experience and art also explain that maedup reflects the Korean spirit as well as the identity of Korea, and that the search of harmony could be its central point.

Cultural Manager as Global Citizen
Editors : Constance DeVereaux & Pekka Vartiainen (ed.)
HUMAK University of Applied Sciences 2008. 122 p.
ISBN 978-952-456-076-4
ISSN 1457-5531
The ENCATC members Constance DeVereaux from Shenandoah University, USA and Pekka Vartiainen from HUMAK, Finland, edited the book “The Cultural Manager as Global Citizen” inspired in a specialist meeting realised in April 2007 in Helsinki. Within the social, political, and economic realities of our century, globalization is a constant; its effects both wide-reaching and profound. Depending on perspective, globalization has been used - in the extreme – both to praise the processes by which the world can become a world village; characterized by tolerance and respect for all cultures, and to curse those that inch us closer to the brink of ultra capitalism in a world of drab homogenization.