ICH, Film and Education projects – To Celebrate Life & Living Heritage (with love from Flanders)
Three ICH, Film and Education projects are presented in Flanders (Belgium): To Celebrate Life & Living Heritage, on the First International Day of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2024,
1. Video & Social Media campaign for the 1st International Day of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
To celebrate the rich diversity of living heritage, a video was realized sharing how ICH in Flanders is vibrantly practiced and cherished by so many. The numerous partners, heritage practitioners and organizations in the network around living heritage in Flanders join in this initiative. Images tell more than a thousand words …
2.Education kit on documentary film Long Live the Dead
On 17 October 2024, the Flemish Commission for UNESCO in Belgium together with several partners launches 2 new education kits for the documentary film ‘Long Live the Dead!’, by film makers Sofie Hanegreefs and Kris Pannecoucke.
‘Long Live the Dead!’ was awarded with a special commendation by the UNESCO Commission Jury at the Africa Film Festival in 2023.
The film is a musical road movie set in northern Ghana. Stevo Atambire is a young master of the Kologo who travels by motorbike through the country of the Fra-Fra, to play at funeral rituals. In the tradition, he improvises songs about the life of the deceased. With his traditional Kologo guitar and ritual performance, Stevo helps families say goodbye to their loved ones.
The Flemish Unesco Commission, in collaboration with the filmmakers, Youth Film organization JEF and ICH Organization Workshop intangible heritage, elaborated a new educational lesson plan for secondary schools on the documentary ‘Long Live the Dead!’. The lesson plans offer teachers and students a deep insight into the topic of funeral rituals as living heritage. One also gets a behind-the-scenes look at the production of the film.
Furthermore, also an education kit for primary schools was realized at UCLL (University Colleges Leuven-Limburg), 11 Erasmus students successfully developed an educational lesson folder for primary schools around the documentary. Including (future) teachers from Belgium, Spain, Ireland, Turkey, Norway and Czech Republic. The project not only strengthened their pedagogical skills, but also their ability to work together in international contexts.
3. Youth peer communication for Living Heritage
17 October is also YOUCA Action Day in Flanders: Youth for Change and Action’ an organisation for and by young people that encourages them to work together for a sustainable and just society. This is how Sara, 16 years, volunteered to come and help work for a day around UNESCO and ICH in the team of NGO Workshop intangible heritage in Flanders.
Text as provided by the organiser(s).