Safeguarding the carillon culture: preservation,… (Belgium)
Nomination: Register of Good Safeguarding Practices 2014
EN: Every two years, members of the Yale University Guild of Carillonneurs visit Belgium to discover the carillon culture of the Low Countries. During their stay, they receive instruction at the Carillon School of Mechelen.
EN: Young people are taught folk dances accompanied by the carillon of the University Library of Leuven
EN: Every year Turnhout city carilloneur Koen Van Assche plays indoor programmes with ballet or chamber music instruments
EN: Hasselt city carilloneur Jan Verheyen developed a theatre performance, named 'Rocky het Klokkie', to introduce children to the art of the carillon
EN: In 2010, the Mechelen Carillon School organised a symposium about 500 years of carillon culture. Attention was also given to traditional bell cultures, like the Swiss bell pealing tradition
EN: At the Mechelen carillon school, children who are still to young to play a carillon keyboard are introduced to handbell playing
EN: The use of mobile carillons is useful to connect a larger public to the carillon culture. Here the mobile carillon of Mr Manusek from Prague plays at a festival in Wavre
EN: Direct video transmission gives the public a richer experience of carillon music. In Gembloux, this experience was offered to the public at the occasion of the restauration of the carillon
EN: In the town of Nieuwpoort, carilloneur Els Debevere guides blind visitors and let them feel the vibrating carillon bells
