Amplifying Heritage: Exploring local artistic and educational opportunities of heritage through a global perspective
Through Finnish-Nepali-Mauritius partnership, the project contributes to local and global understandings of traditional music practices, their contemporary artistic possibilities, and their contribution to non-formal and formal music education practices locally and globally from the perspective of cultural and social sustainability.
About the project
The project is a collaboration between Mauritius, Finland and Nepal that will support and strengthen local and traditional musical practices through new forms of formal and informal education. The project will engage local youth in their musical heritage, ensuring that traditions live on in the next generation.
The project is led by The Finish Folk Music Institute. The collaboration also involves the Nepalese festival of local and global folk music Echoes of the Valley, the Department of Folk Music at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and the Mauritian NGO ABAIM, that works to give vulnerable children an opportunity to express themselves artistically.
The project partners share a common goal of preserving and enhancing musical traditions with a particular focus on educational and artistic practices. The project benefits not just the local surroundings but provides views on the approaches to intangible musical heritages globally through research and connectedness to the UNESCO’ intangible heritage network.
About the applicant
The Finnish Folk Music Institute aims to advance Finnish folk music and folk dance. Their main activities include research, field recording, archiving, publishing, education and museum work as well as influencing through cultural politics. The Finnish Folk Music Institute is an accredited expert organization of the Unesco Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
