SEE Heritage’s member 4 GRADA DRAGODID successfully finalized a three-year effort to classify a skill of dry stone construction as an intangible cultural heritage in Croatia!

After a three-year period of preventive protection, in December 2016, a skill of dry stone construction has been listed permanently as an intangible cultural heritage in Croatia! The application has been sent in June 2016, and the last, very important step for protection of the dry stone construction skill was to include the database of all dry stone craftsmen, as well as the database of organizations that are dealing with this fascinating technique.

Our friends from  NGO “Tačka komunikacija” are organizing a new cycle of joint research and city mapping. This program “Map as a Media” is gathering visual artist and practitioners. The idea is to examine our relations that we are creating with surroundings on a daily level through three different spotlights.

WHO NEEDS THE CITY

(11/12, 18/19, 25/26 February, Kolarčeva zadužbina, Belgrade)

The call is opened for everyone – students and professionals from various fields, which are interested in the topics of the workshops:

Are you interested in Cultural Heritage and would like to have the voice of your sector heard at European Level? Would you like to be informed about the 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage’s activities, at European and national levels?

Then apply to the Special Call of Voices of Culture: Voices of Culture and Heritage!

The 2018 European Year of Cultural Heritage will promote heritage as a shared resource for our future. The Year will be managed by the European Commission, with the active participation of cultural heritage organisations and other culture sector stakeholders including trans-national cultural networks, NGOs and cultural organisations.

The European Commission is keen to promote and facilitate the participation of as many stakeholders as possible. In this context, we are launching a Special Call "Voices of Culture and Heritage", with two objectives:

SEE Heritage network is gathering dedicated and diligent people with goals, who like to publish their researches. The network is always proud to share the information about publications.

Here is a great opportunity to learn about traditional wooden windows in the Bay of Kotor:

“Traditional Wooden Windows in the Bay of Kotor and their Conservation” written by SEEH’s member organization EXPEDITIO, was created in the framework of the project ‘Traditional materials and construction techniques in the Bay of Kotor - improving the knowledge and skills of the Restoration of wooden windows and application of lime mortar’

Share your innovative and participatory work with museum colleagues!

The fifth Balkan Museum Network’s annual conference ‘Meet, See,Do’ will be held between 06– 08 April 2017 in Prishtina,Kosovo.

We would like to invite YOU to hold one of the workshops! 

The themes you can apply within are:

• Access and inclusion in museums
• Building networks of and for museums and successful communication strategies
• Digitization in museums
• Learning in museums
• Economic value of museums

When The Beatles published one of their albums, The RollingStone just wrote ‘It’s out’.

Now we are doing the same thing with slightly more words. The book Governing Heritage Dissonance case studies from South East Europe by Višnja Kisic, our board member, is out!

Please be free to download it and read it here. 

"The book connects heritage studies and cultural policies with issues of difference, conflict and reconciliation, prompting us to rethink how we approach the past and deal with diversities between cultures." - European Cultural Foundation

Dates: 6-10 July 2017

Location: Ironbridge Gorge World Heritage Site, Shropshire, UK

Second Call for Papers Deadline: 16 January 2017

www.bridgeconference.wordpress.com

About: Bridges physically and symbolically connect places, communities and cultures; they remind us of division while at the same time providing the means for unification. This conference seeks to explore heritage of bridges –not only as remarkable physical structures connecting places and cultures but also as symbolic and metaphorical markers in the landscape.

The 12th SEE Heritage Meeting was organised in Tirana, Albania between 9th and 11th December 2016.

Member organisations presented their work, good practices, ideas... Good discussions were opened. Nevertheless, during these talks many challenges opened, and a lot of debates what should be done in the upcoming 2017. The report from this meeting is available here.

There are a lot of things to be done. The ambition is there and to achieve those goals a bit of courage, cleverness, wittiness and mutual effort is going to be needed.

So let us be united in 2017!

Every year something new comes and it is good to plan things in advance because time flies. Time is important, but also is our mutual heritage that can lead us to the better future.

Thanks to SEE Heritage followers, 2017 calendar is ready and we hope that it will look good on desks, tables, shelves…

Collecting photos for the calendar was a great pleasure. Deep appreciation to all the people of good taste and will who participated in the contest for the twelve best 2017 photographs. Unfortunately we were not able to include all received photos to 2017 calendar, but some are appearing as cover photos on this web page.

Take a look at 2017 calendar in PDF form here