Author Archives: valentina.bachi

discover today the beautiful virtual exhibition published by WEAVE team in Europeana

The Renaissance of Romani Re-presentation

img. (cropped): Back To The Future! Safe European Home 1938, Damian Le Bas, Kai Dikhas Foundation / ERIAC, In Copyright – Educational Use Permitted. This exhibition, jointly curated by WEAVE Editorial Team with invaluable contribution by guest author Dr Adrian … Continue reading →

'Strength, balance, courage and good judgement' is the motto of the human towers or 'castells' typical of Catalonia, Spain.

WEAVE blogpost: Castellers, Catalonia’s human towers

img: Festa de la Mercè a Barcelona di Duran Fígols, Oriol – CRDI / Girona City Council – CC BY-NC-ND. Castells are human constructions, six to ten people high, that can occasionally be spotted in cities and town squares in … Continue reading →

Pisa (Italy), 23 September - 10 October 2022

The 80s in 80 shots – photographic exhibition

On Friday 23 September at the Museo della Grafica of Palazzo Lanfranchi in Pisa, the exhibition “The 80s in 80 shots” will be inaugurated, and will be on display until 10 October 2022. This is a collection of 20 photographic … Continue reading →

the project creates a collection of environmental portrait photographs, combined with testimonies of personal experiences by the subjects

‘We Carry It With Us’: The impact of childhood bullying on adult life

by Jeremy Abrahams, Rosa Cisneros and Terezia Rostas Jeremy Abrahams is a Sheffield-based photographer whose work is predominantly environmental portraiture and documentary, and focusses on positive representations of migration and related issues. Since becoming a professional photographer in 2014 he … Continue reading →

the concluding event of this project, focused on local communities and identity, was held on 16 September 2022 in Girona

INCULTUM at WEAVE Final Conference

WEAVE – Widen European Access to cultural communities Via Europeana is a Europeana project funded by the CEF Programme of the EU and is part of the INCULTUM network. Focus of the project is on enhancing European access to intangible … Continue reading →

fostered by INCULTUM coordinator the University of Granada, the agreement has formalised the recognition by public institutions of the importance of traditional and historical irrigation in Cáñar

INCULTUM Pilot: collaboration agreements established in Altiplano de Granada

text and images courtesy of Elena Correa Jiménez (University of Granada). On 6 September, the first signing took place of the first collaboration agreements between Cáñar Irrigation Communities and Cáñar Town Councils that the INCULTUM Pilot coordinated by the University … Continue reading →

keynotes and presentations, a digital exhibition and a workshop about photogrammetry composed the final event of the EU funded project dedicated to highlight tangible and intangible heritage of local communities

WEAVE final conference, recordings and presentations available

Hosted by CRDI in Girona at Centre Cultural La Mercè, the WEAVE project organized on 16th September 2022 its final conference, which explored the connections between tangible and intangible heritage, cultural communities and the process of digital transformation of cultural … Continue reading →

French food as cultural heritage and the role of locality

WEAVE blogpost: A taste of terroir?

img: Fishermen in Lorient (France) by J. Hersleven, Jacques – Royal Institute for Cultural Heritage, Belgium – CC BY-NC-SA. The cultural connection between heritage and food has gradually gained visibility over the last decades. Read the blog published by the … Continue reading →

How to safeguard transient, traditional and untouchable culture

WEAVE blogpost: Caring for intangible cultural heritage

img: Gegants i capgrossos, CRDI/Ajuntament de Girona, PD. Intangible cultural heritage is a substantial part of what makes up our histories and identities, understood to be practices, ideas, insights and experiences. Read the blog published by the WEAVE project editorial … Continue reading →

From 19 to 22 August 2022 each part of the island of Sikinos transformed into a field of play, discovery and creation, where the audience became from a spectator to a participant and co-creator.

Little Islands Festival 2022 aftermovie

The Festival that connects the Aegean landscape and nature with Audiovisual Arts, Little Islands Festival (LIF) is dedicated to all artistic communities experimenting with hybrid artistic practices at the boundaries of the performing and digital arts. The 4th edition of … Continue reading →