SESSION 1 Eighth Annual Meeting of the South East European Experts Network on Intangible Cultural Heritage 15-16 May 2014. Limassol, Cyprus Author: Stavroula Fotopoulou, Head of Museums of Modern Cultural Heritage, Modern Cultural Heritage Directorate, Ministry of Culture and Sports DISCLAIMER The ideas and opinions expressed in the above presentations are not necessarily those of UNESCO and do not commit the Organization. The designations employed and the presentation of material throughout the documents do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of UNESCO concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city of area or of its authorities or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries.

1. Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, Modern Cultural Heritage
Directorate
Stavroula –Villy Fotopoulou
Limassol, Cyprus, 15 May 2014

2. Visibility of ICH in Greece
• 1st Awareness –Raising
Seminar, Thessaloniki,
1.2.2014

3. Outcomes of the Seminar
• More than 150 participants:
• cultural associations (dance,
music, organizers of festivities)
• museums of modern culture
(folklore, ethnological, historical
etc)
• representatives of municipal and
regional authorities
• researchers and academics
practicing Ethnology, Social and
Cultural Anthropology, Folklore;
• stakeholders or curators of local
archives (musical, audiovisual
documentation etc), folklore
collections, libraries from
Macedonia and Thrace.
• First Attempt at Awareness
Raising
• Fine-tuning of presentations
after the evaluation results
• Municipal Authorities:
facilitators
• Academics and researchers:
how do they relate to ICH and
Awareness –Raising events?

4. INVENTORING
The main task of the National Committee for the Implementation of the
ICH Convention (established Dec. 2012) has been the formation of the
National ICH Inventory.
Up till now, emphasis on:
o Sustainable Development (crafts and know-how): marble –crafts, wooden
shipbuilding, enhancement of Mediterranean Diet
o Drafting of Safeguarding Measures/Plans according to communities’
initiatives
 Need for a shift to popular forms of expression, such as music and
dance
o In search of common elements in the area: Sephardim Songs and Music
(Spain, Morocco), Grecanico Music in Calabria, Puglia, Sicily

5. PROMOTION and ENHANCEMENT of
MEDITERRANEAN DIET
Museum Educational Programmes
Environmental Education Centres (Ministry of
Education)

6. Museum Educational
Programmes
Aeani Museum,
Macedonia
Museum of Loulis Flour Mills,
Peireas
Children’s Museum of Athens
Slow Food in Ethnological Museum
of Thrace

7. New Museological
Approaches to Food
and Gastronomy I
Museum of Greek
Gastronomy, Athens
•Greek gastronomy will be
studied according to location
and individual characteristics
of each place, nature and
inhabitants, through the food
and local traditions.
•Educational courses will be
held on nutrition, health and
well-being for children and
adults.
•Visitors will be able to follow
the development of Greek
products, from the farm to the
market and finally the table.

8. New Museological
Approaches to Food
and Gastronomy II
“Gastronomy Days”
at Benaki Museum,
Athens
“A Spoonful of Inspiration”.
International Film Festival of
Gastronomy in Athens (AICFF)
live cooking sessions and food
performances from popular chefs
and creative presentations inspired
by films.

9. New Museological
Approaches to Food
and Gastronomy III
“Taste and Memory”
Project
Public Anthropology –Cultural
Management
creation of sweet and salty
memories
narrations and poems on “recipes
with memory”
homemade tit-bits and sweets
offered by citizens, and local
products by world-acclaimed food
businesses
“Aftertaste”: aesthetic interventions
in the eating areas of Kalamata

10. Drafting of a Safeguarding Plan for an
element under threat: Wooden
Shipbuilding
 Test in intersectoral and interdisciplinary approach
 Need to protect the wooden ships, as well the shipyards
 Limits of Listing of Monuments
 Revitalization of the craft –transmission through apprenticeship
and formal education
 Resolution of conflict with E.U. policies
 Momentum after a Nautical Museums’ Conference, Peireas,
9-10 May 2014
 Resources from NGOs and Greek Maritime Enterprises

11. Kerynia II: a rather successful attempt to
reconstruct an ancient ship

12. A virtual reconstruction of a byzantine
ship and its cargo

13. Thank you!