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What else have happened during summer? For example this: The ICH North project participated in the Härmän Pelimannipäivät event in South Ostrobothnia from July 4th to 7th, 2024. ICH North co-organized a dance workshop together with Jan-Olof Johansson from Sweden. #crossbordercollaboration #interregaurora Photo by Mats Granfors

A tandem meeting between an artisan ice cream factory and a local heritage music community last year resulted in this: you'll find a QR-code to a playlist on the side of the ice cream package, making it possible for you to explore the music of the Lappfjärd village while enjoying the ice cream that has a flavor inspired by the local "frasagröjtin"! The pattern on the lid of the package is designed with elements from the Lappfjärd traditional dress. The ice cream is sold by a local association, adding another dimension of sustainability. Are you interested in arranging or taking part in a tandem meeting with an entrepreneur and a representative for local musical heritage? You'll find discussion cards with questions that could help in facilitating the meeting at the ICH North webpage (https://lnkd.in/dmAXjkC3 under "Project materials") and you can contact Mats Granfors at Novia University of Applied Sciences (mats.granfors@novia.fi) for more information! #interregaurora #livingheritage #intangibleculturalheritage #lappfjärd #lapinliitto #regionvästernorrland #tromsfylkeskommune #nordiskkulturfond

Zornmärket, the Swedish award for excellent traditional musical performance, was carried out in the Aurora region this year. About sixty musicians tried to get a bronze medal or a silver medal, the later have the right to call themself ‘Riksspelman’ (roughly National musician). In the end eight persons: one on clarinet, one on nyckelharpa, one on härjedalspipa and five on violin, received the Zorn medal in silver 2024. Especially heartwarming was that a member of the reference group of our project, Siw Burman, received the honorary Zornmärke in gold : https://lnkd.in/gVgp4XCt Bengt Wittgren from ICH North/ Västernorrlands museum interviewed a number of the participants about for example their relations to living heritage, on how to preserve and to develop and about music context. This is a part of the study who will guide us in the continued work! #interregaurora #svenskafolkdansringen #intangibleculturalheritage #livingheritage #regionvästernorrland #nordiskkulturfond #västernorrlandsmuseum

This ICH North meeting in Tromso and Målselv was filled with discussions, interviews, presentations and of course folk music. What does an own "spelmanslag" mean to the village? What different aspects can a small festival bring to the togetherness and sense of community? How can children and youth be encouraged to participate? Who gets to represent a community and its cultural heritage and make decisions concerning its commercial use? New interviews and videos were made with musical communities, new ideas carried our Folk like a local -concept further to involve more and more people, new plans were made for the educational material of ICH. Målselv provided also amazing surroundings for filming some videos for the coming ICH online course. And a lot of new contacts made in the wonderful Kalottspel festival! #ichnorth #intangibleculturalheritage #kalottspel #interregaurora #tromsfylkeskommune

The ICH North project working group got together in Tromsø today, at the Academy of Music / UiT Norges arktiske universitet and the Arctic University Museum of Tromsø - interesting discussions in beautiful surroundings. Now we're heading for Kalottspel i Målselv. See you there? #interregaurora #tromsfylkeskommune #lapinliitto #regionvästernorrland #nordiskkulturfond #svenskakulturfonden

"Det här umgänget via musik tycker jag är väldigt viktigt. Idrott är ju ett område där vi försöker tävla och vara duktiga och vinna, men i musik kan man inte vinna över andra. Musik måste man göra tillsammans för att den ska låta bra”. "Mielestäni tämä musiikin kautta tapahtuva yhdessäolo on hyvin tärkeää. Urheilussa yritetään kilpailla ja olla hyviä ja voittaa, mutta musiikissa ei voi voittaa muita. Musiikkia on tehtävä yhdessä, jotta se kuulostaisi hyvältä.” "I think this socializing through music is very important. Sport is an area where we try to compete and be good and win, but in music you can't win over others. You have to make music together to make it sound good." /Sven Keskitalo Intervju på svenska: https://lnkd.in/dNvVtDn7 Haastattelu suomeksi: https://lnkd.in/dMXkJ4uM #interregaurora #lapinliitto #regionvästernorrland #tromsfylkeskommune #nordiskkulturfond #svenskakulturfonden #livingheritage #levandekulturarv #eläväperintö #intangibleculturalheritage

Holiday reading! In our summer newsletter you can find out what we have been up to lately, what is next to come, and how you can participate ICH safeguarding journey! In the newsletter there are also great tips for summer music events in the Interreg Aurora region, links to our past webinars and an interview on motivation to share intangible cultural heritage. And much more! Read here: https://lnkd.in/dzUmqxQP #ichnorth #intangibleculturalheritage #musicalheritage #summerreading

Holiday reading! In our summer newsletter you can find out what we have been up to lately, what is next to come, and how you can participate ICH safeguarding journey! In the newsletter there are also great tips for summer music events in the Interreg Aurora region, links to our past webinars and an interview on motivation to share intangible cultural heritage. And much more! Read here: https://lnkd.in/dzUmqxQP #ichnorth #intangibleculturalheritage #musicalheritage #summerreading

How do you make local musical heritage visible? What about making a YouTube playlist containing a selection with music from your village or region, creating a QR-code that leads to the list and adding the QR-code it to an easily printable A3 sized poster? The poster can then easily be spread and put up in public buildings, local restaurants, museums and at notice boards. It’s possible to do a follow up by monitoring the number of QR-scans or number of times the playlist have been listened to. Remember to also add the name of the playlist in the poster since not everybody knows how to scan QR-codes. Take care to be open for additions to the playlist if someone has suggestions! ICH North is trying out the “Folk like a local” posters right now in different parts of the Aurora area. The name refers to the tourism trend “Live like a local”.  There are currently posters for Replot, Vallgrund & Björkö, Närpes and Lappfjärd. Posters for Kälviä and Ångermanland-Medelpad are coming soon. As you can see, the playlist could contain music from a small village or a larger region. Would you like to try this out? Contact Mats Granfors (mats.granfors@novia.fi) if you’d like ICH North to help you out with your own poster layout. It’s then up to you to print and put up the poster in appropriate places. Besides the A3 sized printable posters, we’ve also done smaller images that works nicely for social media. The last picture is a photo of the “Folk like a local” poster in the village notice board of Replot. #interregaurora #intangibleculturalheritage #livingheritage #folklikealocal #lapinliitto #regionvästernorrland #tromsfylkeskommune #nordiskkulturfond #svenskakulturfonden Interreg Aurora

Mats Granfors from Novia UAS and Sara Kåll-Fröjdö from Centria UAS visited Stundars Museum Village today, for discussions on incorporating the local musical heritage in soundscapes that are going to be used in some of the buildings of the museum. We also got to discuss other topics and ideas related to musical heritage. Thank you for the nice discussions in a beautiful surrounding! #interregaurora #intangibleculturalheritage #livingheritage