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2022-09 #7 FARO CONVENTION NETWORK
FARO CREATING COOPERATION
Novi Sad meets Castellón, Spain. //Source: City Of Novi Sad photographer Source: Facebook post
Violeta Đerković updates about the work Svilara
Cultural Station in the Almaš neighbourhood, which was
the Novi Sad factory for silk dyeing worked up until the
70s. Today, Svilara as a cultural station is renewing the
neighbourhood. During the event, organised by Novi
Sad Capital of Culture in September, a panel discussed
how to preserve the Almaški kraj for future generations.
Two ideas emerged: (1) to implement an urban-
architectural plan, which will be implemented on the
basis of the Joint Investment Agreement of APV and the
City of Novi Sad. Such an urban plan process helps to
create the conditions for the revival. (2) Through the
participation in the Faro Network, an idea emerged of a
platform for cooperation with the Jaume I University.

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COFFEE TALKS 2022
Listen, for those who are interested, to our May event and
share a big ‘thank you’ to each presenter:
Coffee talk ❽. Create a heritage walk together. May
20, 2022. Password: farotalk#8
00.04 Heritage walks - from the invisible to the
imaginable, Novi Sad, Serbia.. Katarina Dajč and Ivana Volić
13:20 The Roman Sado Project and the Enhancement of a
shared Cultural Heritage, Portugal. Ana Patricia Magalhāes
33:42 Heritage walks: Co-designing a new heritage
community in Puebla de Arenoso, Spain. Ángel Portolés
48:34 Coal Stories – Reflections on walking trail of
Durham’s coal mining heritage, England. Sandra Bell.
Next up are details for Coffee talk ❾. Cultural Heritage
and engaging digital audiences. We will explore a new
report ‘(Re)-Engaging Digital Audiences In The Cultural Sectors).
READ
Time: October 28, 2022 at 15.00 hrs (Paris, Madrid, Rome.
Register: HERE
Photo: Lina Puodziukaite-Lanauskiene performing during Cabbage Field Opera (D.Petrulis 2022)

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FARO AND OPERA
Photo: Performers during the Cabbage Field Opera (D.Petrulis 2022)
Can opera help to refresh a living cultural heritage? Well
from the experience of the "Cabbage Field" community
opera the answer is positive. A troupe of thirty-eight
community members spent a week in rehearsal and
performed twice as part of the European Capital of Culture
Esch 2022 in Differdange, Luxembourg. This process of
opera done through a community art process started in
2018. The title of the opera comes from a public site,
reclaimed by the community. It has cabbage cellars which
formed part of the 19th century army barracks. The
members of the opera troupe, professional and
nonprofessional artists, share a sense of belonging to the
neighbourhood. All events and characters are inspired by
the people and stories of Šančiai. The music was
composed by Vidmantas Bartulis, who passed away
before the last part of the opera was finished. WATCH

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FARO IN ACTION
Mariola Andonegui invites us to two Strategy 21
dissemination events that take place live and online from
20 to 21 September in Spain. During the first day
participants will tackle ST21 recommendations and
challenges. The event will be broadcasted live in EN
language. The second day will concentrate more on the
Spanish dissemination of ST21 and presentation of a
newly created micro(web)site. The event will be
broadcasted live in ES language. Presenters include:
Presenters include: I. Hrdas A. Schoebel, L. Polyak, H.
Shearer Demir, Olja Orlic, Almudena Martinez, Angel
Portoles, Raquel Ramirez and Esther Fuertes. READ
FARO EXPERIENCES
The Spanish platform, cultora.com is an ecosystem of
people and resources focused on promoting cultural and
creative projects that respond to social challenges
through consulting and the creation of new professional
strategies. It has produced a set of wonderful Faro
experiences from Spain like this one: WATCH
Others can be accessed HERE

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FARO CONVENTION: DEFINING HERITAGE
TOGETHER
Maël Lucas reminds us about the next Faro Convention
Action Research Days: a live event in Bordeaux on 27
and 28 September 2022. With the Faro Convention,
people's narratives, our memories and joys, our stories
and our sorrows, become a heritage issue for democracy
and human rights.
 What new relationships should we invent between
people, communities, and historians, and
conservatives, museums, and heritage experts?
 How to reconcile people living with dissent and
conflicting narratives?
We'll be talking about it all with scientists, committed
associations, conservatives, artists... who throughout
Europe, have committed to the Faro Way and experiment
to foster relationships of humanity and recognition.
Come and join us at the plenary of these European
research days! AND don't forget to register here, it's open
to all! REGISTER
Organisers: Nouvelle Aquitaine Region, the City of
Bordeaux and Council of Europe.
Working group: Kirten Lecocq (Halles des Douves
cultural centre), Jean-Michel Lucas (Cultural
RightsTransition Laboratory), Fabienne Manguy (Nouvelle-
Aquitaine Region), Aline Rossard (Ligue de
l’enseignement teachers’ association), Maël Lucas
(Cultural Rights Transition Laboratory), Francesc Pla
(Council of Europe), Prosper Wanner (Faro Convention
Network).

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FARO SECRETARIAT UPDATES
Jovana Poznan updates about various events:
Almasani Association, a member of the Faro
Convention Network is organising on 21 September, in
Novi Sad, Serbia, an international conference entitled
“Cultural Heritage: Participatory Approach”. The Faro
Secretariat will take part in the conference, together with
the local and regional authorities and representatives of
different heritage communities and initiatives from
Serbia. It will be a momentum to further disseminated the
principles of the Faro Convention and launch the
creation of the Serbian national Faro Convention
Network.
The Council of Europe, together with the Finnish
Heritage Agency and Estonian Ministry of Culture, is
organising a Faro regional seminar on 17 and 18
October, in Tallinn, Estonia. It will focus on the
experience of the Baltic states in the implementation of
the Faro Convention and will aim to showcase some
good practices in this respect, as well as offer guidance
and tools to assist the region.
Following the recent ratification of the Faro Convention
by Spain, the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Sports
is organising a meeting with the regional authorities in
Spain, on 22 November, in Siguenza, with the aim of
setting an Action plan for the implementation phase of
the Convention, involving all the concerned actors. The
Faro Secretariat will take part in this meeting offering
guidance and good practices.

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A new publication "The Faro Convention at work in
Europe: selected examples" will soon be available in
both digital and paper format. The publication was made
in the framework of the Joint project of the Council of
Europe and the European Union "The Faro Way:
enhanced participation in cultural heritage".
Ángel Portolés
recalls one of his
summer activities -
a two-day meeting
entitled, Citizenship
deciding their
common future
connecting People
and Heritages.
What is special
about these events
in rural areas is the
way it acts to
motivate community
members from rural
villages to share
their ideas and take responsibilities as heritage
communities. This happens when you make points of
exchange and find ways for different stakeholders to
learn together. Opening up heritage processes to
communities has so much potential and communicates
how heritage promotes a new sense of belonging and
tolerance.

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NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS
Regaining a sense of belonging was also the Bauhaus
strand that saw two prize winners in June 2023:
GLEIS 21 VIENNA, AUSTRIA
Gleis 21 is in Vienna’s new Sonnwendviertel
neighbourhood, connecting the tenth district and the
inner-city area. The building today is visible from afar, its
wooden facade contrasting with most urban architecture.
The wood-based hybrid construction was built using an
innovative assembly method based on prefabrication.
Future residents have been involved throughout the entire
process. They now collectively own, operate and manage
this co-housing-project that emphasizes affordability,
inclusion, community and solidarity. Award: €30,000.
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Photo: Caroline Pailhe, Šančiai community receiving the Bauhaus Award from Commissioner Elisa Ferreira

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GENIUS LOCI: A DIGITAL MAPPING TOOL FOR
ETHICAL URBANISATION KAUNAS, LITHUANIA
Genius Loci is an interactive digital mapping tool
designed and made by citizens to safeguard the Šančiai
district of Kaunas against top-down decision-making that
prioritized private value above public interest. Each map
represents local landmarks, nature, people and their
stories. Together, the interactive maps and over 1,000
inputs form a data set to create a new sustainable vision
for this urban neighbourhood, preserving its cultural
heritage, landscape and environment. Award: €20,000.
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// EUROPA NOSTRA
Image of the neighborhood of the Axerquía. / CARLOS ANAYA
In June the PAX-Patios de la Axerquía (Córdoba)
organised, in the frame of the New European Bauhaus,
an event entitled, Faro in a Courtyard event with the
Council of Europe and Cine Cercano association It was

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an example of the type of day-to-day work that PAX does
as a facilitator of a heritage community and active
member of Faro network.
PAX was announced as a winner of European Heritage
Awards-Europa Nostra Awards 2022 in the category
Citizen Participation and Awareness, in which projects
and actions that promote patrimonialization processes
stand out, as well as the inclusion of citizens as a leading
actor in the recognition of these values.
What makes PAX innovative is its governance initiative
that is promoted by a group of people from the field of
architecture and anthropology, and seeks to join efforts
of different stakeholders to implement processes that
allow the heritage rescue of the Mediterranean city.
Photo: PAX Faro event 2022

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The rehabilitation of courtyards with social innovation
processes aims to recover the environmental values of
Córdoba and update its social characteristics in a
contemporary way, together with the citizenship.
Similarly, work continues with theWorld Monuments
Fund who included the courtyards of the Axerquía in the
biannual list of the 25 sites in the world significant for
combining historical relevance and having a potential
social impact through their preservation.
EUROPEAN HERITAGE
VOLUNTEERS (VIENNA, OCT 21-26, 2022)
Bert Ludvig sends a reminder about that the Project
Partners Meeting of EHV. It will take place from
October, 21 until 26, 2022 at Kartause Mauerbach /
Mauerbach Charterhouse near Vienna, which serves
as Information and Training Centre of the Federal
Heritage Authority of Austria. The first three days –
October, 22-24 – will be dedicated to the evaluation of
the 2022 season of EHV programme as well as to the
planning of European Heritage Training Courses and
European Heritage Volunteers Projects for 2023 and
2024. On October, 25, a conference “Heritage Skills –
Past, Present and Future” will take place.
The Project Partners Meeting is only eligible for
representatives of project partners who either did
carry out in 2021 or 2022 a European Heritage
Training Course or a European Heritage Volunteers
Project or plan to do so in 2023 or in 2024.

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THE SOUND OF CHANGE
(ROTTERDAM, MARCH 29 – APRIL 2023)
PHOTO: ICAF ROTTERDAM ICAF 2023 – ICAF Platform (icafrotterdam.com)
Jasmina Ibrahimovic of the International Community
Arts Festival (ICAF) warmly calls for participation from
heritage communities interested in ideas about how to
connect cultural heritage, art and the sound of change.
Come to experience a unique global gathering with the
theme ‘the sound of change’. The Šančiai community,
Cabbage Field Opera will be in the Festival
programme. Read

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AND FINALLY,
“If you want Faro take your time”Read
title from Riemer Knoop article suggested reading by Ana Schoebel
[Ed Carroll] edits Communiqué, which is made possible when people, like those
above, look smilingly and say ‘Waiting for YOUR news!’ [Photo: PAX 2022]
All errors, mistakes belong to [Ed Carroll]