Please provide an update of the safeguarding plan included in the nomination file or in the previous report. In particular provide detailed information as follows:
The Safeguarding plan for the rite of ‘Kalyady Tsars’ for the period of 2018 – 2022 is prepared based on the action plan of the previous reporting period that could not be carried out optimally in relation to the various constraints faced concerning time and human resources.
The main threat may come when younger generations deem this element irrelevant (and therefore obsolete). But in a part of 'Kalyady Tsars' rite the links with the tradition were never broken, there were still enough active performers that could transmit it properly to the younger generation, despite of the period of the Soviet time, when the rite was not practiced due to political conditions.
That’s why all measures proposed here have a focus: awareness- raising and enhancement of the value of this element of ICH.
1. Research, documentation and inventorying of the rite of ‘Kalyady Tsars’ in a context of the Semezhava culture and traditions.
Objective:to provide more detailed research and documenting of the the rite of ‘Kalyady Tsars’ and the whole cultural and historical landscape of the Semezhava community.
Results: elaboration of the Semezhava Cultural Inventory; involvement of young people in the process of documenting and inventorying.
Responsible institutions: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus, Departments of Cultural Studies and Ethnology of the Belaruasian State University, Kopyl District Cultural Department, Minsk Regional Curatorial Centre in ICH, Semezhava Centre of Culture and local secondary school, Ethnic Culture Association of Semezhava Community ‘Semyazhovachka’.
Time period: 2018-2020
Budget Estimates: 10,000 USD
Budget Sources: state and regional budgets, private investments.
2. Transmitting the element ‘Kalyady Tsars’ knowledge
Objective: to provide information associated with the value, meaning and function of the ‘Kalyady Tsars’ riite to the community and the people. Dissemination of information can be conducted inside and outside of Semezhava village, for other areas.
Results: a correct understanding of values, meaning, and function as well as various provisions in the ‘Kalyady Tsars’ rite.
Activity: workshops, trainings, seminars
Responsible institutions: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus, Departments of Cultural Studies and Ethnology of the Belaruasian State University, Kopyl District Cultural Department, Minsk Regional Curatorial Centre in ICH, Semezhava Centre of Culture and local secondary school, Students Ethnography Society (SES), Ethnic Culture Association of Semezhava Community ‘Semyazhovachka’.
Time period: 2018-2022
Budget Estimates: 15, 000 USD
Budget Sources: state, regional budgets, private funds
3. Promoting the rite of ‘Kalyady Tsars’
Objective: Introducing the ritual along with the meaning, values, and functions of rite of ‘Kalyady Tsars’ to the public.
Results: Promotion is expected to make people know and understand the ritual of the Semezhava village as an intangible cultural heritage that is laden with meaning, values, and functions. Understanding that the rite of ‘Kalyady Tsars’ not only belongs to the people of Semezhava but also to the people of Belarus and of the world contributes to strengthening Semezhava’s identity.
Activities:
1) Organization of ICH festival and fair in Semezhava village (annyally, a day of the rite performance), 20,000 USD;
2) Making a film about the ‘Kalyady Tsars’ rite (2019), 6, 000 USD;
3) Publication a series of editions and informational materials about the rite (2018), 7,000 USD
4) Organization the exhibition in the National History Museum of the Republic of Belarus to the 10th of anniversary of the element inscribing in the UNESCO Safeguarding List (2019), 15,000 USD.
5) Responsible Institution: Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Belarus, Kopyl District Cultural Department, Minsk Regional Curatorial Centre in ICH, Semezhava Centre of Culture and local secondary school, Students Ethnography Society (SES), Ethnic Culture Association of Semezhava Community ‘Semyazhovachka’, mass media
Time period: 2018-2022
Budget Estimates: about 50,000 USD
Budget Source: local government budgets, private funds, in-kind (Semezhava community)
3. Enhancing the capacity of the Semezhava activists and stakeholders
Objective: Training for Semezhava activists and stakeholders is required to improve their skills so as to provide a better level of teaching to local youth. Improving the skills, creativity, and safeguarding management among the community leaders.
Results: improved skills of Semezhava activists and stakeholders. Acceleration transmission of knowledge related to the ‘Kalyady Tsars’ rite and those stakeholders related to it.
Activities: workshops, training
Responsible Institutions: Minsk Regional Curatorial Centre in ICH, Semezhava Centre of Culture and local secondary school, Students Ethnography Society (SES), Ethnic Culture Association of Semezhava Community ‘Semyazhovachka’
Time period: 2018-2022
Budget Estimates: 10, 000 USD.
Budget sources: state and local government budgets, private funds