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Living Traditions
Living Traditions
Switzerland is taking steps to honour its living traditions. Throughout the country, special forms of mu-sic, dance, folklore and craftsmanship feature in everyday life as well as at festivals and celebrations. This regionally highly diverse cultural heritage is now to be inventoried and boosted.
In cooperation with cantonal cultural offices, the University of Lucerne and the Swiss UNESCO Com-mission, the Federal Office of Culture is compiling a list of living traditions in Switzerland due to be completed by 2012. The Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia and other cultural institutions are repre-sented in the steering group. The public are now called upon to contribute suggestions and recom-mendations on the project’s website (see link in column on the right).
By signing the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2008, Switzerland has undertaken to establish a list of its living traditions. The goal of such inventorisation is to foster recognition, appreciation and preservation of the country’s intangible cultural heritage. It is also a precondition for the nomination of living traditions as UNESCO cultural heritage.
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