The Northumbrian Archives for the Intangible Culture can be defined in many different ways. It has a material dimension: the performing and visual arts, craft, and fashion, media, film, television and video, museums, libraries and archives, design, literature, writing and publishing, the built heritage, architecture, landscape and archaeology, sports events, facilities and development, parks, open spaces, wildlife habitats, water environment and countryside recreation, children’s play, playgrounds and play activities, tourism, festivals and attractions and informal leisure pursuits.
However it also has a value dimension: relationships, shared memories, experiences and identity, diverse cultural, religious and historic backgrounds and what we consider valuable to pass on to future generations, the ‘intangible’ elements of Culture.
The Northumbrian Archives for the Intangible will provide a repository for the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills that communities, groups and, in some cases, individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage.
This intangible cultural heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history, and provides them with a sense of identity and continuity, thus promoting respect for cultural diversity and human creativity. Intangible Cultural Heritage attempts to preserve cultural heritage with the people or community by protecting the processes that allow traditions and shared knowledge to be passed on.
The Northumbrian Cultural ‘Archives’ will provide a space for meaning and memory that will bind individuals together. It will provide a space for a continuous flow of actions, narratives and memories from one generation to the next through the act of performance as the ‘living’ archive.
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