{"id":44518,"date":"2024-06-26T13:51:01","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T10:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kaustinen.net\/?page_id=44518"},"modified":"2026-06-10T22:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T19:13:18","slug":"ichacademy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/kaustinen.net\/en\/ichacademy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kaustinen ICH Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kaustinen ICH Academy 2025<\/h1>\n

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Kaustinen ICH<\/strong> (Intangible Cultural Heritage) Academy<\/strong> lecture and seminar programme in connection with the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival, including the fifth Kaustinen ICH Seminar. Speakers will come from a total of fourteen countries in Europe and beyond. Daily lectures from Tuesday to Friday at 14\u201316.30<\/strong> will present the perspectives of Finnish and\ninternational experts and researchers on safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. At the end of each day, participants will be introduced to different perspectives on Kaustinen fiddle playing, which was inscribed to UNESCO's Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2021.<\/p>\n

The lecture and seminar program is being organized for the second time in connection with the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival and also includes the fifth time organized Kaustinen ICH Seminar<\/strong>, with speakers from a total of fourteen countries in Europe and beyond. The Finnish Folk Music Institute and the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival organize the Kaustinen ICH Academy in collaboration with the University of the Arts Helsinki and Centria University of Applied Sciences. The program is in English.<\/p>\n

All lectures and seminars are free of charge and open to everyone and do not require the purchase of an admission ticket to the Kaustinen Folk Music Festival.<\/p>\n

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TUE 8.7. 14.00 Museum Hall<\/h4>\n

14.00 Emmi Kujanp\u00e4\u00e4<\/strong>: Transnational European Contemporary Folk Singing: Activist Agency and Experiences of Gender<\/p>\n

14.30 \u013dubica Vo\u013eansk\u00e1<\/strong>: Living Traditions in Slovakia: impact of UNESCO Convention 2003 on the safeguarding<\/p>\n

15.00 Nadja R\u00e4ss<\/strong>: Yodeling from Switzerland - The UNESCO nomination process<\/p>\n

15.45 Jurgita Zvinklyte and Matti Palonen<\/strong>: Sutartine - Lithuanian ICH and its challenges adapting to contemporary music<\/p>\n

16.15 Antti Kautonen<\/strong>: caustic fiddle playing & migration<\/p>\n

16.30 Tour of the Finnish Folk Instrument Museum exhibition Kaustinen fiddle playing \u2013 a living heritage<\/p>\n

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WED 11.30\u201313.30 Museum Hall<\/h4>\n

Seminar: ICH North \u2013 passing on our musical heritage<\/h4>\n

The seminar will review the activities and results of the three-year Nordic Interreg project. How is musical heritage passed down from generation to generation today, how can archive work be carried out in a community-oriented manner, and whether Polish material could be included as a joint Nordic item on the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List? Seminar language: English.<\/p>\n

11.30 Sara K\u00e5ll-Fr\u00f6jd\u00f6<\/strong>: Welcome to the seminar - What is ICH North<\/p>\n

11.40 Roser Gabriel<\/strong>: Musical living room<\/p>\n

12.00 Outi Valo and Heidi Henriikka M\u00e4kel\u00e4<\/strong>: Culturally sustainable field trips to historical folk music<\/p>\n

12.20 Bengt Wittgren & Britta Knapp<\/strong>: Polska as living heritage<\/p>\n

12.40 Johanna Bj\u00f6rkholm:<\/strong> What happens when we pass on traditions<\/p>\n

13.00 Annika Myll\u00e4ri & Kati Hyv\u00f6nen:<\/strong> Living Musical Heritage open online course<\/p>\n

13.20 Discussion<\/p>\n

13.30 Closing of the seminar<\/p>\n

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WED 9.7. 14.00 Museum Hall<\/h4>\n

14.00 Members of Le Diable \u00e0 Cinq<\/strong>: Safeguarding traditional music of Quebec.<\/p>\n

14.30 Pushpa Palanchoke<\/strong>: When Preservation Silences: The Heritization of a Women's Musical Tradition in Nepal<\/p>\n

15.00 Vilma Timonen<\/strong>: Folk Music Professionals as Boundary Workers: Mapping the Tensions and Opportunities in Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage through Professional Practice<\/p>\n

15.45 Divya Bathia<\/strong>: Safeguarding the traditional music of Rajasthan through Jodhpur RIFF festival<\/p>\n

16.15 Anne-Mari Hakam\u00e4ki<\/strong>: Kaustinen Fiddle Playing and Kaustinen Folk Music Festival<\/p>\n

16.30 Tour of the Finnish Folk Instrument Museum exhibition Kaustinen fiddle playing \u2013 a living heritage<\/p>\n

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THU 10.7. 11.30\u201313.30 Museum Hall<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Seminar: Cultural Spaces: Digital Innovations & safeguarding ICH<\/strong><\/h4>\n

At the Digit ICH Erasmus+ project seminar, representatives of UNESCO intangible cultural heritage sites from, among others, Croatia, Georgia, Slovakia and Latvia will talk about their traditions, their protection practices and related digital innovations. Seminar language English<\/p>\n

11.30 Musical opening of the seminar<\/p>\n

11.35 M\u0101ra Rozent\u0101le<\/strong> : Presenting the Digit ICH Erasmus+ project<\/p>\n

11.50 Snje\u017eana Bogdani\u0107<\/strong> : Local Approaches from Croatia to Safeguarding and Transmitting Intangible Culture<\/p>\n

12.20 Maia Gelashvili:<\/strong> Presenting a film from Georgia: Festival \u201cNanina\u201d<\/p>\n

12.50 Juraj Hamar<\/strong>: Activities of the Slovak Intangible Heritage Centre for a digitization and safeguarding of intangible heritage<\/p>\n

13.10 Questions and answers<\/p>\n

13.25 Musical closing of the seminar<\/p>\n

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THU 10.7. 14.00 Museum Hall<\/strong><\/h4>\n

14.00 Annukka Saaristo<\/strong>: Tradition, heritage, legacy: Case study on intergenerationality in Finnish rap music<\/p>\n

14.30 Elina Seye<\/strong>: The Communities of West African Dance and Music in Finland<\/p>\n

15.00 Antti-Ville Vill\u00e9n<\/strong>: Policing musical creativity, diversity and inclusivity - in the name of heritage<\/p>\n

15.45 Heidi Henriikka M\u00e4kel\u00e4, Outi Valo and Hannu Linkola<\/strong>: The Pelimanni House in Kaustinen: A Contradictory Stage of Intangible Cultural Heritage<\/p>\n

16.15 Lauri Oino<\/strong>: Kaustinen Fiddle Playing Safeguarding Program.<\/p>\n

16.30 Tour of the Finnish Folk Instrument Museum exhibition Kaustinen fiddle playing \u2013 a living heritage<\/p>\n

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FRI 11.7. 14.00 Museum Hall<\/strong><\/h4>\n

14.00 Giacomo Botta<\/strong>: Competing Sounds: The Multi-Layering of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) at the Kaustinen Folk Festival<\/p>\n

14.30 Paulo Longo<\/strong>: UNESCO Creative City Idanha-A-Nova - Experiences from Portugal<\/p>\n

15.00 Velika Stojkova Serafimovska<\/strong>: Safeguarding the Macedonian traditional music as an ICH<\/p>\n

15.45 Farshad Sanati<\/strong>: Music as a Bridge: Fostering Cultural Flexibility Through Transcultural Music Education<\/p>\n

16.15 Anni J\u00e4rvel\u00e4<\/strong>: N\u00e4pp\u00e4ri pedagogy as a bridge to folk music<\/p>\n

16.30 Tour of the Finnish Folk Instrument Museum exhibition Kaustinen fiddle playing \u2013 a living heritage<\/p>\n

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SAT 12.7. 11.00\u201313.30<\/span> Folk Arts Centre, Kaustinen Hall<\/h4>\n

Seminar: Kaustinen Intangible Cultural Heritage Seminar 2025: Music on the Move \u2013 Migration, Resilience and Identity<\/h4>\n

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The seminar will focus on the festival's theme of migration this year, especially from the perspective of the protection of intangible cultural heritage. What is the significance of music and musical heritage when people move from place to place? The seminar will be streamed on the Folk Music Institute's YouTube channel. The seminar language is English.<\/p>\n

11.00 Matti<\/strong> Hakam\u00e4ki<\/strong>: Welcome to the seminar<\/p>\n

11.05 Children group N\u00e4pp\u00e4rit<\/strong> from Kaustinen<\/p>\n

11.15 \u013dubica<\/strong> Vo\u013eansk\u00e1<\/strong> - Where Migration Studies Meet Living Heritage: Community Building among Ukrainian Refugees in Slovakia<\/p>\n

11.50 Ensemble<\/strong> Didgori<\/strong>\u00a0: Migration songs<\/p>\n

12.00 Panel Discussion - Migration, resilience and identity. Saiyaleena<\/strong> Rantanen<\/strong> will host a panel discussion where musicians from different backgrounds reflect on the meaning of \u201cmusic on the move\u201d in their own lives and on how migration is reflected in their music. The panelists are musicians Karri<\/strong> \u201cPaleface<\/strong>\u201d Miettinen<\/strong>, Michal<\/strong> Elia<\/strong> Kamal<\/strong>, John<\/strong> Westmoreland<\/strong> and Mika<\/strong> \u201cMisha<\/strong>\u201d Saatsi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

13.10 Questions and answers<\/p>\n

13.25 Closing song - Michal<\/strong> Elia<\/strong> Kamal<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-44518","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\nKaustinen ICH Academy - Kaustinen Folk Music Festival<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/kaustinen.net\/en\/ichacademy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kaustinen ICH Academy - Kaustinen Folk Music Festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/kaustinen.net\/en\/ichacademy\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Kaustinen Folk Music Festival\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-06-10T19:13:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Estimated reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaustinen.net\\\/ichacademy\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/kaustinen.net\\\/ichacademy\\\/\",\"name\":\"Kaustinen ICH Academy - 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