The Heritage Project

We will now introduce you to The Heritage Project. As we told you in our introduction Hans organizes his own project with music, dance, theater and lots of children, which Nina has joined on as well lately.

The Heritage Project is, as the name says, a project, but also a concept in itself with its own purposes. The main goal of the project is to organize cultural activities for those who have difficult access to it. By using the traditional music, dances, stories and costumes of the participants to create a music- and theater play, we want to spread cultural awareness. Another purpose is to stimulate creativity among the participants, as we strives to create an environment were everyone can feel free to express their culture and every idea can contribute to the artistic show. For each project a team of instructors and volunteers ensures that the project comes to a success.

The project usually lasts for a week. In this period the music- and theater show is created, rehearsed and performed. The performance preferably take place outside at a location characteristic for the living area of the participants, which can be wherever. By this we want to create environmental awareness by showing the place in a new light and context as the play is being performed.

The Heritage Project started back in 2012 when Hans made his vision realized in Sri Lanka. In collaboration with other musicians, both Sri Lankan and European, and most of all a lot of Sri Lankan children, he created two artistic shows using Sri Lanka’s cultural Heritage. The project became a great success and has since then been organized in many other countries.

In our next posts we will share with you all the project that has already been organised and those we are about to do. Most of those already organized were organized mainly by Hans, but in the latest ones Nina was also participating.

To give you some hint about what is coming;

• First of all Hans had his project with Sri Lankan children in some of the most remote areas of Sri Lanka.
• Later the project has been hold in a refugee camp in Jordan, with an Indian tribe in Ecuador, at a music festival in Latvia and with refugees from all over the world, now living in Norway.
• Our next project to come will be in the north of Thailand with Karen communities.

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