The Conseil québécois du patrimoine vivant (CQPV – Quebec Council for Living Heritage) is pleased to present the international conference Measures of Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage: Governments, Institutions and Municipalities. The event will be held in Québec City April 14-17, 2011, with the support of the Culture Sector of UNESCO.

The conference will bring together various players and decision-makers in the field of intangible cultural heritage, with the objective of fostering the exchange of international expertise. Participants will learn from best practises in this domain and assess how the experience of some governments and municipalities could be applicable elsewhere. Practical regional cases will also inspire reflection on the whole process of promoting and developing arts and traditional cultural practices. Government officials, association representatives and researchers from around the world are invited to this unprecedented meeting.

Since the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at UNESCO came into effect, several experiments have been conducted around the world with the intention of promoting development of living heritage. Several initiatives have been further strengthened through support from governments, institutions and municipalities, among others. This support has taken several forms in different countries : laws on intangible heritage, development strategies, support programs, recognition by prizes or official status, national education curriculums, municipal or regional collaborations with associations, creation of administrative, dissemination or educational institutions, conducting ethnological inventories or collections, etc. Parallel with these national activities, UNESCO has put into place measures to contribute to preservation of certain features of the worldwide intangible heritage, particularly through its Representative List and Urgent Safeguarding List.

In Québec (Canada), the Minister of Culture deposited a draft bill before the National Assembly, the Cultural Heritage Act, inspired by the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. With this law, the government of Québec intends to officially designate certain elements of the national intangible heritage and commit financial support for this specific heritage transmitted from generation to generation. Municipalities will also be conferred the power to grant a status of recognition to elements of local intangible heritage.

The international conference on Measures of Support for Intangible Cultural Heritage promises presentations and round tables that are both inspiring and instructive for those interested in staying close to this booming area of activity. The event is open to the public. Presentations are either in French or in English (translation/interpretation will not be provided).

Honoris causa

• Christine ST-PIERRE, Chair of the Conference, Quebec Culture Minister
• Koïchiro MATSUURA, Keynote Speaker, former director-general of UNESCO

Lecturers

• Cristina BAPTISTA, Board member of INATEL Foundation, Portugal
• Jean DU BERGER, folklorist
• Najem DHAHER, member of the research unit  »Ville, aménagement, développement » at the École nationale d’architecture et d’urbanisme of Tunis, Tunisia
• Cécile DUVELLE, Chief of Section of Intangible Cultural Heritage, UNESCO and 2003 Convention Secretary
• Mathias FAURIE, Phd researcher in geography, Université Paris IV Sorbonne
• Maria Cecilia Londres FONSECA, IPHAN, Brazil
• Antoine GAUTHIER, Director of the Quebec Council for Intangible Heritage (CQPV)
• Christian HOTTIN, Direction générale des patrimoines, Ministère de la culture (France), member of the French delegation at the UNESCO’s intangible heritage committee
• Dale JARVIS, Intangible Cultural Heritage Development Officer, Heritage Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador
• Géraldine LAURENDEAU, inventory of Innu medicinal herbs.
• Charles QUIMBERT, FAMDT, France
• Karine LAVIOLETTE, Quebec Culture Ministry
• Louise MITCHELL, director, Glasgow UNESCO City of Music
• Joanne ORR and Alison McCLEERY, CEO, Museums Galleries Scotland & Prof. at Napier University
• Seong-Yong PARK, executive director of the ICHCAP (South Korea)
• Jessica RODA and Lucia CAMPOS, Phd researchers in ethnomusicology, Université Paris Sorbonne/Université de Montréal
• Cyril SIMARD, Economuseums’ president
• Anna STEINER, Senior Officer for intangible cultural heritage, Austria
• Jaime URRUTIA CERUTI, CEO, CRESPIAL, Peru
• Dries VAN DEN BROUCKE, Arts and Heritage Agency, Flemish government

Round table participants (in French)

1. Éducation formelle et culture de tradition orale: quelles possibilités, quelles méthodes et quel intérêt?

• Présidente de séance: Tess LEBLANC
• Maria Cecilia Londres FONSECA, IPHAN, Brésil
• Jean-Pierre JOYAL, professeur de musique, cégep de Drummondville
• Jacques PETTIGREW, Ministère de l’Éducation, du Loisir et du Sport
• Gilles GARAND, président de la SPDTQ et directeur de l’École des arts de la veillée
• Carole BAILLARGEON, directrice générale de la Maison des métiers d’art de Québec
• Représentant à confirmer, Institut culturel et éducatif montagnais (Tshakapesh)

2. Les municipalités, vers quel soutien au patrimoine immatériel?

• Président de séance: Gilbert GUÉRIN
• Clermont BOURGET, président des Éditions Continuité
• Jean FORTIN, coprésident de Les Arts et la Ville & Maire de Baie-St-Paul
• Raynald OUELLET, membre du comité consultatif de la culture de la Ville de Montmagny & directeur artistique du Carrefour mondial de l’accordéon
• Marc-André BLUTEAU, historien, Division du design, de l’architecture et du patrimoine de la Ville de Québec
• Michel de la DURANTAYE, professeur chercheur au Département d’études en loisir, culture, tourisme de l’Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
• Nathalie OUELLET, représentante de l’Union des municipalités du Québec & chef de service des arts et de la culture de la Ville de Lévis
• Andrée LAPOINTE, Conseillère en développement au Conseil de la culture des régions de Québec et de Chaudière-Appalaches

3. Le rôle de la recherche ethnologique (collecte, analyse, documentation) dans la vitalisation de la culture traditionnelle.

• Président de séance: Marc BOLDUC
• Marcel BÉNÉTEAU, coordonnateur du Département de folklore et ethnologie de l’Amérique française (Université de Sudbury), membre de la direction du Centre franco-ontarien de folklore et président de l’ACEF
• Pierre CHARTRAND, directeur du Centre Mnémo
• Charles QUIMBERT, directeur de DASTUM, vice-président de la FAMDT (France)
• Célia FORGET, chargée de cours en ethnologie, Université Laval
• Catherine ARSENEAULT, ethnologue spécialiste en patrimoine

Speeches in French except where noted. No translation/interpretation provided. CQPV 2011 International Conference Schedule (PDF)

Thursday, April 14, 2011

• 2:00 pm – CQPV internal activity / members’ work session for the strategic action plan conducted by Mr. Philippe Dancause, Du Jardin Room
• 6:00 pm – Opening cocktail reception in the presence of the Hon. Christine St-Pierre, Quebec Minister of Culture and Honorary President of the convention, Koïchiro Matsuura, keynote speaker, and Normand Legault, President of the CQPV. Hall des Plaines

Friday, April 15

AM

• 8h45- Welcome
• THEME 1 : GOVERNMENT ACTION AND PUBLIC POLICY
  • Karine Laviolette, ministère de la Culture du Québec
  • Christian Hottin, In search of intangible heritage, strategies, tactics and trial and error in implementing the 2003 Convention by France.
    
• Round table: Formal education and intangible heritage: what possibilities, what methods and what interest?
  

PM

• THEME 2- UNESCO AS A LIGHTHOUSE
  • Koïchiro Matsuura, keynote speaker, former Director General of UNESCO
  • Cécile Duvelle, The 2003 Convention and current state of its international implementation
    • Kiosk
      
  • Jaime Urrutia, Indicadores de impacto en la salvaguardia de las expresiones culturales declaradas por la UNESCO en los Países del CRESPIAL
  • Seong-Yong Park, ICHCAP (South Korea) (In English)
    
• Cultural activity- Sugar shack 18h30

Saturday April 16

AM 9h

Des Plaines room A

• THEME 1 : GOVERNMENT ACTION AND PUBLIC POLICY
  • Anna Steiner, Challenges of implementing the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Austria (in English)
    
  • Maria Cecilia Fonseca, IPHAN, Brazil
  • Dries van den Broucke, Flemish government (in English)
• Round table: Municipalities, aiming for what support of cultural heritage?

Des Plaines room BC

• THEME 4: LOCALITIES AND INTANGIBLE HERITAGE
  • Louise Mitchell, Glasgow UNESCO City of Music (in English)
  • Najem Dhaher, The Festival of Douz in Tunisia to aid threatened Saharan intangible heritage
    
  • Mathias Faurié, Intangible Heritage in New Caledonia (French territory in the South Pacific), an original laboratory of heritage and support measures.

PM 13h30

• THEME 3: NGOs AS PILLARS OF DEVELOPMENT
  • Antoine Gauthier, Québec Council for Intangible Heritage (CQPV)
  • Dale Jarvis, Heritage Foundation, Newfoundland (in English)
  • Cyril Simard, Société internationale des Économusées
  • Cristina Baptista, INATEL Foundation, Portugal (in English)
  • Charles Quimbert, FAMDT, France
• 19h- Banquet (by reservation)
  • Speech by Jean Du Berger
  • Inuit Throat singing and traditional music

Sunday, April 17

AM 9h

Des Plaines room

• THEME 5 – RESEARCH IN ACTION
  • Jessica Roda, A universal label for cultural diversity in the world: towards what ethics?
  • Joanne Orr et Alison McCleery, Museums Galleries Scotland/prof. Napier University (in English)
  • Hélène Boivin et Géraldine Laurendeau, Inventory of knowledge and understanding of the Pekuakamiulnuatsh on medicinal plants. Challenges and perspectives for protection of collective knowledge.
• Round table: The role of ethnological research (collection, analysis, documentation) in the revitalization of traditional culture.
• 13h- In closing

Registration

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Registration before March 10, 2011	Member	Non-member	Student
General (April 15, 16, 17)	150$	200$	100$
1 day, April 15	75$	100$	50$
1 day, April 16	75$	100$	50$
1 day, April 17	75$	100$	50$
Registration after March 10, 2011	Member	Non-member	Student
General (April 15, 16, 17)	185$	250$	125$
1 day, April 15	100$	150$
1 day, April 16	100$	150$
1 day, April 17	100$	150$
Stand	Member	Non-member
In the exhibit hall (limited qty.)	250$	300$
Other activities	Everyone
Opening reception – April 14	30$
Supper – April 16	50$
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