What Does It Mean to Me? Is a project of the Croatian Heritage Foundation that works with youth in the Croatian minority communities in their interaction with the traditional culture of their group.
What Does It Mean to Me? Is a project of the Croatian Heritage Foundation that works with youth in the Croatian minority communities in their interaction with the traditional culture of their group.
Young people and children will create videos, presentations, audio recordings, essays and drawings (all multimedia forms are acceptable) to describe their interaction with an aspect of traditional culture that is particularly important to them. For example:
1) An object (part of a folklore costume, a painting, photograph or the like) that is particularly important to me and is part of the heritage of my minority community. Describe your feelings about the object and try to explain them.
2) A song, dance or custom that is especially important to me. Why?
3) Stories of my grandparents that I am particularly fond of. What is especially exciting about them and why have they been ingrained into my memory?
4) A part of my heritage that I hold on to and am active in, and is also of interest to people around me. What attracts people to it?
These are only examples, and all variations on the themes are welcome.
With regard to the diversity and number of submitted works there is a possibility that they will be used in specialist (scientific and professional) research.
Video and audio materials should not be more than two minutes in duration. The deadline for the submission of works is the 1st of November 2020. All submitted works will be presented on the digital platforms of the Croatian Heritage Foundation.
By submitting a work you are providing consent for the publication of your personal data and data concerning the work in question.
At the end of the project period the received material will be incorporated into a film.
Please submit works by e-mail to Marin Knezović, head of the Department for Croatian Minorities at the Croatian Heritage Foundation: marin.knezovic@matis.hr.