The Kaustinen ICH Academy and other lectures and seminars organised by Finnish Folk Music Institute and its partners are available online at Finnish Folk Music Institute Youtube channel..
KAUSTINEN ICH ACADEMY
Ti/Tue 8.7.
14.30 Ľubica Voľanská: Living Traditions in Slovakia: impact of UNESCO Convention 2003 on the safeguarding
15.00 Nadja Räss: Yodeling from Switzerland – The UNESCO nomination process
15.45 Jurgita Zvinklyte & Matti Palonen: Sutartine – Lithuanian ICH and its challenges adapting to contemporary music
16.15 Antti Kautonen: Kaustinen fiddle playing & migration
Ke/Wed 9.7.
11.30–13.30 the seminar ICH North – passing on our musical heritage
11.30 Sara Kåll-Fröjdö: Welcome to the seminar – What is ICH North
11.40 Roser Gabriel: Musical living room
12.00 Outi Valo and Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä: Culturally sustainable field trips to historical folk music
12.20 Bengt Wittgren & Britta Knapp: Polska as living heritage
12.40 Johanna Björkholm: What happens when we pass on traditions
13.00 Annika Mylläri & Kati Hyvönen: Living Musical Heritage open online course
LUENNOT/LECTURES
14.00 Le Diable à Cinq band members Safeguarding traditional music of Quebec
14.30 Pushpa Palanchoke: When Preservation Silences: The Heritization of a Women’s Musical Tradition in Nepal
15.00 Vilma Timonen: Folk Music Professionals as Boundary Workers: Mapping the Tensions and Opportunities in Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage through Professional Practice
15.45 Divya Bathia: Safeguarding the traditional music of Rajasthan through Jodhpur RIFF festival
16.15 Anne-Mari Hakamäki: Kaustinen Fiddle Playing and Kaustinen Folk Music Festival
To/Thu 10.7.
11.30–13.30 the seminar Cultural Spaces: Digital Innovations & safeguarding ICH
11.30 Musical opening of the seminar
11.35 Māra Rozentāle : Presenting the Digit ICH Erasmus+ project
11.50 Snježana Bogdanić : Local Approaches from Croatia to Safeguarding and Transmitting Intangible Culture
12.20 Maia Gelashvili: Presenting a film from Georgia: Festival “Nanina”
12.50 Juraj Hamar: Activities of the Slovak Intangible Heritage Centre for a digitization and safeguarding of intangible heritage
13.10 Questions and answers
13.25 Musical closing of the seminar
LUENNOT/LECTURES
14.00 Annukka Saaristo: Tradition, heritage, legacy: Case study on intergenerationality in Finnish rap music
14.30 Elina Seye: The Communities of West African Dance and Music in Finland
15.00 Antti-Ville Villén: Policing musical creativity, diversity and inclusivity – in the name of heritage
15.45 Heidi Henriikka Mäkelä & Outi Valo: The Pelimanni House in Kaustinen: A Contradictory Stage of Intangible Cultural Heritage
16.15 Lauri Oino: Kaustinen Fiddle Playing Safeguarding Program
Pe/Fri 11.7.
14.00 Giacomo Botta: Competing Sounds: The Multi-Layering of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) at the Kaustinen Folk Festival
14.30 Paulo Longo: UNESCO Creative City Idanha-A-Nova – Experiences from Portugal
15.00 Velika Stojkova Serafimovska: Safeguarding the Macedonian traditional music as an ICH
15.45 Farshad Sanati: Music as a Bridge: Fostering Cultural Flexibility Through Transcultural Music Education
16.15 Anni Järvelä: Näppäri pedagogy as a bridge to folk music
La /Sat 12.7.
11.00–13.30 Kaustinen hall, Folk Arts Centre Kaustinen Intangible Cultural Heritage Seminar 2025: Music on the Move – Migration, Resilience and Identity
11.00 Matti Hakamäki: Welcome to the seminar
11.05 Children group Näppäri education from Kaustinen
11.15 Ľubica Voľanská – TBC
11.50 Ensemble Didgori : Migration songs
12.00 Panel Discussion – Migration, resilience and identity. Saijaleena Rantanen, Karri “Paleface” Miettinen, Michal Elia Kamal, John Westmoreland and Mika “Miša” Saatsi.
13.10 Questions and answers
13.25 Closing song – Michal Elia Kamal
OTHER SEMINARS AND LECTURES (in Finnish)
Tue 8 July
11.30–13.30 VISIO2030-seminaari
11.30 Seminaarin avaus
11.35 Jaana Kari: Suomen Kansanmusiikkiliitto nyt
11.50 Hanna Poikela, Kansanmusiikin ja Kansantanssin Edistämiskeskus, ja Matti Hakamäki, Kansanmusiikki-instituutti: Visio2030 – alan järjestökenttä murroksessa
12.10 Paneelikeskustelu: Kansanmusiikki- ja kansantanssikentän rahoitus, edunvalvonta ja mahdolliset organisatoriset muutokset
13.00 Yleisökeskustelu
13.30 Seminaari päättyy
Fri 11 July
11.30–13.30 Aineeton kulttuuriperintö – suojelukäytänteet ja aineettoman kulttuuriperinnön kenttä Suomessa
11.35 Matti Hakamäki : Suomen aineettoman kulttuuriperinnön yhdistyksen strategiatyö jatkuu
11.40 Kikka Jelisejeff: Käsityökohteita maailmankartalle – mahdollisia luettelointikohteita meiltä ja muualta
12.00 Markku Vaaraniemi: Torniojoen lippokalastus – hakemusprosessin vaiheita
12.30 Taina Hautamäki: Pohjalaistaloverkosto
12.50 Pekka Paasonen: Saunakulttuuri Suomessa ja elävän perinnön yhteistyön mahdollisuudet
Photos Lauri Oino and Susanna Salokannel