Hello,

You are invited to join the official launch of Wiki Loves Living Heritage!

In 2023, Wiki Loves Living Heritage https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage celebrates living heritage https://ich.unesco.org/en/home on the 20th anniversary of the UNESCO 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

Join the launch event https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage_launch_event on 17 March 13–14.30 UTC https://zonestamp.toolforge.org/1679058029 to learn & get excited about the project!

We are inviting affiliates and volunteers to join the activities https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Join

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Start organizing https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Organizers: Team up with the local heritage communities and UNESCO intangible cultural heritage coordinators and create bigger or smaller activities together. Find your local contacts https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Contacts here. -

Share widely: Use the Wiki Loves Living Heritage site and all the social media channels of the project and the partners to share your activities online. The campaign highlights living heritage around the world throughout 2023. -

Contribute to Wikimedia projects: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Wiki_work Make living heritage more visible on Wikimedia projects by adding data to Wikidata, photographing and adding media to Wikimedia Commons and editing Wikipedia articles. We are looking for people to help import the national inventories of living heritage to make the local heritage elements visible in the project. -

Inspire and be inspired https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Get_inspired : Help others contribute to Wikimedia projects by sharing your learnings and models with other affiliates, communities and heritage coordinators.

Stay updated!

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Watch the videos on the YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@wikiloveslivingheritage/ or join the regular planning meetings https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wiki_Loves_Living_Heritage/Meetings! -

Subscribe to the Wiki Loves Living Heritage newsletter https://dashboard.mailerlite.com/forms/352653/81811918153581669/share

Contact us for help connecting with the local Living Heritage coordinators / Wikimedia affiliates and to discuss your ideas.

Best regards,

Sadik Shahadu, Communications Manager

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The project is initiated jointly by the European network of focal points for the UNESCO 2003 Convention (ENFP) and AvoinGLAM https://meta.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/AvoinGLAM. It has been supported so far by the European Heritage Days Network https://www.europeanheritagedays.com/, Workshop intangible heritage Flanders https://immaterieelerfgoed.be/nl/team and the Flemish Commission for UNESCO in Belgium https://unesco.be/en, Quebec Council for Living Heritage https://www.patrimoinevivant.qc.ca/, Finnish Heritage Agency https://www.museovirasto.fi/en/, Culture Ireland https://www.cultureireland.ie/about/ and Dutch Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage https://www.immaterieelerfgoed.nl/.

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