YOUTH CIOFF®
What is CIOFF Youth?
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The inclusion of young people in the work done by CIOFF was an initiative that born in the early ninety’s and represented a novelty in international organizations like CIOFF®.
CIOFF® Youth is composed by young people – between 15–26 years old – who are working in the frame of CIOFF® National Sections. The main objectives of CIOFF® Youth are the cooperation with CIOFF® in the safeguarding of Intangible Culture through cultural activities and projects implemented by the youth in international folk festivals, exchanges activities with regional communities in schools, retirements houses, and public places; diffusion of Intangible heritages to children and young people in a regional, national or international level.
OUR PROJECTS
The Youth Movement seeks to promote intangible cultural heritage among youth and children, building dialogue between generations and allowing traditions to be safeguarded in the future.
Activities in Progress
World-wide program of the re-valuation of traditional games
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The World-wide program of the re-valuation of traditional games has grown a lot since it beginning in 2006. In the present several youth commissions in different countries are developing activities in the frame of the program. The most relevant activities are the followings:
Exchange activities with seniors (Argentina)
Compilation and analysis of traditional games practiced by seniors in their childhood. These activities are a good tool to encourage the inter-generational dialogue between seniors, young people and children. This kind of dialogue gives the opportunity to analyze comparatively the games in the present with the older ones, also the study of the modifications along the time.
Exchange activities between children and young people (Argentina)
Activities done in public places (squares) and private institutions (schools). The activity consists in the explanation and transmission of traditional games to children through young people.
Inter-cultural exchange activities (Argentina)
Activities with aboriginal communities with the main goal to safeguard their traditional games and different aspects of their culture. This activity is developing in the frame of the decade of UNESCO for indigenous people.
International exchange activities (The Netherlands)
This activity consists in workshops for children where the young people teach in a didactic way games practiced in different countries. The results of these workshops are shown in artistic performances.
Activities with Folk Groups in International Festivals (Italy)
These activities take place in the frame of International Festivals. Into the official schedule, the organizers include a didactic explanation of a traditional game to the foreign participants. It’s important to mentioned that the “teachers” are usually seniors.
Activities in Children's Folk Festivals (Turkey)
This activity will be implemented during this year in a children festival where the Turkish children and the foreign visitors will exchange traditional games.
Animations in International Festivals (France)
The French commission proposed the inclusion of a “Game Day” into the official schedule of CIOFF festivals in the same level of importance that parades and animations have.
Surveys (Argentina and Colombia)
The surveys are an excellent tool to collect information about traditional games, his tangible and intangible elements and rules.
