Rites and Rituals of the Romanian Communities beyond the Danube

RO

Funded by the National Cultural Fund Administration (AFCN) – approved on 19 May 2023

Initiated by the Iron Gates Region Museum in Drobeta Turnu Severin

Partner: the “ISTROS” Society for Historical Sciences

Project implementation period: 1 July 2023 – 15 November 2023.

Description: The project focuses on preserving the immaterial heritage of the Romanian communities from the Timoc Valley, through interdisciplinary and modern methods of promotion, by employing both visual, printed and digital means of broadcast. The final purpose is to raise the visibility of these communities in a quite specific geopolitical situation.

Objectives:

General objective: Promoting and transferring the know-how and digitally broadcasting the interdisciplinary information regarding the rites and rituals of the Romanian communities south of the Danube.

Specific objective 1: Promoting the rites and rituals of the Romanian communities from south of the Danube by creating a corpus of interdisciplinary information, of a photo-album and an exhibition.

Specific objective 2: The transferring of the know-how regarding the rites and rituals of the Romanian communities south of the Danube by creating five podcasts and five StoryMaps.

Specific objective 3: The digital broadcasting of the rites and rituals of the Romanian communities south of the Danube by creating a YouTube and Facebook page.

Specific objective 4: The management of the project for four months by operating, monitoring and controlling the different stages of the project

Grant awarded: 85,113.80 RON (17,073.06 EUR or 18,479.34 USD)