UNESCO World Day for AudioVisual Heritage
27 October
UNESCO declared October 27 as the World Day for AV Heritage to raise awareness of the significance of AV documents and to draw attention to the need to safeguard them. Every year, activities are organized by different institutions worldwide around a theme to drum up interest in the event.
See here for a message from Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, Director-General of UNESCO.
The main World Day for AV Heritage Site lists many 2011 events worldwide:
http://www.pia.gov.ph/wdavh2011/
This page lists some of the events being organised by IASA members to mark the day in 2011.
Around Switzerland (from Laurent Baumann)
The Memoriav site has collected a list of various events in Switzerland. http://de.memoriav.ch/dokument/newsevents/worldday2011_memoriav_flyer.pdf
Institution: Ringier Photo Archives, State Archives of Aargau
Location: Sauerland-area, Laurenzenvorstadt 87, 5001 Aarau Tours groups will meet at the ramp in front of the freight elevator
Date/Time: October 27, 2011, 17:00 – 19:00 (every 30 minutes)
Website: http://www.ag.ch/staatsarchiv/shared/dokumente/pdf/rba_einladung-bilderbad.pdf
Info: Ringier Photo Archive opens the doors to their 20th Century photo archive. The number of participants is limited to 20 people per tour group. Please make reservations by contacting ringierbildarchiv@ag.ch
Institution: Cinematheque
Location: Bahnstrasse 21, CH-3008 Bern
Date/Time: October 24, 2011, 12:00
Website: http://www.lichtspiel.ch/
Info: Viewing of the 1936 documentary “China Without a Mask”. This newly rediscovered film documents an exhibition to Inner Mongolia and China.
Institution: Memoriav
Location: MEMORIAV, Association for the Preservation of the Audiovisual Heritage of Switzerland Bümplizstrasse 192, 3018 Bern
Date/Time: October 28th-29th, 2011, 21:00
Website: www.memoriav.ch/kolloquium2011
Info: This year's Colloquium will be a discussion on the future of audiovisual heritage and issues related to collection policies and obtaining and communicating audiovisual heritage. Please register online.
Institution: Swiss National Library
Location: Hallwylstrasse 15, CH-3003 Bern
Date/Time: October 27, 2011, 18:00
Website: www.nb.admin.ch
Info: Book launch and interview for Peter Ruedi’s new biography on Friedrich Dürrenmatt. The interview will be with author Peter Ruedi; Peter von Matt, Professor of Modern German Literature; and Ulrich Weber who supervised Durrenmatt’s literary estate.
Institution: Bündner Museum of 19th Century Photography
Location: Bündner Museum of 19th Century Photography, Filisur
Date/Time: October 27, 2011
Website: www.badrutt.org/PiBa-0-Museum-02.htm
Info: Slideshow of military photographs from 1900-1914. Photographer: Emil Synnberg
Institution: Fribourg University Library
Location: Cinéma Rex in Fribourg on October 27th and Cinéma Prado à Bulle on October 28th.
Date/Time: October 27th and 28th, 18:30.
Website: www2.fr.ch/bcuf/Dynamic.aspx?c=1318
Info: Screening of films in the Library’s collection
Institution: Radio Télévision Suisse RTS and FONSAT
Location: Radio Télévision Suisse RTS (GENÈVE)
Date/Time: October 27th, 2011
Website: http://archives.tsr.ch/projet
Info: Radio Télévision Suisse RTS and FONSAT will open the new site of the RTS radio and television archive and launch the new exhibit, “Past Present”
Institution: Le Centre d’iconographie genevoise at the Geneva Library
Location: The Geneva Library, GENÈVE
Date/TIme: October 27th, 2011
Website: www.ville-ge.ch/bge/collections/centre-iconographie.html
Info: Le Centre d’iconographie genevoise will open its doors to the public with guided tours showings of some of its recent acquisitions.
Institution: La Chaux-de-Fonds City Library
Location: La Chaux-de-Fonds City Library, LA CHAUX-DE-FONDS
Date/Time: October 26th-28th, 2011, 17:00-19:00
Website: http://cdf-bibliotheques.ne.ch/DAV
Info: The audio-visual department will show visitors the various databases and resources available to access not only the paper archives but also sound recordings and music remotely.
Institution: University Library at the University of Lausanne
Location: Library of the Palais de Rumine Riponne at the University of Lausanne
Date/Tim: October 27, 2011, 14:00
Website: www.bcu-Lausanne.ch
Info: The University Library invites you to explore the Press Room at the Library of Palais de Rumine Riponne. The Press Room database allows you to search text in all of the films from 1977 to today by keyword and free search. For registration and information contact doc.vaud@bcu.unil.ch or call 021-316-7843.
Radio Educación, Mexico (from Elizabeth Avila)
Radio Educación, a public mexican radio broadcaster are planning to introduce a number of short programmes aiming to give basic information related to colletion management, specifically sound archives. The content of these 5 programmes are for instance: about cataloguing, storage facilities (climate control only), access, etc..
As a cultural and educational public broadcaster, Radio Educación has the commitment to deliver educational contents in its programmes and to give support to different cultural and educational institutions through the access of our radio productions as educational tools. The objective of the mentioned short programmes is that our audience take conscious of the importance in preserving our sound memory.
Everybody are invited to listen (in spanish only) these material from october 24 through internet at: http://www.radioeducacion.edu.mx or http://www.e-radio.edu.mx
EUscreen Portal Launch (via Erwin Verbruggen)
EUscreen Portal Launches in celebration of UNESCO’s World Day of Audiovisual Archives
EUscreen: television heritage online
EUscreen is a unique showcase of Europe’s television heritage. Major audiovisual archives in Europe have joined forces to offer unified access to the history of television in Europe. Thousands of video’s and images are available for free online consultation, and additional content is added on a daily basis. The portal is officially launched today, in celebration of UNESCO’s World Day of Audiovisual Archives.
The EUscreen portal has been accessible in beta testing mode since early 2011, but receives an entirely new layout. The new layout has been extensively tested and accounts for the needs of the various user groups EUscreen focuses on in the fields of education, research, and for the general public.
The portal provides a wide variety of functionalities to search and browse the collection, which can be used in different contexts such as curricula and research programmes, for remix, and for leisurely dives into popular history. Additional tools for curated exhibitions and an academic e-journal which researches significant trends in over 60 years of European television with the help of original programme sources will become available in 2012.
“With EUscreen we encourage users to actively engage with the history of Europe and the history of television regardless of the language and cultural boundaries. This is a great step forward to explore the role of television heritage in how we came to see ourselves and others in changing times”, says project co-ordinator Sonja de Leeuw.
The National Archives of Andorra (from Margarita Ceña Cosials)
The National Archives of Andorra participes in UNESCO's World Day for audiovisual Heritage 2011 with a short: Open Andorra to the world: The Audiovisual Collection of Andorran Science Society (SAC). SAC is a cultural entity whose aim to promote the science of culture. The SAC records (1980-2010) include subject like medicine, philosophy, science, law, economics, physics, Andorra, etc. and they are available in the National Archives for everyone to discover.
"Audiovisual Heritage: See, Hear and Learn"
The British Library (from Richard Ranft)
The British Library publishes two new audio CD sets coinciding with the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage:
"Short Stories" - English and Irish authors read their own work
3 CDs with introductory booklet, running time: approx. 210 minutes
"Caribbean Roots" - Black British and Caribbean Poets Read their Own Work
This 2-CD collection brings together 58 recordings of 10 Black British and Caribbean poets. The selections illustrate a range of experiences, emotions, styles and influences, reflecting both the culture of the Caribbean and life in Britain. The featured poets are: Linton Kwesi Johnson, Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze, David Dabydeen, James Berry, John Agard, Grace Nichols, Amryl Johnson, E A Markham, Michael Smith and Benjamin Zephaniah, all reading their own work, in a mixture of studio recordings and electrifying live performances. http://pressandpolicy.bl.uk/Press-Releases/British-Library-publishes-CD-...
Institution: Biblioteca de Catalunya (from Margarida Ullate i Estanyol)
Location: Biblioteca de Catalunya
Date/Time: October 27th-November 27th 2011
Website: http://www.bnc.cat/expos/videos/videos_BC_index.php
Info: Numbers 0 and Special issue on the Olympic Games ‘92 of “Crònica Catalana”, a periodical in video format which reached the catalonophile world between 1993 and 1997.
SABC supports World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
In support of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) will host a portion of a larger exhibition from the International Library of African Music (ILAM) titled, “For the Future Generations”, in the SABC Radio park foyer from 5 to 28 October.
The full travelling exhibition celebrates the work of Hugh Tracey 
who was a former SABC employee and founder of International Library of African Music (ILAM) in 1954. His collections of sound recordings and photographs of the sub-continent, captured from 1928 through the early 1970s during 19 field excursions that took him as far north of the then Belgian Congo, are represented in this exhibition.
Hugh Tracey, like many people who have achieved great heights, at one point worked for the SABC. It therefore made sense to bring a small part of the exhibition to the SABC, in anticipation of the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage on 27 October. Mr. 
Hugh Tracy has stood as one of the major figures of modern musicology. His work embodies the International Library of African Music, and The Sounds of Africa, the recorded series of his field work which made him one of the most important non-artists (and non-Africans) to work in African music. The items on display intend to give viewers a sense of the nature of this extraordinary man’s vision for scientific research, preservation, dissemination & education regarding African music that undertook over the course of his four plus decade career.
On display at the SABC is a selection of information panels featuring Tracey’s broadcasting career, a map showing his numerous field excursions and a feature on South African bow music. Sound stations will provide audio to these panels. Also on display is a video station that features an overview of ILAM’s history. A prime attraction is a large screen projection of the Tracey 1939 film shot on a field excursion in Zululand.
“This exhibition is a major outreach effort intended to educate the general public regarding Hugh Tracey and the International Library of African Music’s legacy for preservation and dissemination of African music throughout the world from the field recordings Tracey amassed from the 1930s through the 1960s. As its theme implies, the exhibit aims to educate and disseminate the rich heritage of African music that it was Tracey’s mission to preserve ‘for future generations,” says Prof Diane Thram, Director International Library of African Music, Rhodes University.
On the day of the celebration on 27 October, world renowned multi instrumentalist Pops Mohamed will perform with The Pops Mohamed Duo a lunch hour concert for the SABC staff. He will demonstrate some of the instruments that Tracey recorded during his travels. Please read the blog posts here: SABC Platfontein celebrated World Day for Audiovisual Heritage and in Johanesburg: World Day for Audiovisual Heritage 2011 at the SABC; and in Bloemfontein
The ILAM is currently located at the Rhodes University, Grahamstown, Eastern Cape.
Centre de Recerca i Difusió de la Imatge (Girona, Spain)
The Girona City Council through the Centre for Image Research and Diffusion (CRDI) and the Cinema Museum, with the collaboration of the International Council on Archives (ICA), celebrate the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.
It is for that reason that it publishes a poster translated to four languages (Catalan, English, Spanish and French) that presents the chronology of the historical development of audiovisual media: cinema, photography, television, video and sound recording.
Simultaneously, a website has been published, also in four languages. It contains 280 chronological references, 30 audiovisual records and 140 images: www.girona.cat/sgdap/cat/patrimoni_audiovisual
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