Living tradition in south-western Wielkopolska - we are implementing the project
We would like to inform you that we are currently implementing a unique educational project to popularize knowledge about local cultural heritage. The project entitled "Living Tradition in South-Western Wielkopolska" is aimed at researching and disseminating local cultural heritage. We discover living manifestations, new contexts and meanings of tradition. Find out the details.
About the project
The project concerns the protection and promotion of the intangible cultural heritage of south-western Wielkopolska, including local music and dance traditions, dialect, folk art, as well as rituals and customs, including from the ethnographic microregions of Biskupizna, Chazów/Hazów and Bukowiec Górny. The project includes ethnographic field research, including interviews with local cultural depositories, photographic and film documentation, and observations during regional events. The aim of the research is to preserve the manifestations of living traditional culture and to learn about their contemporary functions and significance for local communities. The collected materials will be developed and used in educational and promotional activities. Workshops, a competition and an outdoor board exhibition will be organized. The content will be made available on a dedicated website, and an educational booklet will also be published.
Project elements
The task is to conduct ethnographic field research on the traditions cultivated in selected towns of south-western Wielkopolska. The subject of interest will be the phenomena of traditional culture occurring locally and their contemporary functions, meanings, contexts, as well as the role of regional ensembles in the preservation of cultural heritage. The research will concern living tradition, especially customs, which are currently celebrated as community initiatives and are often accompanied by folklore settings. As part of the research, ethnographic interviews will be conducted with the bearers of tradition, m.in. leaders of folklore groups, folk artists, local animators. Audiovisual and photographic documentation will be carried out. The aim is to consolidate and preserve the contemporary approach of local communities to their cultural heritage, its processing, use and interpretation.
The collected material will be made available on a website dedicated to the topic of living tradition in southwestern Wielkopolska. This website will allow for a broad view of the various phenomena of traditional culture, from which the cultural richness of southwestern Wielkopolska will emerge, its diversity resulting from its location on the border of Wielkopolska and Silesia and the interpenetration of different influences. The collected material will not only become part of the resources of the project's website, but also a starting point for implementing educational activities. The collected material will not only become part of the project website resources, but also a starting point for the implementation of educational activities.
As part of the museum workshops "A Day with Tradition", meetings with ethnologists and depositaries will be held. In the first part, participants will become familiar with the specifics and techniques of ethnographic research. Then, there will be meetings with local artists from the microregions of Bukówiec Górny, Chazy/Hazy and Biskupizna, who will talk about the traditional culture of their region and the branch in which they specialize. The effect of the workshops will be that participants will gain basic knowledge about ethnographic research and topics related to the traditional culture of southwestern Wielkopolska.
A competition "Local traditions" will be organized to document a selected living tradition of southwestern Wielkopolska. The task of the participants will be to develop a phenomenon from the field of traditional culture, collect information about it and present it in written, photographic, film or multimedia form.
Selected photographs, reports, and quotes from interviews will be presented at the temporary exhibition “Living Tradition in South-Western Wielkopolska” in the form of a board, displayed in front of the building of the District Museum in Leszno.
The publication "Living traditions of south-western Wielkopolska" will be published - a brochure presenting the subject of the project and containing reports from the research.
The collected material will be made available on a website dedicated to the topic of living tradition in southwestern Wielkopolska. This website will allow for a broad view of the various phenomena of traditional culture, from which the cultural richness of southwestern Wielkopolska will emerge, its diversity resulting from its location on the border of Wielkopolska and Silesia and the interpenetration of different influences. The collected material will not only become part of the resources of the project's website, but also a starting point for implementing educational activities. The collected material will not only become part of the project website resources, but also a starting point for the implementation of educational activities.
As part of the museum workshops "A Day with Tradition", meetings with ethnologists and depositaries will be held. In the first part, participants will become familiar with the specifics and techniques of ethnographic research. Then, there will be meetings with local artists from the microregions of Bukówiec Górny, Chazy/Hazy and Biskupizna, who will talk about the traditional culture of their region and the branch in which they specialize. The effect of the workshops will be that participants will gain basic knowledge about ethnographic research and topics related to the traditional culture of southwestern Wielkopolska.
A competition "Local traditions" will be organized to document a selected living tradition of southwestern Wielkopolska. The task of the participants will be to develop a phenomenon from the field of traditional culture, collect information about it and present it in written, photographic, film or multimedia form.
Selected photographs, reports, and quotes from interviews will be presented at the temporary exhibition “Living Tradition in South-Western Wielkopolska” in the form of a board, displayed in front of the building of the District Museum in Leszno.
The publication "Living traditions of south-western Wielkopolska" will be published - a brochure presenting the subject of the project and containing reports from the research.
Funding
Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage under the Folk and Traditional Culture 2025 programme in the amount of PLN 45,000.00 and the Wielkopolska Province Self-Government in the amount of PLN 11,350.00. Total cost of the project: PLN 56,350.00
Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Cultural Promotion Fund – a state earmarked fund.
Co-financed by the Minister of Culture and National Heritage from the Cultural Promotion Fund – a state earmarked fund.
