International cultural project market - Kultúrpont Iroda

International cultural project market – 27 June 2008, Budapest, Hungary
Project number: 9
Name of the organisation: Kovászna Megyei Mővelıdési Központ (Romania)
Name of the representant: Mr István MÁGORI
Address: , , Romania
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail: istvan_magori@yahoo.com
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Description:
Fairy-village
Our nations, countries, also our counties have many things in common; we thought of the
simplest: in every each of them there are children who definitely like fairytales.
There are great storytellers too… Andersen, the Grimm-brothers, La fontaine and the endless
row is continued by those, who we might nor even know… let`s share our tales, get to know
each others` writers and trough their tales, each others` culture!
Let’s imagine what it would be like, if these stories could come true!
The project:
Building a fairytale village at every participant’s location, consisting of fairy-cottages – one
for every participant at the project – designed to be specific to that partners` architecture,
traditions, folklore, customs. The cottages would be the same at every location, whereas the
administrative building and surrounding gardens would be specific to the very county or
region, where that very fairy-village is. Thus the fairytale villages would look slightly
different, but having the same purpose: getting to know each other’s culture, experiencing
the different traditions.
As additional services children could get acquainted with the traditional way of life
presented through the stories. For example in Covasna County:
- baking the gingerbread (bakery)
- shoeing the magic steed (smithy)
- weaving the travelers bag (weaving, spinning, rope making)
- handcrafts, folkdances, traditional games
Adventure story –Story-adventure
Each cottage would present a fairy-world specific to that nation’s tales. Thus children could
become heroes of these tales by following a certain path in the rooms of the cottages,
experiencing the events of the story through different tasks, solving brain teasers, riddles,
logical tasks, handcrafts activities, etc.
Why Kisbacon?
Benedek Elek, the greatest storyteller of the Szeklers and Hungarians was born is Kisbacon.
His memorial house is a very popular aim of the cultural tourism. In 2004 a cultural
development concept was implemented in Kisbacon, in order to preserve the cultural,
natural, environmental and community values. Organizing the cultural activities we took
into consideration the local inhabitant’s lifestyle and cultural attitude, to preserve cultural
heritage.
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