ADriatic Network of artistic production for the development and enhancement of Intangible Cultural Heritage
The ADNICH project proposes the creation of a South Adriatic network between Italy, Albania and Montenegro, which can enhance the immaterial heritage of the three countries through art and theatre, by dialoguing the different expressive elements of anthropic landscape (identity, traditions,..) for the creation of innovative and cross-border contents. Article 2 of the UNESCO Convention defines intangible cultural heritage as "practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, know-how, as well as the tools, objects, artefacts and cultural spaces associated with them - communities, groups, and in some cases individuals recognize as part of their cultural heritage“. This intangible cultural heritage, transmitted from generation to generation, is constantly recreated by communities and groups in response to their environment, their interaction with nature and their history, and gives them a sense of identity and continuity by promoting such way of respect for cultural diversity and human creativity. The area involved by the Program presents extraordinary features of Mediterranean cultures and at the same time face the same problems in terms of ethnic minorities and immigrants’ integration, gender disparities. These issues – if managed correctly – may favour a new artistic and cultural synthesis in terms of theatre production, which is the subject that ADNICH intends to explore and promote within an international audience. ADNICH, after a first phase of anthropological analysis, intends to develop theatre residences and workshops involving the local communities of the three countries, aiming at developing joint productions to be promoted within a South Adriatic festival of experimental theatre. A path that aims to involve local communities, public institutions, schools, theatre academies, opinion leaders and local artists from the three countries as beneficiaries, but in a wider perspective produce a tourist network linked to the landscape and intangible assets.