We improved Wikipedia’s article about the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development so that, from now on, it qualifies for being linked on Wikipedia’s home page. The expanded content mentions the Khalili Foundation and the World Festival of Cultural Diversity. For the first time, the article was linked from Wikipedia’s home page on 21 May, making 4.7 million people aware of the significance of the day. The article itself got a record number of views.
As well as the article about the World Day, we have substantially rewritten or expanded Wikipedia’s articles about Cultural diversity, the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions, and the UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity while making smaller improvements to Artistic freedom, Cultural policy, and Cultural expressions. The purpose was to make these articles more accessible, more relevant to individual readers, and to highlight the International Fund for Cultural Diversity. The articles about 2005 and October 20 were edited to include the fact that the Convention was signed on that date, making the Convention eligible to be highlighted in Wikipedia’s “On This Day” section.
The newsletter of the Wikipedia community, The Signpost, featured an article by Martin Poulter and Waqas Ahmed highlighting Wikipedia’s emphasis on Western art and calling for more recognition of art from other cultures.
In the first five months of 2023, the new article Musa va ‘Uj was featured on Wikipedia’s front page under “Did You Know” and Hajj: Journey to the Heart of Islam was “Today’s Featured Article” for 17 May. The article for the British Museum exhibition was linked from Wikipedia’s front page for four days in a row, leading to 45,000 extra views for that article and thousands of extra readers for several articles related to Islam. Volunteers translated articles related to the Khalili Collections into Indonesian, Malay, and Urdu, creating nine new articles.
For the World Day of Cultural Diversity, The Sámi Museum in Karasjok will prepare a 360° virtual tour in RUOKTOT – The Return of the Sámi Drums.
RiddoDuottarMuseat – Sámiid Vuorká-Dávvirat, 2022-2023
SÁPMI – The Land of the Indigenous Sámi People
You will be able to explore an innovative virtual environment that will transport you to the Arctic as a visitor to the vibrant cultural world of the Sámi, an Indigenous community who lives in Fennoscandia.
As a virtual guest, you can take a tour of the exhibition titled “RUOKTOT”, which in Sámi means returning home. The exhibition chronicles histories of appropriation of the Sámi drums – sacred belongings of the Sámi ritual specialists, called noaidi in North Sámi.
Join the virtual museum guide to explore the ongoing cultural significance of these sacred objects, taken away through histories of missionization and colonization, and reclaimed by contemporary communities to facilitate a process of healing.
To be released on May 21.
ERIAC Berlin and ERIAC Serbia prepare two exhibition openings to mark the Day of Romani Resistance on the 16th of May, presenting various Roma artists.
The Gypsyism, Balkanism – Through a Glass, Darkly exhibition in Belgrade, Serbia, displays five artists from the Visegrad Region and Serbia who engage themselves in intimate dialogue with the history of – frequently hurtful – representations of Roma, while Emerging Talents – Spring Salon exhibition in Berlin, Germany, introduces six innovative and experimental Roma voices in contemporary art.
Both events are associated with the Khalili Foundation’s World Festival of Cultural Diversity.
Learn more about the event in Berlin
Learn more about the event in Belgrade
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