1.Port Shepstone delegates - Departure from Durban Airport.
2. Pauline made friends with a Soweto delegation.
3. Participants listening attentively.
4.Mayor Clarence Johnson, Cape Winelands District together with Tizzie Mangiagalli from Worcester museum, welcomed delegates.
5.Port Shepstone Twinning handed certificates of appreciation to organisers and speakers .
6. Gunnar presenting Wolwekloof Learning Academy, a folkbilding concept (giving people a second chance.)
7.Bridging Ages annual report was presented by Ebbe, president of Bridging Ages. He was joined by Jon Hunner- vice president of Bridging Ages, from USA, and other members from Italy and Finland.
"The Bridging Ages network at a glance
Historic Environment Education and Time Travels started at the Kalmar County Museum in 1985, and over the last ten years has spread to and developed in several other institutions and countries. The Bridging Ages network was formed at a symposium in Vimmerby, Sweden in November 2004.
The Bridging Ages network consists of about 25 institutions - museums, schools and universities - from ten countries – Estonia, Latvia, Finland, Iceland, Sweden, England, Italy, USA, Kenya and South Africa. Kalmar County Museum in Sweden is the coordinator of the network.
The mission of the Bridging Ages network is to support and inspire the development of Historic Environment Education and Time Travels - through seminars and conferences, via a website www.bridgingages.com, newsletters and a mailing list, and in common projects "
"What is Historic Environment Education?
The focus is on historic sites in the local environment and their history – for instance buildings, grave fields, industries, roads. In a Time Travel you dress up in period clothes and for some hours take part in the life of the historic site. The Time Travel is always about a specific year and what happened on the site that year, that day: Rome 404 AD, Reval (Tallinn) 1483, Minneapolis 1912. The participants are those persons living in or visiting that place. With all your senses you experience the life of a historical time and site in your own neighbourhood!
This is a way of learning but also of finding your own identity and comparing the life then and now. Historic Environment Education and Time Travels are mostly collaborative work between schools, museums, universities, historical societies and even the public. "
Extracts from Bridging Ages 2006 newsletter.
LATEST UPDATE:
Bridging Ages organisations / institution has increased from 25 , two years ago to present, 70 -80 institutions and 13 countries. Ebbe.
Gulshera Khan
