Tag: héritage
Venice escapes listing as World Heritage in Danger
Meeting in Riyadh, the World Heritage Committee decided this Thursday not to list the city of Venice as a world heritage site in danger, going against the recommendations of UNESCO…
Military heritage museum marks milestone
The Canadian Military Heritage Museum is marking a milestone on Saturday (Sept. 16). The museum, at 347 Greenwich St., is celebrating its 30th anniversary with an open house from 10…
Women’s sound library, plea for a heritage
Do we really know Olympe de Gouges, Audre Lorde or even Catherine Colomb? With his literary installation, the Women’s Sound Library, Julie Gilbert brings these writers to life, some of…
Women’s sound library, plea for a heritage
Do we really know Olympe de Gouges, Audre Lorde or even Catherine Colomb? With her literary installation, the Women’s Sound Library, Julie Gilbert brings these women writers to life, some…
the heritage in question, to the extended convention of the Unesco Committee
Unesco, which opens this Sunday, September 10, the 45th expanded convention of the World Heritage Committee, approved a request from Ukraine to add 20 historical monuments to the international list…
Ukraine: a petition calls for the return of transparency on the heritage of civil servants
In Ukraine, the week began with the resignation of the defense minister amid a corruption scandal, and continued with the launch on Wednesday of a petition demanding that state officials…
Benghazi city center suffered ‘irreversible and intentional destruction’, UN says
According to a report by a UN expert group, more than 22,000 people have been evicted from their homes in downtown Benghazi this year. These residents say they were threatened…
World heritage sites in Kyiv and Lviv may be listed as endangered
— These places are threatened with desolation. There have been attacks on the buffer zones around these places and we don’t know what will happen in the future, he says.…
outcry after the installation of a wooden roof on the temple of Karnak
A controversy erupted in Egypt after the installation by the authorities of a wooden roof on part of the colonnades of the pharaonic temple of Karnak, in Luxor. For social…
The art of making gold shine on porcelain by Christel Potaufeu
Our summer series on the crafts of the Manufacture de sèvres comes to an end, in the company of Christel Potaufeu, burnisher. The burnishing workshop is the last step for…