8th Contest for the Collection of Images and Podcasts of the Galician-Portuguese Intangible Heritage

The “Images of Heritage” Contest aimed at educational centers in the Galicia-Northern Portugal Euroregion is an example of the transmission of intangible cultural heritage to new generations through the school, which serves as a bridge between families, communities, and formal education.

A category of PODCASTs related to images of heritage is included.

PARTICIPATE HERE IN THE EIGHTH EDITION:

SEND YOUR IMAGES, TEXTS AND LINKS THROUGH WETRANSFER, DROPBOX, ETC, TO THE EMAIL certame@escolasnasondas.com

Remember to indicate name, school and contact phone number.

*Click here to download the complete rules (.pdf)

CONTEST RULES

The Contest aims to transmit this heritage that is deposited in families to new generations so that they have knowledge of their origins and heritage. With these images, they will have access to a good part of cultural expressions that have already disappeared or that are already unknown to the youngest.

Intangible cultural heritage is mainly made up of knowledge, techniques, forms of organization or collective expression along with festive and family manifestations. It is located in the practices of daily life that are carried out by members of society that have families as the basic nuclei, being experienced by the people who carry it and, as such, it has been documented since the beginning of photography.

The images of family albums contain many of these manifestations and experiences that may be unknown to students in educational centers. In this work of transmitting and experiencing the images, the involvement of families is necessary to help understand the contexts where the documented cultural expressions were produced and the role of teachers as a transmitting agent is fundamental. Since the beginning of the 20th century, many images have been taken of cultural expressions spread throughout the Galicia and Northern Portugal Euroregion, becoming valuable testimony to the common Galician-Portuguese heritage.

In this competition, students must find these black and white photographs. They must also ask about their context and the people. And from there, they must create their own text or audio (podcast) where they explain their experience of the image.

The Association promotes the recovery and enhancement of photographs. One of the objectives is that they can be used in the school environment, emphasizing the “didactic load” they include, and to be known by the general public and thus contribute to the transition from the analog environment to the digital environment.

PNO! model of good practices (education+heritage+ICT+communication) with the Intangible Cultural Heritage registered with UNESCO in 2022, it has a valuable example in this activity and educational centers can integrate it into their educational practice as a way of transmitting it to new generations.

For all of the above, the Cultural and Pedagogical Association Ponte…nas ondas! is calling for the 8th Contest to collect images of the Galician-Portuguese intangible heritage.

RULES FOR THE 8TH “IMAGES OF HERITAGE” CONTEST

1.The Contest will have two categories:

    • In the 1st, students from Preschool and Primary School in the Galician education system will be able to participate. In Portugal, students from Basic Education and Second Cycle will participate.
    • In the 2nd, students from Secondary, Baccalaureate and Training Cycles in the Galician education system will be able to participate. In Portugal, students from the Third Cycle onwards will participate.

2. The photographs must contain images of any aspect related to the Intangible Cultural Heritage and must be taken before 1970.

3. They must be presented digitally, with the highest possible resolution, in jpg or png format.

4. Each image must be accompanied by a title and free text, where the basic data of the photo can be detailed, where it was taken, who appears in it, the approximate date it was taken and an explanation of what is seen, relating the relationship of that image to the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH).
The text must be sent separately in Word, OpenOffice format or in the email message itself. It will have a maximum length of 150 words in the 1st category and 250 in the 2nd category.

5. Each participant may only submit photographs that are the property of their family, and submissions of images from outside that area will be grounds for exclusion from the competition.

6. Each educational center may participate with the number of photographs it wishes.

7. Outside the competition, people and entities that do not belong to the educational systems may participate by sending photographs. The jury will evaluate their contributions and may mention those images that, in their opinion, are noteworthy.

8. PODCAST: You can also participate in the Contest by sending a podcast that refers to one of the images referred to in section 2. The description and technical quality of the audio will be assessed and voices of people who witnessed the image may be included. The podcast will be assessed independently.

9. The podcast will have a maximum duration of 5 minutes and may contain music, interviews and any other material that explains the photo it accompanies and will be sent in one of the usual formats of the platforms (for example, uploaded to Ivoox).

10. A jury formed by teachers, photographers, ethnographers and anthropologists from Galicia and Northern Portugal will assess the quality and heritage interest of the photographs with the accompanying texts and the podcasts received and their value as examples of the Galician-Portuguese intangible heritage.

11. AWARDS:
1st Category:

  • 1st prize: laptop for the family submitting the winning photo
  • 2nd prize: a 10” tablet
  • 3rd prize: an instant camera
  • Podcast: a tablet and a microphone

2nd Category:

  • 1st prize: laptop for the family sending the winning photograph
  • 2nd prize: a 10” tablet
  • 3rd prize: an e-book
  • Podcast: a tablet and a button microphone
  • Special Prize: a radio and heritage workshop for students, which will be awarded to the school that presents a remarkable work in which photographs are mixed with other means of expression and techniques, or sends the largest set of photographs that, meeting the rules, have great relevance for their content. In the event that several projects are submitted, the three best will be awarded.

12. The jury will evaluate the images, in this order, using the following criteria:

  • That it is a reflection of a manifestation of the ICH. The photograph must show a tradition or expression of cultural heritage reflecting, as much as possible, its essence.
  • That the text that accompanies the photograph helps to understand the heritage that is shown.
  • Quality of the visual proposal that the photograph itself has.

13. If, in the opinion of the jury, no photograph or podcast reaches the required quality, one of the categories may be left empty.

14. Once the prizes have been awarded and in the event that there are more photographs or podcasts that, in the opinion of the jury, are worthy of recognition, second prizes may be awarded to recognize the value of those works.

15. The prizes will be awarded in a public event for which the attendance of the winners is essential to receive them. Attendance at the award ceremony presupposes acceptance of the dissemination of the images of the participants in the event.

16. Participation in the Contest implies acceptance of these rules and authorization for the dissemination of the photographs and podcasts submitted.

17. The deadline for submitting photographs and podcasts will begin on January 15, 2024 and end on June 23, 2025.

18. The photos, texts and, where applicable, the podcast link, will be sent to the email address: certame@escolasnasondas.com, indicating: Name of the student, title, school, educational level and contact telephone number and email address of the responsible teacher.

19. The results of the Contest will be made public on the PNO! website in September 2025, and will be communicated directly to the winners.

20. The jury’s decision will be considered final and cannot be the subject of any complaint. Any issue that, not being contemplated in the rules, arises throughout the process, will be resolved by the jury.

21. For any questions or clarifications regarding this Contest: ondas@pontenasondas.org

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