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Liberté — “After the imzad, the diwan as world heritage” Yes, just as I did for the imzad, I would have thrown myself into the diwan, for I truly wished to create the diwane foundation so that this musical genre might be inscribed as world heritage. It was my most fervent dream.*
The role of civil society is crucial to the preservation of heritage.
Having been invited to the 10th National Diwan Music Festival, I gave a lecture entitled “The Imzad, the story of a journey” on the process that led, in 2013, to the inscription of this traditional Tuareg instrument on the world heritage of humanity. Convinced that
The aim of my talk was quite simply to bring “Dar Diwan” to life, after the example of “Dar el Imzad”. The Diwane is every bit as important.
The Imzad Encounters
Note: For all the events organised by the “Sauver l’Imzad” association.
Each year, an action plan is proposed. A general assembly is held to approve the action plan. All of the imzad encounters, from conception to realisation, as well as the photographs and videos, are
the property of Farida Sellal, who has always assigned her copyright to the benefit of the Sauver l’Imzad association that she chairs.
1er Colloque international d’Imzad 2005
Where does the imzad come from? We hardly know. Where is the imzad going? Is it for us to say?
The creators are there for that. And yet, what can we say and what can we do?
To see to it that the imzad, faced with the twenty-first century, is protected from the two perils that threaten it: falling into disuse or losing its soul. That is what the Association has been doing since 2003. Indeed, since 2003 the “ Sauver l’Imzad ” Association has committed itself to safeguarding the IMZAD, the traditional musical instrument of the Tuareg. With the organisation of this first imzad encounter in 2005, the “Sauver l’Imzad” association called upon researchers of the scientific world, UNESCO and the Algerian Ministry of Culture to establish a genuine strategy for the preservation of this legendary instrument.
2ème Colloque international 2010
The imzad, from tradition to modernity
A cultural, artistic and scientific approach combines in a concern for communication. To make this national heritage known, to give value to an identity-bearing element on the way to extinction, speakers and researchers were selected, among others, Pr. Edda Brandes, Pr. Mourad Yelles, Pr. Pierre Augier, Dr. François Borel, Pr. Caroline Card Wendt, Dr. Cyril Isnart, Pr. Mohamed Aghal-Zakra, Dr. Faïza Arkam etc… who enriched this encounter with a scientific expertise that made it possible to consolidate the measure of what is at stake around the Imzad. How can cultural resources be mobilised according to principles that protect and preserve their deepest essence ? How can the safeguarding of a heritage of oral tradition be founded upon an enduring preservation?
3ème Colloque international 2011
The poetry of the desert people
Over these last five years, the reality is there, more alive than ever. Here we are debating tradition and modernity ; what does “ saving the imzad ” amount to? What does “ saving the imzad ” cost? A unique experience, as grandiose as it is rudimentary, like the instrument itself! And, to go beyond these figures, the safeguarding of the imzad reminds me of the Lapp poet Kumalau Tawali, who said :
“ One day I shall reach the source once more
There, to what was my cradle
Another peace
Will welcome me ”
4ème Colloque international 2019
Traditional sporting practices and sustainable cultural tourism
Starting from the description and analysis of traditional sporting games, from inventories with a precise description and an analysis of regional games and of players’ behaviours across the world, scientists tell us about them. Internal logic and external logic: games set back into their cultural context: rites, leisure, physical education: can the singularity of each game be reconciled with the universality of games as a whole: play-diversity or play-unity ?
What might the economic benefits be in terms of sustainable cultural tourism development: the contribution of traditional sporting practices?