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Bread culture brings us together
The project “Loaf stories. Identity & belonging through bread culture” is a cultural education project focusing on intangible heritage and the exchange of know-how between Limnos and Oslo. Drawing inspiration from the bread culture and its coherent dynamics within the community, and benefiting from the partners’ expertise in education, intangible heritage and the environment, the project emphasized the raw material (ancient and traditional seeds), the importance for the community of bread making and consumption, its equipment and techniques.
The implementation focused on preparing and conducting a series of activities in Limnos and included:
- a partners’ meeting in Oslo to finalise the planning and preparation of the activities
- a 2-day open event on bread as a living tradition and a meeting point of cultures, sustainability and climate change
- a structured exchange of views with the local community on bread making methods and beliefs from Limnos
- a two-day experiential workshop for adolescents, with and without disabilities, from schools in Limnos
- an exchange of good practices with representatives of local authorities on the integration of intangible heritage in the educational process.
For the needs of the project, original bilingual educational material and its accessible version for people with autism and developmental disorders were created.
The project “Loaf Stories. Identity & belonging through bread culture” is an inclusive cultural education project focusing on intangible cultural heritage and knowledge exchange between Greece (Limnos) and Norway (Oslo). Drawing inspiration from the culture of bread and its importance to the community, and drawing on the partners’ expertise in education, culture and sustainability, it emphasizes ancient and traditional seeds, local bread making and consumption habits, as well as equipment and techniques, both modern and traditional, that promote sustainable practices.
Drawing inspiration from bread culture and its significance within the community
as well as utilizing the partners’ expertise in education, intangible heritage, and the environment, the project emphasizes the use of ancient and traditional seeds, the importance of bread making and consumption within the community, and the equipment and techniques involved.
In collaboration with Project partners Fragment and Sanke, Places & Traces will focus on
preparing and implementing a series of activities that will take place in Limnos in spring
2025.
These activities include
an experiential workshop
for adolescents from schools in Limnos, including students with disabilities
a workshop for the general public
on bread as
a living tradition and a meeting point of cultures, sustainability, and climate change
a structured exchange
with the local community to showcase bread-making methods and
beliefs from Limnos
a meeting
to transfer knowledge on the institutional framing of
grassroots collective initiatives and the integration of bread culture into the educational
process
The project further includes the creation of accessible educational materials for students with learning disabilities. Loaf Stories is funded within the framework of the EEA Grants 2014-2021.
