Last year, on the occasion of the International Day of
Monuments and Sites, Google launched
Open Heritage on Google Arts & Culture to show the technology used to
preserve cultural heritage around the world. .
In addition to bringing new iconic places and their stories
to Google Arts & Culture, this year also Historic Environment Scotland and
the University of South Florida - organizations with a common commitment to
open their 3D datasets to the world - have joined the project Open Heritage.
Together, they are launching Open Heritage 3D, a dedicated
portal to share 3D cultural heritage data and its results with anyone.
In CyArk, they carried out this mission through 3D documentation. In
2018, they went to Mexico City to
support restoration efforts after the devastating earthquake that struck the
city in 2017. Their efforts also
included 3D documentation of the city's enormous cathedral. It is one of the
many cultural heritage sites around the world that face unprecedented
challenges, from natural disasters and climate change, to human conflicts and
urban invasions.
Message for World Poetry Day 2019 by Audrey Azoulay : Director General of UNESCO
Dreams
Hold on to dreams
because if dreams die
, life is a bird with broken wings
that cannot fly.
Hold on to dreams
because when dreams go away
, life is a dry field
frozen in snow.
(Langston Hughes)
These verses by the poet Langston Hughes are an invitation to a dream, an escape, an emancipation. Poetry is undoubtedly the best form to express this desire, because it touches us in the intimate and allows every form of freedom.
This poem speaks of the extraordinary power of words that open up infinite horizons, improve our lives, change reality, embellish it, show it in a new light that has never been seen before.
Poetry is not a trivial game of sounds, words and images: it has a creative and transformative power.
A poet, writer, playwright and leader of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s, Langston Hughes put his art at the service of combating discrimination against the African American community. His poetry is therefore inseparable from his commitment to civil rights and remains a source of inspiration for all supporters of fundamental freedoms around the world.
Poetry is also this unique art that makes us aware of the extraordinary human diversity: the diversity of languages and cultures. It is a meeting place between the individual and the world. It is an introduction to difference, dialogue and peace. It is the testimony of the universality of the human condition that goes beyond the innumerable means used to describe it.
Every year since 1999, UNESCO celebrates World Poetry Day on March 21st. It is an opportunity to celebrate the richness of the cultural and linguistic heritage of the world. It is also an opportunity to draw attention to the traditional forms of poetry that risk disappearing, as in the case of many less used and minority languages. To maintain living traditions, UNESCO has included a number of poetic forms in the immaterial heritage of humanity: for example the poetic art of Ca trù sung by Viet Nam, Al'azi of the United Arab Emirates, Baul songs from Bangladesh and l Oral heritage of Gelede shared by the Yoruba-Nago community living in Togo, Benin and Nigeria.
Poetry is not limited to the artistic aspect: it is also a tool for formal and informal education. In this sense, arts and cultural practices provide effective support for lifelong learning. This is why UNESCO encourages and supports artistic education as it strengthens intellectual, emotional and psychological development, shaping generations that can be able to reinvent the world.
This day is also an opportunity to pay tribute to all the people who give life to this important art: poets, of course, but also translators, publishers and organizers of poetry readings and poetry festivals. UNESCO encourages all Member States to support in their actions all those who work every day so that poetry can continue to enrich our lives.
Finally, since poetry is an act of creation and sharing, on this World Day, UNESCO invites everyone to create, invent, share and open up to other languages and other ways of naming the world, to rejoice in all that enriches our diversity. Because cultivating art and cultivating the mind is also cultivating peace.
- Audrey Azoulay, Director General
Message on World Poetry Day 2018
देखिये .......यह हैं मेरे दो जाँ सिपाही... मेरे घर की रखवाली करने वाले दो पौधे...साथ ही यह दोनों मेहमानों का स्वागत भी करते है,...
इन दोनों बड़े गमलों को मैंने बड़ी टूटी बाल्टियों पर बचे-खुचे तायल के तुकडे चिपका कर और ग्रोउट से भर कर ऊपर से स्कैच पैन से आउटिंग कर ऊपर से वार्निश कर दिया ...मुझे अपने दो बड़े पौधों के लिये बड़े गमले चाहियें थे ....सीमेंट के गमले बहुत भारी हो जाते तब मैंने टूटी बाल्टियोंऔर अन्य सामान के साथ इन गमलों को बनाया.
इस गमले में थूजा का पौधा है...इसे मैंने करीब १०-११ वर्ष पहले छोटे गमले में लगाया था...
और ऊपर इसमें जटरोपा का पौधा है..यह ७-८ वर्ष पहले मैंने छोटे गमले में लगाया था..
इसे बाद में मैंने ऊपर से रिम पर और ग्राउट लगाया और फ़िर स्कैच पैन से आउटिंग कर के ऊपर से दो कोट वार्निश कर दी...
देखिये ऊपर और नीचे की तास्विरें........इ ऊपर की रिम से कितनी दुरुस्त हो गई है...
इस बाल्टी का रिम बिलकुल टूट गया था मैंने बाल्टी की रिम पर एक मोटी सुई लेकर इसे गर्म कर जगह -जगह छेद किये और एक पानी की बेकार पड़ी ट्यूब के बीच मेंचिर लगा कर इसे रिम में फिट कर दिया,। और फ़िर इसे बोरी के तुकडे से फेविकोल से चिपकाया और फ़िर तार से सिल दिया..
सभी बेकार चीजें यानी कि बोरी का टुकड़ा, टूटी पुरानी ट्यूब, टूटी ताय्लने और टूटी बालटी का सही उपयोग कर सुन्दर गमले बन गये..
यह देखिये ज़रा नजदीक से कितना सुन्दर और टिकाऊ गमला बन गया है....
शब्बा जहीर!!!
