Country Fair Achievements 2017 - 2018
Achievements and results
Our best achievement is that the
events have grown as greatness, as it developed from a country fair in which
the producers were encouraged, into a place where communities present to the
public their cultural heritage, unfolding their many layers: producers,
traditional recipes cooked on the spot, exhibitions of patrimony objects
illustrating the main occupations of the villagers, exhibitions with photos
illustrating the traditional houses, folk costumes, landscapes with the village
and their lands, craftsmen and workshops for showing the process of creating a
traditional object.
Producers of traditional goods come
into contact with our visitors, and in time, they had more visitors.
Each year, there are more and more
visitors interested in the events, they even ask for the next events and about
the communities invited.
The effect on the communities
Communities invited in the museum are
better viewed and recognized by anyone looking for them or the activities
promoted. They learn to value more what they still have, they learn to organize
themselves better, they become aware that what they still live or know is
valuable for everyone interested in tradition, they are even in competition one
with another.
How the producers were selected?
There were two main ways to select
the producers. First, there are some criteria that should be taken into
account, connected to the producer’s licenses and food safety criteria. The
partners have chosen the permanent producers, and during the communities’ fair,
the mayor of a village brings all the producers that are under his authority.
The other way to choose the producers is to answer their request to be part of
the Country fair.
The events that happen as part of the programme The country
fair are all about preserving and promoting cultural heritage. Through the help
of culinary tradition, we try to build a social network between the actants-the
representatives of the communities invited, and the visitors of the museum and
even the staff of the museum.
Just imagine, an old lady cooking the most traditional
dishes in the village, whose recipes were probably taught to her by a
grandmother, telling everybody words that describe an image of another world: a
village whose cultural landscape is all set in order, everybody works its land
thoroughly, in all the yards there are plenty of fowls, cows, sheep, horses.
Everything is set in order, everybody work for their food, thank God for all
His gifts and feast almost half of the y
ear round. In this context, food is at
the heart of the social interaction, grandmothers, mothers and daughters cook
together, teaching the younger ones all they should or shouldn’t do. Now, think
of this old lady, telling the visitors about this foreign image of the
traditional village, of the weddings and christening celebrations, about the
joy of having your dear ones close to you and share with them the outcome of
your work.
The Fair of the communities is actually a holiday of the
village, as the representatives of each community, namely the mayor, producers
of traditional food, craftsmen, groups of dancers, folk singers, old ladies
cooks show the best of their cultural heritage.
Everybody wins, both the communities who realise that all
this in valuable and deserves to be preserved and promoted and we, the
beneficiaries who feed ourselves with the beauty and temperance of tradition in
all its aspects.
Traditional costumes, traditional textiles, pottery,
exhibition of patrimony objects, craftmen’s workshops, exhibition of photos with
traditional houses, people in folk costumes, landscapes of the village and the
land, everything completes the image of the community invited at the country
fair.
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