THE OLYMPICS OF TRADITIONAL GAMES – VILLAMAR AND NURECI – 29 TO 30 SEPTEMBER

Back one of the most awaited by the children of Sardinia: the Olympics of the traditional game organized by the Consortium in collaboration with the Two Jars of Sa Corona Arrubia and that this year will also see children from 6 to 18 years dressed in the clothes of their ancestors compete in games of the past. Preparations are already frantic. Since a few weeks we are doing the teaching laboratories in the new countries that have joined the project curated by Roberta Muscas, deus ex machina of the initiative. The project provides for a field research through interviews with elders of the countries and surveys are selected new games that become part of the database of the project, and then the Olympics. This is the strength of a tried and tested format: a meticulous and careful which means that every year the initiative will grow ever stronger. In fact, thanks to the involvement of a number of municipalities increasingly high, the study of those that were traditions and heritage of Sardinia playful becomes increasingly broad and accurate. But that’s not all: the size of the project is increasingly transnational. The fact continues to intensify scientific cooperation in order to protect, enhance and promote traditional games as an important intangible cultural heritage. Last January an agreement was sanctioned in Tunis between the Consortium Two Jars, the Olympics Game Traditional, the ALECSO and the Network Euroethno for the establishment of a thesaurus of the traditional game in the world and exporting the model in Olympics partner countries. The petitioners have participated in the Competition Enpi which is specifically aimed Olympics export the model in other parts of Europe and the Arab countries. The Convention of Tunis partners to promote their intangible cultural heritage of the traditional games in particular as applied to or transmit through the collective memory, have agreed among other things to establish, took an interactive website that will host the international thesaurus des jeux du patrimoine hosted dall’Alesco which will organize a series of actions for the development of the games. The network Euroethno the Council of Europe will have the scientific expertise for the comparative study, the Consortium Two Jars provide the skills acquired through years of organizing the event to restore the traditional game in Sardinia and finally the Olympics of the traditional game of Sardinia represented by Roberta Muscas, creator and scientific coordinator of the Olympics will provide the scientific expertise and the development of the format for the realization of the Olympics games transnational heritage. On the occasion of this eighth edition of the Olympic Games traditional Sardinian be celebrated with a conference the inauguration of the Transnational Network for the protection of intangible cultural heritage of the traditional game. Lino says Zedda, President of the Consortium: “It is for us a very important step that is contextualized fully with the origins of the birth institution consortium whose main objective has always been the protection and preservation of cultural identity in its tangible and intangible aspects such as carrier from which to generate a process of local development. A challenge that demonstrates how to territories with difficulty escaping projects and activities of high value, such as to then take on a international interest. ” The project for the preservation of the traditional game that the consortium has pursued for over 10 years, is part of a larger project to create the Cultural District Evolved Marmilla that focuses on knowledge, skills and creativity of the local people. “We are very pleased with how things are going forward – said Roberta Muscas and continues – the value that is given to the project by the partners is then derived from which the interest is the fact that the export format Olympics while focusing on research and on the study of the traditional game, goes further and identifies as a central element of the transfer of traditional knowledge of the game through workshops and through the business idea of the event. ” The event will take place in Villamar, which will host the first day of the new edition of the Olympiad of the traditional game of Sardinia. The event is scheduled for Saturday, September 29th streets and squares of the old town center of Marmilla with the demonstration organized by the two consortia Tours Sa Corona Arrubia and Two Jars and coordinated by Roberta Muscas. The races will start at 17.30
Parteciperranno This year the event along with historical teams of the Consortium Two Jars and Sa Corona Arrubia, including those formed by the municipalities of Bidonì, Abbasanta, Orotelli, Nughedu San Nicolò, Siurgus Donigala and Soleminis.
Children aged 6 to 18 years of the area but also in other countries Sardinians will battle with the traditional games of their fathers and their grandfathers. This is why Luna mounts, Badruffa, Biccus, Cadiredda holy, On giogu de Brillias on drums, ancestors of baseball and bowling to name only some of the evidence. The event will conclude Sunday, Sept. 30 moving into High Marmilla and precisely Nureci.