CONFERENCE ON SÁMI INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE

May 23rd – May 24th, 2018

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

May 23, 2018

10:00 – 10:30 OPENING SESSION

10:00 – 10:10 Opening words – moderator

10:10 – 10:15 The president of Sámi Parliament in Finland – Tiina Sanila-Aikio

10:15 – 10:20 The president of Sámi Parliament in Norway – Aili Keskitalo

10:20 – 10:25 The Sámi Parliament in Sweden –  Marina Nilsson Ederlöv

10:30 – 11:30 START

10:30 – 10:50 UNESCO/WIPO – Rasul Samadov / Jon Petter Gintal

10:50 – 11:10 The challenges of the Intangible Cultural Heritage on Sámi point of view – Petra Laiti

11:10 – 11:30  Misuse of the Sámi Culture in Finnish tourism – Kirsi Suomi

1st Topic: Duodji, the Sámi handicraft

11:30 – 11:50 The challenges of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in Duodji – Mari-Ann Nutti, Samesløydstiftelsen

11:50 – 12:10 The Soul of Duodji – Maarit Magga

12:10 – 13:10 Lunch

Opening of the Duodji Exhibitions

Fia Kaddik: Short Course on Tin Thread Weaving

1st Topic: Duodji, the Sámi handicraft

13:05 – 13:25 The challenges of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in teaching – Samuli Valkeapää

13:25 – 13:45 Work in progress: The Sámi Duodji Trademark – Ellen Berit Dalbakk, Saami Council

13:45 – 13:55 MIS of Sápmi cooperative – Marit Guttorm Graven

13:55 – 14:05 Comments

2nd topic: Archive Objects: Approach to the Intangible Cultural Heritage

14:05 – 14:25 The Heritage Returns Home – Eeva-Kristiina Harlin (Outi Pieski)

14:25 – 14:35 Repatriation and Revitalization – Eeva-Kristiina Harlin

14:35 – 14:50 Project AIDA – Hanna Helander/Sunna Valkeapää, Sámi Archive

14:50 – 15:00 Comments

15:00 – 15:30: Coffee

3rd Topic: The Cultural Memories of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

15:30 – 15:55 Protection of the Sámi Intangible Cultural Heritage – Klemetti Näkkäläjärvi

15:55 – 16:15 Intangible Cultural Heritage in place names – Marit Myrvoll

16:15 – 16:35 Names of the sacred Sámi sites in written and oral sources – Jelena Porsanger

16:35 – 16:55 Intangible heritage on Mountain Rástegáisá – Toralf Henriksen

16:55 – 17:00 Comments

EVENING PROGRAM:

17:45 – 19:30 Cultural Program

Publication of the 6th Poetry Collection of Niillas Holmberg – DAT

Niillas Holmberg reading his poems and yoiking

Inga Victoria Påve: Presentation of the photos in the Poetry Collection

20:00 – 22:00 Dinner (self-paid)

May 24, 2018

4th Topic: Passing on the Intangible Singing Heritage – Yoik

10:05 – 10:25 The status of Yoik – Challenges and Rights – Biret Risten Sara

10:25 – 10:45 Saami Culture and Evolving Copyrights – Piia Nuorgam

10:45 – 11:05 How to Take Livđe back – Anna Morottaja

11:05 – 11:25 The Challenges of Yoik and the Recruit – Domna Khomjuk

11:25 – 11:45 Sámi Music Academy – SOGSAKK/Sámi Allaskuvla – Annukka Hirvasvuopio-Laiti

11:45 – 12:00 Comments

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch 

Näyttelynavaus – Inarinsaamen puhujat – valokuvanäyttely

5th Topic: Passing on the Story-telling Heritage

13:05 – 13:25 Perspectives on protection –  Pauliina Feodoroff

13:25 – 13:45 Story-telling with the Creatures of the Sámi Mythology – Kirsti Paltto

13:45 – 14:05 Sámi Short Film: Eatnanvuloš lottit by Marja Helander

14:05 – 14:25 Stage Text on the Sámi Stories –  Sara Margrethe Oskal

14:25 – 14:45 ISFI:  – Ethical Regulations for the movie makers and movie companies from outside – Liisa Holmberg

14:45 – 15:00 Comments

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee

6th Topic: Rights and the Intangible Heritage

15:35 – 15:55 The Ethical Regulations and the Understanding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Brought for the Outside Professionals – Anni-Helena Ruotsala

15:55 – 16:15 Is there a Place for Traditional Knowledge in the Mastery of Natural Resources? – Solveig Joks, Sámi University College

16:15 – 16:35 Traditional Economical Knowledge in Reindeer Herding – Berit Inga

16:35 – 17:00 Challenges in Passing on the Traditional Fishing skills – Ásllat Holmberg / Ivan Matrekhin

17:00 – 17:10 Comments

17:10 – 17:30  Greetings to Sápmi

Rasul Samadov (UNESCO); Hildegunn Bjørgen (NOR), Leena Marsio (FIN); Marina Nilsson Ederlöv (SWE)

17:30 – 17:45  Closure: the Protection of the Cultural Heritage

Panel discussion

EVENING EVENT IN SAJOS:

20:00 – 21:00 – Film night with Skábmagovat

Call and response
Canada, 2014, 5’
Director: Craig Commanda

An Anishnaabe musician of the digital era – the director himself – faces features of his nation’s heritage in the forest at night.

Gobmemainnas 
Sápmi/Finland, 2017, 6’
Director: Niki Rasmus

Aslak Pieski tells a frightening story about his childhood.

Juuret on – Under Two Skies 
Sápmi/Finland, 2016, 13’
Director: Suvi West & Anssi Kömi

A short film about leaving, love and the meaning of roots.

Half & half
Kalaallit Nunaat, Denmark, 2015, 3’
Director: Aka Hansen

Director Aka Hansen ponders her mixed heritage by posing well-struck questions about how others perceive her, which in contrast to the filmic symmetry suggests that identity cannot be split neatly in half.

Morit Elena Morit – Wake up Elena Wake Up 
Sápmi/Sweden, 2017, 5’
Director/Screenwriter /Production: Inga-Wiktoria Påve & Anders Sunna

An awarded animation (imagineNATIVE Media + Arts Festival, Skábmagovat Film Festival) shows how colonialisation has sneaked upon the Sámi people and gives other young Sámi a shout out to wake up and rebuild their connection to nature and traditions.

Three thousand
Canada, 2017, 14’
Director: Asinnajaq

‘’My father was born in the spring – half snow, half skin. I was born in a hospital, with jaundice and two teeth’’. In a fascinating time travel by an Inuk director, the past, the present and the future of the Inuit become an impressive mixture of archive pictures and animation. Three thousand received Best Global Indigenous Short film award at Skábmagovat 2018.

Smoke That Travels
USA, 2016, 13’
Director: Kayla Briët

Language, dance, music and Potowatomi history are woven into a wise weft by a self-taught young director in this beautiful homage to the teachings and cultural heritage of the director’s father.

Heidi – Kaissi-U’lljan-Mä’rjj-U’lljan
Sápmi/Finland, 2016, 10’
Director: Aleksi Ahlakorpi, Production: Sámi Education Institute

A short documentary on Heidi Gauriloff, a Skolt Sámi craftsmaker, who was already an adult when she finally got the chance to learn the language and culture of her family.

Sää’nte’mes Saakk 
Sápmi/Finland, 2016, 7’
Director: Sámi Education Institute student group / Production: Erkki Feodoroff / Sámi Education Institute

Anna Lumisalmi sings in the first Skolt Sámi leu’dd music video in the world.

Mu nieidaskihpára áhkku – My girlfriend’s Grandma
Sápmi, Finland, 2016, 8’

An amusing story about a boy who meets his girlfriend’s grandmother for the first time. Will he and the grandmother find a common language? And what does jelly have to do with this story?

WE WOULD LIKE TO THANK ALL WHO HAVE FUNDED OUR CONFERENCE!