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#cultural-heritage

Investment in Eurovision has been really well spent because it has provided an opportunity for the UK to showcase itself to the world, the minister for the song contest has said.The Government pledged 10 million in funding to this year's competition, which is being held in Liverpool on behalf of last year's winners Ukraine.

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Actor James Norton has criticised the Prime Minister's plan for all pupils in England to study some form of maths until the age of 18, saying we need to keep nurturing the arts.

An artist behind the mammoth Great Tapestry of Scotland has said he felt like he was following in his mother's footsteps as, just like her, he was made an MBE.Andrew Crummy has worked on a number of large-scale public projects, including designing a 143-metre (469ft) long tapestry which tells the history of Scotland, and has been made an MBE in the New Year's Honours for services to art and cultural heritage.

Cambridge University's youngest college has been granted Grade II* listed status and hailed as a stunning city landmark.Robinson College, which was built between 1977 and 1980, was Cambridge's first purpose-built co-educational college and the last college to be established at Cambridge University.It has been listed at Grade II* by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) on the advice of Historic England.

Galerie Philia has produced an exhibition featuring Latin American designers called Montesino within the base of a statue of a local friar in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.Eleven designers from Dominican Republic and different Central and South American countries presented their work as part of the country's design week, which returned for the first time since 2019.

Including a pool-topped library and a half-buried stadium, Dezeen's China editor Christina Yao continues our review of 2022 with a roundup of Chinese architecture projects completed this year.With China under extreme covid lockdown restrictions throughout the year, architects in the world's most populous country have increasingly focused on socially and environmentally conscious work.

University of Hong Kong professors John Lin and Lidia Ratoi have combined an abandoned traditional wooden house in China with a 3D-printed structure.Named Traditional House of the Future, the prototype project is part of a government plan in Nanlong Village in southwest China to renovate hundreds of old wooden houses that have become dilapidated.

Swedish architecture studio Konstantin Arkitekter has created a pavilion in Greenland named Qaammat, which is made up of two glass block walls perched on the rocky terrain of a UNESCO World Heritage site.Located on a hiking trail in the municipality of Sarfannguit, Konstantin Arkitekter founder Konstantin Ikonomidis designed the structure as a landmark and gathering point that promotes the local culture and heritage.

Ukrainian navy musicians play the national anthem last March near the Odessa National Academic Theater of Opera and Ballet.(Salwan Georges/The Washington Post)PARIS - The historic center of the southern Ukrainian port city of Odessa was named a World Heritage site Wednesday and immediately classified as "in danger," after an accelerated inscription process by the U.N. cultural agency that may pave the way for more financial and technical assistance.

WARSAW, Poland - The United Nations cultural organization is training law enforcement and judiciary officials from countries on Ukraine's western borders, seeking to prevent the trafficking of looted cultural objects from Ukraine amid Russia's war against its neighbor.Are you on Telegram?Subscribe to our channel for the latest updates on Russia's war in Ukraine.

Shasta Dam is just nine miles north of Redding, California.It's one of the state's largest dams, built in the late 1930s and early 1940s.Behind it, three rivers backup creating Shasta Lake, the largest reservoir in the state.As California looks for ways to alleviate drought, the federal government is considering raising Shasta Dam by 18-and-a-half feet in order to store more water in wet years.

Nicola Sturgeon has paid tribute to Archbishop Mario Conti, the Emeritus Archbishop of Glasgow, saying he will be long and fondly remembered.The First Minister said she was very sad to learn of Archbishop Conti's death on Tuesday evening aged 88, following a short illness.He had been a priest for 64 years and a bishop for 45.

Archbishop Mario Conti, the Emeritus Archbishop of Glasgow, has died aged 88 following a short illness.The Archdiocese of Glasgow said that he died peacefully on Tuesday evening at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.He had been a priest for 64 years and a bishop for 45 years.He trained at St Mary's College, Blairs, Aberdeenshire, before studying at the Scots College and Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome where he obtained degrees in philosophy and theology and was ordained a priest in Rome on October 26, 1958.

One of Vladimir Putin's strategies during his brutal, illegal war in Ukraine has been to ensure that Russians only hear one version of reality.His.This week, the world learned that he's also applying that tactic to Ukrainian children.The Russian government has put thousands of Ukrainian children into what the Kremlin pitched as "recreation camps," but in actuality are re-education facilities aimed at Russifying the children with a pro-Moscow lens into Russian culture, history and society, according to a report released by Yale University and the Conflict Observatory, a program created by the State Department to document war crimes committed by Russian forces and their proxies in Ukraine.

Several well-established developers are among the owners of the 15 parcels of land the Ford government is proposing to open up for housing in the protected Greenbelt in the Greater Toronto Area, a CBC Toronto analysis of dozens of land registry and corporate records has found.The Ontario government announced a 30-day consultation last week on removing 2,832 hectares across 10 municipalities from the Greenbelt, which was created in 2005 to permanently protect agricultural and environmentally sensitive lands in the Greater Golden Horseshoe area from development.

Italian company Dyaqua, which has developed a way to produce solar panels so that they resemble the barrel clay tiles common on the roofs of buildings in Italy, has said the technology is important for the sustainable redevelopment of historical sites.Called Invisible Solar, the panels were developed by lighting company Dyaqua and have seen growing interest due to growing concerns with heritage buildings.

Veteran Spanish film-maker Carlos Saura, director of award-winning films such as Peppermint Frappe, Ay Carmela! and Tango, has died aged 91, the day before he was due to receive a lifetime achievement award at the Goyas, Spain's version of the Oscars.Spain's Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, the body that hands out the Goya awards, confirmed his death on social media, saying: Saura, one of the essential film-makers in the history of Spanish cinema, has died at home today at the age of 91, surrounded by his loved ones.

A robot and algorithm developed by computer scientists at Israel's Ben-Gurion University will be used to reassemble 15,000 stones that were part of elaborate frescoes in Pompeii before being destroyed by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.The work at Ben-Gurion spurred the creation of the international RePAIR (Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robots meet Cultural Heritage) project, comprised of computer scientists, roboticists, and archaeologists from Israel, Italy, Germany, and Portugal.

Thanks to new AI technology, almost 2,000 ancient Hittite tablets are being read for the first time.In a report by Arkeonews.net,the tablets, which are kept in the collections of the Çorum Museum, the Istanbul Archaeology Museum, and the Ankara Anatolian Civilizations Museum, have finished the project's initial phase of digitization.

The environmental activist Modou Fall, who many simply call Plastic Man', poses for a photo at the Yarakh Beach littered with trash and plastics in Dakar, Senegal.A former soldier, the 49-year-old father of three, says that plastic pollution, often excessive from people who chuck things out without a second thought, is an ecological disaster.

Published On 10 Nov 202210 Nov 2022 Yarakh Beach in the Senegalese capital Dakar is littered with trash and plastics, as government efforts seem to have fallen short in addressing the issue.Environmental activist Modou Fall has stepped in with a unique method to raise awareness about the dangers of plastics  by wearing many of the bags, cups and other junk that might just as soon be part of the trash piles.

Monday, November 21, 2022 by Jonathan Lee
The Planning Commission heard a presentation Tuesday on the Palm District Plan, an initiative that aims to guide growth and preserve cultural heritage in a rapidly changing part of downtown."The overarching vision of the district," Stevie Greathouse with the Housing and Planning Department said, "is that it become a vibrant, historic hub of downtown where the past is honored, culture is celebrated, and the future is shaped."

"This enables new identity and new safe spaces for future generations.""At the same time, transformation is a tool that lets us give tribute to cultural heritage, by creating new interpretations, new stories and new objects to carry on the tradition," she continued.Giant flower sculptures, a chair made out of tree stumps and a set of mini troughs all feature in a showcase of design and  craft at Galleri Format Oslo.