About the storyboard competition
UNESCO Young People's World Heritage Education Project gives young people a chance to voice their concerns and to become involved in the protection of our common cultural and natural heritage.
Launched in 1994 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), this Program seeks to encourage and enable tomorrow's decision-makers to participate in heritage conservation and to respond to the continuing threats facing our World Heritage. Students learn about World Heritage sites, about the history and traditions of their own and other cultures, about ecology and the importance of protecting biodiversity. They become aware of the threats facing the sites and learn how nations unite to save heritage cherished by the international community as a whole. Most importantly, they discover how they can contribute to heritage conservation and make themselves heard.
Storyboards made by young people
The Program is elaborating and developing new innovative tools intended for young people transmitting World Heritage knowledge. Cartoon films based on storyboards created by young people are powerful means of conveying messages to their peers. One of these is the cartoon series “Patrimonito's World Heritage Adventures”.
There are now six episodes produced on selected World Heritage sites:
- Havana in Cuba,
- Urnes Church in Norway,
- Subantarctic Islands in New Zealand,
- Lalibela in Ethiopia
- Novgorod in the Russian Federation.
- Virunga Mountains in DRC, Rwanda and Uganda
For information on previous “Patrimonito's World Heritage Adventures” visit: http://whc.unesco.org/en/activities/476
Storyboard Competition
The purpose of the competition is to produce a new animated film on the preservation and conservation of the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area, linking this to the issue of climate change and sustainable behaviours. This is also meant to celebrate the International Year of the Reef 2008 (IYOR 2008), a worldwide awareness campaign about the value and importance of coral reefs and threats to their sustainability, seeking to motivate young people to take action to protect them. Young participants from Australia are invited to express their ideas on the situation of the site by drawing their cartoons in a storyboard.
Contestants must be between 12 to 18 years old, participating as an individual or as a group of at most three persons. This is an ideal individual or group activity in a classroom. There is no limit in the number of storyboard entries submitted by a school or youth group.
Judging
Once UNESCO receives the storyboards, an independent jury will select the best one(s) to be produced in a cartoon. The jury will be composed of representatives from the World Heritage Centre, the UNESCO Associated Schools, the UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (DESD), the UNESCO Task Force on Global Climate Change and production team representative(s). The storyboards will be evaluated on how the work reflects knowledge of the site, the situation and problems faced by the site and the creative effort of the young author(s).
The author(s) of the storyboard selected to be produced as a cartoon will be recognised and his/her name credited in the film that will be distributed worldwide by UNESCO and its partners. A special compensation will be given to the teacher and school and/or youth organisation of the young winner(s).
All the participants who send the results of their work project shall obtain the Certificate of the UNESCO World Heritage Centre recognising their engagement in the protection and the safeguarding of World Heritage.
Patrimonito represents a young heritage guardian.
More information
If you need further information, you can contact:
Australian Government Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts
Tel: (02) 6274 2793
Fax: (02) 6274 1094
Email: storyboardcompetition@environment.gov.au
UNESCO World Heritage Centre
WHYH Patrimonito Storyboard Competition
7 place de Fontenoy,
75007 Paris
France
Ms Carmla Quin
Focal point for the UNESCO World Heritage Education
Tel: (33)01 45 68 18 71
Fax : (33)01 45 68 55 70/72
Email: c.quin@unesco.org
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