6th Cultural Forum 2022, Our Archaeological Heritage: A Vision for the Future
07 March 2022
Alexandria, Egypt
Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center, Multipurpose Hall
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The BA Antiquities Museum, affiliated to the Cultural Outreach Sector, organizes its sixth annual forum, titled “Together, We Learn about our Archaeological Heritage”, in the Multipurpose Hall, Bibliotheca Alexandrina Conference Center, on Monday, 7 March 2022. The Forum reflects the prevailing interest to integrate people of determination and achieve the tenth goal of the sustainable development goals (Egypt Vision 2030), as people of determination face many difficulties to reach and navigate through museums. Museums still have to open up to society at large by adjusting their infrastructure to promote social inclusion. Therein lies the importance of technology, represented in virtual museums, to overcome all the obstacles facing different groups of people with special needs, such as visually impaired and deaf people, as well as people with motor disabilities and autism.
The Forum will present a number of lectures dealing with carefully selected archaeological topics, as it aims to spread archaeological awareness in order to enhance the concept of cultural outreach among the Alexandrian public. The Forum also targets one of the most important groups of society, people of determination, to spread archaeological awareness among them as well.
The Forum's lectures revolve around several topics, such as “Singing in Mamluk Egypt…The Sect of Singers”, will be held to shed light on the Sect of Singers and their status on the political and social levels, as well as discuss their instruments, activities, and the neighborhoods they inhabited, in addition to their position in the social hierarchy as part of the fabric of society at that time. The Forum will conclude with a lecture titled “The Greek Community in Alexandria during the Nineteenth Century...The Surviving Landmarks”, to highlight the most important landmarks left by the Greek community, whether the neighborhoods in which they lived, their shops, recreational facilities, or others. This comes in light of the historical events that characterized that period.