Let's protect our heritage

In collaboration with Damascus Municipality, the EU funded project "Cultural Participation for Heritage Regeneration" will celebrate the renovation of Al Umawi alley's facades with the residents of Uqayba neighbourhood in Damascus.

Press and public are warmly invited.

Where: Uqayba neighbourhood, north of Bab Al 'Amara, meeting point near Hammam Ammuna, behind Al Dahdah cemetery.

When: Thursday, 24 February 2011, at 4 pm.

The project aims to encourage residents to take care of their local heritage. The renovation work was the result of a participatory process with local dwellers of Uqayba. Ideas were collected during many meetings with community representatives. Two small projects were implemented with the collaboration of Damascus Municipality, and the supervision of the directorate of the Old City. Electricity and telephones cables were changed and gathered to liberate the beautiful traditional facades.

The Cultural Participation for Heritage Regeneration project is funded by the European Union and the Netherlands Royal Embassy in Damascus. It is implemented by Ifpo's Atelier du Vieux-Damas, in partnership with Art Renaissance Association, the Netherlands Institute for Academic Studies and the Danish Institute in Damascus.