 Hello. Welcome back. So for our closing ceremony for Innovate Heritage, we are very grateful for having two different musical performances. In our online program, we were going to start with a performer from Azerbaijan, but we've actually decided to switch it and flip it. So actually first we'll be a ensemble with artists from Iran, Taiwan and Germany. I'll let them introduce themselves as the individual artists. And so please welcome them to the stage. After that we will, yes, okay, please welcome them to the stage. Thank you. Thank you very much. So we are also pleased to do a little presentation to this very interesting conference. And we are the trio, which means cloud in Farsi. So my expression of this would be a cloud between heaven and earth. We're somewhere having a music that comes from a tradition from Kurdistan where Puriya Solju was born in a city called Kermanshah in Iran, but in a cultural region of Kurdistan. So this instrument called tambour, and this music that is played on the tambour very traditionally is folk music coming from a sacred background. And we are bringing this tradition into a new context by joining a Western cello from Huichun Lin. She comes from Taiwan, has a classical education and is very experienced in improvisation and free improvisation. Me myself, I'm a German player, but I'm interested in many world music traditions. So also the Iranian drums and the Iranian music. And we put together our joy of playing music together and especially here in this Kurdish tradition. So we have another two songs for you. And thanks for listening. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. This was for you on the tambour and singing for you. Puriya Solju from Iran and on cello and on the earth, the Chinese violin and also singing Huichun Lin from Taiwan. And I play for you. And I play for you the tambour and the daf. My name is Peter Kunsch and we are opera. Thank you so much. Yeah. So while we have your attention, you guys are still here. We're actually going to do the closing ceremony. So it's the end. We have one more musical performance, which is very, very exciting. That's after this also. I heard them practicing. It's very good. So better listen to that. So as you know, my name is Elliot. And Katarina. Yeah. And Katarina, who's quieter on the mic than me, but my partner in crime with the innovate heritage. So an equal player. So in closing, I just wanted to say some notes. And then we have some thank yous to make. So innovate heritage conversations between arts and heritage has been a privilege to work on and learn from some small audience members here. Okay, so I'll start over. Sorry. Innovate heritage conversations between arts and heritage has been a privilege to work on to learn from the stories and knowledge and vastly rich cultures that have made up this first year's conference. With the support of HowlRoundTV, a center for theater commons in Boston, we have been able to live stream the full program of this conference internationally. So the knowledge and stories shared here this weekend are accessible to many more people as well as contributing to an online archive that we will hopefully continue to grow. I'm happy to report that we have had many views and clicks over the past three days. And I'm just going to read some numbers. From the U.S., we had, so the U.S. is 476, Germany 348, Spain 71, Singapore 50, U.K. 49, Italy 37, Egypt 20, France 19, Azerbaijan 11, Canada 11, Brazil 8, Russia 8, Japan 7, Slovenia 6, India 6, Belgium 6, Montenegro 5, Lebanon 5, Netherlands 4, Chile 4, Austria 4, Iran 4, Australia 3, Argentina 2, Jordan 2, New Zealand 2, Switzerland 2, Denmark 2, Turkey 1 and Belarus 1. So I just want to say thank you very much to HowlRoundTV for making that possible. So this project would not have been possible without the wonderful collaboration with my colleague Katerina Benekasa and the support and intellectual inspiration of the World Heritage Studies Program and everyone who took a step forward in supporting us, giving their time, submitting their proposals, paying their own travel to present and attend this event. Innovate Heritage is truly the result and a project or experience and network that is thanks to everyone who is here and those who have contributed. So I just want to say thank you to everybody that's really belongs to everybody so thank you and we are happy to confirm that this is only the beginning and of many more conversations we wish to engage. Innovate Heritage 2015 as well as research Katerina and I will be engaging in as well as the publication for this year's conference published by Think Heritage will hopefully contribute to advocate, engage discourse and creative exchange as the initiative evolves and organically is realized or realizes itself. Thank you for participating as we innovate heritage. So we would just like to again thank our partners who without this it really wouldn't have been possible especially the people who took a chance on younger people with some ideas. Yeah so again the German Commission for UNESCO who gave a travel grant to for Mohammed Ramadan who was on the Syrian panel and also for the keynote from Dr. Wolf. The World Heritage Studies Program at BTU especially Brita Rudolph our advisor for outreach and support from the program coordinator and Professor Schuster for his great support as well for printing and resources. The British Council for travel grants for Rosanna Raymond, Tyler Kim, Nick Wilson, Daisy Sutcliffe and Shaheen Morali and especially Dr. Elgarit who we met with and who was very supportive unfortunately she wasn't able to be here but yeah her support was a meant a lot. Zatkaou and the team in here for their generous support to this project as a sponsor and Oriental Heritage Without Borders our host organization who gave us a lot of generous support have been really really supportive of this project and for their curatorial collaborations and the Azerbaijan Student Network who have supported the next performer you're going to see as well as other generous support. Hauron TV in Boston the US especially to Vijay our technical support who was amazing and yeah really really helped us realize that aspect of the conference. Palihidra and Italy for other support, EG Arts in Azerbaijan for support of the weavings and textile arts, Vivo Media Arts in Canada who gave us a discount on screening fees for the Spice Aquino Film Program, Northwest Folklife for technical support and Kutu Stiffing de Landa for an endorsement. Many thanks also to our committees who all these the following people believed in us right from the start our advisory board which is which comprises Dr. Ritterudolf from BTU Cottbus, Professor Wolfgang Schuster who was here and away, Professor Saxon Meyer also from BTU and Simone Kadar and many thanks also to Honorary Board and Dr. Ronan Benekir from the UNESCO Commission here in Germany, Professor Hermann Partsinger from the president of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, Professor Harold Bloom who endorsed our project from the States who's a literary critic and sterling professor of humanities at Yale University, Christian Borows who's a cultural entrepreneur and collector here in Berlin and Isabel Pfeiffer-Punsgen who's a secretary general of the Kutu Stiffing de Landa. Thank you also to our scientific committee, first off I guess Dr. Laura Jane Smith who agreed immediately to adhere to this project, Timothy Badman from IUCN, Milika Ilik from Balkan Express and David Maisel, photographer and visual artist from the States. Okay so now if people are available we'd like to acknowledge our volunteers and coordinators who have helped make this possible also a special shout out to volunteers Christine and Andra who at the last moment basically hung the entire visual art show, very impressive and Shahul and Carl and Chelsea for their technical support, Katie and Olga for hospitality support and Fabian and Elliot for technical support with the camera and for the coordinators well we'll start off by saying a really big thank you to Anne O'Dowd. Yeah let's just say thank you to Anne. Anne flew here after a lot of manipulation for me from Seattle Washington to help run tech for the conference and give a presentation so very indebted to her service so Dana Mack who is in the back running the live stream right now who has managed the website and done all the graphic design she hand drew the tree on the logo very amazing work and Vusalla who has been running registration right there and has done amazing work around getting us partnerships in Azerbaijan getting textile artists and musicians and great partnerships and has done a great job Anastasia who has been doing who's in the back also right now being actively maintaining our social media and who's managed press and does an amazing job long distance from Amsterdam Kenny who's operating camera and has done a really great job with a lot of helping with the conference and the development of the structure Anar who did the open call that some of you submitted to and Courtney who at the last moment jumped up and helped us wrangle all the volunteers and organize everything so I just want to thank them really quickly all the coordinators so and lastly just a quick acknowledgement also of our partners from Oriental Heritage Without Borders the great support of Daman who has also been giving photo doing photography throughout the event and has been a really great organizational support responded right away whenever we had emergency emails very fabulous and Sapeeda who helps get both Angelique and Tamam for the visual art exhibition from Syria and also curated and facilitated the Syrian art panel Syrian art and heritage and danger panel and Saraya the president of Oriental Heritage Without Borders who has helped us a lot with figuring out all the logistics with financial stuff and just been very very supportive provided guest housing and also had recommended Naima one of the artists from Iran for the visual art exhibition so I'm sure there's many more people to thank but we don't want to sit here all day and we just want to thank everybody for participating it's really been an honor to to participate in this event with you it's a bit surreal that it happened and we're just excited to see where it goes next so thank you very much I guess we'll take just a moment to set up the next performer and so we'll just maybe let you know when to come back but don't don't leave they're really really good I promise okay thank you