At Kimale we could try the culture heritage café in a new setting. We baked cakes with eggs and cream from the neighbour farm. Inese and Kim, Kimale owners, invited people through their social media channels getting friends, neighbors, history interested people and individuals that went to school in the mansion a couple of decades ago.

To own the skills to both tell stories and listen to stories is about the right to the spoken word. It's a matter of democracy. This is especially present in cultures, such as the Estonian and the Latvian, where speech has been suppressed up till very recently. And the present history in Europe shows that this can change very quickly. The straight forward methods of traditional storytelling has a very important role to play in moderna society.

Creating a strong and sustainable network is always about people. Individuals that meet, build trust and then create things together.

To aim for the future we gathered the last night at Kimale around four major focus areas and tried to come up with solutions. All these ideas will be gathered to go for the next level with Kuldrum. We don't believe we are done yet! This is just the beginning!

We had the fantastic opportunity to visit the Latvian Folklore Archives at the National Library in Riga. Ieva Vivere gave us a first lecture about Dainas, the more than 250.000 verses that was gathered in cigar boxes a hundred years ago.

The cupboard where the verses were kept can still be seen as an icon at the National Library.

Connecting to the common generations is of utter importance for tradition, especially immaterial traditions that need to be passed on from person to person. We have brought in our next generation into the project.