Le Qatar et le Chili collaborent pour planter des graines du patrimoine et des touches de tradition
Dans le village côtier de Matanzas, au Chili, des bénévoles du programme Years of culture des musées du Qatar se joignent aux habitants pour restaurer les plantes indigènes et peindre une peinture murale célébrant le patrimoine qatari et chilien.
00:00La idée, un peu, c'est faire une montre botanique de la flora nativa qui croise principalement en la zone conterre.
00:10La idée est d'avoir cette montre comme une forme d'éducir et d'enseigner, surtout aux enfants,
00:19pour qu'ils apprennent à cuider et à reconnaître la flora nativa de ce lieu.
00:24Fins, flowers and forest shrubs, this is Matanzas,
00:34a small fishing village two and a half hours away from the Chilean capital of Santiago.
00:39It's home to some of the country's most diverse collections of native plants.
00:44It was also in this region where the English naturalist Charles Darwin explored in the 1800s
00:50that would help build the foundations of his famous theory of evolution.
00:58This was the very coastline that Darwin navigated some centuries ago.
01:03But the native plants that line Matanzas have been fortifying the cliffs long before his voyage.
01:09And today, Ignatia Echeverria is leading a group of volunteers to repopulate those indigenous shrubs.
01:17La idea un poco es hacer una muestra botánica de la flora nativa que crece principalmente en la zona conterre.
01:28La idea es poder tener esta muestra como una forma de educar y enseñar,
01:35sobre todo a los niños, para que aprendan a cuidar y a reconocer la flora nativa de este lugar.
01:41The workshop is focusing on replenishing native plants with two main objectives,
01:49to create a biological corridor by attracting insects, birds and other animals,
01:54and to strengthen the soil along the coast.
01:57Ignatia and her team are joined by volunteers from Qatar Museum's Years of Culture Initiative,
01:58who are ready to get their hands dirty, knowing it's for a great pleasure.
02:00Ignatia and her team are joined by volunteers from Qatar Museum's Years of Culture Initiative,
02:02who are ready to get their hands dirty knowing it's for a greater cause.
02:17Ignatia and her team are joined by volunteers from Qatar Museum's Years of Culture Initiative,
02:23who are ready to get their hands dirty knowing it's for a greater cause.
02:29I think we can learn a lot from this community in observing their relationship with the land
02:33and the way they treat it and the way they interact with it.
02:36There's a lot of respect and love and feeling of, you know, like it's a two-sided relationship
02:40the land gives us so we give it back with so much love and respect.
02:44And that's a value I want to take back home with me.
02:47In the background of the tree planting workshop is another hands-on initiative.
02:52But instead of plants, volunteers are using paint.
02:56Street art has been a canvas for self-expression in Chile since the 1970s.
03:01Everywhere you turn, it's hard not to spot vibrant artwork like these.
03:05And today, volunteers from Qatar are leaving their mark on these walls.
03:10But beyond the art, you'll find that they reflect something much deeper.
03:15We try to find elements from the culture of Chile.
03:22We have here the seaweed and some of the creatures that are available here in the nature.
03:30And also from Qatar, we have the oryx, we have the palm tree, we have the boat, and we have the falcon, the camel, and other elements.
03:40Soha and her peers have found that despite being thousands of kilometers apart and separated by oceans and land masses,
03:47there are more similarities than differences between Qatar and Chile.
03:52Actually, we have in Qatar culture the sadhu, the sadhu fabric, which is really a remarkable fabric in Qatar.
04:00And we found the same, similar fabric here in Chile, which is, looks like the same like sadhu.
04:08Humans are connected all over the world.
04:11Let's focus on the similarities and not the differences because we are human.
04:18Every stroke of Soha's brush will now become enshrined and remembered as a lasting legacy of this cultural exchange.
04:26Just like the shrubs and trees being planted by her fellow volunteers that will hopefully grow more roots of shared knowledge.
04:34Nearly 200 years since Darwin's voyage to South America, the plants he documented are being kept alive through initiatives that repopulate the species in the wild.
04:45And while it's taken root amongst the local population, partnerships with the international community allow the seeds of knowledge to be planted around the world, one tree at a time.
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