The arts help grapple with complex heritage and history while preserving it.
Artistically preserving heritage can help reconcile difficult history, encourage self-expression, and aid family healing in service to community empowerment and change.
Connecting with community heritage galvanizes interest in the community's future.
A 2003 study found that a community project built around compiling living history from every age, neighborhood, ethnicity, and background in a community yielded a stronger interest from those interviewed about the current and future identity of the place.
Cultural heritage accounts for 68% of all tourism.
When combined with tourism, arts and cultural heritage can be a significant economic catalyst. 68% of long-distance (over 50 miles) American travelers say they included a visit to an arts/cultural heritage site during their trip.
Learning heritage languages and cultures improves uptake of English.
Research in New Zealand showed that the stronger a child became in traditional Maori language and tradition, the more linguistic, cognitive, and cultural benefits they accrued.
Engaging in cultural heritage, particularly bilingual education including heritage tongues, improves academic success.
Three decades of research confirm that well-implemented immersion in heritage language and culture improves language acquisition, enhances test performance, increases school retention and graduation rates, college entry, and increases parent involvement and cultural pride.
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