Ms Josiane Poivre (Assistant to the Secretary of the Convention) expressed her wish to say a few personal words on Ms Duvelle’s departure. Citing the famous writer Gibran Khalil Gibran who said ‘Work is love made visible’, Ms Poivre went on to say love is the ups, downs, screaming, crying, gnashing of teeth, rants but at the same time, immense joy and laughter. She said love is pushing others so they give their best and that to give love is to be demanding, tough but fair. Love is also exchange and communication, as we say 'sorry, I was wrong’ or ‘please excuse me’. According to Ms Poivre, love is also sometimes the great moments of solitude, which lead to the questioning of what one does and how one should go forward – something that Ms Duvelle never stopped asking. While Ms Duvelle sometimes went ahead against all odds, taking risks which might have displeased others, Ms Poivre believed it is boldness that allows love to be true. Referring working with Ms Duvelle as an absolutely amazing and wonderful experience, Ms Poivre reminded Ms Duvelle of when she often introduced the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section as a dream team and asked the meeting whether a dream team could exist without a dream chief. Saying that Ms Duvelle is the perfect embodiment of the words of Gibran Khalil ‘work is love made visible’, Ms Poivre extended to Ms Duvelle her most heartfelt thanks on behalf of the entire team of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Section.
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1556.The Chairperson thanked Ms Poivre, making a final announcement about transport to the evening’s social function and that delegates should leave their headphones in the room. A Namibian cultural group would give the delegates a send-off performance, and at this stage it was her great pleasure to declare closed the tenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
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