The celebrations took place at the Kandt House Museum in Nyarugenge District. They included training on the preservation of the heritage, that was given to staff in charge of documentation and archives management in various Government agencies. The staff also had the opportunity to visit the audiovisual heritage documentations exhibited at the Kandt House Museum.  

The day is celebrated every October 27 and was chosen by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in 2005 to raise awareness on the significance and preservation risks of recorded sound and audiovisual documents.

In line with the celebration of this day, the Rwanda Cultural Heritage Academy (RCHA) is set to unveil some of the sounds and songs of Rwandans researched on by the Belgians that were recorded from the colonial period up to 1990s. The songs will be played on national television, RBA, during a cultural programme ‘Umurage’ as a teaser of the more than 4,000 audiovisual documents that RCHA received from the Belgian envoy to Rwanda, under a Belgian project dubbed ‘SHARE’ in October 2021.

Like physical documentation or electronic records, audio-visual heritage contains valuable information that must be properly stored and preserved, so that it can be used whenever it is needed.