Active UNESCO Category 2 Centres (C2Cs) held the Fifth Annual Coordination Meeting of Category 2 Centres in Shiraz, Iran from 10 to 11 September 2017. As designated by UNESCO through agreements with Member States, C2Cs provide a contribution to UNESCO’s...
Natural environments and lifestyles in the Asia-Pacific region are changing fast amidst rapid urbanization and westernization. There are urgent needs, therefore, to safeguard and archive intangible cultural heritage (ICH) that has been transmitted for many generations in the region. Recently,...
From 21 to 23 September 2017, the Annual Training Workshop for Cultural Heritage Managers in Vietnam 2017 was held by the Department of Cultural Heritage of Viet Nam’s Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism in Hue City. Over 300 trainees...
On 20 September, ICHCAP held the 2017 Expert Workshop on Video Documentation of ICH in Southeast Asia in George Town located in the Malaysian state of Penang. Since 2015, ICHCAP has been implementing a project of documenting ICH in the...
The making of masks as both a form of art and a habit of doing culture is a global undertaking. Various forms, shapes, and functions of masks exist as existing cultures in the world are informed by different contexts. By...
The wide construction of heritage and its symbolic value in the Asia-Pacific region (“wide” in terms of form and content) is made necessary and complex by the intervention of key global organizations such as UNESCO, the International Centre for the...
In its sixteenth year, the Auckland Diwali Festival will be held on 14 and 15 October 2017 at Aotea Square and Queen Street. Diwali or Deepavali (literally “row of lamps”) is an ancient and important Indian festival known colloquially as...
Durga Puja sits at the core of Bengali identity in India. It is also the biggest annual festival in the Indian state of West Bengal. Held in autumn, between September and October, Durga Puja is essentially a Hindu religious event,...