There is a rich tradition of hand papermaking in East Asia that is still alive today. In Korea, hanji (traditional paper) making remains a distinguished cultural activity. According to many studies, such as the one conducted by Minah Song and...
The thirteenth annual Wairoa Maori Film Festival will be held from 1 to 4 June 2018 in two locations—at Kahungunu Marae (War Memorial Hall) in Nuhaka and the state-of-the-art Gaiety Theatre in Wairoa. The festival is organized by Wairoa Maori...
Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) shapes contemporary life in many ways. Videos on how that happens in four Central Asian countries and Mongolia will be aired on TV. ICHCAP and Educational Broadcasting System (EBS) have signed a distribution agreement on fifty...
The Association of Water Users, also known as Ob Umed (literally “water is hope”), a Tajik NGO, works toward increasing the environmental education of the population, emphasizing certain attitudes toward water based on folk traditions and ancestral knowledge and practices...
The International Photo Contest ”Youth Eyes on the Silk Roads”, taking place from 11 April to 15 July 2018, is organized within the framework of UNESCO Silk Roads Project, UNESCO Youth Programme and the International Decade for the Rapprochement of...
The seventh session of the General Assembly of the States Party to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will take place from 4 to 6 June 2018 at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris. As the...
ICHCAP will host the Young ICH Practitioners Network Meeting in Honiara, the capital city of the Solomon Islands, for two days on 9 and 10 July 2018. The 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage emphasizes the...