The star of Auckland’s winter season, the Matariki Festival, returns with an exciting line-up of more than a hundred events from 30 June to 22 July, from an evocative dawn karakia to a captivating kapa haka, a street party, family...
ICHCAP will host an international forum, ‘Unlocking the Potential of Tertiary Education for ICH Safeguarding’, on 17 July at Somerset Palace Seoul in Seoul, Korea, in cooperation with UNESCO Bangkok Office and with support from the Cultural Heritage Administration of...
UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, to emphasize the relevance of intangible cultural heritage in contemporary society and the importance of its intergenerational transmission, created a series of audiovisual stories on how young people engage with intangible cultural heritage. These clips were produced...
For more than ten years, the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has been implemented worldwide. Many organizations and institutions have been developing activities at different scales and in multiple domains to address complex situations. How...
The Kyrgyz Shyrdagy Festival was inaugurally organized in 2010 by felt carpets producers in Kyrgyzstan, after UNESCO inscribed the traditional Kyrgyz felt carpets ala-kiyiz and shyrdak into the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding. The festival...
To mark the tenth anniversary of George Town’s listing as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Annual George Town Heritage Celebrations will be held at the George Town World Heritage Site on 7 July 2018. The celebration is organized by...
The sixth Melanesian Arts & Cultural Festival (MACFEST) will take place at various venues in Honiara, Solomon Islands, from the 1 to 10 July 2018. The 10-day festival is organized by the Melanesian Arts Festival National Organising Committee (MACFNOC), comprising...
The sixth Annual Coordination Meeting of Category 2 Centers Active in the Field of Intangible Cultural Heritage was held on 7 June 2018 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. The meeting was attended by twenty-five members and officers from seven...