The 2019 Gijisi Juldarigi (Tug-of-War) Festival will run from 11 to 14 April at the Gijisi Juldarigi Museum and in areas around Gijisi in Dangjin City, Chungcheongnam Province. This year’s festival also features a symposium on tug-of-war traditions of Korea...
ICHCAP recently published new translations of two brochures in the kit of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage so States Party can better understand ICH from a global perspective. The new translations are in Bengali,...
Samoa is a country of great natural beauty with a rich and distinguished cultural heritage. Living in isolation from the rest of the world in the vast Pacific Ocean, Sāmoans have developed a body of traditional ecological knowledge and a...
Manas is the largest Kyrgyz epic and the name of its main character—the hero, who united the Kyrgyz. Manas is included in the UNESCO list of masterpieces of the intangible cultural heritage of mankind, as well as in the Guinness...
