As part of my efforts to safeguard ICH along the Silk Road, including Central Asia, I had opportunities to meet with dombra and ordeke practitioners and experts. In brief, the dombra is a primary stringed instrument of Kazakhstan and orteke...
The Inter-City Intangible Cultural Cooperation Network (ICCN) is the only international organization of local governments and cultural organizations that aim to safeguard the world’s Intangible Cultural Heritage. The ICCN has been working to explore creative and effective policies for the...
ICHCAP attended the third International Conference on Heritage Management Education and Practice from 6 to 8 December 2019, which was hosted by the Centre for Heritage Management at Ahmedabad University. The conference brought together over a hundred participants, including professors,...
The Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage ended its fourteenth session, which took place in the Colombian capital under the Chair María Claudia López Sorzano. The Committee adopted guidelines for safeguarding ICH in emergency situations such...
The fourteenth Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage(14.COM), was held from 9 to 14 December in Bogota. The committee members for this session were from Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Guatemala, Jamaica,...