From July to September 2022 Singapore-based consultancy Antāti is conducting specialist workshops focused on collecting, curating, mounting and mount making, and conservation. The workshops bring into focus aspects of collection building and exhibition making to aid institutional representatives and individuals...
The pandanus is used throughout the Pacific as a source of leaves from which mats and a number of other artefacts are made. Several species of pandanus are or have been used in different places. In Fiji, the balawa (P....
Food does not only tell the stores of its ingredients, preparation process and taste but also geography, climate, lifestyle and people of the origin of the food. Food helps us to be familiar with the people and the culture, even...
The ninth session of the General Assembly of the States Parties to the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was held from 5 to 7 July 2022 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. As the sovereign...
The Tenth Annual Coordination Meeting of Category 2 Centers Active in the Field of Intangible Cultural Heritage was held on 8 July 2022 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. The meeting was attended by twenty-five members and officers from eight...
In 2019, after several years of working for a multinational corporation, Nguyễn Huyền Châu, a Commercial graduate born in the mid-1980s, founded VAN•HOA, which she proudly introduced as " a young and ambitious creative business that embraces the beauty of...
UNESCO ICM aims to select and award a winner for the 「UNESCO ICM Martial Arts Education Prize」 among candidates who have made significant contribution to the development and social engagement of youths and women through martial arts training activities. We...
On 17 December 2020, the rite and pilgrimage to St. Thaddeus Church were added to the Representative List of intangible cultural heritage with a joint nomination file with Armenia and Iran. It marks Iran’s sixteenth heritage element to be registered...
Igal is a fast but gentle dance that is shared by the Sama people of Tawi-Tawi Island, located in the southernmost part of the Philippines, and the people of the western provinces of Mindanao. Igal is called Pangalay in Tausug...
The 2022 Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be held at the National Mall in Washington, D.C., from June 22 to 27 and from June 30 to July 4. The festival, which has been held every year since 1967, starting from the...