Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) as defined by the 2003 UNESCO Convention encompasses the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, and skills, which communities recognize as part of their cultural heritage. In the case of Singapore, ICH is important as it represents the...
The Festival of Colors adorns the season of spring in north, east, and west India, and Nepal. While it is generally called Holi, and is a public holiday, it is celebrated as Basanta Utsav, or Dol, in the eastern Indian...
FESTinFest 2018 was held in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 30 and 31 January 2018. Organized by Indonesia’s Ministry of Tourism, the event featured Bluemoon Festival and a forum dubbed “Visit Wonderful Indonesia (ViWi) 2018: Celebration of Life”. Since 2017, it is...
A puppet festival is a public-driven performance of tradition in Muragachha Colony in the Nadia District of West Bengal, about 120 km from Kolkata. It is organized by the local people under the aegis of Banglanatak dot com, a social...
A month-long crafts fair featuring various craft items made by artisans from different corners Bangladesh was organized at the Bangladesh Folk Art and Crafts Foundation in Sonargaon, Narayanganj. The fair was inaugurated by Cultural Affairs Minister Asaduzzaman Noor on 12...
Sixty-six years ago when Bangladesh was known as East Pakistan, on 21 February 1952, Bengali students marched in the streets of Dhaka to strongly resent the refusal of the then government of the Dominion of Pakistan (now the Islamic Republic...
The Young Pacific Leaders Conference 2018 took place in Honolulu from 16 to 18 January. More than thirty young leaders from eighteen Pacific island countries participated after being chosen from pool of more than seven hundred applicants. This conference was...
The Ramayana Festival was held in six Indian cities—namely Delhi, Ayodhya, Lucknow, Kolkata, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad from 20 to 26 January 2018 coinciding the celebration of the twenty-fifth year of ASEAN-India Dialogue. The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), which...
The cultural and creative industry provides livelihood for some 3 to 11 percent of the workforce in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a newly released UNESCO Institute for Statistics database of internationally comparable cultural employment statistics, featuring data for the...
The PyeongChang 2018 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games will not only be a global sports festival but also provide an opportunity for visitors to encounter many forms of intangible cultural heritage. The PyeongChang 2018 Cultural Olympiad((The 2018 Gangneung Cultural Olympiad...