Two festivals of ak-elechek (or elechek) took place in Kyrgyzstan in March 2017. One of them was held at the national scale; one thousand women from all provinces wearing ak-elechek participated in the event in the nation’s capital, Bishkek. The...
Nathdwara is a famed Vaishnavite pilgrimage site in the Aravalli Hills, fifty kilometers northeast of Udaipur, Rajasthan. Hundreds of thousands of devotees annually visit its central Shrinathji Temple to worship a fourteenth century icon of Shrinathji, a beloved child incarnation...
ICOMOS (International Council on Monuments and Sites, http://www.icomos.org/en) is an international association based in Paris, France, and founded in 1965 to conserve and protect cultural heritage places. From 11 to 15 December 2017, ICOMOS is going to hold the 19th...
The Southern African ICH Cooperation Platform (SAICH Platform) launched its newsletter, SAICH NEWS, in October. The SAICH Platform was created in February 2015 to coordinate the work of the UNESCO/FLANDERS Project on Strengthening Sub-regional Cooperation and National Capacities in Seven...