Saman is a traditional religious performing art of the Gayo people in Gayo Lues and surrounding districts in Aceh Province, Indonesia. The performers, always an odd number, sit on their heels and kneel in tight lines. Saman movements symbolize the...
ICHCAP is pleased to invite NGOs to participate in the online 2020 ICH NGO Conference: ICH on Resilience in Crisis to be held on 12 and 13 November 2020, in collaboration with ICH NGO Forum. Since 2014, ICHCAP has been...
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The 2020 Advisory Committee Meeting for ICHCAP was held at the Kensington Hotel in Seoul on June 19 (Friday). The new advisory committee for ICHCAP, composed of nine experts, was established during the meeting to safeguard the living heritage of...
The inaugural session of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Webinar Series was held on 18 June 2020, centering on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on living heritage in the Asia-Pacific region. Co-organized by ICHCAP and the UNESCO Bangkok Office,...
The traditional musical instruments of Myanmar are valuable cultural assets that represent the rich cultural traditions and arts of the country. The history of traditional instruments began as early as in the Pyu and Bagan periods. They were actively developed...
The COVID-19 pandemic has seriously caused public disruption manifesting in different forms such as places on lockdowns, untimely shutdown of schools, cancellations of mass gatherings, and temporary closure of businesses. As the field of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) contends with...
ICHCAP has opened an online exhibition of the winning entries of the 2019 Asia-Pacific Youth ICH Storytelling Contest (link: https://www.unesco-ichcap.org/kor/ek/sub2019/index.php). The exhibition displays the twenty-nine winning works of the contest organized by ICHCAP. The winners came from ten countries in...
ICH Plus has marked its 100th volume. ICH Plus is a fortnightly online e-newsletter published by ICHCAP and was started in 2016 to promote the visibility of ICH information. ICH Plus has delivered ICH-related information that has been contributed and...
ICHCAP and ICM are announcing the results of the call for papers for the Living Heritage series "Traditional Martial Arts". The Living Heritage Series “Traditional Martial Arts” is a joint project between ICHCAP and the UNESCO International Centre of Martial...
