Award ceremonies were held for the winners of the 2019 Asia-Pacific Youth ICH Storytelling Contest in India, Nepal, and Korea. ICHCAP announced twenty-nine winning entries in two categories (Young Practitioners and General Youth) in December 2019. Applicants from nineteen countries...
ICHCAP (Director-General Gi Hyung Keum) held the 2020 UNESCO Category 2 Centres (based in Korea) Cooperation Meeting at the center located in Jeonju, Korea, on 4 February. The meeting was attended by representatives of three category 2 centres (C2Cs) active...
The International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHCAP) and the UNESCO International Centre of Martial Arts (ICM) are welcoming papers for the Living Heritage Series—Traditional Martial Arts as...
ICHCAP has entered an MOU with the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (Director Michael Atwood Mason) (hereinafter the 'Center') for cultural sustainability professional exchange. Under the MOU, ICHCAP will work with the Center on activities aimed to promote...
An exhibition, titled 'Companions for Safeguarding ICH—Category 2 Centres in Asia-Pacific’, was held in Bogota, Colombia, 6 to 14 December 2019. As a side event of the 14th Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, the exhibition...
ICHCAP held a book launching event during the fourteenth Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which took place from 9 to 13 December 2019 in Bogota, Colombia. The event celebrated the publication on traditional food in...
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...
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,...
ICHCAP will hold the first year-end celebration of ICHCAP on 20 December 2019 at Gogungdam in Jeonju, Korea, by inviting those who have a special bond with the center, including the inaugural Director-General. The event will kick off with an...
ICHCAP has announced the winners of the 2019 Asia-Pacific Youth ICH Storytelling Contest, which was held by the centre for three months from July 2019. Applicants from 19 countries submitted their photo essays and videos for the contest which had...
