UNESCO-ICHCAP and its collaborative partners International Institute for Central Asian Studies (IICAS) and KF Korea-Central Asia Cooperation Forum Secretariat, are pleased to make an announcement of the official inauguration of the Silk Roads Living Heritage Network (SRLH) on 28 October...
The International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (hereinafter ICHCAP) held the 2021 Sub-regional Meeting for Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Safeguarding in South Asia (hereinafter meeting) for three days...
The 2021 World Intangible Cultural Heritage Forum, hosted by the National Intangible Heritage Center (Director, Jong-Hee Lee) of the Cultural Heritage Administration and supervised by ICHCAP (Director-General, Gi-Hyung Keum), will be held online for three days, from September 29 to...
On 25 August 2021, UNESCO-ICHCAP and its collaborative partners IICAS and the KF Korea-Central Asia Cooperation Forum Secretariat held the fourth preparatory committee meeting for the Silk Roads Living Heritage Network online. The committee discussed the preliminary details of the...
Thematic Focus: Traditional Food System in Coastal Communities ICHCAP is calling for presentation submissions for the 2021 Expert Meeting for Building Network on Maritime ICH. To be held tentatively on 29 October 2021, the theme of the expert meeting is...
Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) provides meaningful linkages between one generation and another, between social groups, and between countries. To ensure the viability of ICH, youth participation and practices that enunciate the voices of young people cannot be overstated. For ICH...
ICHCAP has been implementing the project called teaching with ICH in schools in cooperate with the UNESCO Bangkok Office and APCEIU to help future generations grow as participants in the safeguarding living heritage. As part of the project, the UNESCO...
The 1st ichLinks Executive Committee Meeting was held on June 29, 2021, online. Representatives of the current partner organizations from five countries (Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mongolia, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam) and future partners from four countries (Bhutan, Cambodia, Fiji, and Singapore) were...
On 23 June 2021, UNESCO-ICHCAP and its collaborative partners IICAS and the KF Korea-Central Asia Cooperation Forum Secretariat held the third preparatory committee meeting for the Silk Roads Living Heritage Networking Program. As a follow-up to the second meeting held...
One of the many sections of the newly formed ichLinks site is the archive (https://ichlinks.com/archive/archiveM.do). While relatively new, the archive promises to deliver more and more valuable information on intangible cultural heritage of the Asia-Pacific region as the site grows....
