The UNESCO ICHCAP (Director-General Ji Sung Kim) will hold the 2022 ICH Youth Forum on September 22, 2022 (17:00 to 19:00 KST). The forum invites youth activists and researchers who are active across various areas pertaining to the safeguarding of...
Hosted by the National Intangible Heritage Center (Director Kyunghoon Yi) under the Cultural Heritage Administration and organized by UNESCO ICHCAP (Director-General Ji Sung Kim), the 2022 ICH World Forum will be gathering together global experts in one place online from...
Are you a teacher looking to make the most of your local cultures in the classroom? If so, this is your chance to collaborate with UNESCO in our initiative about Living Heritage and Education! UNESCO is inviting teachers from across...
ICHCAP and #HeritageAlive held a book launching event during the ninth session of the General Assembly for the 2003 Convention, which took place from 5 to 7 July 2022 at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris. The event celebrated the publication of Traditional...
Korea’s first alcoholic beverage critic and travel writer Huh Si-myeong gave a special lecture “Charms and Transformations of Makgeolli—Huh Si-myeong’s Stories on Korean Traditional Alcoholic Beverages and Intangible Cultural Heritage” on 22 June 2022 at the National Intangible Heritage Center’s...
The 3rd ichLinks Executive Committee was held on June 28, 2022 (Tuesday) at the Borneo Cultures Museum in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. This committee was organized in Kuching thanks to the host of the Malaysian ichLinks Partner Organization (Malaysia Arts Cultural...
Igal is a fast but gentle dance that is shared by the Sama people of Tawi-Tawi Island, located in the southernmost part of the Philippines, and the people of the western provinces of Mindanao. Igal is called Pangalay in Tausug...
The Moriones Festival is a Lenten tradition held annually on the holy week on the island of Marinduque, Philippines. In the 16th century, Spanish missionaries brought the Roman Catholic faith to the Philippines, and since then, Christian beliefs, rituals, practices,...
In the Philippines, each indigenous group has a weaving tradition using different plant fibers. Among them, in the Aklan region in the central Philippines, weaving craft using unique materials has been handed down since ancient times. It is Piña weaving...
At 16.COM in Paris, the #HeritageAlive Editorial Board chose “Storytelling” as the topic for the next book in the Living Heritage Series. The new book will be published collaborated with ICHCAP and will be ready by the end of 2023...