The four participants of ICHCAP’s invitation program successfully completed their sojourn in the Republic of Korea. The program, as a part of the Cultural Partnership Initiative (CPI), was aimed to build an ICH information network in the Asia-Pacific region. On...
From 3 to 9 December 2017, ICHCAP and the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea will host the Central Asian ICH Video and Photo Exhibition in the International Convention Center Jeju (ICC Jeju) during the twelfth Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the...
Tertiary education institutions play an important role not only in maintaining the concept of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) as a necessary construct in public knowledge, but also in training individuals who will become future leaders, policy makers, or curators in...
#HeritageAlive has been publishing articles on a variety of themes concerning intangible cultural heritage (ICH) safeguarding since 2012. After remaining relatively steady in the past, public interest in the online journal has increased after a call for papers in relation...
With the aim of establishing mechanisms to improve information sharing in relation to ICH safeguarding, ICHCAP intends to undertake activities to enhance access to and the availability of information and strengthen information management capacity, targeting intangible cultural heritage (ICH) stakeholders,...
ICHCAP hosted the fourth Advisory Committee Meeting for ICHCAP’s Programs & Strategy on 13 October 2017 at the Cultural Heritage Committee Room of the National Palace Museum of Korea. During the meeting, the participants examined UNESCO’s recent policy developments on...
On 20 September, ICHCAP held the 2017 Expert Workshop on Video Documentation of ICH in Southeast Asia in George Town located in the Malaysian state of Penang. Since 2015, ICHCAP has been implementing a project of documenting ICH in the...
On 5 September 2017, ICHCAP-Pacific cooperative workshop on digitizing ICH-related analogue audiovisual materials was held at the International Conference Hall of the National Intangible Heritage Center in Jeonju, Korea. The workshop was held as part of the Digitization Program that...
ICHCAP hosted the Sub-regional ICH Networking Meeting in South Asia from 16 to 17 August 2017, together with the UNESCO Office in Kathmandu, to provide the participants with a chance to share experiences concerning policies and countries’ processes for ICH...
On 11 August 2017, ICHCAP held the third consultation meeting on video documentation of ICH in the Asia Pacific region at the Educational Broadcasting System (EBS) located in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province. This is the first step towards the project of...