Assistant Programme Officer | ICHCAP
The project to implement ‘ichLinks,’ a digital platform covering information on ICH in the Asia-Pacific region, has begun in earnest. Seven countries—Malaysia, Mongolia, Vietnam, India, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Fiji—have been selected as the first participating countries of the project. The...
The 2019 Central Asian Intangible Cultural Heritage Film Festival and Photo Exhibition will be held in Almaty, Kazakhstan for three days from November 18th to 20th. This event is jointly held by the International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible...
The 2019 International Intangible Heritage Film Festival (IIFF) will be held from 27 to 29 September at the National Intangible Heritage Center in Jeonju, Korea. Centered on the slogan “Rediscover Intangible Cultural Heritage,” the sixth edition of the festival will...
“Sumbi-sori is the sound of pain and the sound of life,” said Yun-bok Kim, a native Jeju islander whose deceased mother dedicated her entire life as a haenyeo, a female diver in Jeju. Sumbi-sori is a huffing sound the diving...
Ferdinand Tönnies (1855-1936), a German sociologist known for his 1887 book Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft (Community and Society), expressed concerns that communities characterized by close personal interactions and solidarity were giving way to societies characterized by indirect, impersonal interactions to pursue...
Fashion show at the Nowruz festival in Seoul ⓒ ICHCAPICHCAP joined a street festival that was an additional event at the Central Asian Spring Festival—Nowruz in Seoul and organized by the Korea Foundation. The festival was held in areas around...
2019 Gijisi Tug-of-War Festival was held from 11 to 14 April at the Gijisi Juldarigi Museum and in areas around Gijisi in Dangjin City, Chungcheongnam Province. ICHCAP participated as a cooperative organization. We participated in a symposium on tug-of-war traditions...
The 2019 Gijisi Juldarigi (Tug-of-War) Festival will run from 11 to 14 April at the Gijisi Juldarigi Museum and in areas around Gijisi in Dangjin City, Chungcheongnam Province. This year’s festival also features a symposium on tug-of-war traditions of Korea...
ICHCAP recently published new translations of two brochures in the kit of the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage so States Party can better understand ICH from a global perspective. The new translations are in Bengali,...
As the second edition, following 2017 REPfest, 2019 REPfest will be held in Siem Reap, Cambodia, from 2 to 9 September. In line with this festival, a research residency program will be run from 22 August to 30 September. Cambodian...
