The pilot project Recovery of living heritage from the COVID-19 pandemic: Ulos weavers and Gorga sculptors in the Toba region in Indonesia. This, is one of the eight pilot projects that are currently implementing the recommendations for post-pandemic recovery, presented...
The Gangneung Danoje Festival, which has been registered as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity and a National Intangible Cultural Property in Korea, will be held at the Gangneung Namdaecheon Event Hall for eight days from May 30 to...
The Gijisi Juldarigi (Tug-of-War) Festival, which was not held due to COVID-19, was held in three years from 13 to 15 May at the Gijisi Juldarigi Museum and in areas around Gijisi in Dangjin City, South Chungcheong Province. Under the...
Every year, the 21st September marks the International Day of Peace, an occasion to discover the wide range of elements related to peacebuilding inscribed on the lists of the 2003 Convention. The 2021 theme for the International Day of Peace...
The 「2020 World Forum for Intangible Cultural Heritage」 hosted by the National Intangible Heritage Center (Director Yeon-Soo Kim) and organized by UNESCO ICHCAP (Diretor-General Gi Hyung Keum) is to be held online for three days from September 23 to September...
We sincerely thank and respect the medical staff and quarantine authorities for their hard work despite our long battle with the COVID-19 pandemic. We also wish to extend our gratitude to everyone practising social distancing and other important measures to...
The Rai communities of the eastern hills of Nepal celebrate the Siruwat festival during April and May, on the Nepali first full moon day of the year. Siruwat is celebrated to mark the season of plantation, also called dhule puja,...
In these unstable and uncertain times, we need to look to the things that unite us – the things that show us the world in all of its variations - and for that, we need artists” - Audrey Azoulay, UNESCO...
This essay is the second in a series that chiefly argues for the importance of seeing intangible heritage protection as a form of human rights protection and thus a necessity in critical times such as COVID-19 pandemic. But is “heritage...
The inaugural session of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) Webinar Series was held on 18 June 2020, centering on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on living heritage in the Asia-Pacific region. Co-organized by ICHCAP and the UNESCO Bangkok Office,...