The seventeenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was held at Sofitel Rabat Jardin des Roses in Rabat, Kingdom of Morocco, from 28 November through 3 December 2022. The Intergovernmental Committee, a sovereign...
Sri Lanka has generously proposed to host the upcoming session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, from 13 to 18 December 2021 in Colombo. The Bureau of the Committee approved this offer with enthusiasm last...
ICOM believes museums have a role to play in the protection of intangible heritage and is committed to the defense of this vulnerable heritage. Heritage embraces more than collections of objects or monuments, it includes intangible manifestations such as traditions...
ICHCAP held a book launching event during the fourteenth Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which took place from 9 to 13 December 2019 in Bogota, Colombia. The event celebrated the publication on traditional food in...
The fourteenth Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage(14.COM), was held from 9 to 14 December in Bogota. The committee members for this session were from Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, China, Colombia, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Guatemala, Jamaica,...
The complete set of documents has been published online for the fourteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage on 8 November 2019. Available in the two working languages of the Committee (English and...
Meeting in Mauritius until 1 December, the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage inscribed eleven elements from the Asia-Pacific region on the Lists of UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage. Among them, two elements have been added to...
On 26 November 2018, ssirum/ssireum wrestling from North Korea and South Korea was jointly inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. An unprecedented event. Revered and practiced throughout the Korean peninsula, this sport has a...
The thirteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (13.COM) will take place at the Swami Vivekananda International Convention Centre in Port Louis, Republic of Mauritius, from 26 November to 1 December 2018. During...
The next annual meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (13.COM) will take place from 26 November to 1 December 2018 in Port-Louis, Republic of Mauritius. This decision was taken in Jeju at the...