Normally, the summer season is a busy time for the Korean Cultural Centre (KCC) in Canada’s capital city of Ottawa. KCCs are a global initiative that were started in 2009 by the Korean Culture and Information Service, a subdivision of...
The National Intangible Heritage Center (NIHC) under the Cultural Heritage Administration of Korea will hold the Mask Performance in Asia: Dance of Gods on 4 and 5 October 2019. The event will feature performances by traditional mask dancers from Thailand...
The Asia Culture Center (ACC) will hold the Asian Culture Week from 17 to 27 October 2019 in Gwangju to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the center. Thirty-seven Asian countries will join the event that will feature international conferences to...
Traditional Arts Showcase 2019 (PST 2019) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, has been enjoyed throughout the year by its loyal fans—the Kuala Lumpur urban generation. These traditional festivals are organized by the National Department for Culture and Arts (JKKN), Malaysia. The...
Nestled in the cultural heartland of Singapore’s Chinatown, the Kreta Ayer Heritage Gallery is Singapore’s first community gallery that showcases different aspects of the intangible cultural heritage (ICH) of the Chinese community as well as ICH elements practiced by the...
Traditional puppetry of Japan, China, and Indonesia, which are inscribed on the UNESCO’s Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists, will be demonstrated at the National Intangible Heritage Center in Jeonju, Korea, from 5 to 6 October 2018. The performances will be accompanied...
The Awa Dance Festival, also known as the Awa Odori Dance Festival, is the largest traditional festival in Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, and has over four hundred years of history. It is held in mid-August every year. Awa is the old...
The Udaipur-based West Zone Cultural Centre (WZCC) has long supported the ongoing Rediscovering Gavari Project (RGP) to promote Gavari, an indigenous ritual. As an effort to bring Gavari dance drama to the stage for the first time, WZCC launched a...
The thirty-ninth International Annual Euroradio Folk Festival (EFF) will take place from 26 to 28 May 2018 in the Ostankino TV Tower, Moscow, Russia. The event is organized by the European Broadcasting Union, consisting of seventy-three members in fifty-six countries...
A puppet festival is a public-driven performance of tradition in Muragachha Colony in the Nadia District of West Bengal, about 120 km from Kolkata. It is organized by the local people under the aegis of Banglanatak dot com, a social...
