‘The people are the ones that embody and own the knowledge.’ That observation, made by Benjawan Buakwan, a researcher from the College of Local Wisdom at Thailand’s Thaksin University, illustrates one key aspect of intangible cultural heritage—and how quickly ideas...
Rituals and traditional practices lay the basis for people to gather together to worship, sing, feast, dance, or create music. In Nepal’s Kathmandu Valley, the Newar community holds a festival known as Sithi Nakha, which is chiefly about how people...
The world is facing a refugee crisis. To date, an unprecedented 65.6 million people around the world have been forced out of their homes, among them nearly 22.5 million refugees. Within this growing population lies a wealth of talented artisans...
The Association of Water Users, also known as Ob Umed (literally “water is hope”), a Tajik NGO, works toward increasing the environmental education of the population, emphasizing certain attitudes toward water based on folk traditions and ancestral knowledge and practices...
ICHCAP is pleased to invite NGOs to participate in the 2018 Asia-Pacific ICH NGO Conference: ICH NGOs toward Sustainable Development of Communities to be held from 6 to 8 November 2018 in Hue, Vietnam, in collaboration with the Hue Monuments...
The second International Conference on Cultural Statistics and Creative Economy will be held in Manila, Philippines, on second or third week of October. The conference is being organized by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) to provide...
#HeritageAlive welcomes essays with a concentration on either of these topics: woodcarving or traditional food. The chosen topic should be anchored on the following themes: Gender Sustainable development Education ICH and children Accredited by UNESCO, #HeritageAlive is an online journal that gives credence...
The Young Pacific Leaders Conference 2018 took place in Honolulu from 16 to 18 January. More than thirty young leaders from eighteen Pacific island countries participated after being chosen from pool of more than seven hundred applicants. This conference was...
The cultural and creative industry provides livelihood for some 3 to 11 percent of the workforce in the Asia-Pacific region, according to a newly released UNESCO Institute for Statistics database of internationally comparable cultural employment statistics, featuring data for the...
The 2nd Annual Expert Meeting and Youth Dialogue of the UNESCO Global Pilot Project “Open Digital Library on Traditional Games” was held on 15 and 16 January 2018 at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, France. The meeting was held in the...