The twelfth Session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (12.COM) will be held from 4 to 9 December 2017 on Jeju Island, Republic of Korea. Let’s take a look at the program and events...
Sixty-four cities from forty-four countries were recently designated UNESCO Creative Cities, expectations of seeing more of how creativity gives culture an inclusive and transcendental shape are anticipated. Launched in 2004, the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN) is a global project...
An 13 October, after the fifth round of voting, the fifty-eight members of UNESCO’s Executive Board nominated former French culture minister Audrey Azoulay as the new UNESCO Director-General. The decision surfaced a day after the United States and Israel had...
The UNESCO Dhaka Office, in association with Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, organized a five-day workshop on community-based intangible cultural heritage inventorying that was held from 24 to 28 September 2017 at the academy. The workshop was a part of a series...
Active UNESCO Category 2 Centres (C2Cs) held the Fifth Annual Coordination Meeting of Category 2 Centres in Shiraz, Iran from 10 to 11 September 2017. As designated by UNESCO through agreements with Member States, C2Cs provide a contribution to UNESCO’s...
The question of how to apply integrated approach in ICH safeguarding is a fundamental issue in implementing the 2003 Convention. It also entails further questions not only for intangible heritage field, but also regarding other relevant cultural heritage fields. Over...
ICHCAP held a symposium under the theme of ‘Safeguarding ICH and Building Vocational Training Network’ on 26 July in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek, which was jointly organized with the National Commission of the Kyrgyz Republic for UNESCO. The symposium...
During the UNESCO Workshop on Strengthening National Capacities for Effective Implementation of 2003 Convention held from 10 to 13 July 2017 in Jeonju, South Korea, Mr. B.B.P. Hosmillo, ICHCAP’s Associate Expert, interviewed Dr. Marc Jacobs, a UNESCO facilitator and professor...
Bishkek,the capital of Kyrgyzstan, hosted a sub-regional training workshop for facilitators for Central Asia from 19 to 23 June 2017. UNESCO organized the workshop in the framework of its capacity-building program for implementing the 2003 Convention and as a follow-up...
ICHCAP co-published two brochures in five Asia-Pacific languages—Russian, Bahasa Malaysian, Mongolian, Uzbek, and Tongan—so States Party can better understand ICH from a global perspective. The two brochures, one on the relationship between ICH and sustainable development and the other on...