Natural environments and lifestyles in the Asia-Pacific region are changing fast amidst rapid urbanization and westernization. There are urgent needs, therefore, to safeguard and archive intangible cultural heritage (ICH) that has been transmitted for many generations in the region. Recently,...
On 20 September, ICHCAP held the 2017 Expert Workshop on Video Documentation of ICH in Southeast Asia in George Town located in the Malaysian state of Penang. Since 2015, ICHCAP has been implementing a project of documenting ICH in the...
On 11 August 2017, ICHCAP held the third consultation meeting on video documentation of ICH in the Asia Pacific region at the Educational Broadcasting System (EBS) located in Ilsan, Gyeonggi Province. This is the first step towards the project of...
ICHCAP presented photo and film exhibitions on Central Asian ICH from 27 to 28 July in Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan under the theme of “Living Heritage: Wisdom of Life”. ICHCAP has conducted the joint video production project with Kazakhstan,...
The Samoan government’s efforts to revitalize fine mat weaving (‘ie sae) and the making of siapo or tapa, a bark cloth art, now includes a series of short films describing the processes. The film series was commissioned by the Ministry...
