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Meetings on ICH (Jan-Mar, 2014)

Throughout the year of 2014, there are bunch of meetings on ICH holding around the world. For your reference, we would like to share some of key events related to ICH field. Following events are extracted from UNESCO website (http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?meeting_id=00422)


Joint meeting of the Subsidiary and the Consultative Bodies

UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, 27-28 March
The Operational Directives for the implementation of the Convention establish that the evaluation of nominations to the Lists of the Convention is done by the Bodies of the Committee.
The evaluation of nominations for inscription on the Urgent Safeguarding List, the Register of Best Safeguarding Practices and international assistance requests greater than US$25,000 is done by the Consultative Body composed of six independent experts and six accredited non-governmental organizations. The evaluation of nominations for inscription on the Representative List is done by the Subsidiary Body composed of six States Members of the Committee, selected on the basis of an equitable geographical representation. The composition of the bodies as selected by the Committee at its eighth session in December 2013 is available in the Decisions 8.COM 9.a (Consultative Body) and 8.COM 9.b (Subsidiary Body).
The first meeting of the Consultative Body and the Subsidiary Body aims a better understanding of the nature and procedures of the task to be accomplished and will provide a general overview of the files received for the 2014 cycle and on those to be evaluated. For the further information, please visit at http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?pg=00703.

Training on the implementation of the 2003 convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage at the national level in Eastern Cuba

Santiago de Cuba (Cuba), 11-14, February
From 11 to 14 February, the Regional Bureau for Culture in Latin America and the Caribbean is organizing a capacity-building workshop on the implementation of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage at the national level in Santiago de Cuba in Eastern Cuba. The workshop will bring together about twenty participants from the eastern provinces and Camagüey. Bearers of intangible cultural heritage from the region, alongside members of provincial councils and national institutions such as the National Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage or the Cuban Institute for Cultural Research, will receive intensive training on the objectives and key concepts of this Convention as well as on the obligations assumed by States that have ratified it and the mechanisms it provides for international cooperation.
Organized as part of the regional capacity-building programme benefiting Cuba, Dominican Republic and Haiti and funded through the generous contribution of Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund, the workshop will be facilitated by two UNESCO-trained experts, Adriana Molano Arenas from Colombia and Francisco Javier López Morales from Mexico. It will offer a platform where participants will reflect collectively on experiences and challenges in safeguarding intangible cultural heritage within the broader context of sustainable development.

Workshop on community-based inventorying in Guatemala

Guatemala, 25 February - 4 March
From 25 February to 4 March 2014, the last of the workshops of the project for strengthening national capacities for the effective safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage in Central America takes place in Guatemala City and is dedicated to community-based inventorying. The workshop is intended for the technical staff of the Department of Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and Sports of Guatemala and for community members who bear intangible cultural heritage manifestations representative of the country’s cultural diversity.
Facilitated by two members of the network of UNESCO-trained experts, Eva Martínez from Honduras and Enrique Pérez López from Mexico, this training aims at equipping participants with essential knowledge and skills to enable them to plan and facilitate the elaboration of inventories of intangible cultural heritage adapted to the characteristics of the communities who practise and transmit it.
The workshop will include two days of field practice in the town of Chinautla, 10 km from the capital city, whose indigenous Maya-Pocomam population manufactures with technical precision pots and vases, among other pieces, with mud, straw and clay. This traditional craftsmanship which is passed down from mother to daughter since childhood was declared Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Nation by the Government of Guatemala in 2013.

Using Natural and Cultural Heritage in Sustainable Development-Synergy for Development

Bergen(Norway), 24-26, March
The theme of the international conference 24-26 March in Bergen (Norway) focuses on the UNESCO Conventions on World Heritage (1972), Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) and Diversity of Cultural Expression (2005).
The overall goal of the conference is, to explore synergies between the three conventions, how they can be utilized to realize their related ambitions and how other UNESCO related instruments, regional and national mechanisms and practices can be fruitfully implement as a whole. The conference will examine the following questions:

  • How can synergies between the conventions and other mechanisms and practices be obtained on the ground – what works in practice?
  • What is the role of tangible as well as intangible cultural heritage and cultural expressions in contributing to sustainable development?
    Target participants include researchers in cultural and natural heritage and sustainable development, practitioners in management of heritage sites and related instruments on the local level and higher levels. The conference will serve as a platform for exchange of ideas. It will provide:
  • researchers with feedback on their findings and ideas for their work,
  • local heritage managers with inspiration for new solutions,
  • UNESCO and national level heritage managers with ideas for strategic developments,


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