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Meetings on ICH

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)


9th Session of the Intergovernmental Committee

Nov. 24-28, 2014/ Paris, France
The ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will take place at UNESCO Headquarters, Paris, from 24 to 28 November 2014 in Room I.
Committee members are;
Afghanistan, Algeria, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Ethiopia, Greece, Hungary, India, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Mongolia, Namibia, Nigeria, Peru, Republic of Korea, Saint Lucia, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda and Uruguay.

For more information and registration please visit at
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/en/9COM

Workshop in Mozambique: towards a national strategy for the safeguarding of cultural intangible heritage

Oct. 27 – Nov. 1, 2014/Chinhambudzi, Manica and Maputo (Mozambique)
The Mozambican Institute for Socio-Cultural Research, Arquivo do Património Cultural (ARPAC), in cooperation with UNESCO organized a workshop from 27 to 31 October 2014 in Manica and Maputo. The event highlighted how inventories of intangible cultural heritage are a key step for further safeguarding measures. It further reviewed the results of previous project activities to develop a national strategy for the promotion and safeguarding of Mozambique’s intangible cultural heritage. On 1 November, it was dedicated to the planning of future activities of the framework project serving Lusophone African countries, financed thanks to the generous contribution from Norway to the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund.

For more information, please visit at
http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?meeting_id=00449

Workshop on Community-Based inventorying in Myanmar

Oct. 27 – Nov. 3, 2014/ Nyaung Shwe(Myanmar)
From 27 October to 3 November 2014, a workshops included in the project for strengthening the capacities of Myanmar for implementing the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage took place in Nyaung Shwe (Inle, Southern Shan State) and was dedicated to community-based inventorying. The workshop has been attended by 38 participants from different ministries and institutes including among others the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Transports, Myanmar Historical Commission, the National Library, Yangon University and the University of Culture of Mandalay. Several community members of the region participated also in the workshop as bearers of intangible cultural heritage expressions representative of the country’s cultural diversity.
Facilitated by two members of the network of UNESCO-trained experts, Noriko Aikawa-Faure from Japan and Paritta Koanantakool from Thailand, this training aimed 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 also included two days of field practice within local communities in Taunggi, Kyauk Tine and Inle Lake areas.

http://www.unesco.org/culture/ich/index.php?meeting_id=00459


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