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Janet Blake – UNESCO ICH Global Facilitator & Persian Garden Institute for Living Heritage – NGO – Iran / Scotland UK Messages to the UNESCO 2003 Convention

Janet Blake – UNESCO ICH Global Facilitator & Persian Garden Institute for Living Heritage – NGO – Iran / Scotland UK

The 2003 Convention, which entered into force in 2006, has now reached early adulthood and so is on the cusp of reaching full maturity. Since I have been involved in its story from before the 2003 Convention was actually drafted, it is interesting for me to see how some of…
Carley Williams
November 10, 2023
Historic Environment Scotland – NGO – Scotland UK Messages to the UNESCO 2003 Convention

Historic Environment Scotland – NGO – Scotland UK

    While the United Kingdom has not ratified the 2003 Convention, the Convention has nevertheless guided Historic Environment Scotland’s efforts to safeguard ICH in  Scotland. We have drawn on the Convention, the ICH domains, and the best  practice register to inform development of our Policy Statement on ICH, and…
Carley Williams
November 8, 2023
Giovany Arteaga – Mundo Espiral Foundation – NGO – Colombia Messages to the UNESCO 2003 Convention

Giovany Arteaga – Mundo Espiral Foundation – NGO – Colombia

San Juan de Pasto, October 21, 2023 Dear 2003 Convention UNESCO Paris, France Subject: a journey that never ended: Amazon and Immaterial Cultural Heritage, nature and culture. As a sociology student at the University of Nariño, I thought that culture is a powerful instrument to achieve different objectives. The first…
Carley Williams
November 7, 2023
Emily Drani – UNESCO ICH Global Facilitator & CCFU NGO – Uganda Messages to the UNESCO 2003 Convention

Emily Drani – UNESCO ICH Global Facilitator & CCFU NGO – Uganda

Celebrating 20 years of implementing the 2003 Convention on the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage   Congratulations to UNESCO and all actors in the culture sector for contributing to 20 years of safeguarding intangible cultural heritage for future generations! In 2006, when the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU) was…
Carley Williams
November 5, 2023
Eivind Falk – Heritage Alive & Norwegian Crafts Institute – NGO – Norway Messages to the UNESCO 2003 Convention

Eivind Falk – Heritage Alive & Norwegian Crafts Institute – NGO – Norway

Mind the gap Eivind Falk Director Norwegian Crafts Institute / Editor-In-Chief #HeritageAlive since 2012   I remember well the first committee meeting I attended. It was in Abu Dhabi at the 4.COM in 2009. We were just a handful of NGOs, but we had our first meetings around a round…
Carley Williams
November 5, 2023
Edoardo Marini – Comune della Città di Pienza / Gioco del Cacio al Fuso, Tocatì NGO Network – Italy Messages to the UNESCO 2003 Convention

Edoardo Marini – Comune della Città di Pienza / Gioco del Cacio al Fuso, Tocatì NGO Network – Italy

«Tutti siamo parte del patrimonio vivente delle nostre terre e della nostra gente. Ma essere il proprio patrimonio significa anche trovare qualcosa in comune con altre terre e altre genti coi loro patrimoni, diversi ma con alla base qualcosa in comune, cioè il bagaglio che ciascuno di noi si porta…
Carley Williams
November 5, 2023
Messages to the UNESCO 2003 Convention

Central Institute for Intangible Heritage (Ministry of Culture) – State Party – Italy

"Kaleidoscope of the Intangible Heritage" - produced by Istituto Centrale Patrimonio Immateriale (ICPI- Italian Ministry of Culture   "(In)visible Tales. Between Heaven and Earth." Itinerant exhibition project for the promotion of Italian living heritages in the world. From 2019 in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Bulgaria, Armenia, Spain...…
Carley Williams
November 3, 2023
Association pour le Devenir des Autochtones et de leur Connaissance Originelle (ADACO) – NGO – Gabon Messages to the UNESCO 2003 Convention

Association pour le Devenir des Autochtones et de leur Connaissance Originelle (ADACO) – NGO – Gabon

ASSOCIATION POUR LE DEVENIR DES AUTOCHTONES ET DE LEUR CONNAISSANCE ORIGINELLE   Contribution de l’ADACO relative au 20ème anniversaire de la Convention de l’UNESCO pour la sauvegarde du patrimoine culturel immatériel sous le thème d’anniversaire : « Nous sommes Patrimoine vivant » (le rôle de la Convention dans la sensibilisation…
Carley Williams
November 1, 2023
Association and Ecomuseum ‘House of Batana’ – NGO – Croatia Messages to the UNESCO 2003 Convention

Association and Ecomuseum ‘House of Batana’ – NGO – Croatia

Sailing a batana boat in front of the City of Rovinj  |  Children during a workshop on batana boat building.  Photo credit: Dalibor TalajićOur community is growing each day... our living heritage seems to be in good hands... The 2003 Convention and all the people behind it have been an…
Carley Williams
November 1, 2023
Andoni Castillo Perez – Garifuna Living Heritage – NGO Messages to the UNESCO 2003 Convention

Andoni Castillo Perez – Garifuna Living Heritage – NGO

Lumagien Yurumein daga Lamida Meriga The living heritage of Garifuna people from the Island of Saint Vincent to Central America and the United States Andoni Castillo Perez Garifuna writer and historian UNESCO-Research Commissioner Member of Black Central American Organization “The image describes the spiritual ceremony of the indigenous Garifunas, through…
Carley Williams
November 1, 2023
Alissandra Cummins – Barbados Museum & Historical Society / Former Chairperson ICH Intergovernmental Committee – Barbados Messages to the UNESCO 2003 Convention

Alissandra Cummins – Barbados Museum & Historical Society / Former Chairperson ICH Intergovernmental Committee – Barbados

ICH+ 20: CELEBRATING THE ICH CONVENTION VALUES, VOCALITY, VISIBILITY AND VIABILITY   Alissandra Cummins Barbados Museum & Historical Society (NGO) Expert / Lecturer in Heritage Studies/ Former Editor in Chief, International Journal of Intangible Heritage   The adoption of the ICH Convention on 17th October 2003 following several years of…
Carley Williams
November 1, 2023
Alexandra Denes – UNESCO ICH Global Facilitator – Thailand Messages to the UNESCO 2003 Convention

Alexandra Denes – UNESCO ICH Global Facilitator – Thailand

Reflections from Three ICH Workshops in Mongolia Celebrating 20 years of safeguarding living heritage together, reflecting on the road traveled and the way forward.   Since 2015, I have had the honor of serving as a facilitator for the UNESCO global capacity-building programme, which offers training to support states parties…
Carley Williams
November 1, 2023