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Opening this year for the first time, the awards had gained great positive feedback from around the world. Forty-eight applicants from 36 different countries applied for the awards. However, only…

ICH in urban context: Cultural diversity and social cohesion Call for presentations ICH-NGO Forum in Bogota, 8 December 2019, in advance of the Intergovernmental Committee Meeting in Colombia. During the…

Friday 29 May 2020. The Dutch Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage, announces the conference ‘Intangible Heritage as Tourist Destination’, organized in close collaboration with Erfgoed Gelderland (Heritage Gelderland) and with…

ICHCAP is holding the 2019 Asia-Pacific Youth ICH Storytelling Contest from 15 July to 15 October. UNESCO has recognized the youth as a priority group and emphasized their involvement as…

The Fifth Biennial Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS) will be held at University College London in the Summer of 2020 (from 26 to 30 August). The…

The International Fund for Cultural Diversity (IFCD) is one of the 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions’ key instruments of international cooperation and…

Finnish Folk Music Institute organizes the Kaustinen Intangible Cultural Heritage Seminar 2019: The impact of Unesco nominations on community-based safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage – experiences and practices. The seminar takes…

The ICH NGO Forum has opened a call for candidates to the 2019 ICH NGO Forum Electoral Board. The ICH NGO Forum Electoral Board is responsible for organizing and overseeing…

ICHCAP’s 2019 Cultural Partnership Initiative (CPI) Program is now open for applications from six young ICH professionals of the Asia-Pacific region. The CPI Program is a five-month residential program from…

From UNESCO website. More than 120 accredited non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as well as States Parties will gather at UNESCO Headquarters on 18 April 2019 to discuss the ways in which…