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Living Heritage for Peace: the social media initiative

Living heritage is an efficient tool for peacebuilding and strengthening intercultural dialogue and resilience. The Steering Committee of the ICH NGO Forum invites you to participate in a #livingheritageforpeace initiative proposed by some of it’s members. Each month we will be celebrating different ICH elements threatened by conflict or recognized as powerful resilience tools. With the…
ICH NGO Forum
March 30, 2022
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Food in Diplomacy: a bridging tool between Europe and Asia

The European Union is pleased to invite you to participate in the ASEM Day Virtual Celebration on Tuesday1st March 2022 at 10:00 (CET/UTC+1). The virtual celebration will include a roundtable discussion on: “Food in Diplomacy: a bridging tool between Europe and Asia”. Food and culinary heritage hold a unique place as historical,…
ICH NGO Forum
February 21, 2022
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Colombian Ngo Emergency fundraising campaign

For the past 6 years, the Colombian organization, Embodying Reconciliation, recently accredited by UNESCO ICH, worked using arts and cultural heritage as tools for social change and peacebuilding in Colombia. Last week one of the young black activist groups we work with was violently displaced by guerrilla forces “clearing” the…
ICH NGO Forum
February 18, 2022
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2022 International Awards for Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage

The secretariat of Jeonju International Awards for Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage (JIAPICH) welcomes the international ICH community to join the 4th annual Jeonju ICH Awards. The awards are open to Living Human Treasures (practitioners), groups, communities, administrators, researchers, NGOs and those who have made substantial contributions for promoting Intangible Cultural…
ICH NGO Forum
February 14, 2022
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Open call: Crafts from Anatolia, designs from Europe

Traditional Arts Association, in cooperation with Turkey Design Council and Brumen Foundation, is inviting designers and creatives from all across the European Union to get acquainted with five different Anatolian crafts and reinterpret one (or more) of them for a contemporary audience. Anatolia, the vast region spanning most of mainland…
ICH NGO Forum
January 10, 2022
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In Memoriam Dr. Albert van der Zeijden

Speech held by Marco van Baalen, director Dutch Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage, at the General Assembly ICH NGO Forum, 15 December 2021 Dear Colleagues, I would like to start by thanking the Steering Group of the ICH NGO Forum for giving me the floor at the start of its…
ICH NGO Forum
December 17, 2021
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Programme for the ICH NGO Forum (16COM 2021)

  The ICH NGO FORUM meetings during the 16th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (16COM).  will all be held online. Participants may access the meetings online at their convenience throughout the week by clicking on this Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89211424568?pwd=bGI1NWlkSEIzcnBxWVBPeUw5Wm40dz09 Meeting ID: 892 1142…
ICH NGO Forum
December 7, 2021
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16.COM: all meetings will be held online!

Dear ICH NGO Forum members, We are writing to inform you that all of the ICH NGO Forum meetings will be held online.The Secretarait of the ICH Convention advised us yesterday of this decision. We are currently revising the programme of activities to adapt it to this new situation. Please…
ICH NGO Forum
December 3, 2021
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ICH NGO Forum’s report and documents of the 16th session

The present document brings to the attention of the Committee the report by the ICH NGO Forum on its activities in 2020-2021, following the decision of the Committee at its fifteenth session to examine this report under a stand-alone agenda item for the second consecutive year (Decision 15.COM 6  1. The…
ICH NGO Forum
November 24, 2021
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Call for Candidates for the Steering Committee

 (French version follows / La version française suit) Only for accredited NGOs  Dear NGO members, The Electoral Board is pleased to launch the call for candidates for the ICH NGO Forum Steering Committee. The four newly elected members shall represent the regions of Eastern Europe, Africa, Arab States, Latin America and…
ICH NGO Forum
October 19, 2021
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The Italian network of NGOs accredited to the UNESCO

The Italian network of NGOs accredited to the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage was born in Paris at the UNESCO headquarters, on 19 April 2019. On that occasion, all the NGOs met on input from the Convention Secretariat to discuss the role and ability…
ICH NGO Forum
October 13, 2021
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24th september 2021 – Living Heritage included in museums

A pilot project on integrating living heritage in museum's collection planning and management For the past two years, Workshop Intangible Heritage (and partners) has worked together with a Learning Network of 25 Flemish national and regional museums to take the first steps into the integration of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) in collection and…
ICH NGO Forum
September 23, 2021
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Jeonju International Awards for Promoting ICH – 7th October 2021

The purpose of the Jeonju International Awards for Promoting Intangible Cultural Heritage is to encourage the model safeguarding practices of Intangible Cultural Heritage in the global community regardless of nationality, ethnicity, religion, race, age, gender, or any other political, social, economic or cultural orientation. The model safeguarding practices of Intangible…
ICH NGO Forum
September 10, 2021
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Call for the 2021 ICH NGO Forum Election Board

(French version follows / La version française suit) The ICH NGO Forum has opened a call for candidates to sit on the 2021 ICH NGO Forum Election Board. Applications must be submitted before 31August 2021 midnight. The ICH NGO Forum Election Board is responsible for organizing and overseeing elections for the ICH…
ICH NGO Forum
August 23, 2021
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In memory of Albert van der Zeijden (1957-2021)

Dr. Albertus Theodorus van der Zeijden Utrecht, May 7, 1957 - Alkmaar, July 30, 2021 It is with dismay and great sorrow that we learned of the sudden death of Dr. Albert van der Zeijden, which occurred on Friday July 30, 2021. Very enterprising and dynamic, Albert created and chaired…
ICH NGO Forum
August 9, 2021
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29 June: Teaching and learning with living heritage

A webinar on ‘Teaching and learning with living heritage’ will allow European teachers and students to share their experience on 29 June 2021 from 3 to 5 p.m. (Paris time). This event concludes the project ‘Engaging Youth for an Inclusive and Sustainable Europe’ implemented jointly by UNESCO and the European…
ICH NGO Forum
June 28, 2021
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Singapore Hawker Culture: a webinar series

Date: Thursday, 10 June 2021 Time: 4 pm to 6 pm (GMT +0800) Hawker Culture reflects a living heritage that resonates with people from all walks of life in Singapore. In celebration of the successful inscription of Hawker Culture onto the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the National…
ICH NGO Forum
May 28, 2021
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Webinar European Youth and Heritage – 23 April 2021

Voir la version française plus bas Dear representatives of NGOs accredited to the 2003 Convention Committee in Europe region, In 2019, the European Young Heritage Professionals Forum brought together 28 young heritage professionals to address challenges they face in safeguarding of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and to explore innovative…
ICH NGO Forum
April 21, 2021
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Call for Working Group on Article 21

(voir ci-dessous pour la version française) Call to all Accredited NGOs At its General Meeting in 2019, the ICH NGO Forum decided, on an exceptional basis, to suspend the application of article 21 of the Bylaws until the next General Assembly of the ICH NGO Forum. Article 21: Members of…
ICH NGO Forum
February 16, 2021
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Community Heritage, Intellectual Property Protection and Sustainable Development in India – February 2 and 3

Contact Base and Coventry University UK are organising two webinars on ICH, IP, Cultural Tourism and Sustainable Development as part of dissemination events for a British Academy funded project on "Celebrating Local Stewardship in a Global Market: Community Heritage, Intellectual Property Protection and Sustainable Development in India". The project involved the…
ICH NGO Forum
January 26, 2021
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UNESCO Webinar: Monitoring Living Heritage in Education

(voir ci-dessous pour la version française) The webinar ‘Monitoring Living Heritage in Education: Contributing to Heritage Safeguarding and to Achieving SDG 4’ takes place on 26 January, 2021, 13.00-14.30 CET. The webinar is organized by UNESCO, hosted by the International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia-Pacific…
ICH NGO Forum
January 22, 2021

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