For two years Argentina, along with Paraguay and Uruguay were accompanied in a capacity-building process for the effective and sustainable safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage. A closing ceremony on Thursday 13 February at the National House of the Bicentenary in Buenos Aires, Argentina, marks the culmination of the project “Living Heritage”.
Jointly organized by the Argentinian Secretariat of Culture of the Nation and the UNESCO Office in Montevideo, the event will bring together key project players to review its interventions, achievements …
The cities of Buenos Aires and Santiago del Estero, on the banks of the Dulce River in north-central Argentina, are hosting two training sessions from 14 to 22 October on the preparation of nominations to UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.
Two members of UNESCO’s network of facilitators, Adriana Molano Arenas from Colombia and Mónica Lacarrieu from Argentina, will lead 70 participants from Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay through the nomination process, emphasizing how to devise community-based safeguarding …