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Hore is a traditional singing performed by unmarried girls in which they beautify themselves and go to play with their peers and praise one another, and finally join the boys they want to play with and sing and dance faaro. © 2013 by the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH)

Ethiopia to host 11th session of the Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

4 December 2015 – Ethiopia,

Windhoek, 4 December—The next annual meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will take place from 28 November to 2 December 2016 in Addis-Abeba (Ethiopia) and will be chaired by Yonas Desta, Director General of the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage (ARCCH). This decision was taken today in Windhoek at the close of the 10th session of the Committee, which brings together the representatives of 24 States Parties to UNESCO’s Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage. The Committee decides on measures to safeguard oral traditions and expressions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive ›››

Twenty elements added to the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity

2 December 2015 – Saudi Arabia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Colombia, Republic of Korea, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, United Arab Emirates, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Greece, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Namibia, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Qatar, Romania, Slovakia, Turkmenistan, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of), Viet Nam,

Windhoek, 2 December—The Committee for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage meeting in Namibia until 4 December inscribed today 20 new elements on ›››

New inscriptions on the lists of intangible cultural heritage

1 December 2015 – Algeria, Andorra, Argentina, Colombia, Spain, France, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Mongolia, Namibia, Uganda, Portugal,

Windhoek, 1 December—The Committee for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage meeting in Namibia until 4 December, on Tuesday inscribed five elements ›››

Opening of 10th session of Intangible Heritage Committee in Windhoek

30 November 2015 – Namibia,

Windhoek, 30 November—The 10th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage chaired by Trudie Amulungu of ›››

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Tenth Committee: Windhoek, Namibia, from 30 November to 4 December 2015