ICHCAP

What We Do

Information Sharing

ICHCAP collects and publishes information about intangible cultural heritage to raise awareness about the importance of safeguarding this heritage. We also develop digital and print materials and support performances, exhibitions,...

Network Building

Our Centre establishes networks among communities, groups, and individuals to help transmit and share intangible cultural heritage and strengthens cooperative networks among NGOs, research institutes, and government organizations regionally and...

Raising Awareness

To promote community participation and enhance public awareness about intangible cultural heritage, we produce a variety of publications, including the ICH Courier, an e-newsletter, translations of UNESCO publications into Asia-Pacific...

The 1st Pacific Exposition: Creating Pacific Momentum

The Indonesian government, supported by New Zealand and Australia, will organize a trade, investment, tourism, and cultural event called the 1st Pacific Exposition. It will be held at the Skycity...

ICH in Public Transport: Truck Art in Pakistan

Listed on the UNESCO Register of Good Safeguarding Practices, the Oselvar boat was resurrected from near-extinction when the Os Båtbyggjarlag Boat-Builders Guild, Os municipality, and Hordaland County founded the non-profit...

The SSEASR Conference on Rivers and Religion to be held in Dhaka

The eighth biennial SSEASR (South and Southeast Asian Association for the Study of Culture and Religion) Conference is to be held in Dhaka, Bangladesh, from 13 to 16 June 2019....

ASEAN Week 2019 to Be Held at Seoul Plaza

The ASEAN-KOREA Centre (AKC) will hold ASEAN Week 2019 from 14 to 16 June at Seoul Plaza. ASEAN Week 2019 is one of the events held this year to celebrate...

Call for Applications: International Fund for Cultural Diversity UNESCO

UNESCO will be accepting proposals for innovative projects in the framework of its 10th IFCD call for applications until 13 June 2019 (midnight, Paris time). The International Fund for Cultural...

Ministry of Religious Affairs and Culture of Myanmar Visited ICHCAP

On 27 May 2019, Mr. Kyaw Oo Lwin, Director General of the Department of Archaeology and National Museum, as well as nine high-level public officials from the Ministry of Religious...

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Related Sites

ICH Courier

Regardless of culture, religion, or world view, one universality of life is death. The ways in which various cultures and communities mourn or celebrate death could not be more different. In volume 38 of the ICH Courier, we look ICH related to the funeral ceremonies in Asia-Pacific communities. Articles and downloads are available on the ICH Courier website.

e-Knowledge Center

ICHCAP has uploaded some of its project outcomes on our e-Knowledge Center website. Here, you can find multimedia materials and electronic versions of many ICHCAP publications.

ICHCAP's Online Community

ICHCAP operates an online community for communication in various networks to safeguard intangible cultural heritage. The online community also includes information on intangible heritage specialists and group and organization directories.