To enhance its visibility as an expert body with excellent capacities, PGILH has kept as its priority participation in and collaboration with expert gatherings on ICH. Among PGILH collaborations in this regard, three international expert meetings are worth mentioning:
A series of expert meetings organized in the framework of the global reflection on the listing mechanisms of the 2003 Convention ended yesterday. Launched by the Intergovernmental Committee at its thirteenth session in 2018, this ongoing process led to discussions within the Committee in 2019 and during the General Assembly in 2020. The reflection continued with an…
The fifteenth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage will take place for the first time online from 14 to 19 December 2020 with one three-hour session per day (1:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Paris time). During the meeting, the debates will be transmitted by webcast in their…
2020 ICH NGO Conference: Grounds for Solidarity among NGOs Worldwide On 12 and 13 November 2020, ICHCAP and the ICH NGO Forum virtually held the 2020 ICH NGO Conference. The fifteen participants, including eleven selected presenters from ten countries around the world, discussed various cases and activities of each country applied under the Corona-era, and…
National Museum of Iran, Tehran The International Expert Panel on West and Central Asian Ethnic and Nowrouz Dolls and Puppets was the second international expert gathering on the annual action plan of Tehran ICH Centre. The Expert Panel was programmed as part of a larger national Iranian programme to celebrate Nowrouz, the West and Central…
Qeshm Island, Hormozgan Province Themed ‘Proposals for Concrete Safeguarding Measures’, the Qeshm Island Expert Meeting consisted of a three-day event with expert panels, presentations, discussion forums, exhibitions, cultural performances, tour of the Island’s representative/endangered ICH, and visits of good safeguarding practices. The Qeshm Island Expert Meeting was an event on the 2015 Action Plan of…