rits for blessings, protection and bountiful harvests, the festival involves specific rituals, songs, dance performances and a procession. The masks are created using natural materials, and the colours, styles and shapes used have spiritual meanings and connotations. The festival and the related knowledge and practices are at risk of disappearing d...4 June 2024
UNESCO Headquarters
d choreographic practice with instrumental accompaniment that incorporates voice, music, poetry, and dance. Morna can be either sung or played only with instruments, mainly chordophones, including the guitar, violin, ten-string guitar, replaced with a cavaquinho in the twentieth century, and the ukulele. Several other instruments have now been intr...14 December 2019
Bogotá
ich Thingyan falls each year (typically in mid-April). Each community celebrates the festival in accordance with its traditions and customs, but common activities include pouring water on Buddha images, giving older community members manicures and pedicures, donating food, giving to charity and joining meditation retreats. There are also community-...6 December 2024
Asunción
been in charge of measures to transmit and promote creative activities such as traditional flower-making, music and dance. A series of measures and actions, along with its purpose, budget and responsible entity, are outlined in the file. Measures include the rehabilitation of the urban space of the festivities, awareness-raising programmes through...18 December 2021
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formal events, social gatherings and festivals. It is also worn in the performing arts, such as in dance performances, theatre and film. Contemporary designs are featured in beauty pageants and award ceremonies to reflect the wearer’s cultural identity. Making kebaya involves specific skills and knowledge related to the preparation, design, sele...6 December 2024
Asunción
nd the universe. Then rituals express the cultural identity of these ethnic groups, from customs to musical instruments, dance and music. Thanks to its social and cultural functions, Then contributes to moral education, a humane lifestyle and the safeguarding of customs and cultural traditions in Viet Nam. R.2: The inscription of the practices o...14 December 2019
Bogotá
they climb up Gostilij and assemble into smaller groups, many wearing Ozren folk costumes, to play, dance and sing traditional music. In the afternoon, Orthodox priests climb up to the peak of Gostilij where they consecrate the iva. Iva is consumed in different ways (as a tea, soaked in brandy, mixed with honey) both for its curative effect and pr...1 December 2018
Port Louis
val starts with supplications and spiritual songs, followed by the reading of scriptures, music and dance. The celebration is concluded with words of blessing. The occasion unites community members of all ages and genders and serves as a platform for community elders to share their knowledge and experiences and to give blessings to the next generat...8 December 2023
Kasane
ing with vocal improvisation and dancing with movements of the hands, gestures and footsteps in accordance with the tune of the song. The rite serves as a tool for conveying good wishes and is an inseparable part of ceremonies and national celebrations. The bearers and practitioners are the master singers and dancers experienced in the art and able...9 December 2017
Jeju Island
9.COM 4.BUR : Examination of requests for International Assistance up to US$25,000
ral Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, ‘Mongol Tuuli, Mongolian epic’ and ‘Mongol Biyelgee, Mongolian traditional folk dance’ (both inscribed in 2009), as well as two international assistances: a first one in 2009 for a project entitled ‘The elaboration of the ’Inventories of the Representative list and list in need of urgent safe...20 November 2014
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