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ocial structures and several cultural associations maintain traditional transmission systems for music, dance, pottery-making, embroidery and other elements. Education for the protection of natural spaces and places of memory necessary for expressing the intangible cultural heritage includes work relating to the sacred groves of Epirus in which the...
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ssins; the Museum of Music at Ouagadougou; the Senufo Community Cultural Centre; three Senufo musical and dance troupes; and the customary and traditional chiefs of the cultural space of Senufo. The Ministry has introduced modules on intangible cultural heritage into the training curricula for staff at various managerial and expert levels through t...
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lanned that communities will play a primary role in inventory-making, and they are now being given guidance in this process. For these inventories, the free, prior and informed consent of the communities concerned has been obtained for the inclusion of their elements. NGOs have been involved from the beginning as part of communities as well as indi...
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ademy of Sciences and Arts, which also publishes primary and secondary collections of folk songs and folk dances. In order to increase access to cultural heritage, the State provides special funds for the digitisation of heritage content held by competent institutions: digitised content on intangible cultural heritage is accessible to the general p...
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, including a cycle of interviews with specialists and bearers on different elements. However, while musical and dance expressions and traditional festivals have been privileged, others such as oral traditions or knowledge associated with nature, agriculture and fishing have been poorly promoted. In terms of formal education, primary schools organi...
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tage and compiling the nomination forms. County Co-ordinators also contribute their professional advice and guidance to the process. In terms of measures to integrate the safeguarding of intangible cultural heritage into planning or development programmes, a system of financial support for intangible cultural heritage safeguarding is currently bein...
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f over 40,000 folk artists and representatives for an audience of over 100,000 people, recognizing bearers’ contributions to dance, music, theatre, crafts, literature and popular art. The Ministry of Education incorporates content related to local intangible cultural heritage into the social science curriculum for the last three years of primary...
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gs); the Ministry of Economy and Trade (holds traditional craft expositions and subsidizes the attendance of craftspeople); and the Ministry of Higher Education (organizes scientific forums and conferences and issues publications). The Women’s Union performs educational and promotional activities related to crafts and traditional foodways. The m...
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there are also elementary art schools that focus on folklore. NIFC issued a manual in 2015 to provide guidance for teachers on integrating intangible cultural heritage into school curricula and also organizes lectures in primary schools. Universities that teach ethnology, anthropology and historical sciences also provide some courses related to int...
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Arts), which has a role in stimulating, creating and promoting music, plastic arts, dramatic arts and dance and undertakes professional training in these fields; the ''Dirección General de Culturas Populares'' (DGCP, General Directorate of Popular Cultures), which promotes the safeguarding, diffusion and development of the popu...