Intangible cultural heritage inventorying sees results in Argentina
rying sees results in Argentina,Intangible-cultural-heritage-inventorying-sees-results-in-Argentina,Tango bearers, government officials and members of concerned non-governmental organizations have been making steady progress since April 2013 in drawing up intangible heritage inventories, considered a priority safeguarding measure by the tango commu...
Argentina27 September 2013
Cultural expressions and slave trade abolition
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4 March 2026
Tatau Samoa (traditional Samoan tattooing)
,The Bandoneon: sound of Tango Implemented by the Cienarte Foundation in cooperation with the Interministerial Commission for the Support of Tango and Candombe, this thirty-month project aimed at safeguarding the traditional sound of tango produced by the bandoneon, its emblematic instrument. The bandoneon is an essential part of tango (a binationa...
Samoa2026-08-14 - 2028-04-30
Nearly US$500,000 granted to support safeguarding activities in Antigua and Barbuda, Burundi, Egypt, South Sudan and Uruguay
e (NICHC) and the UNESCO Regional Office for Eastern Africa. The project The Bandoneon: sound of Tango aims at safeguarding the bandoneon, a traditional instrument of Tango. Nowadays, however, there are only a handful of bandoneon players, most of whom are over 60 years of age, and only three luthiers dedicated to tuning and maintaining the band...
Antigua and Barbuda , Burundi , Egypt , Uruguay , South Sudan8 October 2020
Completion of the capacity-building programme in the Southern Cone
r seven months in six milongas (popular evenings where men and women gather in local clubs to dance tango) of Buenos Aires and to deliver the related publication to the two community associations involved, the Association of Teachers, Dancers and Choreographers of Argentinian Tango and the Association of Milonga Organizers, as well as to the nation...
Argentina , Paraguay , Uruguay13 February 2014
A step further in the identification of intangible cultural heritage in Argentina
red to their particular circumstances. They will lay the groundwork for the field exercise that the tango community in Buenos Aires will carry out during five months. Documents List of participants: Spanish Programme: Spanish ,A step further in the identification of intangible cultural heritage in Argentina,Buenos Aires,...
25 February 2013 - 1 March 2013
Buenos AiresIntangible cultural heritage inventorying underway in Latin America
ith the generous support of Norway through the Intangible Cultural Heritage Fund. In Argentina, the tango community in Buenos Aires will undertake a similar exercise in the coming months, after a workshop on drawing up inventories of intangible cultural heritage starting on 25 February in Buenos Aires. With the support of UNESCO/Japan Funds-in-Trus...
Cuba , Norway26 February 2013
netic and vigorous rhythm draws upon the fusion of musical genres such as marching music, Brazilian tango, square dance, polka and pieces of classical repertoire, performed by martial bands and fanfares. The music is essentially urban, and like the accompanying dance, ‘Passo’, is vigorous and subversive. The dance stems from the skill and agility o...
Inventory-making: a cumulative in-depth study of periodic reports
ctivesActivitiesFull project description : English in preparationObjectives:Activities:Results:Tango (2009)Language, dance and music of the Garifuna (2008)Samba de Roda of the Recôncavo of Bahia (2008)Frevo, performing arts of the Carnival of Recife (2012)Marimba music and traditional chants from Colombia’s South Pacific region (2010)Cocolo da...
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4 March 2026
Frevo, performing arts of the Carnival of Recife
netic and vigorous rhythm draws upon the fusion of musical genres such as marching music, Brazilian tango, square dance, polka and pieces of classical repertoire, performed by martial bands and fanfares. The music is essentially urban, and like the accompanying dance, ‘Passo’, is vigorous and subversive. The dance stems from the skill and agility o...
