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youth vigil. A fair also takes place in the town square featuring local artisans, as well as traditional puppet theatre. The Celebration in honor of the Budslaŭ icon of Our Lady acts to promote an atmosphere of respect, understanding and unity among people of different faiths and secular backgrounds. It is a practice that is also part of local hi...2 December 2016
Addis Ababa
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models). These performances include gaojia and gezai opera, different dances, comprising dragon and lion dances, and puppet shows, among many others. The element evokes the historical memory of ancestors’ ocean-going, reshapes social connections when confronted with emergencies such as shipwrecks, and honours the harmony between man and the ocean...19 December 2020
Paris
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al Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding: Shadow play is a traditional art consisting of handmade puppets moving behind a thin translucent curtain or screen inside a dark theatre, now practised mainly in Damascus. A light from behind the stage projects the shadows of the puppets onto the screen as they move along to an oral script and music. The...1 December 2018
Port Louis
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Seven new elements inscribed on the List in Need of Urgent Safeguarding
gration, insufficient resources and the effects of war and of the Khmer Rouge regime. Egypt—Traditional Hand Puppetry—, Al-Aragoz, an old form of Egyptian theatre using traditional hand puppetry, takes its name from the main puppet, whose distinctive voice is produced with the help of a vocal modifier. Perfomances, involving interaction with... Algeria
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28 November 2018
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proclaimed at the same time, encouraging respect for human creativity and cultural diversity. The same is reported for the Ningyo Johruri Bunraku puppet theatre, following its proclamation in 2003, and for the Nohgaku theatre, following its proclamation in 2001. Among the elements inscribed in 2009, for instance, news of the inscription of Akiu no...
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Report on the implementation of the Convention
xhibitions, festivals and similar events such as the Batik Summit (2011), the Wayang Summit (2012, with puppetry performances from Indonesia and nine other countries), the Saman Summit (2012) and the International Ramayana Festival in 2013 with 600 performers of Ramayana arts from nine countries. Education about intangible cultural heritage is of p...
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Discover the newly inscribed elements on the 2003 Convention Lists!
e breeding traditions Spain: Manual bell ringing Kazakhstan: Orteke, traditional performing art in Kazakhstan: dance, puppet and music Azerbaijan: Pehlevanliq culture: traditional zorkhana games, sports and wrestling Democratic People’s Republic of Korea: Pyongyang Raengmyon custom Algeria: Raï, popular folk song of Algeria Afgha... international
1 December 2022
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Examples of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria*
n 2008 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity) Karaköz shadow puppet theatre This tradition, which appeared in the Arab world in the twelfth century, may already have disappeared. A few years ago, I met one of its last practitioners in Cairo in Hassan Geretly’s drama group, al-Warsha. The figurines, in leath......6 June 2014
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Report on the implementation of the Convention
ore and ethnographic groups; song and dance ensembles; maqom ensembles; artists of ancient musical instruments and folk puppet groups feature regularly. Many international festivals have been organised by non-governmental and non-profit organisations from 2008 to 2012. In the period 2008 to 2014, a number of capacity-building seminars were held for...
Strategy for training coming generations of Fujian puppetry practitioners
Inscribed,Strategy for training coming generations of Fujian puppetry practitioners ,Fujian Puppetry is an outstanding representation of Chinese performing arts, consisting predominately of string-pulled puppetry and hand puppetry. In the course of its history, it has accumulated a considerable repertoire of traditional plays and arias, and has als... China