UNESCO Cairo office / Egypt celebration
To mark the 20th anniversary of the 2003 Convention, the Egyptian Ministry of Culture, in cooperation with the UNESCO Office in Cairo, has agreed to implement a programme with the aims of celebrating the wealth ICH in together with the cultural knowledge holders and practitioners across the country.
The celebration programme for this milestone anniversary aims to mobilise the full potential of expertise and resources in Egypt to enhance ICH safeguarding by bringing together efforts at all levels – national, regional, municipal and community, and to further raise awareness on the importance of the living heritage safeguarding and transmission to future generations. It includes a series of activities: conferences, exhibitions, concerts, performances, craft fairs, that will be held across the country towards the end of the year.
The celebration will also provide the opportunity to reflect on the future directions of the 2003 Convention within the framework of Egypt 2030 Vision for sustainable development.
In this framework, a launching event will be held on 20 August 2023 with the participation of key stakeholders in the ICH safeguarding in Egypt together with media. The event will be the opportunity to present the 20th anniversary celebration programme by the Ministry of Culture, the inauguration of the Heritage House in Fustat, and the launching of the publication “National Capacity Building on Inventorying the ICH in the Arab Republic of Egypt”.
This publication stands as one of the outcomes of the project “Strengthening National Capacities for Safeguarding ICH in Egypt for Sustainable Development”. It presents the process and outputs of the pilot inventorying exercise which took place in six different locations throughout Egypt (Cairo, Fayoum, Gharbeya, Aswan, Assuit, and Marsa Matrouh). This pilot was Egypt’s first step to establishing a national ICH inventory under the Ministry of Culture in collaboration with community practitioners.
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