On May 21, 2021, an online meeting of Aigine CRC team and traditional practitioners took place with Dr. Apela Colorado, founder of the World Indigenous Science Network (WISN) and acting director, Elizabeth Duncan. The main goal of the meeting was to discuss the progress of the “Secret Power of Petroglyphs” project, where practitioners, who were involved as experts, shared their thoughts, impressions, reflections and inner feelings after field trips to the petroglyphs of the Issyk-Kul region. The project team, in turn, spoke about plans for the implementation of the next…
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The global reflection on the listing mechanisms under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
On May 7 the global reflection on the listing mechanisms under the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage has started. The reflection activities are organized by The Secretariat of the 2003 Convention. The reflection is being organized as a category VI expert meeting. According to UNESCO terminology, this means that the experts participate in a private capacity and not as representatives of any particular government or organization. On May 18, the breakouts groups met to reflect in depth on the issues identified and propose alternative approaches…
On 17 May 2021, Aigine CRC moderated the third meeting of the Ad hoc Group on Article 21 of the ICH NGO Forum Bylaws
The main focus of the meeting was to discuss the second draft of the working document with questionnaire prepared by representatives from Western European and North American states and Latin American and Caribbean states. Each point of the document was thoroughly discussed, especially the nature of conflict of interest. The pre-final draft of the working document is to be prepared within the course of the following several weeks and the group will come together for their next meeting on 28 June 2021. The purpose of the group is to conduct…
Conventiononline meeting of experts in the framework of the global reflection on the listing mechanisms under the 2003 Convention
On May 6, reflections and exchange of views of international experts began on the mechanisms for introducing cultural elements into the UNESCO lists under the 2003 Convention. This meeting was convened at the request of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage and is generously supported by the Government of Japan. Participants discussed, inter alia, (A) the overall approach to the listing mechanism; (B) issues related to the criteria of inscription; (C) issues related to the follow-up of inscribed elements and (D) methodology for the evaluation of nominations.…