Art & Culture

North Pole: Santa swamped by millions of letters

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Bolivian UN peacekeeper dressed like Santa Claus distributes biscuits during an animation performed by Bolivian UN peacekeepers.

On International Day, Ban urges human solidarity to build new sustainability agenda

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Two children in a Bronx, New York, school solidifying their friendship with a spontaneous expression of mutual understanding.

Closing of the EUROPEAN CULTURAL DAYS of the ECB – Bulgaria 2014

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Dirt provides new insight into Roman burials

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UNESCO Conference calls for protected cultural zones to be established Syria and Iraq

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Reframing disaster - revisiting global disasters

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Five elements inscribed on Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

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Republican Scientific-Methodological Center for Folk Art, 2012Askiya is being performed in one of the teahouses of Kokand. Performers: Mansurjon Okhunov, Jorakhon Polatov and Bahodir Shokirov - Askiya, the art of wit (Uzbekistan)

Eleven elements inscribed on Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

Lebanon’s Al-Zajal poetry, knuckle-bone shooting in Mongolia and Portuguese Cante Alentejano chanting are among 11 new elements inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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Nicola Di Nunzio/Municipio de Serpa, 2008Cante Alentejano, polyphonic singing from Alentejo, southern Portugal

Eight elements from Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina , Brazil , Bulgaria and Burundi inscribed on Representative List of the Intangible Heritage

The Brazilian Capoeira circle, Ritual dance of the royal drum of Burundi and Pujillay and Ayarichi, music and dances of Bolivia’s Yampara culture are among eight new elements inscribed this morning on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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Martinez 2010Pujillay and Ayarichi, music and dances of the Yampara culture - Bolivia (Plurinational State of)

Ten elements inscribed on Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage

The Guadeloupean Gwoka (France), Smoke sauna in the Võro community of Estonia and the Japanese traditional craft of hand-making paper, Washi are among ten new elements inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage.

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Sebastian Lorenzo Zuleta, 2008Baile Chino (Chile)