Art & Culture

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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)

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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

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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)

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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)

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Traditions from Kenya, Uganda and Venezuela inscribed for Urgent Safeguarding

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Department of Culture, 2013Isukuti dance of Isukha and Idakho communities of Western Kenya

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Opening of the 9th Session of Intangible Cultural Heritage Committee

The ninth session of the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, chaired by José Manuel Rodríguez Cuadros (Peru), opened in Paris in the presence of 950 participants. The Committee will remain in session until 28 November at UNESCO’s Headquarters (Room I).

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Sankirtana, ritual singing, drumming and dancing of Manipur (India)

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The International Forum on the Awakening of Conscience VI In Response to Universal Children’s Day

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‘Merchants of Doubt’ shows how public opinion is manipulated

The LA Times gives a positive review of Participant’s ‘Merchants of Doubt’ and calls the documentary “enthralling” and “fascinating,” as it highlights the perils of global warming, and the ways public opinion is manipulated.

Don’t underestimate Robert Kenner’s “Merchants of Doubt.” It may sound like a standard-issue advocacy documentary concerned, as so many are, with the perils of global warming, but it’s a lot more than that.