| Description |
UNPLI, the italian network of Pro Loco associations, represents approximately 6,000 Pro Loco associations (a unique type of Italian association devoted to promoting a specific town or location) from various municipalities and old medieval towns, where approximately 600,000 members work as volunteers organizing over 10,000 events, fairs, festivals and much more. Many Italian towns and small cities have a Pro Loco, a civic membership association of volunteers that works with schools, universities and institutions in order to project ways to enhance the town and provide assistance to visitors. In 2010 UNPLI created the online inventory on You Tube “Progetti UNPLI” with hundreds of videos and interviews with craftsmen, musicians, local experts and many other people on their connections with the cultural heritage of their
regions: http://www.youtube.com/user/ProgettiUNPLI. UNPLI in collaboration with SIMBDEA, another italian accredited NGO, is working in order to build an Italian network for ICH. These Ngos are collaborating in the building of a participatory inventory strategy in Cocullo, a little town in Abruzzo, where every 1th of May takes place the “Feast of San Domenico Abate and the rite of snakes”.Since 2013 UNPLI runs the website of the ICH NGO FORUM (www.ichngoforum.org) and the Facebook’s page “Intangible cultural heritage and civil society”. |
