The Nang is a shadow play, which uses figures perforated and cut from animal hide or leather (hence the word nang). The figures are manipulated from behind the screen; while the light(coming from a torch or a bonfire)beyond the backstage area throws the shadow of the figures onto a screen. The manipulation of the Nang is accompanied by narration, dialogue, and music.\n

The Nang is a shadow play, which uses figures perforated and cut from animal hide or leather (hence the word nang). The figures are manipulated from behind the screen; while the light(coming from a torch or a bonfire)beyond the backstage area throws the shadow of the figures onto a screen. The manipulation of the Nang is accompanied by narration, dialogue, and music.

The Nang is a shadow play, which uses figures perforated and cut from animal hide or leather (hence the word nang). The figures are manipulated from behind the screen; while the light(coming from a torch or a bonfire)beyond the backstage area throws the shadow of the figures onto a screen. The manipulation of the Nang is accompanied by narration, dialogue, and music.\n

Narai or Vishnu is a supreme God in Hindu epic Ramayana. One of his incarnations or avatars is Rama. In Thai Khon performance, Narai mask is in purple. He wears the imperial crown.

Teaching and Learning with Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific\n\nLiving heritage is all around us. Bringing living heritage to school teaching will enhance education quality, enliven the experiences of students and teachers, and contribute to keeping this heritage alive for current and future generations. Whoever you are — teacher, school director, student, parent, heritage practitioner — you have a vital role to play in this process. Check out this animation series to learn more!\n\nCredit: Produced in UNESCO-ICHCAP-APCEIU partnership, with additional support from Chengdu Culture and Tourism Development Group L.L.C.\nContent development : Vanessa Achilles, Duong Bich Hanh\nCoordination : Hangying Li\nProduction : GotU Agency https://gotu.agency/ produced by Nathalie Barbé\nContributors : Kyungah Bang, Khyam Bahadur Bishwokarma, Ritu Dikshit, Sheleg Geva, Alexander Golub, Makara Hong, Aigul Khalafova, Min Jung Kim, Montakarn Suvanatap Kittipaisalsilp, Mark Manns, Majer Massanov, Ichiro Miyazawa, Weonmo Park, Neerana Shakya, Nilesh Sharma, Milin Singthalamake, Nipuna Shrestha, Pavin Unakul, Viktoriya Zakharova.

Teaching and Learning with Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific\n\nLiving heritage is all around us. Bringing living heritage to school teaching will enhance education quality, enliven the experiences of students and teachers, and contribute to keeping this heritage alive for current and future generations. Whoever you are — teacher, school director, student, parent, heritage practitioner — you have a vital role to play in this process. Check out this animation series to learn more!\n\nCredit: Produced in UNESCO-ICHCAP-APCEIU partnership, with additional support from Chengdu Culture and Tourism Development Group L.L.C.\nContent development : Vanessa Achilles, Duong Bich Hanh\nCoordination : Hangying Li\nProduction : GotU Agency https://gotu.agency/ produced by Nathalie Barbé\nContributors : Kyungah Bang, Khyam Bahadur Bishwokarma, Ritu Dikshit, Sheleg Geva, Alexander Golub, Makara Hong, Aigul Khalafova, Min Jung Kim, Montakarn Suvanatap Kittipaisalsilp, Mark Manns, Majer Massanov, Ichiro Miyazawa, Weonmo Park, Neerana Shakya, Nilesh Sharma, Milin Singthalamake, Nipuna Shrestha, Pavin Unakul, Viktoriya Zakharova.

Teaching and Learning with Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific\n\nLiving heritage is all around us. Bringing living heritage to school teaching will enhance education quality, enliven the experiences of students and teachers, and contribute to keeping this heritage alive for current and future generations. Whoever you are — teacher, school director, student, parent, heritage practitioner — you have a vital role to play in this process. Check out this animation series to learn more!\n\nCredit: Produced in UNESCO-ICHCAP-APCEIU partnership, with additional support from Chengdu Culture and Tourism Development Group L.L.C. \nContent development : Vanessa Achilles, Duong Bich Hanh\nCoordination : Hangying Li\nProduction : GotU Agency https://gotu.agency/ produced by Nathalie Barbé.\nContributors : Kyungah Bang, Khyam Bahadur Bishwokarma, Ritu Dikshit, Sheleg Geva, Alexander Golub, Makara Hong, Aigul Khalafova, Min Jung Kim, Montakarn Suvanatap Kittipaisalsilp, Mark Manns, Majer Massanov, Ichiro Miyazawa, Weonmo Park, Neerana Shakya, Nilesh Sharma, Milin Singthalamake, Nipuna Shrestha, Pavin Unakul, Viktoriya Zakharova.

Teaching and Learning with Intangible Cultural Heritage in Asia and the Pacific\n\nLiving heritage is all around us. Bringing living heritage to school teaching will enhance education quality, enliven the experiences of students and teachers, and contribute to keeping this heritage alive for current and future generations. Whoever you are — teacher, school director, student, parent, heritage practitioner — you have a vital role to play in this process. Check out this animation series to learn more!\n\nCredit: Produced in UNESCO-ICHCAP-APCEIU partnership, with additional support from Chengdu Culture and Tourism Development Group L.L.C.\nContent development : Vanessa Achilles, Duong Bich Hanh\nCoordination : Hangying Li\nProduction : GotU Agency https://gotu.agency/ produced by Nathalie Barbé\nContributors : Kyungah Bang, Khyam Bahadur Bishwokarma, Ritu Dikshit, Sheleg Geva, Alexander Golub, Makara Hong, Aigul Khalafova, Min Jung Kim, Montakarn Suvanatap Kittipaisalsilp, Mark Manns, Majer Massanov, Ichiro Miyazawa, Weonmo Park, Neerana Shakya, Nilesh Sharma, Milin Singthalamake, Nipuna Shrestha, Pavin Unakul, Viktoriya Zakharova.

ICHCAP has been implementing the project called teaching with ICH in schools in cooperation with the UNESCO Bangkok Office and APCEIU to help future generations grow as participants in the safeguarding of living heritage.\n\nAs part of the project, the UNESCO Bangkok Office has produced an animation series to see how various stakeholders such as teachers, students, parents, and communities, can integrate ICH into school subjects.\n\nThere are six animations in the series, and each episode presents a variety of approaches to teaching with ICH in schools.\n\nEpisode 1. What is teaching with living heritage in schools?\nEpisode 2. Why is it important to teach with intangible cultural heritage?\nEpisode 3. I’m a teacher. How can I integrate living heritage elements in my lessons?\nEpisode 4. I’m a parent/community member. How can I help our school organize teaching with living heritage?\nEpisode 5. I’m a school manager. How can I help teachers organize teaching with living heritage?\nEpisode 6. I’m a student. What can I do to keep my heritage alive?\n\nEach episode provides clear and easy-to-understand answers to the questions above. In addition, it can be seen that education presents ICH as a key medium for connecting knowledge and life beyond functioning as knowledge transfer.\n\nEducation in our society aims to help students grow as active and independent agents of future society. And we should be aware that it will be difficult not only to achieve the essential educational goals but also to achieve the quality education requested by the international community if the public education content is not connected to the students’ lives.\n\nAn ICH that exists as a way of life will be able to propose new content in the education field. Teachers may be more interested in class content with new teaching methods, and students may find what they have learned in their lives. As future generations become interested in their community, the community will naturally become sustainable. At the same time, students also can naturally become the main agents of ICH safeguarding.\n\nThe animation series emphasizes that teaching with ICH in schools is the link between education and life so that the education can be led to a part of students’ lives, not to remain a memory of the one-day experience.\nThe animation series services now in English and is available on UNESCO’s YouTube channel. It will also be serviced in five other languages, including Korean, Thai, Nepalese, Cambodian and Russian soon.

ICH Webinar Series on Maritime ICH: Maritime Living Heritage-Building Sustainable Livelihood and Ecosystems in the Asia-Pacific Region\n\nSession1: Traditional Maritime Skills and Knowledge for Inclusive Social and Economic Development\n\n1. 'Maritime Living Heritage and the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development' by Athena Trakadas, National Museum of Denmark / Ocean Decade Heritage Network\n2. 'The ties and tides of knowledge: Living as a community, living as the sea people' by Narumon Arunotai, Social Research Institute, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand\n3. 'Strengthening Women Fisherfolk Empowerment toward Social Inclusion in Coastal Environment of Malolos, Bulacan, Philippines' by Elmira Thrina C. Pelayo, Bulacan State University, Philippine\n4. 'Traditional Maritime Skills and Knowledge of Social and Economic Development in Inle Lake' by Thu Thu Aung, Department of Archaeology and National Museum, Myanmar\n5. 'Preserving Maritime Cultural Values and Promoting Community Cohesion: From the Viewpoint of Cau Ngu (Whale Worship) Festival in Thanh Hoa Province' by Thao Phuong Le, Vietnam Museum of Ethnology, Vietnam Academy of Social Sciences, Vietnam\n6. 'Fisherwomen across Bay of Bengal region and the extension of their profession in ICH- Understanding the contributions of a vital part of the community and their symbolisms of sustainability, survival, and continuity' by Lopamudra Maitra Bajpai, Symbiosis International University, India\n\nSession2: Traditional Maritime Skills and Knowledge for Environmental Sustainablity and Resilience\n\n1. 'Evidence from the Social Economic Impact Acessment of COVID-19 in the Pacific: The Contribution of ICH in human-centered development' by Ellen Lekka, Cultural Officer, UNESCO Apia Office\n2. 'The Coastal Cultural Landscape of Yap and Marine Ecological Conservation' by William Jeffery, University of Guam, Guam\n3. 'Korean National Important Fisheries Heritage System for Strengthening Sustainability:' by Hyunjong Jong, Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries, Republic of Korea\n4. 'Voicing Culture after Nature : Traditional Knowledge and Marine Resource Management in the Sulawesi Islands' by Dedi Supriadi Adhuri, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), Indonesia\n5. 'O le Va‘a Tā Palolo – The Palolo Fishing Canoe' by Galumalemana Steve Percival, Tiapapata Art Centre inc., Samoa\n6. 'Maritime Cultural Heritage of Matsushima Bay Japan:' by Alyne Delaney, Center for Northeast Asian Studies, Tohoku University, Japan\n\n\n\n

Intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is transnational in nature. It is necessary to spread the perception that ICH transcends geographical spaces and national borders, creating dynamic relations, connectedness, and continuity, which is why it is a timeless bearer of cultural diversity, the foundation of the heritage of humanity. However, as the modern structure of nation-state determines the boundaries of culture with national borders, forming the concept of “culture within the country”, subsequently led to the perception that the ownership of culture belongs to the state.\n\nThe concept of exclusive ownership of culture is often controversial in the UNESCO listing process, particularly in instances where cultural heritage and cultural domains have been shared for a long time by two or more nation-states. Such conflicts lead to excessive competition for nomination, overshadowing UNESCO’s fundamental purpose of contributing to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations, as well as the very spirit of the 2003 Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage that promotes international cooperation and assistance in the safeguarding of ICH as a matter of general interest to humanity.\n\nConsequently, UNESCO encourages multinational inscriptions of shared intangible cultural heritage to promote regional cooperation and international safeguarding activities, preventing conflicts among countries and coping with already existing ones. By emphasizing joint nominations of shared ICH, UNESCO revised its implementation guidelines three times to deal with conflicts between countries due to the cultural property rights. In addition, States Parties are encouraged to develop networks among relevant communities, experts, professional centres, and research institutes, particularly with regard to their ICH, to cooperate at the sub-regional and regional levels.\n\nAt the 13th Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage held in the Republic of Mauritius in November 2018, Traditional Korean Wrestling was inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as the first joint designation by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and Republic of Korea. This milestone in the life of the Convention demonstrates that ICH contributes to the peace-building, reconciliation, mutual understanding, and solidarity among peoples. Indeed, only when acknowledging that shared cultural values are empowering characteristics of ICH, the true perspective of the unifying agent of the cultural diversity can be achieved, and that it is the cornerstone of reaching peace among nations.\n\nCountries in the Asia Pacific region are deeply connected by a long history of interactions, exchanges, flows of people, goods, and ideas that have shaped shared values, practices, and traditions. Having a balanced view, advocating for cultural diversity, and recognizing the commonalities among individuals, communities, and countries as a strength are virtuous tenets in the present time.\n\nIn this regard, APHEN-ICH Secretariat, ICHCAP, and UNESCO Bangkok Office are inviting the APHEN-ICH member institutes and public to this seminar under the theme of Diversity and Distinctiveness: Looking into the Shared ICH in the Asia-Pacific, to re-assess that while fragile, intangible cultural heritage is an important factor in maintaining cultural diversity, connecting bounds, and enhancing international dialogue and peace.

Southeast Asia ICH Video Documentary (Thailand)\n\nThe environment surrounding intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is changing rapidly in the face of waves of rapid urbanization and globalization. In the face of such changes, documenting actual scenes of ICH in video form presents one of the most effective ways of identifying trends in ongoing developments and raising the profile of ICH. However, achieving this requires robust support and coordinated efforts due to the relative inadequacy of the conditions for producing such documentary material in the Asia-Pacific region.\n\nThe International Information and Networking Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (ICHCAP) shines a light on the ICH of Asia-Pacific and introduces its value to the public through video projects depicting ICH. ICHCAP conducts joint projects with member states to portray real-life scenes of ICH alongside experts, communities, NGOs, and other stakeholders in various countries. As a result, it has produced fifty videos on the ICH of Central Asia through the phase-one joint project on Central Asia and an additional fifty videos through the phase-two video project on the ICH of Southeast Asia. These videos are being screened through broadcasting companies and at film festivals in each country, in addition to distribution via YouTube and other \nchannels. \n\nVideos represent the most accurate method of capturing ICH as it exists in the real world, as well as being effective tools for communicating with the public. ICHCAP will endeavor to continue vividly documenting the scenes of ICH that are hidden across the Asia-Pacific region with the aim of raising the profile of ICH elements as treasures of humanity and introducing them to the public. \n\nThis collection includes 10 ICH videos produced by the Thammasat University in collaboration with ICHCAP.

Communities in the Asia-Pacific region greet the New Year at different times depending on region and religion. Communities celebrate a new beginning with traditional songs and dances. This volume introduces traditional performing arts to celebrate the beginning of the New Year in Japan, Nepal, Micronesia, and Myanmar.

2020 World Forum for Intangible Cultural Heritage

ICH Courier is the quarterly magazine on ICH in the Asia-Pacific region issued by ICHCAP since 2009. Every issue has its own theme under the title of the Windows to ICH, and the theme of the Vol 29 is 'Traditional Shipbuilding Techniques.'

ICH Courier is the quarterly magazine on ICH in the Asia-Pacific region issued by ICHCAP since 2009. Every issue has its own theme under the title of the Windows to ICH, and the theme of the Vol 43 is 'MASK DANCE.'