SUCCESFULL GENERAL ASSEMBLY CELEBRATED IN INDIA
This year meeting has been a before and after in the history of ICCN: Secretariat has been relocated from the City Hall of Algemesí to Folkland International Centre for Folklore and Culture, being the first NGO running the headquarters of our network
In this year meeting, the General Assembly elected Dr. V. Jayarajan as the new ICCN General Secretary, a role who was proudly transfered from the previous ICCN President José Javier Sanchis Bretones along with the General Secretary to date Julio Ramon Blasco Nacher.
This is a crucial change in the core of our beloved organization. In words of distinguished Prof. Amareswar Galla, one of the ICCN founding members, in the closure of the general assembly meeting: “Congratulations to the Secretariat and members to have made this organization more democratic.”
Folkland India hosted the 9th General Assembly in Kozhikode, Kerala, India, from 10th to 14th November with the participation of almost 30 delegates coming from all the corners of the world including Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Spain, Bangladesh, Iran, Korea, Brazil, Behrain, Nepal or Botswana.
This General Assembly has been one of the most popular ones regarding the impact of press media and the implication of the representatives and organizations of the host country, who have given the international delegates and outstanding welcome.
During four days ICCN participants, Indian authorities and ICH national and international experts were able to bring to the table and exchange knowledge related to the management of ICH in two idyllic settings: the Raviz Kadavu resort & Markaz Knowledge City.
Thank you to all the organizers and participants of this magnificient meeting and congratulations to the new ICCN General Secretary, Dr. V. Jayarajan!
9th GA UNVEILING CEREMONY
You can view the 9th GA UNVEILING CEREMONY that took place last sunday 6th August in Kozhikode:
PHOTO GALLERY
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PREVIOUS ICCN EVENTS
2022 ICCN 10th Thematic Workshop in Sicily
The 10th Thematic Workshop was hosted by Caltagirone, (Siclily, Italy) from 13 to 16 October 2022.
2022 Workshop hold under the auspices of Caltagirone City Hall, Coppem and the ICCN Regional Office for Europe and Mediterranean with the theme of “The relation between Governance and Local Communities in the ICH Policies management.”
Documents and dettailed information:
Confirmed participants:
City Hall of Algemesi (Spain)
Valencian Museum of Festivities (Algemesí, Spain)
COPPEM (Italy)
Folkand International Centre of Folklore and culture (India)
Galle Municipal Council (Sri Lanka)
Latvian Association of Local and Regional Governments (Latvia)
The Israeli Association of Cultural Directors (Israel)
Municipality of Jerusalem (Israel)
Beit Sahour Municipality (Palestine)
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2021 ICCN 8th General Assembly online hosted by Gangneung
The ICCN and the Gangneung City Government has hold the 8th General Assembly online on the 25th and 26th November with the theme of “Local policies for the safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Post Covid-19 era.”
The meeting was originally scheduled to be held in 2020. However, the Covid-19 Pandemic stopped us from our getting together. The Covid-19 Pandemic is the common challenge that threatens the safeguarding our local intangible cultural heritage.
More dettailed information:
2021 GA Online Official Invitation
Statute of ICCN (updated 25.11.2021)
THE 2020 ICCN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN GANGNEUNG (REPUBLIC OF KOREA) WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF COVID-19 RESTRICTIONS
The 2020 General Assembly was supposed to be held during the Gangneung Danoje Festival from June 22 to 25, 2020 in the city of Gangneung, Republic of Korea.
The 8th ICCN General Assembly was supposed to deal with the issue of safeguarding intangible cultural heritages and incorporating ICH into a cultural city with the theme of “Intangible Cultural Heritage and Cultural City”.
In addition to the 2020 General Assembly, all ICCN attendants were supposed to experience rich intangible heritages of Gangneung, in particular, the Gangneung Danoje Festival which was proclaimed as the Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2005 and automatically inscribed on the List of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
More dettailed information, in the official invitation:
2020 GA Gangneung Official Invitation